Sabancı Ventures invested in Zack.ai and Bulutistan startups, increasing the number of startups in its portfolio to 4. Sabancı Holding Strategy and Business Development Group President Gökhan Eyigün also made some important statements about his new investments.
Aiming to be a big supporter of the startups that go on an investment tour, Sabancı Group has made its way through Sabancı Holding Corporate Venture Capital Fund ‘Sabancı Ventures’. two more new investments performed. The total number of startups in Sabancı Ventures’ portfolio, which was established in 2020 after two new investments, increased to 4.
Sabancı Ventures’ new investments offer solutions such as virtual server, firewall, database and technical support. Bulutistan and with the idea that it can replace call centers, zack.ai its attempts. Sabancı Ventures had previously invested in Lumnion and Thread in Motion.
Sabancı Group ecosystem opens up to startups:
Commenting on two new investments, Sabancı Holding Strategy and Business Development Group President Gokhan Eyigunexplained the advantages they offer to the companies they invest in as follows:
“Within the scope of our vision to create a Sabancı Group that constantly renews itself, develops, strengthens and adapts rapidly to the changing world economy, one of the important parts of our strategy is to invest in the companies of the future. In this context, we not only make the Sabancı Group ecosystem available to startups, but also enable them to use the Sabancı network to open up to global markets. Since we are a group with a global footprint, taking the initiatives we interact with to the geographies we have access to is one of our most important contributions to the ecosystem in terms of globalization.”
Energy and climate technologies, material technologies and digital technologies, which they call the ‘new economy’, are Sabancı Group’s will be the most important elements of the growth journey. Indicating that Eyigün explained his goals in the continuation of his statement. The continuation of Eyigün’s statement was as follows:
“When we say digital technologies, we have started an investment period within the Sabancı Group in which cyber security, digital marketing, cloud technology, advanced data analytics, internet of things and software development will come to the fore. With all this, our aim is to increase efficiency and cost advantage in our processes by taking the power of innovation and the digital world behind us; to create added value for our customers by blending our products with new technologies and to provide access to new markets. Sabancı Ventures, with its investments in startups; Our SabancıDx company, on the other hand, will be the locomotive of this entire structuring with its strategic investments.”
Sabancı Ventures, which has a fund size of 30 million dollars at the first stage, provides growth to startups in the post-seed and Series A stages both at home and abroad. Between $500,000 and $4 million is investing.