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Deniz Ventures

Büyükdere Cad. No: 141 Kat: 19 Esentepe / Şişli, İSTANBUL, 34394, Türkiye

Overview

Deniz Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of DenizBank Financial Services Group.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Agriculture
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Biotechnology
  • Blockchain
  • FinTech
  • Health Care
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Investment portfolio

  • Onlayer

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

    Onlayer offers a unified, AI-driven platform that automates merchant onboarding, continuously monitors merchant portfolios, and handles PCI-DSS compliance for financial institutions and enterprises. Its software combines merchant acquisition, real-time monitoring, anti-money-laundering (AML) and fraud controls, compliance workflows, and data-driven analytics in a single environment. The company’s solutions aim to help customers mitigate risk, meet regulatory requirements, and uncover growth opportunities. Headquartered in Ankara, it maintains offices in London, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia, and currently serves clients in 12 countries. Management plans to deploy new capital to expand further across the MENA and Asia-Pacific regions. The funding will also be used to enhance the platform’s AI-powered risk, compliance, and performance modules.

  • TeamSec

    Participated · Equity · Jan 2025

    TeamSec provides a SaaS, AI-powered securitization platform that delivers end-to-end securitization services to financial and non-financial institutions. Its platform offers capital optimization and working capital solutions and supports credit securitization for financial institutions, invoice receivable securitization for corporates, and trade finance for international trade companies. The company markets its solution as Securitization-as-a-Service for the structured finance industry. TeamSec is led by Founder and CEO Esad Erkam Köroğlu and is based in Dubai, UAE. The company raised USD7.6m in funding to support its operations and growth plans. It intends to use the proceeds to accelerate growth, pursue rapid expansion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, diversify its product and service portfolio, and enhance existing offerings.

Team

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