Alperen Adikti, Co-founder and CEO of Heltia and a 2013 graduate of the Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, spent nearly a decade after graduation providing consulting services to global and local companies at McKinsey & Company. After completing his MBA at INSEAD between 2016 and 2017, he identified gaps in Turkey’s digital health sector while working on projects with financial institutions and healthcare companies; consequently, he founded Heltia, a preventive health application, in 2022. Heltia is the first company in Turkey to receive investment from Northzone, the renowned venture capital fund behind iconic startups such as Spotify, Spring Health, Personio, and Klarna.