Founded by Kuveyt Türk in 2017, with the aim of developing innovative business ideas and bringing them into the country’s economy. Guild Entrepreneurship Center, gave its seventh term graduates this year. Organized on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at Workinton Levent 199, under the moderation of journalist Timur Backpack, the Lonca Demoday event attracted great attention.
At the event attended by Kuveyt Türk and Lonca employees, trainers, mentors and angel investors, entrepreneurs talked about their adventures. Lonca Entrepreneurship Center, which cares for startups to focus on their projects, cash grant support of up to 50 thousand TL to each startup during the program and device-developing startups, it provides an extra 15 thousand TL R&D support.
The seventh term has been completed at the Lonca Entrepreneurship Center
Within the scope of the seventh term acceleration program, in which trainings conducted in the digital environment and organized in the form of camps were added, entrepreneurs were given the opportunity to participate in national and international competitions, a virtual server opportunity of 10 thousand dollars, mentoring and consultancy support from experts in the field, as well as marketing and promotion support.
In addition, entrepreneurs who graduated from the Lonca will have priority in applying to the Lonca Venture Capital Investment Fund, which was established by KT Portfolio to invest in startups and invested 75 million TL by Kuveyt Türk in the past few days.
“We are among the most effective incubation centers and startup acceleration programs in our country”
Kuveyt Türk Strategy and Innovation Group Manager and Lonca Entrepreneurship Center Management Committee Member Dr. Selman OrtakoyIn his speech at the Demoday event;
“Through our Guild Entrepreneurship Center, we support entrepreneurs with technology-oriented and scalable business ideas to transform their project ideas into commercial activities with a sustainable model. Although it was founded about 5 years ago, the Guild managed to become one of the most effective incubation centers and startup acceleration programs in our country in a short time.
With the support we provide to entrepreneurs accepted to the Guild, we enable entrepreneurs to focus on their business. For this purpose, we provide cash grant support of up to 50 thousand TL that they can use both in product development processes and in emergency expenses, and we do not buy any shares or options for this support. We provide R&D support of 15 thousand TL to startups that develop devices.
We congratulate our entrepreneurs who successfully completed the seventh term and wish them success in the upcoming period. Centers such as the Guild contribute greatly to the growth and development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in our country. We believe that these activities in the field of entrepreneurship are one of the most important investments made in our country and our future, and we hope that the number of these centers will increase.”
13 startups that successfully completed the seventh term incubation program of the Lonca Entrepreneurship Center and their fields of activity:
– Mothers Sell: It is a social marketplace platform powered by artificial intelligence that meets all the daily needs of mothers. –
– Accumulate: It is a project that reduces costs and carbon footprint by providing company-local government-citizen cooperation while gaining rewards as it recycles all over the world.
– BRB: It is a computer sharing platform where players can play any game online from any smart screen by avoiding hardware costs and update times, and powerful gaming PC owners can earn income by renting their computers when not in use.
– Corridor: It is a mobile application that enables young people to reach social responsibility projects that they like by using gamification method, and enables brands with projects to establish customer loyalty and measure projects by establishing bonds with young people.
– Cyou Live: It is a global distance learning application that works like a social network, focused on popular workforce skills and job acquisition for adults from all over the world.
– Continueapp: It is a mobility marketplace application that brings together electric scooters, hourly car rental platforms, rentable electric small class vehicles and public transport mobility solutions.
– Comes: It is a cloud-based logistics application where businesses can reach the most suitable cargo alternatives with dynamic pricing, integrate with all cargo and logistics companies with a single API, and manage the entire transportation process from end to end.
– Invesya: It is a mobile application where users can produce works of art from words for free with the help of artificial intelligence and earn money by selling the works of art they produce within the application.
– Postuby: ‘What should I share on social media?’ It is a platform that eliminates the hassle and offers its subscribers ready-to-share content with the support of artificial intelligence.
– Just from the wholesale: It is a platform where wholesalers can take orders from their customers in a very fast and simple way, as well as track their current flows and easily organize their supply lists, and list their deliveries from a single place with delivery lists.
– Swatchloop: It is a sustainable digital ecosystem specific to the textile industry, where brands and manufacturers carry out B2B activities and where all stakeholders in the industry (private sector, test-certification and R&D centers, public, etc.) can carry out open innovation, recycling-circular economy activities.
– uStory: It is a mobile application platform that publishes interactive literary works and brings writers and readers together.
– Yancep: It is a savings and investment platform where individuals can invest in portfolios modeled according to their goals and risk preferences with small amounts.