# İTÜ ARI Teknokent Ventures

> İTÜ ARI Teknokent Ventures is a VC fund backing Travel, Tourism and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

İTÜ ARI Teknokent Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 33% |
| Tourism | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Biopharma | 1 | 33% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 1 | 33% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vignetim | Vignetim is a mobility-fintech platform that simplifies cross-border road travel for both individuals and fleets. Instead of juggling multiple national portals, petrol stations and paper receipts, drivers can manage digital vignettes and tolls, eSIM, and insurance in a single app. Vignetim connects to road operators and service providers acrossEurope and Türkiye, normalizes their rules and pricing, and turns them into a unified, user-friendly experience.For end users, Vignetim acts as a “digital co-pilot” for road trips: select your route, vehicle and dates, and the platform automatically suggests the correct vignettes/tolls, validates license plate formats, avoids overlaps, and stores all purchases and invoices in one place. Add-on services like eSIM and insurance can be bundled into the same journey, helping travellers stay compliant, connected and protected across borders.For fleets, banks, wallets and mobility partners, Vignetim offers an API-first and white-label ready infrastructure layer. Partners can embed multi-country vignettes/tolls, eSIM and insurance into their own channels, unlocking new transaction revenue and deepening customer loyalty without building complex country integrations themselves. Vignetim focuses on high-traffic corridors between Europe, Türkiye and the wider OIC region, serving use cases from tourism and labour mobility to logistics and pilgrimage travel. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 2026 |  |
| Vignetim | Vignetim is a mobility-fintech platform that simplifies cross-border road travel for both individuals and fleets. Instead of juggling multiple national portals, petrol stations and paper receipts, drivers can manage digital vignettes and tolls, eSIM, and insurance in a single app. Vignetim connects to road operators and service providers acrossEurope and Türkiye, normalizes their rules and pricing, and turns them into a unified, user-friendly experience.For end users, Vignetim acts as a “digital co-pilot” for road trips: select your route, vehicle and dates, and the platform automatically suggests the correct vignettes/tolls, validates license plate formats, avoids overlaps, and stores all purchases and invoices in one place. Add-on services like eSIM and insurance can be bundled into the same journey, helping travellers stay compliant, connected and protected across borders.For fleets, banks, wallets and mobility partners, Vignetim offers an API-first and white-label ready infrastructure layer. Partners can embed multi-country vignettes/tolls, eSIM and insurance into their own channels, unlocking new transaction revenue and deepening customer loyalty without building complex country integrations themselves. Vignetim focuses on high-traffic corridors between Europe, Türkiye and the wider OIC region, serving use cases from tourism and labour mobility to logistics and pilgrimage travel. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 2026 |  |
| PhiTech Bioinformatics | PhiTech Bioinformatics translates genome-wide molecular data, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, Microbiomics into biotechnology solutions. | $2.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 08, 2026 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eksim Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eksim-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Istcapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/istcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ITK Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itk-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Technobee](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/technobee) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does İTÜ ARI Teknokent Ventures invest in?

İTÜ ARI Teknokent Ventures invests primarily in Travel, Tourism and Software startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did İTÜ ARI Teknokent Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for İTÜ ARI Teknokent Ventures closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 3 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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