# Aruna Subramanian

> Aruna Subramanian is a seed investor at SABIC (Eindhoven) backing Battery and CleanTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SABIC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabic)
- Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunasubramanian
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arunas2

Aruna Subramanian is a seed investor at SABIC in Eindhoven focused on Battery and CleanTech. Aruna Subramanian is based out of Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant and served as Managing Director of SABIC Ventures. Aruna previously worked at Qpinch as a Non Executive Director. Aruna Subramanian attended International Institute for Management Development. Aruna Subramanian has been certified Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Battery | 1 | 50% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 50% |
| Recycling | 1 | 50% |
| Energy Storage | 1 | 50% |
| Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Novocycle Technologies | Novocycle Technologies is bringing true circularity to the growing battery market. With its innovative and patented NovoRec Process, Novocycle is recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries without shredding or crushing them, avoiding the production of black mass and directly obtaining reusable active materials in battery grade. With an amazing recoveryefficiency of 96% of the solid materials within the overall battery, Novocycle surpasses all upcoming targets of the EU Battery Regulations for recycling efficiency and recycled content in new batteries. All of this is realized in an economic feasible way, by decentralized micro facilities and a revenue sharing operation model for feedstock providers. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| VOID Technologies | VOID Technologies is a groundbreaking materials science company spun out of Kimberly-Clark to commercialise the VO+ technology. Our business model is based on supplying VO+ additive masterbatches to film manufacturers. | $7.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 18, 2020 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [APY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capricorn Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capricorn-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Diniz Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diniz-holding-2e3f) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SABIC

VC Fund · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) is a diversified manufacturing company, active in chemicals and intermediates, industrial polymers, fertilizers and metals. It is the largest public company in Saudi Arabia, as listed in Tadawul, but the Saudi government still owns 70% of its shares. SABIC is also the largest company in the Middle East.Private shareholders are from Saudi Arabia and other countries of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).SABIC is currently the second largest global ethylene glycol producer and is expected to top the list after the introduction of new projects. SABIC is the third largest polyethylene manufacturer, the fourth largest polyolefins manufacturer, and the fourth largest polypropylene manufacturer. SABIC is also the world’s largest producer of mono-ethylene glycol, MTBE, granular urea, polycarbonate, polyphenylene and polyether imide.In 2008, SABIC was ranked fourth in the world by Fortune Global 500. By 2009, SABIC also improved its position to become the world’s 186th largest corporation. In 2010, SABIC grew to be the second largest diversified chemical company, or first when measured only by asset value. Measured over all its branches, it became (as of 2014) the world's 94th largest corporation on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking, with sales revenues of $50.4 billion, profits of $6.6 billion and assets standing at $90.2 billion.

5 contacts available at SABIC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aruna Subramanian | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aruna-subramanian |
| Ian Freelance | Senior Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-freelance |
| Alex Delaney | Application and Process Engineer, Large Format Additive Manufacturing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-delaney |
| Ashok Sridhar | Senior Scientist, Consumer Electronics, T&I | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashok-sridhar |
| Dhaval Shah | General Manager, Corporate Technology & Innovation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dhaval-shah-3a7b |

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## FAQ

### What does Aruna Subramanian invest in?

Aruna Subramanian invests primarily in Battery, CleanTech and Recycling startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Aruna Subramanian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aruna Subramanian closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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