About Us

We are a group of coaches and mentors passionate about the lean business canvas model. Coming from various technical, management, operational and human resources backgrounds, we work with founders and their management teams to build their foundation for international success. Our ultimate purpose is to enable global expansion to startups that have proven their business model in their home countries.

Our Founders

Emre Akkaş

Comfortale with the uncomfortable

Emre founded the technology services company Globalme, grew it to be one of the top 100 Tech companies in British Columbia and exited in 2020. He has extensive experience in enterprise sales and marketing, technology development and scaling a founder-run business. Currently, he coaches and mentors founders to realize their full potential.

Gökhan Başaran

Partnership builder

Gokhan is an entrepreneur, mentor, and a business consultant with international experience in business development and product marketing. With hands-on experience launching new brands and products globally, he has mentored various scale up companies at Empowered Startups and Creative Destruction Lab West in Vancouver.
Gökhan is passionate about e-commerce and cleantech.