Ozge Yeloglu (MCSc’07) co-founded and led Halifax-based startup topLog before moving to Toronto to pursue a data scientist position on Microsoft’s artificial intelligence team.  She remains connected to the Atlantic Canadian startup community as a mentor to Halifax entrepeneurs and a volunteer with the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

In the ENTREVESTOR article below, Yeloglu opens up about the lessons she has learned at Microsoft and how they apply to startups.

Two years as a data scientist at Microsoft in Toronto has taught Ozge Yeloglu the importance of enterprise sales — something she wishes she’d known more about when she was running Halifax-based data analytics startup topLog.

Yeloglu is known locally for being a co-founder and CEO of topLog, a venture that made life easier for IT operations teams by analyzing the events that take place over IT systems and identifying anything unusual. TopLog ran for three years before folding in 2016.

Yeloglu then joined Microsoft as a data scientist working in fintech. Since September, she’s been the chief data scientist leading Microsoft’s artificial intelligence team in central Canada. She and her staff work with sales teams and clients building cloud-based solutions using Microsoft’s Azure Data Services.

In her leadership role, she is also working with startups and finding ways for Microsoft clients to work with the young companies.

Read more in “ENTREVESTOR: Former startup CEO learning sales at Microsoft now” on thechronicleherald.ca.