Sabancı Ventures acts as a “sensor” for Group companies to identify new growth areas, actively evaluating investment opportunities with innovative business models and/or cutting-edge technologies.
Sabancı Ventures (“SV”) is the
corporate venture capital arm
of Sabancı Holding. SV adopts
global best practices and creates
value for both parties with solid
commercial partnership plans,
leveraging the know-how,
operational excellence, and
global network of Sabancı Holding
companies. SV also accepts the
UN Principles for Responsible
Investment (PRI)’s six principles as
a guide for evaluating investment
decisions.
As a corporate VC fund, Sabancı
Ventures invests in post-revenue
scale-ups and seeks solid
synergies and value creation
opportunities between its future
portfolio companies and Sabancı
Group companies. SV strives to
find exceptional founders with
scalable business models and
help them realize their global
expansion potential. Typically,
SV invests in post-seed to Series
A stage companies, though it
can also invest in later stage
companies.
12Total Number of
Investments
USD12MILLION
Total Deployment
Amount
Sabancı Ventures acts as a
“sensor” for Group companies
to identify new growth areas,
actively evaluating investment
opportunities with innovative
business models and/or cuttingedge
technologies. SV focuses
on burgeoning areas such as
Internet of Things (IoT), artificial
intelligence (AI) and big data,
climate tech, insurtech, health
tech, fintech, mobility, advanced
materials, and cloud tech.
Sabancı Ventures has made
direct corporate venture capital
investments in 12 companies in
five countries and has deployed
over USD 12 million to date.
Five of these investments were
completed in 2023.
As a part of its overall CVC
strategy, Sabancı Group uses
several investment vehicles
where the total number of
direct investments reached 17+ companies and total investments
exceeded USD 45 million between
2020 and 2023.