Turkish Startups Are Coming to Chicago and San Francisco

Chicago, San Francisco, September 17, 2014 (Newswire.com) -
- Teknojumpp Demo Day in Chicago, IL on September 18th, 2014. The demo day session will be at 9:00am CST and will take place at 1871 Auditorium.

- Teknojumpp Demo Day in San Francisco, CA on September 25th, 2014. It will take place at San Francisco office of 500Start-ups aPlease join us to learn about innovative solutions from start-ups hailing from Turkey.

Teknojumpp Acceleration Program has been initiated by ODTU Teknokent, Turkey’s leading    technology park management organization with more than 300 start-ups in house, with services from Sente Advisory Services. The program is designed to accelerate the process of internationalization of technology-based start-ups through their process of commercialization in USA.

In its first year, twenty start-ups have been supported with comprehensive boot-camp in Turkey and eight of them have been selected to attend to the US part of the program in which customer development skills have been improved. Now, we are running the second year of Teknojumpp Acceleration Program with new cohort of start-ups.

They all have products or services targeted the global markets. These start-ups will complete their final stage of activities concentrated on business development in US and finish activities with the Demo Day scheduled on September 18th, 2014.

We are hoping that you will join the demo day that will bring technology startups from various industries including consumer, medical devices, security, media, and others. More detailed information about the companies will be provided upon your registration for the event. This event will be an invitation only event and an RSVP is required. To RSVP please send an email to [email protected] with the name, email, and the role of each person from your organization that will attend. RSVP will close by 12:00pm CST September 15th, 2014. Demo Day will be at 1871.

Combining ODTU’s (Middle East Technical University) research capacity and information pool with the innovative capacity of entrepreneurs, ODTU Teknokent has created a momentum in Turkey’s technology accumulation; It has become a successful model with its management experiences and projects for the formation of both the legal frame and the development of other technology parks in Turkey.

ODTÜ Teknokent has reached to a scale of 300 firms more than %60 set up in ODTÜ Teknokent and %75 of which are SME’s, employing more than 4500 personnel and carrying out R&D activities in a 120.000 m2 enclosed area, in a 10 years period with only using its own resources it aims to become one of the world’s leading technology development zones.

The existing company profile of ODTÜ Teknokent is based on high technology research, software development, IT, defense and electronics industry.  In accordance with the prioritized areas of ODTÜ; ICT- Telecommunication, High-tech Consumer Electronics and Life Sciences are the strategic areas.

ODTÜ Teknokent is working hard to encourage technology entrepreneurship, support collaboration between companies, facilitate university-industry convergence and increase internationalization of its companies.  Incubation Programs, Business Plan Contest, Business Accelerator, Technology Transfer Office, Pre-incubation Centre for Digital Gaming, Defense Industry and ICT Clusters, Technology Fund and Association of Business Angels Network,  are the major components of this quest.