His company Atlantic received investment over a 5 million dollar valuation.
Rüzgar İmren taught himself coding at age 13, and, by 14, he was already working as a software engineer at startups, while studying at RC! The experience he garnered along the way gave him his latest startup idea: “I saw firsthand how much time teams lose to coordination chaos, with information scattered across Slack, Jira, email, and dozens of other tools. That frustration became the idea behind Atlantic, the AI agent platform I co-founded with Ege Mustafa Çelik.”
They launched their company in the US in March 2026 and by June 2026, they had raised an angel round of investment from Galata Business Angels at a $5 million valuation. İmres save that what drew him to entrepreneurship is simple: “It is the fastest way to turn a problem you personally felt into a solution thousa nds of people can use. Seeing a real pain point and engineering your way out of it is incredibly rewarding.” İmren emphasizes RC’s influence in his path: “The intellectual rigor, the habit of questioning, and the confidence to pursue ambitious ideas all come from this school.”
After RC, İmren plans to move to San Francisco and build Atlantic from the heart of the startup world: “ My focus is on scaling: growing our customer base in the US market, expanding our team, and developing our Atlas model family. In the long run, I want to build a global AI company and prove that world-class technology can come from founders of any age, no matter where they start.”
