Ahu Serter

Founder of Fark Labs/ Arya, Chairman of Fark Holding

Ahu Serter: Better.Future.Investor.

Ahu Serter is the leader of Fark Labs, a strategy &innovation engine to help stakeholders to build the best version of their future by applying an investment portfolio approach to innovation.

Fark Labs is a catalyst focused on driving change, inquiry, and curiosity for a better future, mainly in the fields of mobility, industrial technologies, renewable energy, human essentials (water, food, agriculture), disaster technologies and sustainable materials.

Since 2006, she invested in more than 70 companies with various sizes, managing a total portfolio size more than $500 Mn including Wayve, Büyütech, Saykal, Ampherr, Optiyol, Comodif, Adastec in addition to legacy companies.

She built one of the first corporate venture Capital funds, F+ ventures in Turkey in 2016, investing in companies such as Chargepoint and Garaj Sepeti, that focus on disruptive innovation in smart transportation, particularly those combining automotive, electronics, and software expertise for sustainable mobility solutions.

Pioneering gender lens investing in Turkey, she founded the ARYA Women Investment Platform, which brings together successful investors to invest with a focus on gender balance. The platform operates a $20 million fund, Arya Venture Fund, specifically targeting companies with at least one female co-founder.

She is the president of Fark Holding, comprising of automotive supplier companies Farplas, Farform, Faraero, Farplas & Smart Solutions, Romania and Aeroklas, Thailand and Farplas, Morocco.

She is also an early strategic investor in the globally recognized decorative trim company Mata Automotive.

Currently serving as Growth Board Member at Otokoc and Board member at TAYSAD, Association of Automotive Parts and Components Manufacturers

She served on the boards of prominent industrial companies such as Sisecam, Mahle Filter Systems, Wirthwein, and Hymer Leichtmetallbau

# Fortune's strongest 50 women of Turkey

#Enterprising Women of the Year in the US, for over $100 million category.

#President of Women Entrepreneurship Initiative, appointed by Industry & Technology Ministry of Turkey