CES 2023, the world’s largest consumer electronics fair, held in Las Vegas on January 5-8 this year, focused on many topics from artificial intelligence to sustainability, from autonomous vehicles to energy management, from digital health to smart cities. entrepreneurship became one of the highlights.
Türk Telekom CEO Ümit Önal, who spoke at CES, which we, as ShiftDelete.Net, follow on-site and bring you together with more than one video every day, met with PİLOT graduates.
“Bringing Turkish brands to the world stage is possible with the strengthening of the entrepreneurship ecosystem”
Türk Telekom CEO Ümit Önal In his speech on entrepreneurship;
“We think that bringing Turkish brands to the world stage will only be possible with the strengthening of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in our country, and we see any work that will reduce foreign dependency in technology as a national duty. With PILOT, our corporate startup acceleration program under the umbrella of TT Ventures, we are opening the doors of growth and value creation for startups.
With this motivation, we aim to be a bridge connecting startups to the world with the TT Ventures Office we opened in San Francisco.
Thus, we will strengthen the ecosystem here by opening the valuable ideas from our country to the world through Silicon Valley, where the heart of technology and innovation beats, and bringing the innovative ideas from the world to our country.”
The total investment amount received by PILOT graduates, operating in almost all countries from Asia to Europe, from N. America to S. America, from various local and global investors. 20 million dollars indicating that it is approaching onal;
“The investors of 3 of these ventures are US origin; MentalUP, which offers a brain training application for children, Bluedot, our initiative offering a charging station solution, and Cineshort, a mobile application for watching short films.”
“The PILOT graduate attending CES this year; Online Parent and Adult Counseling Platform Kidologist; Dynamic route management solution for fleets Optiyolartificial intelligence-based pattern and texture production software company MYTH.AI, energy transfer solution for electric vehicles Car4FutureOnline market solution that automates collection and delivery processes Speedy Market I was happy to meet with you.
We are always with our initiatives that are preparing to open up to the world, and I sincerely wish them success.”
What did TT Ventures offer startups?
Until today PILOTgraduated from 104 in total approximately 30 million TL While providing cash support, the initiatives provided by the end of 2022 employment approximately 2 thousand approached.
To date, 45 of PILOT graduates have had the opportunity to develop their projects and ideas by receiving investment from various investors.
At the end of 2022, the “TT Ventures Venture Capital Investment Fund” was launched, which will enable TT Ventures to reach more startups with flexible investment models. With this fund, investing in technology-oriented startups with high growth potential; It is aimed to provide strategic and financial benefits to the investors of the fund.
TT Ventures has invested in 13 companies operating in the fields of health, energy, education, artificial intelligence and telecommunications.