Mert Iseri

I grew up in Istanbul and pinned the 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish' speech to my door when I decided to move to the US during high school. Moved to Evanston 3 years later, and started my first company right after graduating college. My whole family is made up of founders, my grandfather built the first mattress company in Turkey. All I'm doing is following in their footsteps in my own way. 

Here’s what I’ve been up to in the past decade:

My first co. SwipeSense raised $23M in VC, scaled to $8M+ in ARR, and successfully exited to SC Johnson.

Co-authored Exit Right: How to Sell Your Startup, with Kellogg faculty Mark Achler, which became an Amazon bestseller.

Worked with 100s of startups in Techstars to help them find their first customers through climbing the ladder of product market fit. 

Taught the highest rated undergraduate entrepreneurship course at Northwestern University, now co-teaching with Troy Henikoff at Kellogg.

Currently working with amazing enterprise customers like Cvent and SpotOn through my startup 248.AI, helping them sell millions more with our LLM agents.