iLab Ventures

iLab Ventures was founded in 2000 as a part of Access Turkey Capital Group. Its mandate was to invest venture capital in early-growth stages of companies operating in sectors with high-growth potential. The company focuses on the petrochemical, iron-steel, human resources, software development, and insurance sectors. iLab Ventures is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Yuksel Dibekoglu

Director

AI

Altug Inan

CFO

SK

Simal Konanc

Director

EP

Ertekin Peker

Director

Mustafa Say

MD

ÖT

Özgür Tanriverdi

Director

Past deals in Turkey

Kariyer.net

Acquisition in 2006
Kariyer.net is the first and largest online recruitment companies in Turkey. Established in 1999, it marked the emergence of online recruitment practice in the country. By leveraging new technologies, Kariyer.net has been a market leader in the recruitment sector for the past 14 years. In 2005, Kariyer.net joined The Network, a global leader in international recruitment. This allowed Kariyer.net’s corporate clients to search through candidates in other member sites’ databases while providing its own database for employers from member countries. Kariyer.net has the biggest resume database in The Network’s system. As of 2013, Kariyer.net hosts 18 million resumes and serves 49 thousand recruiting companies. Every month, 15,000 new jobs are posted. The monthly number of applications is about 5 million, 10% of which comes from mobile applications.

Emlakjet.com

Acquisition in 2014
Emlakjet.com is a Turkish web-based portal that operates as a real estate site for property search. The portal enables its users to search and find housing, workplace, land, and resort properties for sale and rent as well as land and housing development properties for construction. Emlakjet.com was launched in 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey.

unnado

Series A in 2012
unnado is an online shopping club offering special brand products for mothers, babies and children. It offers special discounts and privileges, and uses the flash sales business model, which has become a popular trend especially for the mother, baby and child vertical segments. It currently works with more than 700 suppliers and 1,700 brands, and has a growing member base of about 800 thousand. Its future plans include increasing the number of brands offered, importing more products into the Turkish market, and launching their own product line for motherhood and baby products.

Cimri

Acquisition in 2011
Cimri Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Sistemleri A.S. operates an online portal for product and price comparison. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. The company is a former subsidiary of Gitti Gidiyor Bilgi Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi.

ChemOrbis

Acquisition in 2001
ChemOrbis (www.chemorbis.com) is the global business network serving the plastics industry since 2001. With offices located in Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul , Milano, Cairo, Florida and Moscow, ChemOrbis has been covering Far & South East Asian, Italian, Turkish, Middle Eastern, North&West African, NorthWest European markets on a daily basis, providing up-to-date and accurate market reports, concise weekly analysis, price indexes and the most recent industry news. ChemOrbis Market Information and Analysis Tools help market players determine the best trading strategy, sharpen their negotiating power and conduct more profitable business. ChemOrbis provides a global marketplace where 62,500+ verified and reliable member companies can execute their sourcing and selling strategies in a fast and efficient way by reaching refined potential business partners at the right time. ChemOrbis organizes plastic industry events and conferences allowing participants to meet new business partners, catch up with existing customers and get better understanding of the global markets. Services of ChemOrbis are: - Market Information - Analysis Tools - e-Marketplace - Events - Almanacs - Advertising For further information please visit www.chemorbis.com.

unnado

Acquisition in 2011
unnado is an online shopping club offering special brand products for mothers, babies and children. It offers special discounts and privileges, and uses the flash sales business model, which has become a popular trend especially for the mother, baby and child vertical segments. It currently works with more than 700 suppliers and 1,700 brands, and has a growing member base of about 800 thousand. Its future plans include increasing the number of brands offered, importing more products into the Turkish market, and launching their own product line for motherhood and baby products.

Sigortam.net

Acquisition in 2006
[Sigortam.net](http://www.sigortam.net) is an insurance and reinsurance broker company, also an affiliate of iLab Holding. On March 27, 2001, the company is awarded with Insurance and Reinsurance Brokerage license from Turkish Republic, Office of Prime Ministry, Undersecretariat of Treasury, General Directorate of Insurance. Besides maintaining a fast growth and development level, sigortam.net has a paid up capital amounting to 6.3 million TL. Accomplished by Turkish entrepreneurs, Turkish project team and with technologies developed in Turkey, Sigortam.net combined its sector-experienced staff specialized in the line of business, principle of unconditional customer satisfaction with modern internet technologies and aimed that offering services of good quality. Sigortam.net brought innovation to the sector with website fully integrated in its technological infrastructure. Retail customers can use our website to compare products of insurance companies we are working with; they can buy online, right away automobile, traffic and health insurance policies. **Our awards and achievements!** Sigortam.net was the finalist of Technology Blue Ribbon category of “IV. Technology Awards” organize by TÜBİTAK, TTGV and TÜSİAD. In 2002 and 2003, our website was awarded with third prize on “Best Banking, Finance and Insurance Website” category of “Altın Örümcek” Contest where DorukNet evaluates the best internet sites of Turley; in 2008, we were awarded with the first prize on “Best Insurance Website” category of the contest organized for the sixth time
Arabam.com is an online platform that lists over ten thousand used car advertisements. It enables customers to logon to the website and browse through the different categories and select a car of their choice. The platform gives its customers total details about the car by providing images, videos, and also reviews from experts. Arabam.com was established on August 15, 2000.

unnado

Seed Round in 2010
unnado is an online shopping club offering special brand products for mothers, babies and children. It offers special discounts and privileges, and uses the flash sales business model, which has become a popular trend especially for the mother, baby and child vertical segments. It currently works with more than 700 suppliers and 1,700 brands, and has a growing member base of about 800 thousand. Its future plans include increasing the number of brands offered, importing more products into the Turkish market, and launching their own product line for motherhood and baby products.

SteelOrbis

Acquisition in 2013
SteelOrbis is a web based, industry focused, global business network for the steel industry. SteelOrbis connects steel using- and steel industry companies and their top tier professionals/owners globally by enabling them through: • Most reliable and dynamic market information tools and analysis • E-commerce tools and platforms • Web advertising opportunities • Offline industry conferences • Industrial trade magazines SteelOrbis possesses a very refined and comprehensive database consisting of • 35,000+ companies • 60,000+ users and expanding... Robust screening tools are applied to ensure that members are real, active and relevant for the community. SteelOrbis touches the following industries: • Major global players among the Steel Producers and Steel Traders, Distributors • Steel End Product Manufacturers are from various sectors - Construction - Automotive - Packaging - Engineering - Shipbuilding - White Household Goods etc - Others comprise of goods and services providers relevant to plastics industry - Tool makers, logistic service providers, banking industry, commodity exchanges etc. SteelOrbis provides accurate and independent market information which is generated daily through extensive telephone contacts with thousands of professionals from the industry. This data is processed through in house developed methodology to produce globally-acknowledged, leading market information. As of today, SteelOrbis operates with 4 offices (Istanbul, Shanghai, San Diego and Brescia) and 6 correspondents (Ukraine, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Israel, India and Mexico) For more information please visit one of the SteelOrbis websites: www.steelorbis.com / www.steelorbis.com.tr / www.steelorbis.cn / www.steelorbis.it

Neredekal.com

Series A in 2010
Neredekal.com is the biggest and the most visited travel portal of Turkey. It is a vacation and accomodation guide that gives detailed information about thousands of hotels and holiday locations from Turkey and the World.   The site traffic is all organic and it has around 3.000.000 visits and 15.000.000 page views per month.