The winners of the second term of the TEKNOFEST Entrepreneurship Program, presented by T3 Entrepreneurship Center for finalists who have participated in the competitions within the scope of TEKNOFEST, which has been held since 2018, have been announced.
For the 2nd term of the TEKNOFEST Enterprise Program, 314 applications were made to the “Pre-Incubation Program” and 101 applications were made to the “Acceleration Program”, a total of 415 applications. As a result of the evaluations, 17 initiatives were selected, 8 of which were for acceleration and 9 for the pre-incubation program. In the second period of the program, 150 thousand TL financial support is provided for pre-incubation initiatives and 300 thousand TL for acceleration initiatives.
Along with financial support to initiatives; Opportunities are also offered in 12 different areas such as entrepreneurship trainings, office support, investor and mentor meetings. The startups that are eligible to graduate from the program will attend the Startup Demonstration Day to be held at TEKNOFEST Istanbul between April 27 and May 1, and then meet with investors and expert mentors at Take Off Istanbul.
TEKNOFEST Enterprise Program 2nd Term Initiatives
Acceleration Program
1- Anadolu Robotics
It develops unmanned underwater and surface vehicles that perform many underwater and surface activities such as reconnaissance-observation, security, resource-construction, autonomously or remotely.
2- 3 AGES
It continues its efforts to eliminate the inequality of opportunity in health with its artificial intelligence supported tele-health software and hardware product called Infirmary – digital health center.
3- Rise Technology
The use of simulation methods in medicine and health education; Rise Teknoloji offers software and hardware-based solutions to make it mobile, user-friendly and affordable.
4- Move On
Carrying out its activities with the motto of artificial intelligence-based agricultural technologies, Move On is the only company in Turkey among the 5 companies in the world that make tractors autonomous.
5- Medroco
It is a hardware and software manufacturer based on neuroplasticity-based exercise and aiming to bring users and experts together for remote therapy and exercise in a data-driven way.
6- HydroBorPem-Hebunk
Hebunk, which produces scooters with hydrogen batteries, continues to work with a scooter product that has a range twice as long as electric scooters, can climb any slope and can be recharged in 5 minutes.
7- My Code
Kodgem, which produces wearable technology that improves the life quality of office workers, continues to develop products in order to have a healthy posture and facilitate regular exercise.
8- CatchPad
CatchPad is working on a mobile application supported interactive exercise platform that supports physical and mental development with hundreds of gamified activities, as well as provides performance statistics.
Pre-Incubation Program
1- Markas Machinery Technology
With its IoT infrastructure that can be used in model rocketry and atmospheric balloon projects, it produces electronic flight control and recording equipment equipped in accordance with environmental conditions.
2- Nevasoft
With the artificial intelligence supported blood analysis software they produce, leukemia etc. He works on a decision support system that assists hematology and oncology specialists in the diagnosis of blood diseases.
3- SoilBiom
SoilBiom develops a plant-specific fertilizer supplement preparation that increases plant resistance and yield with endophytic bacteria to be detected at species level by eDNA method.
4- Roven
He is working on drones and control software, which allows the user to enter the closed environments where it is difficult to access, and to extract the 3D model of this environment and to enable the user to perform a detailed inspection on the model.
5- Fladriw
It works on a product that gives the image of a vein in order to facilitate the procedure of opening a vein or blood collection.
6- Helimore Aviation
It develops a drone with a spraying capacity of 10 liters, providing autonomous flight at designated points, recognizing the weeds in the area where it will work with instant image processing techniques and spraying.
7- BioCountix
It produces an artificial intelligence-based autonomous colony counter that performs bacterial colony counting processes within seconds with high accuracy in food and water microbiology tests.
8- KiDoSe
It provides education package service by developing educational materials that families can spend healthy time with their children.
9- Mind Maze Game
He continues to work on creating an education platform that tries to combine education with today’s technology by transforming the secondary and high school curriculum into 2d-3d games.
T3 Entrepreneurship Center is Next to Entrepreneurs
T3 Entrepreneurship Center supports the TEKNOFEST competition finalists with pre-incubation and acceleration programs with the TEKNOFEST Entrepreneurship Program that it started in 2022. In this context, the Pre-Incubation Program for the teams that have turned their technology-oriented business idea into an enterprise or want to transform it into an enterprise with the support they will receive; With the technology-oriented projects they have developed, they offer an Acceleration Program to teams that already have a company they have established. In the first period of the TEKNOFEST Startup Program, a total of 3 million TL grant support was provided to 25 startups, 20 of which were Pre-Incubation and 5 Acceleration. In addition to the grant support given to entrepreneurs; Support was provided in 12 different areas such as entrepreneurship trainings, office support, investor and mentor meetings.
Source: (BYZHA) – Beyaz News Agency
