Amsterdam · Seed–Series A · 13 people tracked
Investment thesis
ScaleX Ventures emphasizes a founder-centric philosophy centered on its Founders' Partner Program, which is designed to help startups grow faster by enabling founders to learn from and support one another. The approach is built on the idea of founders putting other founders first, helping peers overcome growth challenges and accelerate their learning curves. Through this program, the firm's portfolio founders become part of a collaborative community rather than facing the entrepreneurial journey alone.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 13 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesFounder mafia
3 people who came through ScaleX Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 27 of 37 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×17SaaS ×11Data & Infrastructure ×7Developer Tools ×7Enterprise Software ×7Cybersecurity ×5Fintech ×4Retail Tech ×3
HQs:United States×7Türkiye×4Bulgaria×1United Kingdom×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 15 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×83 founders×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 12 founders with career history
Carnegie Mellon University ×3Apple ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 37 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathCo-investors500 Emerging Europe
Atlas Robotics develops a Physical AI platform that powers autonomous warehouse robots for tasks like transport, vertical storage, and case picking, using shared AI across its hardware, software, and cloud stack.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsPittsburgh, US
Çetin Meriçli, Ph.D.(Founder)inTekin Meriçli, Ph.D.(Founder)in
Co-investorsLocalGlobeNorthzoneVillage Global
Bluedot provides a payment platform that consolidates charging transactions and expense tracking for electric vehicle owners and fleet operators.
Climate TechFintechSan Francisco, US
Selinay Parlak(Founder)inFerhat Babacan(Founder)in
Co-investorsAutotech VenturesDorm RoomLobster CapitalY CombinatorOperator Stack
Buluttan builds weather intelligence products using numerical weather prediction models and AI, including renewable energy production forecasts for wind and solar plants.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechData & InfrastructureEnergy
Mehmet Kiral(Founder)in
Co-investorsArya Ventures
Coqui was an AI speech company behind the open-source 🐸TTS toolkit and the ⓍTTS multilingual voice-cloning model.
Kelly Davis(Founder)
Co-investorsDnx VenturesMango Capital
Cybeats is a software supply chain security company that provides an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) management platform for organizations to track software components, automate vulnerability lifecycle management, and prioritize security remediation.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaS
Dmitry Raidman(Co-founder & CTO)Justin Leger(Chief Executive Officer)inJosh Bald(Chief Financial Officer)Julia Cherry(Chief Customer Officer)Andy Ducharme(Head of Sales)
Co-investorsInovia CapitalRipple Ventures
Co-investors4impact capitalAct Venture CapitalACT Venture CapitalAmadeus Capital SAAngel Physicians FundAnkur Capital+60 more
Figopara is a Turkish financial technology platform that digitizes financial processes between commercial businesses and banks, letting companies convert invoices and checks into cash before maturity and compare financing offers from multiple financial institutions.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Koray Gultekin Bahar(Founder)inArman Eker(Founder)in
Co-investorsFinbergIFCSabancı VenturesDeBa VenturesLima VenturesMetis Ventures+2 more
Flowla provides interactive, custom-branded deal rooms paired with a no-code AI workflow builder that automates sales and customer success processes and captures buyer engagement signals.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Erdem Gelal(Founder)in
Co-investorsMetis VenturesAI Startup FactoryAntlerAPY VenturesFuel VenturesLogo Ventures+1 more
Folio AI lets SME manufacturers build product catalogs through a conversational interface, grouping products and sharing individual product links instantly.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS
Genialis is a precision oncology company that applies data analysis to help drug developers understand mechanisms of action, resistance, and patient stratification for cancer therapies.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthMedical DevicesBoston, US
Miha Štajdohar(Executive Officer, Director)inRafael Rosengarten(Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder)inLuka Ausec(Executive Officer)inHamzeh Abdul-Hadi(Director)Tjasa Krisper Kutin(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAngelini VenturesTaiwania CapitalDebiopharm Innovation FundFirst Star Venturesredalpine
Herm.io lets shoppers build a private, anonymised loyalty profile from their purchase history across multiple retailers, so brands can recognise and reward cross-channel customer loyalty with personalised discounts, store credit, and early access.
ConsumerMarketing TechRetail TechLondon, GB
Hilbert builds AI-native infrastructure for growth teams to consolidate fragmented data, analyze growth drivers with mathematical rigor, and make rapid, precision-driven decisions.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRetail TechSaaS
Cenk Batman(Founder)Ceyda E(Founder)Nazli Tan(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAsylum Ventures
Hipporello is a service desk platform that integrates with task management tools like Trello, Notion, Asana, and Jira to let teams manage support requests, tickets, and tasks in one place.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsAtlassian Ventures
HyperbeeAI develops AI inference technology aimed at improving the speed, accuracy, and cost of neural computation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Co-investorsRevo Capital
Icosa Computing builds local AI tools that run on a user's own hardware instead of the cloud, including Zeno (a macOS AI workspace that adapts to a user's documents, code, and terminology) and LM Shop (a no-code platform for training custom AI models to run locally).
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Tarun Advaith(Research)
Invidyo is an AI-powered video and radar monitoring system for baby monitoring and senior care, offering real-time alerts for events like falls, crying, sleep patterns, and calls for help.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechIoT
Co-investorsTeknoloji Yatirim
Invicti offers an application security testing platform that combines DAST, SAST, software composition analysis, API security, container scanning, and application security posture management (ASPM) with proof-based scanning to validate exploitable vulnerabilities.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Can BilginCenk Kalpakoğlu
Co-investors500 Emerging Europe500 Global
Edgeworth, US
Cetin Mericli(Executive Officer, Director)Alonzo Kelly(Executive Officer, Director)Michael George(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMike Stubler(Director)inJim DiSanto(Director)George Ugras(Director)in
Co-investorsAV8 VenturesBatshit Crazy VenturesDraper TriangleProeza VenturesReshape
Meditopia provides holistic wellbeing programs that combine psychology, technology, and wellness to support mental, emotional, and physical health.
Digital HealthMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Berk Yilmaz(Founder)inFatih Mustafa Çelebi(Founder)in
Co-investorsHighland EuropeStartersHubVela Partners
Opnova provides AI-native identity governance for large enterprises, using AI agents that learn from video demos to govern disconnected applications (mainframes, Citrix, thick clients, legacy portals) without APIs or connectors.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Sinan
Co-investorsFaberIncubate USPreface Ventures
Picus Security offers an AI-driven security validation platform that generates attack scenarios from threat intelligence reports, validates defenses, and prioritizes threats for security teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Volkan Erturk(Founder)inH. Alper Memis(Founder)in
Co-investorsACT Venture PartnersRiverwood Capital
WorkBoard provides a software platform for enterprise teams to define, align, and track strategic priorities and OKRs (objectives and key results).
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSofia, BG
Deidre Paknad(CEO)Daryoush Paknad(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsIndex VenturesTechstarsInsight PartnersLAUNCHub VenturesSingularVisionaries Club
Boston, US
Serkan ?zal(Executive Officer, Director)Ismail Azeri(Director)Timothy Daniels(Director)
BoardNeeraj Agrawal(Director)Berkay Mollamustafaoglu(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsYork IE
Ubicloud is an open source cloud infrastructure platform that offers managed services or self-hosted deployment to reduce cloud costs and eliminate vendor lock-in.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Umur Cubukcu(Founder)inOzgun Erdogan(Founder)inDaniel Farina(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator500 Emerging EuropeWayfinder Venturese2vcRainfall Ventures
Upstash is a data platform for developers that handles infrastructure management, allowing users to focus on application development.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzMango Capital
Vectroid is a managed vector database offering vector search, full-text search, hybrid search, and filtered queries at scale, designed to index billions of vectors with low latency and high recall.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Talip Ozturk(CEO and Co-Founder)Kevin Hanson(Head of Operations and Co-Founder)Zoltán Baranyi(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsRace Capital
Weave Robotics builds home robots that fold laundry and perform household reset tasks, designing and manufacturing its own components such as actuators, end-effectors, and linkage systems.
ConsumerHardwareRobotics
Evan Wineland(Founder)inKaan Dogrusoz(Founder)in
Co-investorsMyAsiaVC
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioResmoacq. by JumpCloud
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesWeave Robotics · businessinsider.com · Aug 9, 2026
Atlas Robotics · pulse2.com · Jul 18, 2026
Picus Security · siliconangle.com · Jul 7, 2026
Coqui · staradvertiser.com · May 4, 2026
Hilbert · siliconangle.com · Apr 16, 2026
Tori · panewslab.com · Mar 25, 2026
Meditopia · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Ubicloud · trysignalbase.com · Mar 23, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has ScaleX Ventures made?
- ScaleX Ventures has 37 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does ScaleX Ventures invest at?
- ScaleX Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is ScaleX Ventures's typical check size?
- ScaleX Ventures typically writes checks of $216K – $2.2M.
- What sectors does ScaleX Ventures focus on?
- ScaleX Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, B2B Marketplaces, Biotech, Cybersecurity, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Robotics, SaaS.
- Where is ScaleX Ventures located?
- ScaleX Ventures is headquartered in Amsterdam, NL.
- Who does ScaleX Ventures co-invest with?
- ScaleX Ventures most often shares deals with 500 Emerging Europe, Andreessen Horowitz, Metis Ventures, among 33 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamDilek Dayınlarlı ve Berkay Mollamustafaoğlu ile ScaleX Ventures'ı konuştuk
Webrazzi · Dilek Dayinlarli
INVESTART Online Panel | ScaleX Ventures (Dilek Dayınlarlı)
ODTÜ Genç Girişimciler Topluluğu · Dilek Dayinlarli
Dilek Dayınlarlı & Şafak Tüfekçi | ScaleX Ventures - Product Leadership Summit
Girisimci Muhabbeti · Dilek Dayinlarli
ScaleX Ventures Kurucu Ortağı Dilek Dayınlarlı Değerlendirme (SW2020 1. Çeyrek Etkinliği)
startups.watch · Dilek Dayinlarli
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Co-investors · 3
LAUNCHub Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in seed and Series A companies from South-Eastern Europe and the CEE region.
CRV is a venture capital firm that backs founders at the seed and Series A stages, focusing on those with deep conviction and unique insights.
Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies over its 40-year history, operating its investment staff as a single global unit.
Firms observed investing alongside ScaleX Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with ScaleX Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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