Aydin Senkut

Aydin Senkut is a Turkish-American venture capitalist and the founder of Felicis, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. He was among the early employees at Google, where he was the company’s first product manager. As an investor, he's recognized for early-stage investments in startups across enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and software infrastructure.

Early life and education Senkut was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He is fluent in Turkish, English, French, German, and Portuguese.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Boston University in 1992 and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He is on Wharton’s Graduate Executive Board.

He is married to author Sonia Arrison.

Career Senkut began his career in the finance department of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche, followed by a business development role at Silicon Graphics (SGI). He was the company’s first product manager, its first international sales manager, In 2005, a year after Google went public, he left the company to focus on investing.

He founded Felicis in 2006 and raised the firm’s first institutional fund in 2010.

Recognition Senkut has been named to the Forbes Midas List for thirteen consecutive years, from 2014 to 2026. and was named one of the Top 25 Angel Investors by BusinessWeek in 2010. In 2026, Business Insider included Senkut on the AI Power List.