ABOUT US
ITU Çekirdek, which was established by ITU and ITU ARI Teknokent in 2012 and drew strength from ITUNOVA TTO, has funded 1.857 start-ups and 4.233 entrepreneurs to date. Supporting many projects from financial technologies and health technologies to enhanced reality applications and hardware projects, ITU Çekirdek is a wide entrepreneurship platform that brings its more than 40 stakeholders together with entrepreneurs, companies, angel investors and professionals.
6 years of ITU Çekirdek until the last quarter of 2017
The start-ups that pass the End-of-Training jury of ITU Çekirdek qualify for the Pre-Incubation, BigBang and Incubation Stages.
Our processes:
Pre-Incubation
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- Free Open Office
- Infrastructure Support
- Prototyping Lab
- Network of 250 Voluntary Mentors
- Entrepreneurship Training
- Training, Consultancy and Seminars
- Investor Meetings
- ITU and ITU ARI Teknokent Networking
Big Bang
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- Technology Stage
- Entrepreneur Presentations
- Awards and Investments
- 21 Million TL in total
Incubation
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- Being an Incubation Company for 1 year
- The privilege of being an ITU ARI Teknokent Company
- Free Open Office
- Infrastructure Support
- Prototyping Lab
- Start-Up-Specific Mentoring
- Performance Follow-Up
- Special Training, Consultancy and Workshops
- Investor Meetings
- ITU and ITU ARI Teknokent Networking
ITU Çekirdek continues to provide more opportunities and funds for increasing number of entrepreneurs each year with the contributions from over 40 valuable stakeholders such as Elginkan Foundation, İstanbul Chamber of Industry, Union of Automotive Exporters, EnerjiSA and ING Bank.
If you would like to browse the “ITU Çekirdek with Numbers” videos posted at the BigBang event in November 2018: