Timur Topalgoekceli

Timur Topalgoekceli is an energy systems analyst turned deep tech entrepreneur focused on climate technologies and healthcare.

He is co-founder & COO of Abundance Gate, a deep tech company providing 19.000 m2 of state of the art lab space, lab-to-market advisory, and a venture capital fund for biotech, agritech, and foodtech startups.

Formerly at the IEA’s Chief Economist’s Office in Paris, he worked on supply-side modelling and co-authored 12 publications, including the flagship World Energy Outlook, advising ministers, CEOs and leading international fora, including the WEF at Davos and the G20. He was then founder & CEO of Hello Tomorrow Türkiye, an emerging market deep tech pioneer that built a community of 6,000 innovators and helped commercialise over 300 technologies.

Timur holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and an MPA from Harvard University. He is a Harvard Innovation Lab Spark Grants winner and an MIT $100k finalist. In 2019, he was selected as Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow, alongside 20 rising global leaders selected from over 100 countries who will shape the 21st century.