Inventram

İnventram, a subsidiary of Koç Group, is an early stage high-tech investment company founded in April 2010. It operates within the fields of intellectual property rights management, investment, and trading. It provides finance and management support for innovative ideas and projects coming from entrepreneurs, inventors, and SMEs. İnventram's objective is to commercialize early-stage innovative technological inventions with the best possible business models, so that intellectual capital will be turned into products and services that will improve the standard of living of our society. İnventram brings together Koç Group's industrial leadership, business culture, unique R&D capability, and unrivaled channel structure with the Koç University's international scientific capacity and world class academic team. It offers support in 9 technology sectors, including biotechnology and health, automotive, information and communication, defense industry, consumer durables, nanotechnology, materials science and chemistry, electronics, and aerospace. The company has an Advisory Board of 54 highly experienced professionals and academics in their respective fields of expertise. With a motto of "technology knowledge and evaluation based on extensive business experience is essential for discovering promising inventions and giving the deserved chances", İnventram has received over 3800 startup and technology applications since its inception. As of the first half of 2015, it has 3 equity investments; foundation of one of them has been completed and two of them are in the planning stage, 45 patent investments, 3 licensing and 13 business partnerships on technology commercialization.