Kayra Yasa

Kayra has forged her own path at a young age, becoming one of the first employees of Virex Health at the age of 21, a 9-person startup that developed at-home diagnostics. Virex was acquired by Sorrento Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRNE) as of February 2022.

Kayra was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, before moving to Miami at the age of 10. Prior to jumping into the world of startups, Kayra was studying Materials Science & Engineering, a pursuit cut short with Virex.

Kayra joined COTU on the Investments Team and is supporting the fund across portfolio management and investor relations.

Kayra cold-emailed Amir to meet for coffee after reading all of his Medium articles, which resulted in a COTU offer a month later.