Co-Founder
Melis Guctas
2× VC-backed founder and ex-Startupfon venture partner, Melis Güçtaş leads CatalyX growth, community and founder relations. With HBS executive training and a 14-year record scaling SaaS & fintech, she converts GP ties and GTM rigor into investor access.
About Melis Güçtaş
Melis Güçtaş pairs the scrappiness of a two-time VC-backed founder with the pattern-recognition of a venture partner—experience she now channels into scaling CatalyX’s investor community, brand and deal-flow engine.
- Founder firepower. In 2014 she launched Modacruz, Turkey’s first luxury-resale marketplace, amassing 1 m+ users and securing a multi-round fund-raise capped by a $2 m Series B.
- Investor perspective. As a Venture Partner at Startupfon, Melis sourced and diligenced B2B SaaS and fintech startups while coaching founders on GTM and fundraising.
- AI-first reinvention. She later founded Resleeve in Eindhoven, a generative-AI studio cutting fashion-design lead-times from months to minutes.
- Boardroom & classroom chops. Her operator toolkit is rounded out by Harvard Business School Executive Education in strategy and finance.
At CatalyX, Melis steers growth, founder relations and LP engagement—leveraging a decade-deep network across European tech hubs to unlock co-invest rights, spotlight portfolio companies and activate the platform’s 3 000-strong investor base.