Atilla Ceylan - Serial Entrepeneur, Angel Investor
Driven by a desire for innovation and a thirst for adventure, I am a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with 25 years of management experience in the tech industry. With my tech savvy mindset, corporate finance background and sales acumen, I have co-founded three startups and successfully sold two of them.
I specialize in investing in the earliest stages of business opportunities. I provide financing for the vital pre-seed phase and work hands-on in conceptualizing, ensuring product-market fit, developing a solid business plan, and building a winning team. Together, we bring dreams to life and secure the necessary funding to grow the business.
My surname Ceylan translates to "gazelle" and I diligently focus on rapid revenue growth, targeting sizable markets, and building scalable business models. Building high-growth startups that quickly capture market share is key. The term 'gazelle company' is drawn from the swiftness and agility of a gazelle, a symbol of speed and momentum.
Turning early traction into strong, sustainable company growth.
Based in Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Startup Center Schönbrunn gives founders more than a prestigious address — it gives them an inspiring environment, practical support, and a team that understands what it takes to build.
With the famous Schönbrunn gardens as an everyday source of perspective, movement, and focus, this is a place where pressure becomes perspective — and restless ideas can move, mature, and become strategy.
From power walks through the park to runs across the Schönbrunn grounds, from workshops and founder sparring to investor meetings in our representative offices, Schönbrunn creates the setting for clear thinking, focused decisions, and sustainable company growth.
Here, it is hard not to feel the energy of what has been built before — and the responsibility to build something meaningful next.
