Champion Startups Announced at the Promising Startups 24

The winners of the “Promising Startups 24” competition, organized annually by in4startups to help local and international investors discover investable startups, have been officially announced.

Out of all applicants, 257 startups that met the competition criteria were accepted. Among these entrepreneurs, 72 were women and 185 were men. Applications came from 31 different provinces across Türkiye, ranging from Bursa to Konya, Eskişehir to Diyarbakır, with Istanbul being the city with the highest number of applicants.

A total of 32 startups held intellectual property rights such as trademarks, utility models, or patents. 36 startups had previously received investments, while 44 had benefited from public supports such as KOSGEB or TÜBİTAK. Additionally, 28 startups had successfully engaged in export activities. Most startups had multiple co-founders, with an average of 2.29 founders per startup—30% female, 70% male.

In terms of sectoral focus, the highest number of applications came from information technologies, health, sustainability, and e-commerce.

The award ceremony will take place on December 2 at the Asya Ventures Startup Investment Summit, hosted by Başakşehir Municipality at their municipal complex. The awarded startups will pitch their ventures to leading investors and engage in one-on-one meetings during the summit.

Sponsors of the competition include: Akbank, Akzo Nobel, Başakşehir Municipality, Bursa Technopark, Bursa Technical University, Goldman Startups, Wave Media, Techsign, SEYEV, and Softomi.

For more details about the competition, please visit: 👉 https://gelecekvadedenler.com

Here Are the Promising Startups 2024 Champions:

• Sustainability-Focused Startup Champion: Refresh the Future
  A digital packaging service that offers eco-friendly, reusable packaging solutions for end-users and the food & beverage industry to reduce single-use waste and promote the circular economy.
• Mobility & Energy Startup Champion: SOWEC
  An energy system that generates electricity using wave energy.
• Women Entrepreneur Champion: TRAICK
  A web-based AI application developed for the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules, enabling early detection.
• Technology Pioneer Startup Champion: Algbio
  Treats industrial/municipal/agricultural wastewater and CO₂ with microalgae to produce biofuels, bioplastics, and biochemicals, contributing to a sustainable shift in industrial production and generating carbon credits.
• Social Impact Startup Champion: Joysper
  Offers an AI-powered interactive educational robot to support the development of children with autism aged 3–12 through personalized content.
• Globally Competitive Startup Champion: WASK
  A SaaS tool that helps digital advertisers manage paid campaigns more efficiently without technical knowledge, reaching more leads with lower budgets.
• Investor Favorite Startup Champion: Beetinq
  An AI-powered mobile business assistant designed to solve planning, sharing, archiving, analytics, and networking issues in meetings and events.
• Scale-Up Champion Startup: 3pmetrics
  A digital sustainability solution that enables companies to calculate and report carbon footprint, water footprint, and ESG compliance in just one day.
• Health Startup Champion: Semruk Yazılım
  Develops AI-based software that assists dentists in diagnosing dental diseases by analyzing radiographs and marking affected areas.
• Fintech Startup Champion: Diginak
  Simplifies trade and solves financial challenges in the logistics sector by streamlining freight procurement.
• E-Commerce / Tourism Startup Champion: Plavel
  Uses AI and digital travel assistants to understand what users want from their holidays and deliver personalized, detailed travel plans.
• Academic Startup Champion: Oxytec
  Developer of OXTEC, an optical dissolved oxygen sensor that enables remote, accurate, and continuous monitoring of oxygen levels in water used in aquaculture, drinking water, and wastewater facilities.

Jury Special Awards

• Social Impact Jury Special Award: Engelsiz Çeviri
  Develops AI-powered, sustainable sign language translation systems to help hearing-impaired individuals who are illiterate or have comprehension difficulties access content in their native language—sign language.
• Academic Startup Jury Special Award: KROW
  A mobile learning ecosystem powered by AI that provides high-quality questions with explanatory feedback, current rankings among peers, and a fun, affordable experience for students preparing for centralized exams—a first in Türkiye.