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Turkey’s Best of the Best Entrepreneurs to be Selected Participants of the Business Plan Competition will be introduced with a meeting to that will host TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu among others.
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27/05/2012 - Viewed 5286 times

ANKARA - The Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) – Turkey is to select the best among top entrepreneurs of Turkey.

Thirty-three entrepreneurs will join the Business Plan Competition organized by GEP-Turkey and sponsored by Garanti Bank, Microsoft, Intel, General Electric and Pegasus. Participant entrepreneurs were selected among finalists of business plan competitions organized by several organizations including the Middle East Technical University, Bilkent University, Sabancı University, MIT Enterprise Forum, and Endeavor.

Among the participant entrepreneurs, 20 operate in Istanbul, 11 in Ankara and 2 in Izmir. Entrepreneurs represent a number of emerging sectors among which are mobile applications, green energy, education technologies, game software and hardware, e-commerce, agribusiness, fashion, biomedical products and image processing.

Entrepreneurs will be showcased with a press meeting in Istanbul. The press meeting will host M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, President of TOBB, Scott Kilner, US Consulate General in Istanbul, Murat Yalçıntaş, President of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, Ergun Özen, CEO of Garanti Bank, and Tamer Özmen, CEO of Microsoft Turkey.

With a two-day program, competitors will be evaluated by a jury formed of American and Turkish entrepreneurs, in parallel tracks for early and growth stage enterprises. Top three teams in two tracks will be announced by Vice Prime Minister Ali Babacan and TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu during the Award Ceremony on 30 May 2012.

Finalists will have the chance to receive support from American investors including famous Silicon Valley investors and Turkish angel investors forming the jury as well as cash awards. Successful entrepreneurs will be hosted in the US to engage with clients, investors and suppliers and join with entrepreneurs of famous companies including Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram.

Entrepreneurs who cannot make it to the finals will be invited to speed mentoring sessions in Istanbul on 31 May 2012, to join and exchange ideas with successful American entrepreneurs and early-stage investors.

Early Stage Semi Finalists

1)      Imona Technologies Ltd., founded by Bahadır Ödevci

Imona Technologies Ltd is a tech company, developing a web based platform that makes it easy and faster (around 5 times) to develop business apps.

2)      Hipmoni, founded by Mert Giray İlhan, Ergin Eroğlu, Melike Şimsek

Hipmoni is an online social fashion (retailing) platform which possesses tech and non-tech features.

3)      Green Age Tech, founded by Mehmet Enes Kutluca

Green Age Tech is a tech company that its innovative offers was found one of the best solutions for water saving.

4)      Exa-Tech, founded by Serdar Alemdar, Emre Erçin

Exa-Tech is a tech company which develops software and hardware based solutions in the analytical sports management market.

5)      Otelist.me, founded by Şevki Demir, Ali Aksakarya, Pars Kunt, Kaan Özdökmeci

Otelist.me is a tech company for consumers which offers booking a same-day hotel for %70 discount stay via mobile devices.

6)      E-teşhis, founded by Güner Aktürk, Betül Gemalmaz

eTeshis provides life saving diagnosing technologies aiming to create a new paradigm on utilizing computers to solve health problems.

7)      HelthOR.CoM, founded by Ahmet Erol Fazlıoğlu, Fatih Karaaslan, Albert Güveniş

HelthOR is tech startup aiming to provide a virtual simulator teach fundamentals of physiology to medical faculty students and medical staff.

8)      MyMija, founded by Dinemis Sabancıoğlu, Çiçek Çizmeci

Mymija.com is an e-commerce startup company positioning itself to be Turkey’s first online fashion brand.

9)      Energized, founded by Serol Türkyılmaz, Levent Beker

Energized intends to develop self-powered systems which are independent from the battery or cable by using energy harvesting technology.

10)   Innovation Agriculture, founded by İbrahim Tekseven, Hüseyin Yıldız

Innovation Agriculture is a tech company which aims to produce of organic fertilizers and agricultural products for organic agriculture.

11)   Antropi Education Tech, founded by Abdullah Erdoğan

Antropi is a tech company aiming to enable interactivity in learning environments by offering an interactive software and an interactivity module.

12)   Alictus, founded by Arif Emre Taş, Ecem Baran, Onur Dilek

Alictus is a tech startup working on to introduce smart phones as motion sensing controllers for social/casual games on web browsers.

13)   TK3-Teknik Ltd., founded by Ünver Kaynak, Memduh Türkoğlu

TK3-Teknik Ltd. is a technical company which basically serves the aerospace industry with emphasis on applications of green energy for unmanned air vehicles.

14)   Inturlam Ltd., founded by Umut Gültepe, Burak Mert, Umut Aradağ

Inturlam is a tech company developing high-end Kiosk, shop window and presentation solutions using Hologram Window films,

15)    E Brand Value, founded by M. Tolga Akçura, Murat Lostar

E-Brand Value aims o offer technology based services that will calculate the value of brands in e-environments.

16)   Atiken, founded by Emre Ergun Burak Çağatay

ATIKEN aims to convert agricultural and forest residues generated in Turkey into a high energy content,high density, and carbon neutral solid fuel called biomass pellets.

Growth Stage Semi Finalists

1)      Unnado.com, founded by Göktuğ Okan Oğuz, Haldun Uraz Boralılar

Unnado is private shopping site for moms, babies and children and runs campaigns of brands with discounts up to 90%.

2)      HemenKiralik.com, founded by Remi Onur, Rina Onur, Mehmet Ülkü, Alper Kaya

Hemenkiralik.com is a marketplace for short term rentals all over the world. It is an online booking site which mediates reservations for furnished flats.

3)      Balerin.com, founded by Ahmet Maraşlı

Balerin.com is a retail platform which offers over 10,000 products ranging from high-end brand names par fumes, make-up products.

4)      PembePanjur.com, founded by Haluk Akın, Seda Berber

Pembe Panjur is an online dating platform and its model concentrates on the Turkish society and the values the Turkish culture is built upon.

5)      Arcade Monk, founded by Ömer Bilge Ersoy, Alemşah Öztürk

ArcadeMonk is a game development company with a focus on social, casual and mobile gaming in Turkish and the Middle East region.

6)      Solvoyo, founded by Koray Doğan, enterprise software

Solvoyo is a tech company providing leveragable software services over the internet and assisting retailers/distributors/manufacturers to increase operational efficiency.

7)      Userspots, founded by Mustafa Dalcı

Userspots is usability and user experience service company. In addition it has an R&D project on combining eye tracking and emotion analysis.

8)      Hediyemo, founded by Altuğ Acar, Pınar Kart

Hediyemo is a social and mobile gifting service for consumers and corporations to send gifts instantly via SMS, email or Facebook wall post without needing a delivery address.

9)      Lamagama Entertainment, founded by Nilay Yüce, Gökhan Ertem

Lamagama is a tech company developing mobile, console games and simulators.

10)   ISSD (Integrated Systems & Systems Design), founded by Çağrı Yüzbaşıoğlu, Serdar Onart

ISSD is a high-tech company, focusing on smart traffic management systems.

11)   InfoDif Ltd., founded by Kerem Çalışkan, Salih Eren Parlakgümüş

InfoDif is a high-tech company focusing on image processing software development. Company provides image processing ability to companies to develop innovative solutions.

12)   BMT Calsis, founded by Mahmut Özgürbüz, Levent Mete Özgürbüz, Yavuz Eren

BMT Calsis is the first and only Turkish manufacturer of orthopedic and biomimetic biomaterials developed based on the regenerative medicine principles.

13)   KADE, founded by Kaan Kayabalı

Kade Vision produces state of the art, high performance, low cost camera based people counting device (V-Count) for retail industry.

14)   Butigo, founded by Gizem Yasa, Berk Alevi, Harun Güner

Butigo is a shoe club that sells affordable fashion to women, in a way that makes them feel pampered and special.

15)   We Decide, founded by Kutlu Kazanci, Erdem Ovacik, Ali Erhat Nalbant, Cengiz Bayram

WeDecide help brands & blue chip companies’ crowdsource innovative projects from customers and/or employees

16)   ATARD A.S., Burak Yakupoglu, Timucin Tecmen, Ahmet Cengiz Tecmen, Ayse Yakupoglu, Cem Sapmaz

Atard A.S. aims to develop continuous shroud structure that remains compliant at engine operating temperatures for efficient energy usage

17)   Ankaref, founded by Erhan Binici, Gökhan Fidan

Ankaref carries out studies on the R & D and production in “Radio Frequency Identification” (RFID) technology.

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