Acıbadem University has established the Incubation Center in 2017 to transfer its knowledge and energy to new business ideas.

Acıbadem University Incubation Center is differentiated from other incubation centers in the health center.

The Center separates three different programs, Preliminary Incubation, Incubation and Accelerator. In these 3 month programs, all the entrepreneurs are given the necessary trainings and these trainings are supported by seminars. Entrepreneurs benefit from the technological infrastructure and laboratories at Acibadem University and they can also connect to Acıbadem Group's network. Acıbadem University can benefit from the scientific support of its academicians and mentorship of our consultants. In addition to this, maturing inputs can be converted to surplus value, supported by investors and commercialization.

Acıbadem University Incubation Center is on the way to become a center for both Acıbadem Healthcare Group and its entrepreneurship since 1991. Among these, cooperation between other universities, industrial organizations, hatcheries, technoparks, foundations, municipalities and government agencies, cooperation and solidarity companies and all innovative initiatives in the health sector can go to local and global markets.

Offical website:

https://www.acibademkulucka.com/

Bogazici University Technology Development Zone was established in July 2009 with the Council of Minister’s decision. Bogazici Universty Technology Park commenced operations in October 2010 in Bogazici University North Campus aiming to contribute for Turkey to have a competitive economy and advanced technology.

The partners of Bogazici Technology Park are Bogazici Univesty with 48% share hold, BUTEK with 49%, and BUVAK with 3% share hold.

The technology park, aiming to use the academic knowledge, research and entrepreneur potential of Bogazici Universty, constituted Technology Transfer Office in November 2012. Technology Transfer Oficce aims to give all support services they need to the entrepreneurs in their process of bringing their innovative products to the economy.

In Bogazici Technology Park which shows the university knowledge turning into economic value and university industry collaboration, qualified research and development and innovation projests are being made.

Official website

http://teknopark.boun.edu.tr/

Commercialization Center of Istanbul matches up innovative business ideas and entrepreneurial minds with more than 400.000 members of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce to collaborate. Entrepreneurs, having innovative ideas and startups between the ages of 0-4 apply with projects and business models to BTM. If their projects hold a potential of growth and sustainability, they get BTM’s support and have the advantage to benefit from facilities which are already supplied by the center.

Commercialization Center of Istanbul provides some tools for Startups; co-working spaces, educative processes, training activities, seminars, mentorship, investor meetings, matchmaking programs, demo-days etc. to bring them next level of institutionalization, industrialization, and commercialization. Pre-incubator, incubator, and post-incubator within the center aim to support startups with everything they need. Supported ideas and models are shared with the 400K members of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce in order to take advice about different industries, funding startups and connecting to the network. Commercialization Center of Istanbul has passed the number of 2.500 entrepreneurs in 40 different sectors by receiving 1.160 innovative business ideas so far. 91 Startups and 205 entrepreneurs take part already in the Commercialization Center of Istanbul that has the magnificent view of Istanbul

Official website

https://www.btm.istanbul/

GarantiPartners is launched in 2016 in Mecidiyeköy,  as an acceleration program to support early startups of any scale and sector. The requirements of the program are Minimum Viable Product or Service (MVP), High Market Potential, Activity Time Less Than 3 Years, Scalable Business Model, Strong Revenue Model. We create a holistic support mechanism by providing various and differentiated touch at every stage of entrepreneurial life cycle by providing office place opportunity, co-joint working spaces, meeting rooms, Mentoring, Networking, Marketing Support, Training.

Official website

https://www.garantipartners.com/en

Hackquarters is a Startup Accelerator and Corporate Innovation partner in Istanbul supporting disruptive technologies by bringing talent, support and experience. Applications to Hackquarters is always open and decisions are based on Startup's competency and current capacity. Also, Hackquarters partners up with Local and Global organisations to create more resource for startups such as; Workup.ist with Isbank, https://www.grants4apps.com/ with Bayer, Google, Red Bull and many more.

Hackquarters also creates community programs, hackathons or ideations for technology companies to create a larger audience. Currently, Hackquarters is a partner with Nem (China), Here (Germany), Google (International).

If you want to be a part of Turkish Startup Ecosystem, you can join Hackquarters by leaving your e-mail and HQ will contact you.

Official website

https://hackquarters.co/

Sabanci University is Turkey's the Most Entrepreneurial and Innovative University, based in Istanbul. Inovent is Sabanci University owned technology investment company, focuses on intellectual property based business opportunities. Inovent gives strategic consultancy and international business development services to innovative companies, as Turkey’s first technology commercialization/accelerator and seed fund company established in 2006. Inovent has 20 companies in its portfolio and did 4 successful exits.

Official website

http://www.inovent.com.tr/ 

Istanbul Technocity’s main objective is to provide environment and support for companies to be active in R & D activities in innovative and high technology fields. In other words, it aims to produce technological information in order to establish a competitive and export-oriented structure of the country's industry by providing cooperation with universities, research institutions & organizations, and production sectors. İstanbul Technocity is the Technology Development Zone of Istanbul University. According to the Academic Ranking of Worldwide Universities in 2011, Istanbul University ranked among the first 400 universities making it the sole Turkish University in the first 500. Istanbul University has ongoing protocols with over 50 institutions worldwide spanning from USA to Europe and Asia along with over 500 Erasmus agreements. İstanbul Technocity creates a domain that serves as a bridge between all stakeholders and Istanbul University, enabling the transformation of information into socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental benefits in line with the needs of internal and external stakeholders. Improving innovation in product and production methods, increasing productivity and product quality, reducing production costs, commercializing technological knowledge, supporting technology-intensive production and entrepreneurship, adapting small and medium-sized enterprises to new and advanced technologies, creating investment and job opportunities, and providing technological infrastructure, accelerating the entry of foreign capital to the country that will provide high technology are among the other goals of our technocity. For supporting Entrepreneurial activities, Istanbul Technocity host startup companies in Incubation Center. Entrepreneurial companies entitled to be in the Incubation Center; they can benefit from consulting and mentoring services in technical and administrative matters, commercialization, internationalization activities,  as well as the opportunity to be exempted from operating costs, free office support that will utilize the infrastructure and common spaces, and the cost of doing business.

Official website

http://entertech.com.tr/home

Incubation Center, incuba.city, is located within the ŞEHİR TTO. incuba.city provides accelerator and incubator services to new entrepreneurs, such as the acceleration program based on Steve Blank’s “Lean LaunchPad Methodology”, continuous mentorship on investment readiness and business management and technological issues, fundraising practice through angel investor networks and venture capital companies and IPO and private placement, training, office space, office infrastructure and other similar needs of entrepreneurs. It has access to a pool of mentors from a wide spectrum of industries, and a pool of investors with differing investment rationales. incuba.city has no defined focus on any theme of investment and is attentive to any viable business idea irrespective of its industry. Based on its current relationships, it stands closer to ICT and tangible technologies, including but not limited to,  health and medical technology, high tech materials, IoT and similar technology-driven businesses. incuba.city has plenty of experience in technology due diligence, fundraising for Start-ups and SMEs, commercialization of technology, cross-border operations, entrepreneurship support and enhancement of business collaboration.

Official website

http://www.incuba.city/en

Istanbul Şehir University Technology Transfer Office started out its journey pursuant to the first strategic plan of the institution in 2010 and it was officially established in 2011 when it was awarded the Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA) grant. Up to this time, the office institutionalized the processes regarding TUBITAK, EU, ISTKA, INDUSTRY and PUBLIC projects, and founded the Incubation Center incuba.city. As of 2016, the office reached a portfolio of 23+ million TL with 100+ projects in total within 5 years. As of 2017 ŞEHİR TTO has successfully collected 18 million TL investments for its technologies through several commercialization activities.

ŞEHİR TTO has always taken on the role of the founder and the leader at critical points of the university, and manages the below listed fundamental elements:

• Creating the Science & Research Policy, representing at various indexes and collecting related data,
• Managing the talent pool,
• Developing research projects,
• Establishing university-public and university-industry relations,
• Spreading entrepreneurship culture,
• Commercializing research outputs,
• Evaluating business ideas of entrepreneurs: ICT and tangible technologies, health and medical technology, high tech materials, IoT and similar technology-driven businesses.
• Developing the investment network ecosystem.

Official website

http://tto.sehir.edu.tr/en

Zemin Istanbul (İstanbul Living Lab Experience Center Project) is built on the area of 1100m²  located in Şişhane Metro Station which serves 40.000 people in a day. Zemin İstanbul will be the center of entrepreneurship, innovation, and interaction with citizens for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The main objectives of the Zemin Istanbul can be summarized as follows: to support and increase participation in infrastructure (such as incubation centers, co-operative areas, maker labs) that allows innovative ideas to emerge in Istanbul; Using information-communication technologies to facilitate the lives of citizens and to create innovative products that will improve their quality of life; incorporating citizens into the innovation process by ensuring that the products to be developed are directly tested by the citizens and received feedback;  encouraging  project partnerships to improve cooperation between universities, local government, and private and creative industries.

Zemin Istanbul includes three main centers: Incubation Center (aims to increase the number of domestic and national  products, providing the resources and services to support entrepreneurs who are beginning business that reveal successful companies), Experience Center (Services and products of the municipality, affiliates, and  private sector meet with the citizen and will reshape together), Education and Activity Center (At this center, training will be given especially for children between the ages 7 – 16. Training and workshop programs are targeted all the people of Istanbul, especially young people and children). An animation studio for children ages 2-7  also will be in Zemin İstanbul. The animation studio has the basic elements of application design and programming that children will have the chance to transform their new ideas and imagination into reality. At there innovative products and services will be produced for Istanbul and its people and also these products will be tested and co-designed by citizens.

Official website

http://www.zeministanbul.org.tr/home

• ITU ARI Teknokent, İTÜ’s Technology Park
İTÜ ARI Teknokent is the technology development zone of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ). It has been established in 2002 to create and sustain an entrepreneurial ecosystem around İTÜ, focusing on R&D and innovation. İTÜ ARI Teknokent has been contributing to the national technological development significantly and have reached to +280 firms with +6.900 R&D personnel.
In 2014, İTÜ ARI Teknokent adopted a series of internal directives designed to improve the competitive strength of Teknokent companies by enabling them to achieve their highest potential through Performance Appraisals. By being assessed against a set of predefined criteria, İTÜ ARI Teknokent companies gain a better perspective of where they stand and can boost their performance.
İTÜ ARI Teknokent offers its technology companies support from İTÜ academic functions, human resources, and advanced infrastructure and superstructure facilities. University-industry partnerships at İTÜ include consultancy services for a variety of needs.
Today, İTÜ ARI Teknokent has become a major global zone of attraction for technology companies. The commercialization of technology and the acceleration of technology companies is the most important aspect of İTÜ ARI Teknokent’s vision.

• İTÜ Çekirdek | Early Stage Incubation Center
İTÜ Çekirdek is the start-up incubator of İTÜ ARI Teknokent. Its program structure nearly takes two years and integrates pre-incubation, acceleration, competition, funding and incubation stages. In its first 7 years, ITU Cekirdek has received more than 25.000 applications and pre-incubated nearly 1.180 teams, resulting in nearly 300 start-ups. İTÜ Çekirdek has been acknowledged as the 3rd best incubator in the World and 2nd best incubator in Europe by the UBI Global.
İTÜ Çekirdek accepts early-stage entrepreneurs with the business idea and helps them grow into high-potential start-ups. The comprehensive structure of İTÜ Çekirdek’s program involves a number of different services including training, prototyping lab, consulting, mentorship and opportunities to access finance.
Starting with 2016, İTÜ Çekirdek has begun to invest best of its start-ups together with angel investors and investor networks. Through İTÜ Çekirdek, İTÜ ARI Teknokent fills a significant gap in early-stage entrepreneurship in Turkey.

• ITU Magnet: Advanced Scale Incubation Center
ITU MAGNET is designed start-ups with ready products and traction in order to scale their businesses.  The center will also have an advanced prototyping capability with fab-lab & maker space on site. The Magnetic center aims at hosting enterprise start-up programs and independent acceleration programs. ITU Magnet also develops partnering with VCs.

• INNOGATE: International Accelerator
Supported by the Ministry of Development and Istanbul Development Agency, INNOGATE offers a 360-degree program including access to international connections, market penetration, business modeling, and strategy development opportunities together with benefits of training, mentorship, counseling, and access to the right people/institutions.
ITU ARI Teknokent leveraged its extensive experience in acceleration programs to design INNOGATE for technology companies that wish to expand to the US market for better global competitive ability and improvement of the innovation and R&D infrastructure in Turkey.

Official website

http://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en

Incubation İstanbul was founded in 2016 by Istanbul Aydın University Technology Transfer and Project Management Office as an entrepreneurship and incubation center. It supports start-up entrepreneurs and companies with pre-incubation, accelerator program, and incubation services.

Besides encouraging creative thinking, we also help individuals develop new ideas with training and workshops, business development meetings and hackathons.

Regarding the support for technology licensing & commercialization, we provide intellectual property advice to protect the technology and patents for commercialization support.

Mentoring Entrepreneurs, Start-ups and SMEs is a key element of Incubation Istanbul's services. We offer consultancy for entrepreneurs and academicians in their fields. Our skilled team provides structured training on innovation & entrepreneurship.

Moreover, we organize training in fields such as entrepreneurship, innovation management, technology and product development and project cycle management, given by experts.

Official website

http://incubation.istanbul/

INOGAR is a new generation incubation center that combines innovation and enterprise culture with civil society, private sector, sustainable development, culture-arts and technology. INOGAR aims to lead the way to the sustainable development, creativity and technology based transformation of entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey.

INOGAR’s Targets;

• To establish a sustainable entrepreneurship-oriented ecosystem between INOGAR's founders and its stakeholders.
• To provide ideas and projects for Sustainable Development Goals.
• Sponsoring for enterprise ideas for improving talents.
• Connecting the international startups, technology and sustainable development networks with networks in Turkey.
• Building bridges between the enterprise network in İstanbul and enterprise ecosystem in Anatolia.
• Leading the development of social entrepre
neurships and social innovation practices.

Official website

http://inogar.com/

We position ourselves as more than an office; we actually offer a living coworking space that brings entrepreneurs, freelancers, investors, mentors, and corporates together. We believe in the power of collaboration and being stronger together. We continuously improve our products and amenities and add new ones based on demand and feedback. Besides meeting the basic workspace needs of our members such as 7/24 security, daily cleaning, high-speed internet etc, we invest in their souls by organizing educational and mindfulness events, offering free yoga classes, open buffet Monday breakfast gatherings, gluten-free treats, breathing exercises, meditation room availability and much more. We believe that anything that feeds your soul and heart also reflects positively on your business. Besides enabling an efficient working environment, we invest in people’s wellbeing. We plan inspiring, educational and instructive events for members who want to work while socializing and socialize while working. In short, “we help you grow your business and your heart”.
We offer not only a productive and efficient physical workspace but also a strong, inclusive community with additional perks like educational activities, which strengthen the advantage of working from a collaborative workspace. We invest in people’s souls in addition to helping grow their businesses.

Today, the world average of co-working offices is around 2-3%. We foresee that this margin will reach around 15-20%, which pictures a high growth potential of the market.
In 5 years, we aim to reach 14 locations and 17,000 members in Turkey. We also have plans to expand to the regional countries and open 6 locations, which corresponds to 7,800 members abroad.
We target both B2B and B2C businesses, which includes freelancers, startups, investors, mentors, and corporates. We aim to diversify our community as much as we can because we believe that all these forces help each other grow in this living ecosystem. Currently, we have successful national startups such as Sinemia, Iyzico, Zekai; investors and VCs such as 500Startups, BIC, RevoCapital as well as global corporate brands such as Accenture and Yandex in our community.

There is an upcoming trend that foresees the shared economy market to reach $335M worldwide. The leading influencing factor in this trend to expand globally in such a short time is its sustainability because it’s agile, flexible, and mobile. The co-working spaces, as a part of this growing market, is estimated to triple by the end of 2018.  Istanbul can be seen as a key location for this trend for Turkey and the region. There is nearly 11M m2 A/B style workspace in Istanbul, 50% located in central neighborhoods. Of this 50%, 15% is estimated to become co-working spaces in 10-15 years. 

Official website

https://www.kolektifhouse.co/en/

Established in January 2014, KWORKS serves as a hub of entrepreneurship activity at Koç University’s Şişli campus in Istanbul, helping to grow technology startup ideas into sustainable, scalable, successful ventures. KWORKS connects aspiring technology entrepreneurs to valuable resources, consulting experience and potential investors to set them on the right path.

KWORKS runs three programs: The “Pre-incubation Program” is designed for early stage entrepreneurs who are looking to explore their ideas a bit further but are not ready to start a business yet. It offers free desk space at KWORKS with connection to the KWORKS community and one-on-one mentoring and guidance from KWORKS experts. The “Accelerator Program” was created with promising early stage startups in mind, helping them explore the leap toward scaling their own startups. It offers free exclusive access to the KWORKS center and community, private office space and bi-weekly meet-ups to help entrepreneurs develop their business models and test their assumptions while getting feedback and insights from mentors and potential investors. The “Incubation Program” addresses entrepreneurs who have already built their startup and are ready to explore the market. It offers free access to the KWORKS Center and open offices, technical training, weekly update and track-progress meetings as well as access to mentors and angel networks. Since April 2015, KWORKS has been a member of EBN Innovation Network, an international community of organizations that connect and coach startups to grow and transform economies.

Official website

https://kworks.ku.edu.tr/

Sabanci University is Turkey's the Most Entrepreneurial and Innovative University. SUCOOL is Sabanci University's acceleration center that selects 10 innovation-based startups every batch to support in Istanbul.  SUCOOL supports its startups with training, mentoring, business development, office space, legal services, introductions to customers and investors, introductions to international ecosystems like Silicon Valley, Boston, London, Berlin since 2013. SUCOOL program has 46 alumni startups, at the end of 2017. 23 of SUCOOL graduates are growing companies, 13 of them received external funding and 11 of them are doing international sales. Good performed startups or scale-up stage companies can take the services of INOVENT A.Ş. (Inc.) Investment and Strategic Consultancy company of Sabanci University.

Official website

https://sucool.sabanciuniv.edu/en 

StartersHub is a leading early-stage technology seed fund based in Istanbul. StartersHub offers startups everything they need to become a rapidly-growing global company, including funding, mentorship, networking, strategic partnership support and an inspiring workplace. StartersHub targets startups from Turkey, Europe, Middle East and North Africa. In addition to technology agnostic acceleration programs, StartersHub also runs industry-specific venture building programs with strategic partners.

Official website

https://www.startershub.org/

TİM-TEB Start-up Business House is an accelerator center which intend to encourge and strengthen innovative entrepreneurs and start-up businesses that generate high added value in both regional and global markets. The start-up business house model, which Türk Ekonomi Bankası (TEB) introduce for the first time in İstanbul in 2013, began to expand into other parts of the country when the bank joined forces with the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) in 2015. It has branches in 10 cities across the country.
As the most comprehensive and widespead start-up program in Turkey, TİM TEB Start-up Business House operates in order to increase the number of technology start-ups together with the University start-up programs, creates a motivation for entrepreneurs in line with this aim, helps start-ups to survive, accelerate their growth and supports them to export. Seeking to increase local awareness of state-supplied support, entrepreneurs who have business idea to qualify, can reach the state grants through TİM-TEB Start-up Business Houses.
TİM TEB Start-up Business House differentiates itself from the other start-up programs in terms of the content of the programs and its cooperation model. TİM-TEB Start-up Business House collaborates with TTOs, Development Agencies, TUBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), KOSGEB (Small and Medium Industry Development Organization) and Universities and creates a communication and engagement with the partners of the start-up ecosystem.
TİM-TEB Start-up Business House provides office, mentorship, investor meetings, network and training support to the start-ups without any financial expectation. 70.000 exporting companies which are the member of TİM and thounds of SMEs and corporate companies which are the customers of TEB are offered to the start-ups as a stung network.
As TİM-TEB Start-up Business Houses, we have supported technology and start-up ecosystem in Turkey since 2013 and we will definitely continue to contribute to the market with our leading services.

Official website

http://teblegirisim.com/

In the direction of 21st centuries’ entrepreneurial university model which contribute to the Turkey’s R&D activities, Yildiz Technical University, started activities of opening technology development area and established the Yildiz Technopark in 2003. Yildiz Technopark, continue to work with the vision of becoming an international collaboration center where new ideas converts to innovative outputs. Yildiz Technopark continued to grow in line with the principle of sustainable development since 2009, With 23.500 m2 Ikitelli Campus started its operations at the end of 2014, Technopark’s total R&D office space has increased to 170.000 m2. Yildiz Technopark, hosts 370 R&D companies, 90 incubator companies and more than 7,000 qualified R&D and software employees in various sectors such as; software, information and communication technologies, telecommunication, electronics, pharmaceuticals, machinery and equipment, chemical, aerospace, energy, defense, construction, food.

Official website

https://www.yildizteknopark.com.tr/en/

Workup is an entrepreneurship program supported by İşbank (as the main sponsor) and ran together with Kolektif House, Hackquarters (the seasoned accelerator team) and Omer Erkmen (the well-known and respected mentor and angel investor in Turkey). It is located in an area of approximately 150sqm space at Kolektif House Levent. Workup is a 6-month program and welcomes around 10 early stage startups per batch. As Isbank, we aim, with Workup, to support and accelerate startups, have a chance to work together, collaborate with them and develop business.

Workup provides mentoring and technical consulting support for business idea development, lean entrepreneurial methods, research and customer development, team building and management, law, finance and accounting, marketing and presentation techniques, sales and marketing training to technology-driven startups. In addition to the training that supports the acceleration of the startup, we make it fun to work with the help of unique Kolektif House and Workup events. During the program, the startups get mentorship, education and consultancy, access to İşbank and its partner network and introduction to the biggest Venture Capitals (VC) and angel investors of the country. The main goal of the program is to help startups with mentorship and guidance in order to scale and hopefully become global success stories. Among the mentors are domain experts in UI / UX, digital marketing, growth hacking, legal and accounting etc., general partners of the biggest VC in Turkey, managers from İşbank and experienced entrepreneurs with prior exits.

There is no ask for equity to be part of the program; it’s totally free for the startups to join. Startups that have a great use of technology with a dedicated team and a scalable business, which provides a unique value proposition are welcome. The program is vertical-agnostic for early stage startups, so applicants could be in fintech, martech, edutech, etc. The first important selection criterion is to have at least a prototype to show and who is on a journey to solve an important and validated problem. The second one is to have a scalable and sustainable business model. And the last one is to have a great team which can make their dream come true.

Official website

https://workup.ist/program-en.html

The fastest growing entrepreneur of coworking sector, Workinton provides services for 15.000 members and over 2000 corporate companies with the Coworking, Virtual Office, Ready Office and Meeting Room services it offers on a 10.000 m2 space at 14 different business centers in the 5th year of its establishment. Workintonmembers come together in an efficient networking environment with free and rich treats in savor of meticulously prepared coffee while working at spaces with high concentration and fast connection at the most central locations. Those who work in Workinton work efficient and motivated without experiencing any loss of concentration while joining a circle of productive collaboration. The entrepreneurs and companies in their ready offices own practical and economic workplaces and easily focus on their work while creating new opportunities through cooperation. Locating their offices at prestigious addresses with virtual office service, entrepreneurs produce much more efficient businesses with the office services they purchase. Companies who use Workinton salons which are prepared in line with their preferences, for all their demands such as one-to-one meetings in 150 different meeting rooms, up to 250-person seminar organizations, executive board meetings, training or evaluation centers, easily actualize their meetings.

Official website

https://en.workinton.com/