Vircon Legal advised Cypien AI on its USD 530,000 financing round — comprising USD 300,000 from Webrazzi GSYF at a USD 3 million valuation, alongside a pa…
Full case study available → Loops AI × a16z Speedrun: Co-Counsel with Wilson Sonsini (cross-border TR/U.S. architecture and the WSGR co-counsel workflow). Virco…
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 …
Vircon Legal advised Compuvi: the US-incorporated AI platform behind Confinaid: on its pre-seed funding round at a USD 2.5 million valuation, closed July 2025. …
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 finan…
Vircon Legal advised İno Cosmetics on its pre-seed round led by 51 Digital. İno Cosmetics is a Turkish beauty and personal-care brand building a digitally nativ…
Vircon Legal advised Hop Health on its Series A round led by MADA Ventures, with participation from İş Bankası and a senior angel syndicate — alongside co…
Vircon Legal advised Gameness on its public coin offering, covering the full ICO legal stack — from token design and jurisdictional structuring to investo…
Vircon Legal advised Nuvolog on its pre-seed round led by APY Ventures and a syndicate of angel investors. Nuvolog is a cloud and observability infrastructure s…
Vircon Legal advised Cosa and its founder Cem Gül on the repurchase of a 66.12% equity stake from Revo Capital (Fund I). The transaction closed on 22 August 202…
Vircon Legal advised Goart Metaverse on its pre-seed round led by Islamic Coin. Goart Metaverse is a Web3 art and creator platform combining NFT-based ownership…
Vircon Legal advised Komünite on its pre-seed and seed rounds backed by Nevzat Aydın, Kaan Kayabalı and a senior angel syndicate. Komünite is a Turkish communit…
Week 5 of the APY TEKMER HUB Investment Program: notes vs. loans, why YC invented the SAFE, cap-discount-MFN, the 4 June 2026 Teknogirişim legislation, and the …
Last weekend, at the 5th International Ankara Brand Meetings organized by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, Vircon Legal was represented by our Managing Partner E…
Vircon Legal Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu chaired and served as rapporteur of the Regulation Committee at the İSTKA-FINTECH Open Innovation Worksh…
On December 10, 2025, at Wyndham Grand İstanbul Levent, Webrazzi Fintech 2025 hosted, alongside its main stage, a dedicated arena for the blockchain ecosystem: …
On November 19, 2025, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu joined the AI Summit for Lawyers, organized by Lokomotif AI at Vadi İstanbul. The summit br…
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. T…
The third session of the Pre-Incubation Demoday training program: organised by Biruni Teknopark in collaboration with paynkolay: took place on 10 September 2025…
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 …
In August 2025, as part of the APY TEKMER x BASEHUB Investment Program, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu walked founders through investment proces…
Vircon Legal Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu delivered a Startup Investments training at the T3 Foundation (T3 Vakfı), covering SAFEs, convertibles a…
In May 2025, on the invitation of Komünite.com.tr and organized by Fatih Guner: with Birkan Babakol moderating: our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu e…
In April 2025, on the invitation of Komünite.com.tr, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu led a session covering the law of AI, the use of AI in legal…
Five KVKK decisions on the 72-hour notification deadline, the official notification form, informing data subjects and contradictory statements.
Türkiye has no TDM exception — scraping for AI training runs through FSEK database and work protections, TBK contract terms, TTK unfair competition, KVKK and ev…
Five KVKK decisions on breaches originating with software vendors, hosting services and shared group infrastructure: why supplier oversight is an operational du…
Five KVKK decisions on multi-factor authentication, passwords saved in browsers, BEC attacks and physical server access.
Five KVKK decisions on ransomware and unauthorised access: how missing penetration tests, password hygiene and authorisation gaps become the basis of the fine.
AI Act roles, data rights, IP indemnities, model-change control, audit rights and incident handoffs — the twelve clauses that separate a defensible AI vendor co…
The Turkish Personal Data Protection Board published 47 decision summaries on 10 August 2026. TRY 11.5 million in fines, four penalties at the statutory maximum…
Personal data in AI training sets stays regulated until it is truly anonymized — KVKK and GDPR treat pseudonymized data as personal, "publicly available" is not…
AI that assigns shifts, scores productivity or flags "low performers" sits at the intersection of Turkish labour law, KVKK and the EU AI Act — where employment-…
The 29 July communiqué lets precious metals in Mint and Exchange custody trade as digital precious metals on DLT, creating a third lane for tokenized assets bes…
The AI Act is enforced by national market surveillance authorities, the AI Office for GPAI, and data protection authorities in parallel — with fines up to €35M …
Every provision of Law No. 7589 that touches technology and business: the UYAP e-sale portal, electronic notarial records, the account-mule sentencing calibrati…
In February 2025, on the OKX Türkiye live broadcast, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu joined Ahmet Usta and Elif Hilal Umucu Kara to discuss the T…
On December 3, 2024, in the third episode of “IT Conversations”: the podcast series of the Istanbul Bar Association’s IT Law Commission: our M…
On January 5, 2024, in a live broadcast, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu delivered a deep dive titled “Taxing Foreign Revenues of Digital P…
In episode 5 of AIPA Tomorrow Talks (25 September 2022), Vircon Legal co-founder Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu discussed AI and law: personal data protection, entre…
On June 13, 2022, in the interview “Different Areas of Law with Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu,” our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu delivered a 34-…
On December 28, 2020, on a live broadcast on Ahmet Kırtok‘s YouTube channel, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu joined a 1-hour-44-minute gues…
In November 2020, episode 88 of the Sıfırdan Globale Podcast featured our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu and Clemta co-founder Boğaçhan Ilıca, who s…
On 31 October 2020, the MultiLAW broadcast on “Start-up Law”: featuring Vircon Legal co-founder Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu and Sertifier CEO Arda Hel…
In an episode of the Türkiye Yapay Zekâ İnisiyatifi (TRAI) Podcast, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu walked through the impact of artificial intel…
Episode 2 of StartupCentrum’s “Girişim Rehberi” (Startup Guide) podcast features Vircon Legal co-founder Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu discussing …
On April 19, 2020, in an online conference organized by the Selçuk University Law Academy and moderated by Özge Uçak, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşa…
On October 21, 2019, on the LawUp: Law and Entrepreneurship podcast, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu gave an in-depth interview on the protection…
