Sente Ventures

Managing Partners Serhat Cicekoglu and Gerod Carfantan lead the investment activity. They are supported by a team of four venture partners listed on the firm's website, along with an external network of corporate and industry executives who provide due diligence and portfolio support. The exact investment committee structure is not publicly disclosed.

Sente describes itself as a platform that connects entrepreneurs, private investors, and financial institutions directly. Its deal flow likely originates from the managing partners' networks and the firm's worldwide group of corporate and technology executives, though no proprietary sourcing channels are publicly detailed.

Sente Ventures makes early-stage equity investments in DeepTech startups, while Sente Capital provides proprietary capital structures to fund first-of-a-kind factories and industrial facilities for scaleups. They operate as two arms of the same investment platform under the Sente Foundry umbrella.

The firm's disclosed model emphasizes direct equity investments and structured facility financing through Sente Capital. There is no public indication that Sente operates as a fund-of-funds or allocates to external managers; its platform is built to deploy capital directly alongside family offices and institutional co-investors.

Sente targets both early-stage startups through its venture arm and scaling industrial companies through Sente Capital's FOAK factory financing. The equity practice is described as 'early-stage,' while the structured capital arm addresses scaleups ready to build physical production capacity.

Sente does not publish an explicit exclusions list. Its portfolio concentrates on advanced manufacturing, materials, energy transition, mobility, agtech, and industrial circular-economy technologies, suggesting limited appetite for sectors such as enterprise SaaS, consumer internet, or healthcare services that fall outside the DeepTech hardware and industrial focus.

The firm's website and public records do not mention any affiliated philanthropic foundations or donor-advised funds.