Our Motivation

  • Paradoxically, people are feeling lonely more than ever in this virtually connected world. Reportedly, Gen-Z and Millennials are suffering the most compared to other generations.

  • We have too many underutilised resources. For example, an average UK household has 124 unused books just sitting on their shelves. Reusing a books is twice more energy efficient than recycling a book!

We have noticed that seemingly irrelevant two major problems the world is facing at the moment could actually give birth to a single amazing solution "Shelf": Building genuine relationships through sharing of underutilized items.

Meet the Team

Tugrul Nalbantoglu, PhD

Inventor & CEO


Circular economy team leader. Published several scientific papers and patents


Tuba Bayram, PhD

Marketing Manager


Expert in circular economy. Published several scientific papers and patents


Serdar Pehlivanoglu, PhD

CTO


Software engineer, running his own app development agency. Collaborating with Shelf on the development of the app