About Inventures
Inventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. It is primarily based out of Istanbul, Turkey. As of Nov 2023, Inventures has invested in 21 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in Turkey based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Real Estate and Construction Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of ELTA Overall, Inventures portfolio has seen 3 acquisitions, namely Trendyol, Opinum and Bulucak.com. A lot of funds co-invest with Inventures, with names like SRIW sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Inventures has team of 3 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Sectors
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Inventures' List of Top Investments
Inventures has a portfolio of 21 companies. Their most notable investments are in Opinum and OncoDNA.Their portfolio spans across Turkey, Belgium, United States and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Real Estate and Construction Tech and 13 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Inventures:1. Trendyol
Online marketplace of multi-category products. The product catalog includes fashion, beauty, grocery, home furniture, electronics, sports, outdoor products, and more. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS.
Key facts about Trendyol
- Founded Year: 2010
- Location: Maslak (Turkey)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $1.54B
- Investors: Princeville Capital, Bond Capital and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Aug 09, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
2. OncoDNA
Theranostic and genomic company for precision medicine in oncology. The company's biomarker tests include OncoDEEP for precision medicine, OncoSELECT is a liquid biopsy solution for monitoring and therapeutics, and OncoFOLLOW is to monitor the progression of the tumor. Also has NGS interpretation platform OncoKDM for clinical information and biomarker test platform OncoSHARE.
Key facts about OncoDNA
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Charleroi (Belgium)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $44.5M
- Employee Count: 46 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Verve Ventures, Swisscanto and 18 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Nov 01, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Confidential computing solutions for secure and accountable storing and processing of data. The company's offerings include Edgeless DB, an end-to-end encrypted SQL database, Edgeless RT to build computing apps, and Edgeless Mesh, a service mesh for computing.
Key facts about Edgeless Systems
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Bochum (Germany)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $6.72M
- Employee Count: 23 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: SquareOne, Acequia Capital and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 07, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. myGini
Reward-based payment and customer engagement solutions for businesses. It features an integrated payment and shopping application that connects cardholders, retailers, and banks. It provides a loyalty platform for retailers for promotions and cardholders to unlock their card potential, earns promo points and cashback while shopping, track their spending, and cash in points. Offer real-time push notifications for each transaction.
Key facts about myGini
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $4.01M
- Employee Count: 5 as on Jan 05, 2026
- Investors: Inventures, MassChallenge and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, May 10, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. IdeaSoft
Key facts about IdeaSoft
- Founded Year: 2005
- Location: Uskudar (Turkey)
- Stage: Funding Raised
- Employee Count: 231 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Inventures and projectz
Inventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Inventures has invested in 21 companies over the last 12 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in ELTA and most recent follow-on round was in OncoDNA.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Inventures' Investments by Stage
Inventures has made 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.72M and 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $4.88M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 4 |
Series A | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Inventures' Investments by Sector
Inventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech, Real Estate and Construction Tech and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 16 Tech companies, 9 Software companies, 8 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 8 companies focusing on Enterprise (B2B).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 2 |
High Tech | 2 |
Real Estate and Construction Tech | 2 |
Vertical SaaS | 2 |
Others | 9 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Inventures' Investments by Geography
Inventures has made most investments in Turkey (3), followed by Belgium where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Turkey | 3 |
Belgium | 2 |
Germany | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Inventures' recent investments
Inventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Inventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 27, 2023 | Turkey | Seed | 7875 | - | |
Jun 21, 2021 | Germany | Seed | 2650 | [+2] | |
Feb 13, 2020 | Belgium | Series B | 4793 | [+6] | |
Jul 28, 2017 | Belgium | Series A | 9601 | [+1] | |
2017 | Turkey | Seed | 8360 | - |
Acquired companies in Inventures' Portfolio
3 companies from Inventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Opinum in Nov 2021 by Itineris for $*****.Here are Inventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 08, 2021 | Jul 28, 2017 | Series A | 3722 | |
Jun 28, 2018 | - | - | 5188 | |
Jun 01, 2014 | - | - | 8730 |
Team profile of Inventures
Inventures has a team of 3 members including 2 Partners located in Turkey. Inventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Inventures
Over the past 12 years, 25 investors have co-invested in Inventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Inventures: Sambrinvest, IPG and 3 others have invested in rounds before Inventures. There are 2 companies where Sambrinvest has invested before Inventures and 1 company where IPG has invested before Inventures.
- Top Co-investors of Inventures: 7 investors entered a company along with Inventures. These include investors like SRIW (1 company).
- Invested after Inventures: A total of 13 investors have invested in Inventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Sai Food Products (1 company), Jean Stéphenne (1 company) and Swisscanto (1 company).
