Ümit Çakmak
- Co-Founder and CEO at Altogic
GetLatka interview
How Altogic Raised a $1M Seed Round to Build Its Backend as a Service Platform (Interview with CEO Ümit Çakmak)
Ümit Çakmak (Co-Founder and CEO of Altogic) spoke to Nathan Latka on May 25, 2022.
Altogic figures from the interview
- Total Funding Raised
- $1M
- Beta Users (2022)
- 1,000
- Team Size (2022)
- 8
- Engineers (2022)
- 6
“Back end as a service platform is mean, I mean, if you think about modern applications, web applications or the mobile mobile applications, basically they have two components. The first one is the front end where the end users see and interact with, and there is the invisible part, which is the back end. Back end is basically where all the business logic resides, where you store your data, where you manage your files, etc.”
“Right now, we have about close to 1,000.”
“It's basically friends and family. Initially, during the private beta periods, it was mostly like friends and family and like close people. But after the public beta, we started to build a community around developers. So we started to put a lot of resources and emphasis on, particularly after the investment we get actually, we started to build this community, developer community, currently in our local country, but we will be going global soon.”
Bio
Founder & CEO of Altogic Ex-management consultant (Associate Partner) from McKinsey & Company, worked at Chicago and Istanbul offices Ex-technology consultant (Manager) from Accenture, worked at Istanbul office MBA from Kellogg School of Management from Northwestern University B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University Istanbul Turkey