Timur Topalgoekceli is an energy systems modeler turned deep tech entrepreneur who specializes in commercializing disruptive technologies from the lab to the market.

He is the co-founder and COO of Abundance Gate, a company focused on molecular biology, providing €100 million laboratory infrastructure and a €50 million venture capital fund. He is also the founder and president of Hello Tomorrow Türkiye, an emerging market deep tech pioneer having built a community of 8,000 innovators in Türkiye alone and helped commercialize over 500 technologies, leading to over $200 million in funding.

He previously served in the Office of the Chief Economist at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, where 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 World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos and the G20.

Timur holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and an MPA from Harvard University. 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. He is a Harvard Innovation Labs Spark Grants Winner and an MIT 100k Finalist.