Başak Taşpınar Değim

Başak Taşpınar Değim left her international corporate career in 2011 to found Turkey’s largest online local services platform Armut.com. The platform has 200.000 professionals across 2000 categories, and 2 million monthly visits and a 98% customer satisfaction. Armut has grown 2800% over three years, and has been ranked 2nd fastest growth tech company in Turkey, and 40th in Europe in Deloitte’s Fast 50. Armut’s services have been launched in UK, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Egypt in 2017 under the HomeRun brand. Başak has won many entrepreneurship awards, including the Female Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2018 by the Economist magazine. Başak completed her BS  in Civil Engineering at Boğaziçi University, MBA at Koç University and MSIMC at Loyola University Chicago.