Murat Derya Ozen

Smart Kiwi

Smart Kiwi specialises in AI-driven demand intelligence and supply/demand planning optimisation. By leveraging advanced ML and GIS, we provide hyper-accurate forecasting and decision optimisation, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and profitability. Our AI algorithms analyse over 260 real-world demand drivers, helping businesses minimise resource waste, optimise utilisation, and improve operational planning.

Our innovation has been recognised with a prestigious Innovate UK AI Grant and investments from leading angels and VCs, including SFC Capital, Plug and Play, and Startup Wise Guys.

With a proven track record of successful collaborations and notable cost savings for major mobility, logistics, and supply chain clients, Smart Kiwi combines advanced spatiotemporal demand analytics with decades of AI expertise to enable sustainable and profitable operations.

Co-founder & CEO

Leading Smart Kiwi's tech and product strategy, integrating it with our go-to-market and business initiatives. Grew a top-tier team of data scientists and engineers, spearheading proprietary, advanced AI tools that delivered hyper-accurate forecasting and decision optimisation. This significantly reduced costs and optimised operations for our major logistics and supply chain clients. Our success was recognized with a highly selective and prestigious Innovate UK AI Grant.

Co-founder & CTO

ScareCrow Intelligence

Advisory leadership in AI, IoT, and wireless technologies, building AI-driven automation and predictive analytics for business transformation.

AI Strategy Consultant

Antler

Global early-stage VC where I cofounded Kiwi.

Entrepreneur

Heartspace

Heartspace was an AI-based digital companion that helped couples improve the quality of their relationship. It initially started as a side project and grew bigger into a startup with the launch of our mobile app. I led a team of 4 and was responsible from overseeing and developing product strategy, app development, Instagram community growth, content creation.

Founder

Bloomberg LP

- Launched multiple high-visibility projects and initiatives on Bloomberg's very data-heavy mobile app from initial concept/design to completion/maintenance with some of these moving priority metrics up to 80+% YoY.

- Led Events-based data-heavy products and projects on Bloomberg's mobile app. (Technical leadership, iOS/Android development (Swift, Obj-C, Java, Kotlin), backend development (Java, Python, C++, Javascript)). Coordinated multiple cross-functional teams across organizations from UX to Development.

- Co-founded and led an organization-wide `community` to streamline usage and best practices of internal technologies, catering to thousands of engineers.

- Experienced in recruitment and designing and conducting interviews.

Mobile - Project Lead & Senior Developer

- AI-based Demand modelling, predictive analytics and optimisation of airline fleets’ maintenance costs using regression models, SVMs and decision-trees combined models.

- Led the development of SAP's Hana Python-based database driver.

Software Developer

Turkcell

Mobile Financial Services - Turkcell Wallet/Mobile Payment
Java - server-side

Software Engineer

Pozitron

Intern

Oracle

Summer Camp Trainee

Microsoft

Summer School Trainee

Entrepreneurial Product & Engineering, AI Lead. Currently leading Smart Kiwi where we deliver a demand forecasting and optimisation platform to increase operational efficiency. 10+ years of experience in building and managing tech and data products for mobile and the web, leading cross-functional teams and launching ideas from initial concept to completion.

Always appreciate an invite to connect on LinkedIn, however, please include a note as to why you’d like to connect when doing so.

Kiwi builds next-generation data intelligence products for mobility, logistics and beyond. Right now, we are building a new SaaS platform that helps shared mobility companies optimize their fleet distribution by predicting the demand through machine learning and geospatial predictive modelling, allowing them to increase their ridership and optimize their costs.

Kiwi is backed by leading investors SFC Capital, Plug&Play, Startup Wise Guys and is striving to help make cities more livable and sustainable through its tech.

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