Burak Cendek
Partner @ Autotech Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Burak Cendek is a seed investor at Autotech Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Financial Services and Logistics. Burak Cendek is the Partner at Autotech Ventures. Additionally, Burak Cendek has had 5 past jobs including a Partner at Revo Capital.Burak previously was a junior partner at Revo Capital, investing primarily in B2B SaaS businesses in Europe. Before joining Revo Capital, he was the COO of Sente in Chicago where he launched and ran start-upaccelerator programs across the globe. Prior to Sente, Burak was a consultant at ZS Associates, a global marketing sales consulting firm, for 7 years. Burak began his career as a project manager at GM EMD. Burak also launched two start-ups: a home-services marketplace and a meal-kit delivery platform.Burak earned a BS in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an MBA at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.In his free time, Burak enjoys traveling and discovering new restaurants with his family, playing poker with friends, and reading about neuroscience, physics, and history.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Burak Cendek invests in
Stages Burak Cendek invests in
Countries Burak Cendek invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (31%)
- Logistics 2 (15%)
- Consulting 2 (15%)
- Transportation 2 (15%)
- Risk Management 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (31%)
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (54%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Plug
|
Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs. | $20M / Series A / Feb 02, 2026 | |
Yendo
|
Yendo provides a credit card product that utilizes vehicle equity to offer consumers credit limits at various rates. The company's service works like a regular card, is accepted anywhere, and includes features like cash access and credit building options. Yendo offers a simple application process that results in a virtual card before thephysical card arrives. | $50M / Series B / Oct 09, 2025 | |
Augment
|
Augment is an AI tool that help the logistics company with AI assistants, emails, chats and invoicing services. | $85M / Series A / Sep 04, 2025 | |
Laka
|
Laka is an InsurTech startup that develops a peer-to-peer bicycle insurance platform to protect bikes. It provides actual coverage by a community of like-minded people who are collectively given a fair price that covers theft, vandalism, damage, and loss as well as provides recovery advice and treatments. | $10.3M / Series B / Jul 15, 2025 | |
|
Plug
|
Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs. | $6.7M / Seed / Apr 08, 2025 | |
Desteia
|
Desteia operates as a logistics platform that provides end to end visibility to users. | $8M / Seed / Feb 04, 2025 | |
|
Laka
|
Laka is an InsurTech startup that develops a peer-to-peer bicycle insurance platform to protect bikes. It provides actual coverage by a community of like-minded people who are collectively given a fair price that covers theft, vandalism, damage, and loss as well as provides recovery advice and treatments. | Oct 23, 2023 | |
|
Laka
|
Laka is an InsurTech startup that develops a peer-to-peer bicycle insurance platform to protect bikes. It provides actual coverage by a community of like-minded people who are collectively given a fair price that covers theft, vandalism, damage, and loss as well as provides recovery advice and treatments. | $5.6M / Oct 23, 2023 | |
Exponential Exchange
|
Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products. | $7.4M / Seed / Jul 26, 2023 | |
Exponential Markets
|
Exponential Markets is developing a series of next-generation tradable financial instruments designed to offer new levels of hedging capabilities and risk management for participants in a variety of asset classes. The company's first product, the Exponential Used Vehicle Index (Bloomberg ticker: AUTO), is a first-of-its-kind tradable index forthe automotive sector that allows rental car companies, auto insurers, and auto lessors to hedge used vehicle price risk. The company's product roadmap includes cash-settled index derivatives for new and underserved markets, in addition to exploration of smart market applications. | $8.8M / Seed / Jul 26, 2023 | |
| See all 13 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Autotech Ventures
Autotech Ventures is a venture capital firm that manages more than $400 million to invest in start-ups that aim to generate financial returns in the vast $3 trillion ground transportation industry. Connected, autonomous, shared and electrified vehicles and related mobility services have created tectonic shifts in the incumbent ground transportationindustry. Vehicle manufacturers, parts suppliers, dealerships, repair shops, parking operators, ground logistics firms, and road infrastructure providers are all being impacted by ground transportation startups.Autotech Ventures provides startup companies with 1) capital to execute on their business plan, 2) access to its industry contacts - including dozens of ground transportation corporate investors who together represent a global market capitalization of over $500 billion dollars, 3) up-to-the-minute market intelligence on the ground transport landscape, 4) support in recruiting ground transportation industry talent, and 5) fundraising support to raise additional capital from other financially-motivated investors and strategic investors.Start-ups typically innovate quickly then scale slowly, while corporations typically innovate slowly then scale quickly. Autotech Ventures brings startups and corporations together to bridge this gap and build a new transportation future.
Autotech Ventures Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Andy Palmer
Entrepreneur
|
|||
Alexei Andreev
Co-founder & Managing Director
|
|||
Alexei Andreev
Co-founder & Managing Director
|
|||
Amy Richards
Head Of Marketing
|
|||
|
Burak Cendek
Partner
|
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Burak Cendek invest in?
Burak Cendek invests primarily in Financial Services, Logistics and Consulting startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Burak Cendek last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Burak Cendek closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
