
Family Offices and Early-Stage Startup Investments: A Founder’s Guide
Why family offices now invest at seed and Series A, how they deploy capital, and the legal and structuring points founders must get right before taking the money.
From emerging regulation to deal mechanics, we write about the questions founders and investors actually ask — practical analysis you can put to work.

Why family offices now invest at seed and Series A, how they deploy capital, and the legal and structuring points founders must get right before taking the money.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Technology, foreign investors will be able to set up companies in Türkiye entirely remotely. As part of the Digital Company Committee, we assess the step and its legal dimension.

Most startups end not with an exit but with a shutdown decision. Liquidation vs bankruptcy, who gets paid in what order, and how unpaid tax and social security debts reach the founder personally.

Hold certificated A.Ş. shares for two years and the sale is tax-free in Türkiye — but the clock only starts when certificates are printed. What one founder paid for never printing them, and what to do today.

One GPL library that everyone assumed was free cost a startup four months of delay and a valuation discount at Series A. Copyleft, the AGPL-SaaS trap, and five steps of open source hygiene.

The term sheet was signed, and the round still died. The seven due-diligence findings that derail investments: broken IP chains, dirty cap tables, KVKK gaps, off-payroll payments and more.