# Burak Cendek

> Burak Cendek is a seed investor at Autotech Ventures backing Financial Services and Logistics. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Autotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autotech-ventures)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cendek
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/burakcendek
- Website: https://x.com/burakcendek

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 31% |
| Logistics | 2 | 15% |
| Consulting | 2 | 15% |
| Transportation | 2 | 15% |
| Risk Management | 2 | 15% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1818 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1818-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ponooc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ponooc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ABN-AMRO-Ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Elkstone Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elkstone-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Achmea Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/achmea-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Autotech Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Autotech Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Palmer | Entrepreneur | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-palmer-426c |
| Alexei Andreev | Co-founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexei-andreev |
| Alexei Andreev | Co-founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexei-andreev-a406 |
| Amy Richards | Head Of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-richards |
| Burak Cendek | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burak-cendek |

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## 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.

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