Baris Akis

Baris Akis is co-founder and President of Human Capital, a venture firm and engineering talent agency with more than $250M AUM and 5,000 members. Human Capital has invested in 6 companies worth more than $1B since 2016—including Brex, Livongo, Snowflake, Anduril and Wildlife Studios—and connected its engineers to 12 unicorns when they had less than 50 engineers—including Robinhood, Nuro, Snowflake, and Brex. Baris was raised in Istanbul and got his BS in computer science from Stanford University. While in college, he started and sold a web-development automation business, and met with and helped guide more than 500 of his software engineer peers with their post-grad career plans. His insights from that experience and those conversations created the foundation behind Human Capital.