Vinci Venture Capital

Vinci VC is an Amsterdam-headquartered European venture capital firm founded in 2018 and strategically funded by Inci Holding, a Turkish family-owned industrial conglomerate active in the manufacturing of automotive wheels, automotive and industrial batteries, hotel equipment and logistics services. The fund operates from Amsterdam with team members distributed across Izmir, Istanbul, Bonn and London, and is run jointly by Inci Holding board members and experienced venture capital professionals, including Investment Director Aylin Girgin Ozbilis. Vinci's investment thesis revolves around a simple bet that the European energy and industrial transition will be constrained not by raw renewable generation but by storage, system intelligence, and operational tooling at the edge of industrial assets. Sector focus is mobility and automotive technology, energy storage and management, Industry 4.0, advanced manufacturing, supply chain and logistics. Initial check sizes range from EUR 100K to EUR 500K with stages from Seed through Series A, generally as a co-investor. Across approximately 11 active portfolio companies the firm has backed Turbit, German wind-turbine AI monitoring, MOBILUS Labs, UK silent-voice industrial communications, Surve Mobility in Germany, Octovan, Turkey last-mile delivery, Thread in Motion, Turkey wearables, Herotech8, UK autonomous drone monitoring, ShipsGo, Turkey shipping logistics, Perciv, UK B2B productivity software and Vinci's most recent investment on December 6, 2024, and Jutro, its most recent first-time investment in 2025. By coupling capital with Inci Holding's industrial expertise, Vinci VC backs European mobility, energy-storage and Industry 4.0 founders.