Burak Özçelik

Founder of Ulawk · Lawyer

Burak Özçelik is the founder of Ulawk, which monitors companies from their official records. He graduated from Saint Michel High School in 2018 and from Koç University Law School in 2023; he is a lawyer.

He founded Ulawk in 2021 while still a law student. Its first module was a service that e-mails users the official notices of the companies they do business with.

Today Ulawk follows companies in Türkiye and abroad from official company registers. Ulawk joined Istanbul University Technopark Entertech in 2022 and received the Young Entrepreneur Award at the Entertech İstanbul Teknokent awards ceremony in February 2025.

Burak is also the founder of Vesika (vesika.ai), an AI document assistant for legal teams that helps lawyers draft and review contracts, petitions and other legal documents.

Award

In February 2025 Ulawk received the Young Entrepreneur Award at the Entertech İstanbul Teknokent ceremony for the year's most successful startups. Coverage: Hibya Haber Ajansı · Ekotürk

Why he founded Ulawk

In an interview with Marketing Türkiye, Burak explains that the idea came from connecting three things: a digital service that e-mailed company news, a case where not following official notices led to financial and legal loss, and Article 36/3 of the Turkish Commercial Code, which places the burden of knowing registered notices on third parties. The name Ulawk combines the Turkish word "ulak" (messenger) and "law".

Speaking to BigPara, he pointed to the effort of following business partners' notices one by one (in Turkish):

“Bireysel takip, zaman alıcı ve hata riski yüksek bir süreç.”
Burak Özçelik, BigPara · Hürriyet, 25 May 2025 ("Individual tracking is time-consuming and error-prone.")

In the press