MONEY HAS NO GENDER!

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
To increase the number of active women in investing and entrepreneurship and to transform this resource into an opportunity, Arya VC, established in partnership with Arya Women Investment Platform and Türkiye İş Bankası, aims to fund gender-balanced early-stage ventures operating in Turkiye. Drawing strength from its predominantly female investor base, Arya VC strives to encourage gender-balanced early-stage initiatives in the country.

A society, a nation is composed of two genders commonly referred to as men and women. 
Can a society, where half is bound to soil's embrace, While the other half ascends, unrestricted, through heavenly grace?

MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK

Investment in Female Leadership

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In the last 30 years, only 2.4% of investments in startups have been allocated to ventures founded by women. . This figure remained in the same range at 2.3% in the year 2022.

Female Leadership in Investment

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Gender-balanced investment teams are very few in number! In Venture Capital and Private Equity firms, only 10% of decision-makers are women.

Increase in Valuation

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Yet, investing in gender-balanced management teams provides a 25% higher valuation compared to all-male teams.

Turkiye's Gender-Lens Investment Fund

Arya VC, with its distinctive approach, harnesses strength and position from a predominantly female investor base,

gender-balanced Investment Committee and Advisory Board, and an unparalleled flow of entrepreneurial initiatives!

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Fund Summary

Arya VC as Turkey’s pioneering venture capital with a focus on gender, not only promises significant returns but also carries the potential for substantial impact in the domain of gender-balanced investments. Arya VC Gender-Balanced Fund aims to create value over the medium and long term by investing in venture companies, particularly those led by active women entrepreneurs, engaged in venture capital investments within the framework of capital market regulations. Our fund focuses on innovative and technology-focused startups with high scalability potential, have differentiation leverage to compete globally with lucrative exit opportunities.

Targeted Stage

Early Stage & Series A

Geographical Focus

%90 Turkiye

Industrial Focus

Agnostic

Gender-Lens

The first and foremost investment criterion of Arya Ventures is suitability for investment through a gender lens.

Innovation

The ventures selected for investment must demonstrate a commitment to innovation and be firmly rooted in technology-driven solutions.

Scalability

Investees should possess business models conducive to easy and rapid scalability.

Competitive Edge

The ability to differentiate in competition and foresee exit opportunities are among our primary criteria.

Founded in 2013 as a social venture, Arya Investment Platform is dedicated to advancing gender balance in investment, creating both social and economic value, and fostering global transformation through female leadership. The platform operates as a collaborative intelligence ecosystem, empowering women to become investors while supporting female-led and gender-balanced startups with mentorship, training, stakeholder engagement, and access to capital.

Türkiye İş Bankası is the largest private bank providing individual and commercial banking services in Turkey. Established in 1924 under the orders of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, it is the first national bank of the Republic era. With an asset size reaching 926.6 billion Turkish liras in 2021, the bank is ranked as the 181st largest bank in the world based on primary capital, according to The Banker magazine.

Maxis is a venture capital portfolio management company that establishes and manages venture capital investment funds bringing together venture companies with qualified investors interested in venture capital investments with a long-term perspective, under the regulations of the Capital Markets Board related to Venture Capital Investment Funds.