Cansu Cinar comes from a VC & Accelerator background with a masters degree from University of St Gallen, Switzerland in International Management and Entrepreneurship in 2018. She worked as investment associate at Ludus Ventures managing the company’s XR, AI and Web3 portfolio. She led Ludus’ investment of Shapes XR by Tvori in Q2 2022, and managed global partnerships that Ludus established in the industry. Last year she worked as Industry Expert Consultant (XR) in a project driven by Chilecreativo, funded by CORFO. Consulted 8 companies operating in Technology, Media and Entertainment Industry. At the moment, supporting the Stanford XR program as a mentor, Cansu works as a Start-up Consultant and angel investor in the space. And she has been helping Stanford XR program as mentor. She works as angel investor and advisor in the industry mainly focusing on XR, and Tech Startups in Energy.

Cansu is former speaker and judge in AWE 2022 Lisbon & AWE 2023 Santa Clara.