Baris Akis

Baris Akis

Baris Akis is the Co-Founder, President & Managing Partner at Human Capital, a venture firm for engineers with over $500 million in assets under management.234 Some key facts about Baris Akis:

• He studied computer science at Stanford University, where he started and sold a web-development automation business and co-founded the Stanford Social Entrepreneurial Students' Association (SENSA).125

• Raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Akis had a passion for supporting ambitious people from a young age. In high school, he started a non-profit to help underprivileged high school students develop critical professional and communication skills using Model United Nations.1

• At Human Capital, Akis believes in finding people with the potential to do great things, removing barriers in their way, and amplifying their strengths to make systematic impact.4

• Under Akis' leadership, Human Capital has invested in 10 unicorns before they reached that status (including Brex, Livongo, and Snowflake) and placed engineers as early hires at 16 unicorns (including Anduril, Robinhood, and Grammarly).5

• Akis is fluent in Turkish and English, and has limited working proficiency in French.2

Human Capital, founded by Akis and Armaan Ali, aims to surround itself with driven, ambitious people who share a belief in long-term thinking and making net positive change.4 Akis is passionate about helping engineers and founders achieve their goals through investing, recruiting, and developing new services to support them.45