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Startups.Watch’s Demo Days is a series of events to showcase the most promising startups in Turkish ecosystem presenting their solutions in various sectors.
Gökhan Şeheri
Our mentor Melike Demirel wrote about the intersection of legaltech and insurtech giving examples from our ecosystem
Melike Demirel
Blockchain technology gives us a chance to transform our digital world. Crypto coins are not just traded items; they also constitute disruptive potential.
Yasir Tok
Hackquarters Team
A laminated menu, touched by numerous different customers, was no longer acceptable, meaning it was time for the QR code to step up.
For the last two years, Hackquarters tailored few programs in Insurtech, aiming to impact the insurance sector, providing access to domain expertise and market credibility
Our startup spotlight guest this week is B2Metric, which provides Automated Machine Learning-based predictive analytics. CEO Murat Hacıoğlu told us about their journey
It is essential to understand that funding or investment for your startup project is a factor in driving success and accelerating it and is not in any way a creator of that success.
Ahmed Rashid
DeepJudge was founded by four Machine Learning PhDs with over 20+ years of combined experience with Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing at scale
Startups.watch Demo Days is a series of events that entertain startups and their wide range of solutions in startup ecosystem of Turkey.
South Summit is “an Innovation Platform focused on business opportunities and disruptive trends in the entrepreneurial ecosystem”.
Turkey Startup Salary & Benefits Survey Report by Talentmelon and Endeavor involved 46 companies; whereas 39 of them are scaleups, remaining 7 are at the startup stage.
Secure Blink is a thriving cybersecurity startup from India, solely devoted towards reinventing the cybersecurity landscape. Founder and CEO Tapendra Dev told us about their journey.
In recent years however, the European tech ecosystem has progressed considerably with multiple startup hubs blossoming, providing a scarcity of talent and funding.
Joachim Schelde
Meetup aimed to emphasize the importance of climate change and raise awareness to ensure a smooth transition process for businesses and communities to net-zero client goals.
Vesttoo is a revolutionary risk management solution that utilizes cutting-edge proprietary technologies to manage actuarial risk through the capital markets
LegalTech Map that consists of the startups in Turkish Ecosystem and those from abroad
Co-founder Deoclides Neto shared with us insights about their story.
ESCP Business School announced a 10-week long Option E Scale Up Project where scale up companies benefit from the opportunities ESCP offers...
10 cool startups were selected out of 168 applications from 47 countries.
Mimirium is a software that collects user information and stores it securely on his devices. Co-founder and CEO Georgi Hristov told us about their pathway.
Breeze Technologies leverages the internet of things and artificial intelligence to help cities and businesses create better clean air action plans and a more liveable environment.
When you don't have large resources to arrange necessary marketing operations, don't be afraid.
Vintom
Agcurate is the result of the lasting problem of unpredictable crop production in Turkey.
Osman Baytaroğlu
Our spotlight guest this week is artivatic.ai which empowers healthcare, insurance, broker & re-insurance businesses and developers to re-imagine insurance&health products for the next billion users.
LegalTech Startup Challenge aims to make an impact in the legal practice by providing access to domain expertise and market credibility.
Our spotlight guest for this week is FluAI, which gives the users personal analysis and suggestions about upper respiratory infections based on the analysis of their throat picture and symptoms.
Open Insurance Meetup held on 03 November 2020 is an online event aiming to announce #HackZone Open Insurance Program powered by Allianz Turkey and implemented by Hackquarters.
Our spotlight guest this week is Yosh.AI, which automates the communication between enterprises and users with AI voice and text assistants. Founder & CEO Kasia Dorsey told us about their journey.
MediaMarkt Startup Challenge was staged 20 October.
Read what mistakes entrepreneurs make at the beginning in common
Tariq Syed
Nir Manor and his peers' article tell about how pandemic transforms the retail world.
Nir Manor
HealthyHealth brings its personalized solution to medical underwriting processes.Salman Mohammad, Head of Partnerships at HealthyHealth, told us about their journey.
xKey offers a pretty cool SaaS technology for digital asset security. One of the co-founders Chris des Fontaines told us about their journey.
MediaMarkt Startup Challenge brings retail innovators and retail professionals together.
FinTech revolution literally attracts our attention. Some investors are significantly interested in this vertical.
Virtuleap provides VR games for people with cognitive illnesses to treat them. Portugal based Virtuleap co-founder Amir Bozorgzadeh told us about their journey.
Tunefork provides its audio personalization technology for people to have optimum hearing experience. Tunefork co-founder Bar Federbusch told us about their journey.
Daniel Lloreda is co-founder and general partner of H20 Capital Innovation. Read about their values, philosophy, portfolio and how they invest!
Daniel Lloreda
NN Startup Challenge brings health & insurance professionals and innovators together.
Medhat Oraby wrote about updating agile principles according to the new normal conditions which spreads remote working significantly.
Medhat Oraby
HealthTech and InsurTech can seen in the hot topics of tech world. In NN Startup Challenge, rising power of digital health practices is the main focus.
The thought that agile practices cannot be sustained in remote working is not true. You can always benefit from the pros of agile.
Touching the emotions through your marketing strategy is the key for your branding.
Ozgur Ahmet Kose
Watch our Sustainable Growth Program alumni, which spread their brilliance by social impact.
Center Health makes households’ process to access better healthcare. Center Health founder Igor Petrovich told us about their journey.
In the 4th Meetup of HSBC Sustainable Program, we discussed how to protect nature and which startups are working for it.
This was the 3rd Meetup of HSBC Sustainable Growth Program in which we touched the the topic of neighbourhood.
mypoba brings solutions to sponsorship problems for both parties. mypoba founder Kutluhan Sabik told us about mypoba adventure.
In the 2nd Meetup of HSBC Sustainable Growth Program, we discuss how to create sustainable houses.
Price&Me is a Personal Shopping Assistant that solves what to buy and where to buy problem. Serhat Atayeter, Founder of Price&Me delivered the Price&Me journey.
Read about what common mistakes entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them
Ecording is one of the selected startups for HSBC Sustainable Growth Program. Mert Karslıoğlu, Co-Founder of ecording has shared their Ecording journey.
We are conducting the G4A Turkey Acceleration Program to support healthtech startups in Turkey with Bayer. Here are the startups selected for the third term of the program.
The most important determinants that may help an investor make an investment decision, where it becomes more essential in the time of the pandemic
Moneymo offers a great solution to speed up payment processes. Co-founder Barış Bayoğlu told us about their story.
Bartme makes exchange easier by offering an innovative solution for the valuation of items. Semih Kılıçgedik told us about their story.
Our lives have been strictly affected by Covid-19. Learn how to adopt post-pandemic era
Ismail Sincik
Sorwe digitalizes all HR processes with gamification, keeps employees connected, collects real-time data and delivers analytics to understand what employees think & feel for better decision making.
Hackquarters is working closely with Visa and supporting fintechs to scale their businesses globally via Visa's international financial and banking partnership network.
A good story constructs your brand value. Most start-ups arise by telling good stories that resonate with the consumer and the market.
Leona Henrynson
Drive Buddy is a mobile telematics platform that analyzes the driver's driving behaviors and detects car accidents using sensors on smartphones. Emre Yiğit Alparslan told us about their journey.
Sertifier offers its customers a certificate designing and distribution application to track, analyze, and verify education data using blockchain technology. Arda Helvacılar told about their journey.
Here is how Hackquarters approach remote working and sustain its businesses in pandemic.
MuseBirds is one of the companies that think contentment should be the base of every product, service, and process for travelers. Co-founder Aylin Bahar told us about their journey.
Sanction Scanner provides companies with comprehensive and up-to-date anti money laundering data. Co-founder Fatih Coşkun told about their story.
Care about how working from home models should be designed!
How you construct your team matters especially at the beginning. The team defines and shapes where your startup will go.
It is our responsibility to address traditional institutions that have the courage to bring to future to the present by using the pandemic as an opportunity. Every outbreak brings new opportunities..
Berç Çubukciyan
Product-led Growth means having your entire business from development to marketing, sales to customer service, and revolve it around your product.
Selman Gökçe
Covid outbreak has been transforming how business world approaches sales and comunication.
6 books for your personal development and career to move forward
Mana aiming to create a brand of organic and chic accessories. Offering many different products from accessories to decoration. Damla Özenç told about their story.
After a 4-month acceleration program in Istanbul, the selected startups receive a chance to launch their business in the UK in the framework of London business Bootcamp.
Empathy doesn’t only help designers to understand their users better, and to improve UI/UX, it also helps them create solutions for the real problems
WomeWomenUP is a series event in order to bring together male and female entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors, and various organizations supporting women in business.
Sustainable Growth Program implemented in collaboration with HSBC Turkey is going on with all excitement. On our first meetup we explored the issue of "Zero Waste Living".
InstaCare brings healthcare seekers and healthcare providers of Pakistan in one platform. Muhammad Bilal Amjad told us about their story.
Techup is an accelerator program consisting of training and consultancy services for companies operating in Eskişehir and its region.
Hydrao offers a smart way to create habits focused on water saving and monitors your water usage. Eric Burkel told about their journey.
Hackquarters is working closely with HSBC Turkey on Sustainable Growth Program, contributing to the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals.
With Glocalzone, travelers earn money through delivering the requested items, while the shoppers enjoy borderless shopping.
The days we will chat with sites and applications are not too far away. Pigro is one of the applications that bring us closer to this future.
An inspirational logo can be the best way for a memorable brand. Tiny Design is here with its solutions for newly established companies.
Disrupting Insurance Startup Challenge is an innovation program in lnsurTech startups aiming to make an impact in the insurance sector.
Pona offers a marketplace that brings together people who want to sell their meals and those who want to eat homemade food.
The International Acceleration Program ICUBE owned by Entertech & Istanbul University and supported by ISTKA was left behind with demo day.
Mixoper offers solutions for both customers and companies by automating the service process of products with its AI infrastructure.
Social entrepreneurship is an approach that adopts free market-based methods to solve social problems and make an impact on society.
Learn more about Workup, one of the coolest and most successful acceleration programs in the Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Optiyol provides optimization solutions for transportation planning decisions at strategic, tactical and operational levels.
Company culture is the whole of values in general terms and what employees say that's how things work here.
Being a parent is a long journey which brings many responsibilities with it. At this point, bebehope offers a solution to help families.
We see artificial intelligence in almost every sector. One of the sectors where AI has been on the rise recently is the insurance sector.
Cybersecurity has different meanings for different audiences. SecurityWall is one of the startups that make the internet more secure.
Learn more about Akbank Hackathon, where 20 teams selected out of 500+ applications coded on 15-17 November 2019.