Tekfen Ventures

Tekfen Ventures invests in early-stage companies that have uniquely impactful technologies and business models we believe will change the world. Our primary investment focus is in industrial and enterprise software and hardware technologies. As the corporate venture arm of Tekfen Holdings, a multinational industrial conglomerate, they leverage their unique assets and resources to be a true partner and strategic ally to their portfolio companies.

Eyal Fisher

Director

Kristof Kemeny

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Aashi Parikh

Associate

Jordan Steffy

Venture Partner

Sinan Uzan

President

21 past transactions

Tropic Biosciences

Series C in 2022
At Tropic Biosciences, They develop high-performing commercial varieties of tropical crops which promote grower wellbeing, consumer health, and improved sustainable environmental practices, using cutting edge non-GMO gene editing techniques.

Petra

Venture Round in 2022
Petra is a Robotics company that focuses solely on underground utilities. Petra enables undergrounding critical utilities by boring utility tunnels through previously impenetrable geologies.

Petra

Series A in 2021
Petra is a Robotics company that focuses solely on underground utilities. Petra enables undergrounding critical utilities by boring utility tunnels through previously impenetrable geologies.

Mosaic

Series B in 2021
Mosaic is a construction technology company building software to make residential construction more scalable. The company operates as a digital general contractor to provide construction and related services to homebuilders and residential developers, allowing them to offload their construction processes and related needs to Mosaic’s integrated platform and team. Mosaic’s platform standardizes the construction process, and not the homes, allowing them to deliver places people love and create better communities.

Pivot Bio

Series D in 2021
Pivot Bio is improving and using a deep understanding of the microbiome to advance crop nutrition. They believe that microbes can deliver nutrients, protect against pests, and improve crop quality better than chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They leverage engineering principles and data science to map the dynamics of the plant microbiome and evolve beneficial traits. Their team thrives on collaboration and communication as they seek to create revolutionary fertilizers that transform food supply and improves the planet. Pivot Bio's proprietary ON Technology harnesses the power of naturally occurring microbes to provide more nutrients to crops. It’s a smart, sustainable way for farmers to improve yield as they work to help feed the world’s growing population. Their current efforts are focused on enabling microbes to fix and supply more nitrogen to corn. Pivot Bio was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

Oxipital AI

Series B in 2021
Oxipital AI specializes in visual AI solutions that enhance efficiency and sustainability in manufacturing. The platform addresses operational challenges by enabling real-time insights, improving product quality, and increasing throughput. By simplifying implementation, Oxipital AI empowers manufacturers to leverage their data effectively and optimize production workflows. Oxpital AI was previously known as Soft Robotics.

Avvir

Series A in 2021
Avvir works seamlessly with its existing systems from photo capture, to construction workflow management to laser scans and 360 photos. Their platform helps them identify potential risks and slowdowns, plus save time and money by automating their progress and earned value tracking, quality control, and as-built creation.

Phospholutions

Series A in 2021
Phospholutions has developed a patented technology to alleviate the environmental impact of phosphorus fertilizer. Current commercial products aim to deliver phosphorus more efficiently to the plant within the soil and reduce unwanted losses to the environment, ultimately minimizing the effect on water quality. Phospholutions is a State College, PA-based sustainable fertilizer startup.

Tropic Biosciences

Series B in 2020
At Tropic Biosciences, They develop high-performing commercial varieties of tropical crops which promote grower wellbeing, consumer health, and improved sustainable environmental practices, using cutting edge non-GMO gene editing techniques.

Pivot Bio

Series C in 2020
Pivot Bio is improving and using a deep understanding of the microbiome to advance crop nutrition. They believe that microbes can deliver nutrients, protect against pests, and improve crop quality better than chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They leverage engineering principles and data science to map the dynamics of the plant microbiome and evolve beneficial traits. Their team thrives on collaboration and communication as they seek to create revolutionary fertilizers that transform food supply and improves the planet. Pivot Bio's proprietary ON Technology harnesses the power of naturally occurring microbes to provide more nutrients to crops. It’s a smart, sustainable way for farmers to improve yield as they work to help feed the world’s growing population. Their current efforts are focused on enabling microbes to fix and supply more nitrogen to corn. Pivot Bio was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

Oxipital AI

Series B in 2020
Oxipital AI specializes in visual AI solutions that enhance efficiency and sustainability in manufacturing. The platform addresses operational challenges by enabling real-time insights, improving product quality, and increasing throughput. By simplifying implementation, Oxipital AI empowers manufacturers to leverage their data effectively and optimize production workflows. Oxpital AI was previously known as Soft Robotics.

Latch

Series B in 2019
Latch is an operating system of software, products, and services. They were designed to help owners, residents, and third parties like guests, couriers, and service providers seamlessly experience the modern building.

Prospera Technologies

Series B in 2019
Prospera Technologies develop computer vision technologies that continuously monitor and analyze plant health, development and stress. Their technology captures climate and visual data from the field and provides actionable insights to growers via mobile and web. Their team is built of computer scientists, physicists and agronomists combined with experienced agri-business leaders that together, are revolutionizing the tools with which they grow their foods.

Sight Machine

Series C in 2019
Sight Machine specializes in manufacturing analytics and used by Global 500 companies to make better, faster decisions about their operations. Sight Machine's analytics platform, purpose-built for discrete and process manufacturing, uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise. The platform is powered by the industry’s only Plant Digital Twin, which enables real-time visibility and actionable insights for every machine, line, and plant throughout an enterprise. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pivot Bio

Series B in 2018
Pivot Bio is improving and using a deep understanding of the microbiome to advance crop nutrition. They believe that microbes can deliver nutrients, protect against pests, and improve crop quality better than chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They leverage engineering principles and data science to map the dynamics of the plant microbiome and evolve beneficial traits. Their team thrives on collaboration and communication as they seek to create revolutionary fertilizers that transform food supply and improves the planet. Pivot Bio's proprietary ON Technology harnesses the power of naturally occurring microbes to provide more nutrients to crops. It’s a smart, sustainable way for farmers to improve yield as they work to help feed the world’s growing population. Their current efforts are focused on enabling microbes to fix and supply more nitrogen to corn. Pivot Bio was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

Tropic Biosciences

Series A in 2018
At Tropic Biosciences, They develop high-performing commercial varieties of tropical crops which promote grower wellbeing, consumer health, and improved sustainable environmental practices, using cutting edge non-GMO gene editing techniques.

Claroty

Series B in 2018
Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company that helps customers reveal, protect, and manage OT, IoT, and IIoT assets. The company provides a platform that connects seamlessly with customers' existing infrastructure and programs while offering a full range of industrial cybersecurity controls for visibility, threat detection, risk, and vulnerability management, and secure remote access with a significantly reduced total cost of ownership.

Oxipital AI

Series A in 2018
Oxipital AI specializes in visual AI solutions that enhance efficiency and sustainability in manufacturing. The platform addresses operational challenges by enabling real-time insights, improving product quality, and increasing throughput. By simplifying implementation, Oxipital AI empowers manufacturers to leverage their data effectively and optimize production workflows. Oxpital AI was previously known as Soft Robotics.

Sight Machine

Series B in 2017
Sight Machine specializes in manufacturing analytics and used by Global 500 companies to make better, faster decisions about their operations. Sight Machine's analytics platform, purpose-built for discrete and process manufacturing, uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise. The platform is powered by the industry’s only Plant Digital Twin, which enables real-time visibility and actionable insights for every machine, line, and plant throughout an enterprise. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

StrongArm Tech

Series A in 2017
StrongArm Tech provides SaaS solutions to Fortune 2000 companies that prevent workplace injuries. .

ArcByt

Venture Round in 2017
ArcByt designs and builds a new type of underground drilling and boring system. It utilizes electricity and high temperature plasma to bore easily through hard rock and other sub-surface materials. This approach uniquely decouples the cost per foot of bore from the length of bore, a significant advantage over conventional drilling technologies with broad applicability to renewable energy transmission and development activities.
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