We understand your problems as a founder...
Messy and dirty sources of informations
Combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience
Hard to access funding for growth
Hard to access high impact execution guidance from experienced leaders
Our Experts
Ahmet Argun
Lima Ventures
Ali Servet Eyüpoğlu
Open English
Arın Özkula
500 Emerging Europe
Bora Şahinoğlu
hiVC
Enis Hulli
500 Emerging Europe
Gökhan Akar
Angel Effect
İmran Gürakan
LEAP Investment
Serkan Ömerbeyoğlu
DgPays
Yigit Arslan
TechOne
and more
What to expect
- A solid path to winning business model
- Execution guidance starting from early traction, pre-revenue to product fine-tuning, market validation, team building, and being ready to be an investable company.
- Learn & from the bests, engage with prominent players of the startup world
- Engage with top-notch investors including VCs, Angel Networks and Angels around the region
Our Industry Focuses
Our program is industry agnostic but we do prioritize certain industries.
SaaS
Healthtech
AI / ML
FinTech
Sustainability
Mobility
Program Calendar
Applications are Open Until
21.10.2022
Program
22.10.2022 – 03.12.2022
Founder Summit & Demo Day
Founder Development Program Curriculum
• Entrepreneurship Mindset & Journey
• Idea to business: How to capture billion dolar opportunities?
• How to build MVP & landing page
• Q&A with inspiring founders
• Market research & UX
• Validation & Iteration: How to talk with users
• Q&A with inspiring founders
• Key metrics & progress
• Winning business plan
• Q&A with inspiring founders
• Product Launch
• Sales Strategy & Funnel Management
• How to measure: Analytics
• Q&A with investors
• Financial preparation for fundraising
• Legal preparation for fundraising
• Fundraising Journey
• Q&A with investors
• How to onboard investors: Pitch Deck
• Q&A with investors
Founders' Summit
Friday – On-site
Turkey’s largest founder-oriented event, bringing together over 600 investors, corporate leaders, and members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem with 10 startups taking the stage to meet with investors.
Our Investor Partners
We connect high-impact founders with top-notch VCs in the region. So far, we’ve connected 4.000+ founders with over 100 investors and helped them to raise over $20M. Our investor network contains different levels of investors starting from early stage to the growth funds.
Who we are
We are a community of founders, builders, investors, advisors, and mentors to facilitate a frictionless journey for entrepreneurs while they are working hard to reach their dreams.
Together, we have built lots of companies, explored high-impact opportunities all around the world, support various entrepreneurs and establish development programs to support founders with execution guidance, funding, benefits, and our business network.
Apply to Batch #1 to move your startup to the next level!