Ibrahim Hafeez is a Pakistani-born venture capitalist and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (2026, Games) who joined Anfa as an Investor in early 2026 after four years as a Principal at Griffin Gaming Partners, one of the world's largest gaming-focused VC firms. He helped deploy over $150 million across 30+ investments in game studios, platforms, and gaming infrastructure, and pioneered Griffin's push into emerging markets like Turkey and the Middle East. Before VC, he worked on global licensing strategy at EA Sports during the historic FIFA-to-EA Sports FC split. He also founded Women Venture Capitalists (2023) and Onto Global (2021).
H. Alper Memis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Picus Security, the company that pioneered Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology. A mathematician-turned-financial-analyst-turned-cybersecurity-CEO, Memis co-founded Picus in 2013 in Ankara, Turkey alongside two university friends — combining a rare background in sovereign debt management, financial risk, and a CFA designation with the mission to replace assumption-based security with continuous, evidence-based defense validation. Under his leadership, Picus has raised $80M in total funding (including a $45M Series C in 2024), serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard, Visa, and Vodafone, and has simulated over one billion cyberattacks.
Yigit Ihlamur is the co-founder and General Partner of Vela Partners, an AI-native quantitative venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former Google Senior Program Manager and Oxford-trained AI researcher, he has pioneered the concept of 'Ventech' — using proprietary AI systems to evaluate and fund seed-stage AI founders at speed. Vela Partners issues $100K–$500K checks with commitments in 2–7 days, has backed 40+ AI startups, and earned a NeurIPS 2025 Best Poster award for its startup success forecasting research. Raised in Turkey by an entrepreneur father and mathematician mother, Yigit started coding at age four and competed as a top-10 national chess player before bringing that same obsessive discipline to venture capital.
Magdalena Yesil is a Silicon Valley pioneer who arrived in the US at 17 with two suitcases and $43 to her name, earned three degrees from Stanford, and went on to become the first outside investor and founding board member of Salesforce. A serial entrepreneur who co-founded CyberCash (one of the internet's first secure payment systems) and MarketPay, she spent eight years as a General Partner at US Venture Partners before co-founding Informed.IQ, an AI-powered document processing platform that has enabled over $350 billion in consumer loan originations. Author of 'Power UP: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy' and co-founder of Broadway Angels, she sits on the boards of SoFi Technologies, Smartsheet, and Zuora.