Lokomotif AI — AI Summit for HR Professionals
On October 14, 2025, on the invitation of Fatih Guner, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu joined the Lokomotif AI — AI Summit for HR Professionals. The session covered the legal risks AI creates across professions, the use of AI in legal practice, and the rise of legal AIs. The central thesis of the talk …
Read more →Vircon Legal Advised Upsonic on its Pre-Seed Round Backed by U.S. Angels, Inveo and Vestel
Vircon Legal advised Upsonic on its pre-seed round backed by U.S.-based angel investors with a combined ~USD 300M track record, Inveo, and Vestel. Upsonic is a Turkish AI agent infrastructure startup building safety-first AI agents for fintech and banking institutions. Its open-source Upsonic Framework supports multi-provider deployments (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Bedrock) with built-in OCR, memory, …
Read more →Doing Business in USA — YTILI Alumni Board Panel
3 September 2025 | Online via Zoom | 17:00 GMT+1 (18:00 Istanbul / Tirana) The YTILI Network Alumni Board — alumni of the U.S. Department of State’s Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative — hosted a focused online panel on entering and scaling in the United States as an international founder. Vircon Legal’s Managing Partner E. …
Read more →APY TEKMER x BASEHUB Investment Program — SAFE and Convertibles
In August 2025, as part of the APY TEKMER x BASEHUB Investment Program, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu walked founders through investment processes from a legal perspective. The session went deep on convertible note and loan concepts, examined every version of Y Combinator‘s famous SAFE document, and addressed the most common mistakes. The central …
Read more →Vircon Legal Advised Remedi Finance on its Pre-Seed Round Backed by Turkish and U.K. Angels
Vircon Legal advised Remedi Finance on its pre-seed round backed by a syndicate of angel investors from Turkey and the United Kingdom. Remedi Finance is a financial-services and DeFi-adjacent platform building consumer-facing products at the intersection of traditional finance and crypto-native infrastructure; the team focuses on bridging product simplicity with regulatory-aware design. The proposition targets …
Read more →Startup Investments Training at the T3 Foundation (T3 Vakfı)
Vircon Legal Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu delivered a Startup Investments training at the T3 Foundation (T3 Vakfı), covering SAFEs, convertibles and priced rounds, term sheets, valuation, dilution and due diligence.
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