Entrepreneurs from Boğaziçi

 Boğaziçi University ranked first in the list of the number of founding partners in the 2021 Turkey Startup Ecosystem Investment Report, which is evaluated by Startup Centrum according to information such as sector, city, investment stage, crowdfunding, investor, founder, product type, and income model. 

 

 

Some famous entrepreneurs graduated from Boğaziçi University and their startups:

  • Nazım Salur - Getir
  • Nevzat Aydın, Melih Ödemiş - Yemeksepeti
  • Emre Aydın - Çiçeksepeti
  • Başak Taşpınar Değim - Armut
  • Emek Kırbıyık - Düğün
  • Mehmet Çelikol - Garajsepeti
  • Sidar Şahin - Peak Games
  • Aytül Erçil - Vispera
  • Kemal Erol - Vivense
  • Sercan Esen - IntenseEye
  • Volkan Biçer - Mobilike, Rollic Games
  • Muhammet Enginar, Osman Koç - UserGuiding
  • Erdem Yurdanur - Masomo, Maçkolik
  • Tuğrul Tekbulut - Logo Yazılım
  • İbrahim Özer - Escort Bilişim
  • Burç Tanır - Prysinc
  • Selinay Filiz Parlak - Bluedot
  • Dilara Keçeci - Teleporter

Through the Eyes of Entrepreneurs

I'm one of the founding partners of Bluedot. My path with entrepreneurship conceptually started in my first year at university, with the Startup Carnival, which I encountered while walking on the main square on campus, besides being a member of the BUIK Entrepreneurship sub-committee. Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center has always been a home for me with a very rich potential thanks to its gathering of "like-minded" people and its network to access the school's alumni audience. In addition to organizing events on many subjects, the questions of what Boğaziçi students understand when it comes to entrepreneurship, how they approach this issue, and how different components in the school can create stakeholders under the roof of this ecosystem have always excited the growing student community and me at the center.

 

 

Our paths with Bright crossed in 2019 through DreamBU. We presented the Comparisonator, which we had been working on for a year and a half at that time and were preparing to launch, to our instructors and received very positive comments. Bright was with us throughout our journey, from our first sale to Beşiktaş JK in December 2019, to the days when our product is used in 15 countries. Bright has provided us with a very nice environment where we can work between our lessons, and meet and exchange information with our peers who are on the same path as us. As my esteemed partners, Tarkan Batgün, Furkan Yağız, and the entire Comparisonator family, we are grateful to our teachers Konca Günel, Ünal Arslan, Emre Tekeli, and Oğuzhan Aygören, whom we met thanks to Bright, for their support on this path, where we have placed our company among the top 10 companies in the world doing football data analytics business.