The Venture Codex

Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

Founded in 2022 by Güven Bölükbaşı, Gökmen Güven and Mehmet Kıral, Buluttan builds AI-driven weather intelligence solutions. Its platform produces location-specific, high temporal and geographic resolution numerical forecasts and machine-learning models. The SaaS suite underpins decision-support systems for air, land and sea transportation as well as logistics operations, while also delivering production forecasts and market analytics to wind, solar and hydroelectric power plants. Buluttan is a member of the Horizon WeatherGenerator consortium, collaborating with leading European national meteorology agencies to create a foundational AI atmospheric model. To date the company has raised $2 million in equity funding. The latest capital will accelerate growth in Turkey and support expansion into European and Middle Eastern markets.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

Founded in 2019 by Erol Yılmaz, Yunus Şimşek and Bora Avcı, Gardiyan develops a centralised system security platform that lets large and mid-sized organisations monitor and manage all IT assets—including computers, servers, network devices and mobile endpoints—from a single dashboard. The solution employs artificial intelligence to detect anomalies, predict vulnerabilities and perform real-time risk analysis while ensuring compliance with sector-specific regulations. Its unified visibility, auditing and reporting capabilities address the stringent security and governance needs of banking, energy, finance and public-sector customers. By consolidating dispersed IT components into one control centre, the platform helps clients reduce operational risk and speed incident response. Gardiyan plans to expand globally by opening overseas offices, forging strategic partnerships and ramping up international marketing. The company recently secured USD 2 million in fresh capital to fund these growth initiatives.