Tekfen Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Tekfen Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Robotics. 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 leveragetheir unique assets and resources to be a true partner and strategic ally to their portfolio companies.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
Last updated:
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Industries Tekfen Ventures invests in
SoftwareRoboticsAgricultureConstructionBiotechnology
Stages Tekfen Ventures invests in
Series BSeries ASeries CFunding RoundSeed
Countries Tekfen Ventures invests in
United StatesUnited KingdomIsrael
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Aashi Parikh
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Eyal Fisher
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (22%)
- Robotics 4 (17%)
- Agriculture 4 (17%)
- Construction 3 (13%)
- Biotechnology 3 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 8 (35%)
- Series A 6 (26%)
- Series C 3 (13%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
- Seed 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 11 (48%)
- United Kingdom 2 (9%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Aashi Parikh
Associate; Associate
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Associate; Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Eyal Fisher
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Laverock Therapeutics
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Laverock Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing programmable gene control technologies for advanced cell and gene therapies. The company builds a platform that uses endogenous microRNA and gene regulatory mechanisms to enable precise, tunable control of gene expression, allowing engineered cells to activate or silence therapeuticfunctions in response to specific biological signals. Its core approach focuses on “disease-responsive” therapies, where engineered cells are designed to sense the surrounding cellular environment and adjust their activity accordingly. This enables therapies that can switch on or off, or modulate activity levels, depending on disease state or tissue context, rather than operating in a constant active mode. The company’s platform supports multiplex gene control, meaning multiple genes can be regulated simultaneously within engineered cells. This capability is applied to developing next-generation cell therapies such as CAR-T cells and macrophages for oncology, as well as exploratory programs in genetic, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases. | $17.7M / Seed / Sep 28, 2023 | |
Phospholutions
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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. | $10.2M / Aug 09, 2023 | |
Tropic Biosciences
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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. | $35M / Series C / Jul 06, 2022 | |
Petra
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Petra is a Robotics company that focuses solely on underground utilities. Petra enables undergrounding critical utilities by boring utility tunnels through previously impenetrable geologies. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 15, 2022 | |
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Petra
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Petra is a Robotics company that focuses solely on underground utilities. Petra enables undergrounding critical utilities by boring utility tunnels through previously impenetrable geologies. | $30M / Series A / Dec 09, 2021 | |
Mosaic
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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 integratedplatform and team. Mosaic’s platform standardizes the construction process, and not the homes, allowing them to deliver places people love and create better communities. | $44M / Series B / Nov 01, 2021 | |
Pivot Bio
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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 andevolve 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. | $430M / Series D / Jul 19, 2021 | |
Oxipital AI
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Soft Robotics opens new markets to automation through the application and commercialization of its proprietary soft robotics technology. The business end of a robotic arm is the gripper. The March 2105 edition of Modern Materials Handling best describes the challenge when they wrote: “Perhaps more than any other element of robotic development inwarehousing and distribution, the end-of-arm tooling, or gripper, is the place that can make or break a robot’s success.” Advancing gripper technology is the key to unlocking a new age of automation. An age where they can automate tote pick and pack for grocery distribution, bin picking of soft and delicate parts, e-commerce order fulfillment, fruit harvesting, luggage handling, and consumer goods packaging. The US fresh produce packing market alone represents a $27 billion retail market searching for automation solutions. Soft Robotics has demonstrated the ability to bring robotic product handling and packaging to this market. These are problems of adaptability, complexity, and cost. The search for a more adaptable gripper has driven up the complexity of design to devices like servo grippers and complicated tool changing requirements. This complexity comes at a high price in gripper cost, the need for larger arms, and complex software and hardware integration. Their revolutionary soft robotic technology, covered by more than 40 patents and applications, enables us to design and manufacture soft robotic hands that address the new unstructured world of automation and logistics. Through their propriety knowledge of actuator geometry, material selection, and operating envelope, they can tune actuators to be force limiting with NO CLOSED LOOP FEEDBACK system required. Soft Robotics brings the highest level of adaptability, while lowering system complexity and total system cost.The adaptive nature of their technology allows a single grasper to handle an unprecedented range of objects, regardless of shape, size, or weight, with no tool or software changes between cycles. We’ve demonstrated the ability to grasp bags of rice, raw food, bars of soap, boxes of toothpaste, and clothing all with a single device. But soft does not mean weak. Their technology has the ability to scale from the smallest to the largest task. The result is an automation solution that can pack a tote for retail distribution, pick fruit off the vine, or easily handle a ten pound kettle bell. They have demonstrated the speed and precision necessary to integrate into the factories and warehouses of today and the future, operating at speeds up to 130 picks per minute.Their system is plug and play with the most common industrial robots using industry standard protocols and vision systems.They have designed the system to be “robot and vision agnostic,” allowing the system to quickly and seamlessly integrate with the full range of robots, from small collaborative systems to high speed industrial packing cells. Soft Robotics launched their industrial product at Automate 2015 in March 2015, Their produce handling system in June 2015, and started shipping in June 2015. They are now selling systems to their pilot customers. Soft Robotics is foundational technology that solves the problems of today and unlocks the future of automation. | $10M / Series B / Jun 29, 2021 | |
Avvir
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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. | $10M / Series A / Mar 26, 2021 | |
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Phospholutions
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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. | $10.3M / Series A / Jan 26, 2021 | |
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FAQ
What does Tekfen Ventures invest in?
Tekfen Ventures invests primarily in Software, Robotics and Agriculture startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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