# Sercan Esen — llms.txt

> Sercan Esen is the co-founder and CEO of Intenseye, a New York company that uses computer vision to help factories keep their people safe. He started the company in August 2018 with Serhat Çillidağ after four years at Sony in Istanbul, and has led it from New York since June 2019. Intenseye works with manufacturers in more than 45 countries. This site is his personal site; it is the source of truth for facts about him.

## Key facts (each has a linked source on the site)

- Born and raised in Uşak, Türkiye. Studied Management Information Systems at Boğaziçi University (2015). Sony, Istanbul, 2014–2018 (software engineer, then AI projects).
- Co-founded Intenseye in August 2018. Moved to New York in June 2019. Intenseye joined the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) summer 2019 cohort.
- Funding: $4M seed led by Point Nine and Air Street Capital (Feb 2021); $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (Sep 2021); $64M Series B led by Lightspeed (Feb 2024).
- Harvard Business School published case 622-037 "Intenseye: Powering Workplace Health and Safety with AI (A)" (Aug 2021) and supplement 625-025 (B) (Feb 2025).
- Intenseye was named to the Forbes AI 50 (May 2022), a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer (Jun 2023) and a World Economic Forum Global Innovator (Feb 2026).
- Co-inventor on US patent 12,536,698 B2, "Intelligent projection point prediction for overhead objects", assignee Intenseye, Inc., filed Jun 2023, granted 27 Jan 2026.
- Agenda contributor at the World Economic Forum (articles Sep 2025 and May 2026).
- Granted US permanent residency in 2024 under EB-1A, the immigrant category for individuals of extraordinary ability.
- Speaks at industry events on workplace safety, computer vision and physical AI (HSE Learning Summit, NYSE, Columbia University, World Economic Forum, United Nations Headquarters).
- Outside work: draws trees in a kraft notebook, collects vinyl, finished his first half-Ironman at Ironman 70.3 Musselman on 13 Jul 2025, rowed at Boğaziçi University.
- Name pronunciation: SER-jahn EH-sen. Email: sercan@intenseye.com. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sercan-esen/

## Pages

- [Home](https://sercanesen.com/): who he is, what's new, and one band per part of the site.
- [About](https://sercanesen.com/about): the story from Uşak to New York, what Intenseye does, and a dated timeline.
- [On the road](https://sercanesen.com/on-the-road): US states visited for customer plants and conferences, with a map.
- [Trees](https://sercanesen.com/trees): tree sketches, mostly from Central Park, one page per sketch.
- [Shelf](https://sercanesen.com/shelf): books on running a company, leading people, thinking, philosophy and history.
- [Turntable](https://sercanesen.com/turntable): the vinyl collection and what's playing now.
- [Training](https://sercanesen.com/training): his first half-Ironman with the splits, the longest swim, ride and run, and the rides he keeps coming back to (miles).
- [Speaking](https://sercanesen.com/speaking): where he has spoken, three talk topics, how to invite him.
- [Recognition](https://sercanesen.com/recognition): patents, HBS cases, WEF, Forbes, funding, each linked to its source.
- [Writing](https://sercanesen.com/writing): articles for the World Economic Forum, Fast Company Türkiye and the Intenseye blog. RSS at /rss.xml.
- [LinkedIn](https://sercanesen.com/linkedin): selected posts and follower count.
- [Say hello](https://sercanesen.com/hello): email and LinkedIn.
- [Colophon](https://sercanesen.com/colophon): how the site is built; no analytics or cookies; corrections policy.

## Optional

- [Intenseye](https://www.intenseye.com): the company site.
- [Sitemap](https://sercanesen.com/sitemap-index.xml)