The Workup Entrepreneurship Program is starting its 12th edition with 8 startups that want to scale their businesses. Türkiye İş Bankası (İşbank) is the main supporter of this development-focused entrepreneurship program.
Branchsight, Juuli, Korvo, Kubezy, Magfi, Shippn, Trendbox, and Zuzzuu are the startups that participate in the new edition of the program.
As many as 144 startups have been accepted to the Workup Entrepreneurship Program, which is run by Hackquarters. Moreover, 100 startups graduated from the program.
Issues that startups need support for are identified!
The startups included in the program, for which applications are open throughout the year on the Workup.ist website, are determined after their presentations and the evaluations of its team, mentors, stakeholders, and investors.
After they are accepted into the program, the current status of the startups and the issues they need support for are determined through one-on-one interviews. Thus, a personalized program is prepared for the startups in line with their needs.
Selected initiatives are implemented for 4 months.
What do these startups get?
• Mentoring from experts in their fields;
• Cooperation, especially with İşbank Group subsidiaries;
• Access to investment opportunities, especially the funds of which İşbank is the founder and investor;
• Experience sharing, technical workshops, and inspiration events with experienced entrepreneurs;
• Free cloud server usage rights and infrastructure support packages;
• Participation in domestic and international physical and online events;
• Promoting themselves in print and digital media.
8 startups selected for the 12th edition of the Workup Entrepreneurship Program:
Branchsight: A digital marketing platform that enables the advertising strategy of all sales points for multi-location brands to be managed through a central system.
Juuli: A finance platform specially designed for freelancers to easily and quickly manage their invoicing, payment receiving and sending processes.
Korvo: An e-commerce platform that allows educators to showcase their events, online courses and digital products, receive payments and manage their operations.
Kubezy: A new-generation cloud operator that develops products that will facilitate the cloud-native transformation of service providers and companies.
Magfi: A technology that advertises communities in messaging applications.
Shippn: A marketplace established with the mission of enabling its users to shop from all over the world and the vision of becoming a Reshipping Airbnb.
Trendbox: An initiative that instantly collects data from retail POS with its software and hardware and provides instant and action-oriented insight reports to its customers.
Zuzzuu: A platform that enables thanks to digital sales to increase revenues by offering personalized experiences to their customers with specialized AI technology in sectoral verticals.
Read our previous news related to this topic:
Türkiye İş Bankası supports the Workup Entrepreneurship Program
Source: the Bank’s press release dated February 01, 2024
