Women entrepreneurs key to transformation
8 March 2019 9:19 PM IST
The average rate of women founders in technology and internet ventures in Turkey over the last eight years is around 14 percent. Women entrepreneurs are undertaking ventures especially in e-commerce, market place and biotechnology
- TL 1 million investment in Garaj ideas Founded in October 2018 by Albaraka Türk's 100 percent subsidiary Albaraka Asset Management, the Albaraka Fintech Venture Capital Investment Fund (FGSYF) made its first two investments in Albaraka Garaj ventures, Kartoon 3D and Inooster, with capital of TL 1 million.
- "As part of our investments starting with the Albaraka Garaj Acceleration Center, we established the Albaraka Fintech Venture Capital Investment Fund approximately six months ago through our Albaraka Asset Management Company.
- A door to 350M people in Arab world Bahrain University and the Bahrain Development Bank claim that with the fund of funds and regulatory support, ventures have the key to expanding and opening to the Arab world and the Gulf easily.
- Bahrain, which enables technology ventures to reach the Arabic-speaking population of approximately 350 million and the Gulf economies, organized the StartUp Bahrain event for the second time, offering all ventures the opportunity to test products or services in Arabic-speaking countries before launching them in the market.
- It was announced with a special launch at MWC that Turkey's first AI-backed chatbot developed by Cbot for İşbank will serve on Google's RCS platform, which enriches SMS and MMS applications by adding more features.
- To this end, Turkey's first AI-based chatbot was made available to serve via the RCS platform, which Google enriched by adding more features to SMS and MMS applications," Aktaş noted.
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