2024
SporAnaliz — AI match prediction
~70% accuracy across top leagues. 25,000 users acquired in two months. Featured by Webtekno during EURO 2024.
Profileintroduction
Chief Operating Officer · Paff Studios
Engineer
& operator,
based in Istanbul.
Building operating leverage across AI, gaming, and network-driven platforms. Five years operating four ventures.
About2026
Atlas Akbulut is a Turkish operator and engineer, currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Paff Studios — a multi-project venture studio building across AI, gaming, and network-driven platforms.
His work centers on a single thesis: operating leverage. How product architecture and distribution systems compound execution over time — and how teams, incentives, and infrastructure decide outcomes long before any campaign reaches a market.
Across five years, he has acquired 25,000 users in sixty days, operated four ventures, presided over a four-hundred-member competitive organization, and shut down a venture-backed company on his own terms after eighteen months.
He advises and evaluates early-stage ventures at pre-product and MVP stages — selectively, by warm introduction.
Operating Thesisfive propositions
i
Execution compounds. Systems outlast ideas.
ii
Teams require structure, not motivation.
iii
Distribution defines outcomes.
iv
Alignment creates velocity across stakeholders.
v
Growth is infrastructure, not a campaign.
Decision Lensorder of operations
a
Structure before scale.
b
Incentives before expansion.
c
Distribution before acceleration.
d
Systems before headcount.
Selected Workfour ventures
2022 — 2023
Portalize — No-code spatial editor
Accepted into İş Bankası Workup. Raised angel capital. Operated eighteen months. Shut down deliberately.
2024
DriversHub — Gamified community for car groups
Incubated at WePlay Hub. Accepted to Startgate TEKMER. Ten communities onboarded, 300–400 users.
2021 — 2025
Bilgi Esports Club — 400-member university organization
President. Twenty-five events, two competitive rosters.
Ecosystemoperator context
Operators learn by proximity. Conferences, builder networks, and investor circles sharpen pattern recognition faster than any course — and the work compounds in public, at builder meetups, venture gatherings, and across networks that outlast individual ventures.
- Active across Istanbul's venture and builder ecosystem.
- Regular at international meetups and accelerator demo days.
- Networked into VC, esports, and AI operator communities.
Long Gamethree principles
Systems over campaigns.
Distribution over novelty.
Compounding over exits.
— Atlas Akbulut, on operating
Operating Backgroundengineering → leadership → capital
2021 — Present
Chief Operating Officer Paff Studios
Running operations across a venture studio with parallel bets in AI, gaming, and community platforms.
Venture
2025 — Present
Strategic Advisor PCIFIC Esports
Advising on growth strategy and operational structure for a competitive esports organization.
Advisory
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McKinsey Forward Program McKinsey & Company
Selected for McKinsey's management and leadership development program.
Strategy
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Fund Management — AIF / VC / CVC Bilgi University · Startup Wise Guys
Studied fund structuring, LP relations, and deal evaluation across AIF, VC, and CVC models.
Capital
—
Newton Venture Program Newton
Fundamentals-focused venture program covering early-stage investing, portfolio construction, and founder evaluation.
Capital
Education
2020 — 2026
B.Sc. Electronics & Electrical Engineering Istanbul Bilgi University
2015 — 2020
High School Diploma Üsküdar American Academy
Engagementthree modes
i.
Operating roles within venture environments
Operate
ii.
Advisory across product, ops, and growth systems
Advise
iii.
Select evaluation of early-stage founders via warm introduction
Evaluate
Contact
For a direct introduction, write.
Correspondence
atlasakbulut@hotmail.com
Network
LinkedIn