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The Region's Most Comprehensive Startup Summit


Organized since 2018, Take Off Istanbul, the region's most comprehensive technology and startup event, opens its doors for the eighth time on December 10-11 at Istanbul Expo Center. The event, which receives thousands of applications from around the world every year, is preparing to bring technology startups together with investors, public and private sector representatives and global technology leaders this year. To date, the summit has hosted 935 entrepreneurs, more than 550 mentors and investors, 192 international speakers and over 5,500 one-on-one meetings with the cooperation of more than 100 institutions. In total, more than 1 billion 805 million dollars of investment and reward support was offered to entrepreneurs during the event.

Highlights of Take Off Istanbul 2024


In 2024, Take Off Istanbul realized its most comprehensive gathering to date with the support of 65 sponsors and partners. Held at the Istanbul Expo Center, the event brought together more than 15,000 visitors, 250 technology startups from 23 countries and 125 international investors from 25 countries. Growth-stage startups had the opportunity to present their products and services on the Main Stage and early-stage startups on the Venture Stage. During the event, one-on-one meetings were held with national and international investors managing more than 1.5 billion dollars in total. As a result of these meetings, 4 startups achieved a significant success by receiving a total investment of 1 million dollars.

While the panels organized during the event discussed artificial intelligence, digital transformation and advanced technology, representatives of global giants such as Meta, SpaceX, Samsung and Axiom Space shed light on the future of the technology world on stage.

2025 Expectations

Take Off Istanbul 2025 sets off with even bigger goals. This year, with the participation of more than 500 startups, more than 200 investors and more than 100 sponsors and partners, it is aimed to carry global collaborations even further.

Why Take Off Istanbul?

It is not just a summit; it is a sustainable entrepreneurship network that encourages long-term collaborations between startups, investors and organizations. With its multi-actor structure where the public and private sectors act together, it offers investment opportunities for startups, early access for investors, and innovative collaborations for institutions by combining technology and capital under the same roof by crossing regional borders and with the geopolitical advantage of Istanbul.

Pre-Registration Opportunities

Startups that pre-register will benefit from an early registration discount of up to 60% and will receive priority notification when official applications begin.

The foundation's primary field of activity is the establishment and support of teams for technical trainings and workshops for secondary school, high school and university youth, as well as project competitions. The second field of activity consists of providing technical and logistic support to technology startups in incubation and acceleration centers and providing capital supports through venture investment funds.

The Turkish Technology Team Foundation was founded in December 2016 by a group of young entrepreneurs and young professionals who believe that realizing the National Technology Initiative is inevitable for Türkiye to raise its voice for a better world and become a truly developed and fully independent society and began operating in January 2017. You can find detailed information about our Board of Trustees and Board members on the "Board" page.

We provide support for startups within the scope of our 1001 Technology Initiative project. In our six-term acceleration program for early-stage technology startups, we offer investment support, office space, startup workshop, expert support, training, mentor support, and bring startups together with potential investors and customers through our investor network and corporate company cluster.

Our first priority is for startups to create added value with technology in critical areas that will increase the competitiveness of our country. On the other hand, we aim for these initiatives to create sparks in areas where there is a paradigm shift in technological development. We attach importance to the ownership of system/sub-system solutions, which are strategically important to be developed in our country, from the design to the product stage with the original design capability. Since we believe that ideas that stand on their feet are nourished by existing experiences, we want startups to be able to form technology clusters together with visionary institutions. In addition, we know that a good startup is made up of diligent people who believe in themselves, which is why we attach great importance to the team.

One of our goals as a foundation is to transform domestic capitalists into technology investors. We invite capital owners who currently prefer safer investment instruments to invest in national technology initiatives to realize the national technology move. In this way, we support our initiatives with our investor network and venture capital fund.