Atlantic Raises Investment from Galata Business Angels (GBA) at a $5 Million Valuation
Atlantic, an AI agent platform founded by 17-year-old Ruzgar Imren and 18-year-old Ege Mustafa Celik, has raised an angel round from Galata Business Angels at a $5 million valuation.
Atlantic is an AI agent platform that helps companies recover the hours lost across dozens of tools such as Slack, Jira, and Google Workspace. It received investment from Galata Business Angels, one of the most established angel investor networks, at a $5 million valuation. Participating investors include Arif Akdag, Kaan Boyner, Bulent Celebi, Ugur Seker, Ahu Buyukkusoglu Serter, Gorkem Guven, Ata Uzunhasan and many more. Incorporated in Delaware in March 2026, the company plans to use the investment to grow its customer base and expand its sales team.
Ruzgar and Ege are building an AI platform that serves the US market while still in high school. Atlantic's solution promises real productivity gains for companies and teams with high-volume, complex workflows. Shortly after launch, the product caught the attention of many companies in Silicon Valley. Supporting them from the very beginning has been especially meaningful to me.
Sahin BoydasWorld's most active angel investor in 2024 · Serial entrepreneur with 2 successful exits in Silicon ValleyA Global AI Company
The biggest obstacle companies face when adopting AI automation today is not model capability. It is the fragmentation of institutional knowledge across emails, closed files, and internal databases. Atlantic brings this scattered data together, learns how a company operates from end to end, and acts as a persistent organizational brain.
But Atlantic goes beyond knowledge management. It connects that institutional memory directly to workflow automation through a company's organizational hierarchy and chain of authority. These agents analyze meetings and assign action items to the right people, proactively report on delayed tasks, and coordinate complex cross-departmental processes from a single center. In this way, a company's scattered data evolves first into structured institutional memory, and then into seamless workflow automation.
Atlantic draws its power from its proprietary Atlas AI model family and from its integrations (Slack, Jira, Google Workspace, and more), and the product deploys instantly on top of a company's existing infrastructure without requiring any changes. With enterprise data security at its core, Atlantic completely prevents data from leaving the organization. Customers can both configure the AI models they use within Atlantic themselves and opt for Atlantic's Atlas model family, ensuring end-to-end data security. Moreover, no customer data is ever used in AI model training. In addition, its full compliance with SOC 2 makes for a superior architecture.
Managing multiple engineering teams, I see that the real burden often lies not in the work itself, but in the way knowledge gets scattered across tools and in the coordination required between teams. What makes Atlantic valuable is that it tackles this problem from the right angle: it brings AI into the decision while keeping people inside the process. Even more impressive is the team behind it. Without any corporate work experience, Ruzgar and Ege saw a hard problem and solved it through engineering. That they can do this at their age shows they have a long and exciting road ahead. I sincerely wish them both every success.
Tugrul YilmazerCTO, MidasPushing the Limits of Age: Founders at 17 and 18
One of Atlantic's most notable qualities is the age of its founding team. Ruzgar Imren, Co-Founder and CTO, is 17 years old and has spent approximately four years working as a software engineer across various startups despite his age. During that time, he experienced the chaos of cross-team coordination firsthand, and that experience led him to build Atlantic. Ege Mustafa Celik, Co-Founder and CEO, is 18. He previously served as CMO at an EdTech company and before that ran his own digital marketing agency, where he built experience in performance marketing, lead generation, and conversion optimization. He now brings that experience to Atlantic, working to free every company from the burden of coordination and allow every team to spend its time on the work that actually matters.
Together, the two are among the youngest and most ambitious founders building a technology company while still in high school. Ruzgar and Ege incorporated Atlantic in the United States as a Delaware company, treating global competitiveness as a strategic priority from the start.
Strategic Investment from Galata Business Angels
Galata Business Angels is a leading angel investor network, having invested in dozens of major technology ventures including Insider One. Its investment in Atlantic is seen as a signal of GBA's confidence in the AI agents space. Atlantic's security-first architecture and its ability to integrate with existing tools in a matter of days are among the primary drivers behind this investment.
This investment represents Atlantic's first institutional capital since incorporation. The company plans to use it to gain meaningful momentum in product development, model training, and customer acquisition.
Founders' Statements
Being a young founder is about more than seeing opportunities. It is about taking action and being in the right place at the right time. I want to thank Atakan Ozkaya and our first angel investor Umut Baran Zorlu, who have supported us from day one. For a young founder building a technology startup, the fastest path to Silicon Valley is through the guidance of entrepreneurs who have already made that journey.
Ruzgar ImrenCo-Founder & CTO, AtlanticThis investment from Galata Business Angels is concrete proof of the confidence placed in Atlantic's vision of expanding into global markets. The AI agent space is one of the most demanding in the world, given its enterprise security requirements and organizational complexity. With this capital, we will scale our customer base, expand our SOC 2-compliant deployment infrastructure, and continue delivering Atlantic as a solution built around each company's unique structure.
Ege Mustafa CelikCo-Founder & CEO, AtlanticMedia contact
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