ITU Çekirdek, which was established by ITU and ITU ARI Teknokent in 2012 and drew strength from ITUNOVA TTO, has funded 2.991 start-ups and 6.544 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.
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.