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Sinan Uzan

President at Tekfen Ventures

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
Operator-angel🌍 United States
9
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4
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12y
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Portfolio

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2021
We develop solutions to enhance global phosphorus use. Founded in April 2016 by Penn State graduates, Phospholutions has commercialized a patented technology called RhizoSorb to increase fertilizer efficiency.
Investor
Jun 2019
Latch makes spaces better places to live, work, and visit. Apartment buildings haven’t changed in decades. People spend thousands of dollars every month for an experience that is outdated, inconvenient, analog, impersonal and leaves a lot to be desired. Leveraging our knowledge from product companies like Apple, we’ve rethought how people interact with space. Latch delivers a full-building operating system designed to help owners, residents, and third parties like guests, couriers, and service providers seamlessly experience the modern building. We’ve done this by combining software, products, and services into a holistic platform that make spaces more efficient, enjoyable, and profitable. Founded in 2014, we started by defining the smart access category. We then went on to create our own hardware and software for a range of smart building devices, built integrations with Google Nest, Sonos, Honeywell, ecobee, Real Page, UPS, and more, and in 2020 unveiled LatchOS, our full-building operating system. Today, more than 1 in 10 new apartments in the U.S. are being built with Latch products, 7 out of 10 of the NMHC largest developers are Latch customers, and 36 states feature Latch buildings. We are a global team of 200+ team members working to reimagine the modern buildings of today and drive the evolution of the cities of tomorrow.
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Jun 2019
At Prospera, we’re using machine learning to solve the biggest challenges in agriculture. We’re a Valmont company, creating technology that combines the power of machine learning, computer vision and practical knowhow to enable growers to make more informed, efficient, and scientific decisions. Our goal is simple: to drive better, more sustainable food production, all over the world.
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Sep 2018
Pivot Bio is one of the worlds leading innovative agtech companies, delivering farmers patented crop nutrition technologies.
Investor
2018
We use cutting-edge gene editing techniques to develop healthier, hardier and more sustainable crop varieties that flourish even in the face of climate change so local growing communities can thrive, and we can sustain the world’s food supply.
Investor
2018
Claroty has redefined cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection with an unrivaled industry-centric platform built to secure mission-critical infrastructure. The Claroty Platform provides the deepest asset visibility and the broadest, built-for-CPS solution set in the market comprising exposure management, network protection, secure access, and threat detection – whether in the cloud with Claroty xDome or on-premise with Claroty Continuous Threat Detection (CTD). Backed by award-winning threat research and a breadth of technology alliances, The Claroty Platform enables organizations to effectively reduce CPS risk, with the fastest time-to-value and lower total cost of ownership. Claroty is deployed by hundreds of organizations at thousands of sites globally. The company is headquartered in New York City and has a presence in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more, visit claroty.com.
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2018
Oxipital AI is a leader in AI-enabled machine vision technologies for robotic process automation and product inspection in critical industries such as food processing, agriculture, and consumer goods production. The company’s mission is to deliver actionable insights through deep object understanding, to customers, as they embrace Industry 5.0 and to unlock previously unachievable levels of resiliency, efficiency, and sustainability in their manufacturing operations.
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2017
Our wearable devices work to protect over 30,000 of today’s Industrial Athletes™ – individuals who put their bodies on the line day in and day out to fulfill the world’s essential services – by providing real-time feedback to inform safety, proper training and productivity across the workforce. With more than 30 million hours of on-body data driving its insight engine, StrongArm’s SafeWork System and intuitive dashboard have proven a 45 percent year-over-year injury reduction rate for customers, providing an average 250% return on their investment.
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2021
Investor
2021
We develop solutions to enhance global phosphorus use. Founded in April 2016 by Penn State graduates, Phospholutions has commercialized a patented technology called RhizoSorb to increase fertilizer efficiency.
2019
Investor
Jun 2019
Latch makes spaces better places to live, work, and visit. Apartment buildings haven’t changed in decades. People spend thousands of dollars every month for an experience that is outdated, inconvenient, analog, impersonal and leaves a lot to be desired. Leveraging our knowledge from product companies like Apple, we’ve rethought how people interact with space. Latch delivers a full-building operating system designed to help owners, residents, and third parties like guests, couriers, and service providers seamlessly experience the modern building. We’ve done this by combining software, products, and services into a holistic platform that make spaces more efficient, enjoyable, and profitable. Founded in 2014, we started by defining the smart access category. We then went on to create our own hardware and software for a range of smart building devices, built integrations with Google Nest, Sonos, Honeywell, ecobee, Real Page, UPS, and more, and in 2020 unveiled LatchOS, our full-building operating system. Today, more than 1 in 10 new apartments in the U.S. are being built with Latch products, 7 out of 10 of the NMHC largest developers are Latch customers, and 36 states feature Latch buildings. We are a global team of 200+ team members working to reimagine the modern buildings of today and drive the evolution of the cities of tomorrow.
Investor
Jun 2019
At Prospera, we’re using machine learning to solve the biggest challenges in agriculture. We’re a Valmont company, creating technology that combines the power of machine learning, computer vision and practical knowhow to enable growers to make more informed, efficient, and scientific decisions. Our goal is simple: to drive better, more sustainable food production, all over the world.
2018
Investor
Sep 2018
Pivot Bio is one of the worlds leading innovative agtech companies, delivering farmers patented crop nutrition technologies.
Investor
2018
We use cutting-edge gene editing techniques to develop healthier, hardier and more sustainable crop varieties that flourish even in the face of climate change so local growing communities can thrive, and we can sustain the world’s food supply.
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