Revo Capital’s Cross-Border Strategy: Regional Startups to Global Success

How do startups born in emerging markets break regional ceilings and scale into globally competitive companies?

This session explores the cross-border scaling strategy behind Revo Capital, Türkiye’s first institutional venture capital firm and today the country’s most active early-stage technology investor. Revo Capital has raised $250M across three funds, completed 50 investments and 18 exits, and supported its portfolio companies in attracting $3.5B+ in follow-on funding, with 92% coming from international investors.

At the core of this strategy is Fund III, which completed an $86M first close in March 2025 and is targeting $100M+ in 2026. Fund III is purpose-built to back globally ambitious founders with Turkish roots at the critical scale-up stage. The fund focuses primarily on Series A and early Series B investments, typically writing $1–5M checks, while allocating up to 5% of fund size to a Seed Pocket for early access to high-potential companies. In its first…