YASED’s initiatives to support the ever-growing startup ecosystem in our country, to enable technology transfer between deep tech startups and potential end users, and to support green and digital transformation with innovative and agile solutions. Deep Tech Enhancer Project held in Istanbul Kolektif House Levent on April 25. Demo Day completed with the activity.
Among the more than 180 possible matches established between members and startups, 9 out of 43 meetings turned into concrete projects and collaborations were established with ecosystem partners in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Kocaeli and Eskişehir.
YASED Deep Tech Enhancer Project has been completed
US Vice Consul General by Fleur Cowan The activities carried out throughout the project were evaluated at the meeting held with the participation of the participants.
Within the scope of the project, which started in September 2021, various training programs, informative and good examples webinar programs, matching meetings and physical networking meetings have been held so far.
For the project supported by the US Embassy Grant Program Fleur Cowan, U.S. Deputy Consul General said:
“One of the top priorities of the U.S. Department of State is to support technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, each of which enhances common economic well-being. Therefore, the United States is proud to provide financial support to the Deep Tech Enhancer Project that contributes to this goal.
Looking at the interesting and inspiring work of the entrepreneurs who are with us today, it becomes clear that we are stronger together when our support for innovation, experimentation and creativity is combined with our interest in these critical and emerging technologies.”
YASED Secretary General Serkan Valandova He said the following about the end of the project;
“We are very pleased that our Deep Tech Enhancer Project, which aims to strengthen the ties of YASED and its members with the entrepreneurship ecosystem of our country, has concluded by achieving all of its foreseen goals.
Our two basic assumptions behind the success of our project are; Collaborations with YASED members will provide great advantages for our start-ups, which have a great potential and make us proud and encourage us with their success stories in recent years, to a level that produces business and products on a global scale, and that the needs of our member companies in the field of Deep-Tech will be met with the start-ups of our country. would be met in the fastest and most efficient manner.
We have seen once again how right we are in both assumptions, in all the studies we carried out during our Project. Within the scope of our project, we are very pleased to realize target and need-oriented company/start-up matching, and more importantly, to build a sustainable system and network that will make such collaborations permanent.
We would like to thank the US Embassy for supporting our project, our solution partner Viveka, all YASED member companies, our valuable start-ups, and all valuable stakeholders of our country’s leading technoparks, accelerators and entrepreneurship ecosystem with which we have established structural collaborations throughout the project. In the coming period, we will continue our activities that will increase the number of collaborations and bring more of our start-ups to the level of global competition.”
YASED Technology and Innovation Working Group President Sirin Aktas He also made the following statements in his opening speech;
“We would like to thank the US Consulate General for its contribution to the realization of the Deep Tech Enhancer Project. Today, we will also listen to very valuable presentations about their solutions from our participating startups. Within the scope of this project, I also had the opportunity to meet with a few startups that have solutions for our needs within Edenred, where I work as CIO.
We would like to cooperate with the suitable ones in the coming period. At the same time, I was very happy to support the startups participating in the program as a mentor.”Circular Economy, Green Transformation and Decarbonization Investments And Venture Capital Funds and Investment Routes themed During the Demo Day event, where panels were held, information was shared about the activities carried out so far. The outputs of the “Corporate-Startup Synergize (CS-S)” program organized in cooperation with the project accelerator Viveka were presented.
In the program, networking opportunities were provided among members, start-ups and ecosystem partners, while introductory presentations were made by the start-ups participating in the program for YASED members and investors. After the Deep Tech Enhancer Project, whose project period was completed with the Demo Day event, many activities that will support the entrepreneurial ecosystem by YASED will continue in 2023.