Top 5 That Turkish Startups Went Global
Building your own startup is not as easy as it looks from the outside, especially when you have thousands of competitors in the startup industry. Establishing your startup and making it sustainable requires real dedication. To turn the wheel of income and expenditure, spending unlimited effort, establishing a good team, and not despair is necessary.
When we are accustomed to rapidly consuming every sector globally, it takes a real will to come up with an idea, stand behind it no matter what the price is, and convince teammates. In this article, we will describe 5 Turkish Startups that have been successful around the world.
1-Udemy (2010):
Udemy is the world’s most popular online education community with more than 100,000-course content and millions of students on different subjects. It provides education in more than 60 languages all over the world. It was founded in 2010 by Eren Bali as a Turkish Startup. Bali was working as both product manager and CEO.
Bali, who did a double major in mathematics and computer engineering from the Middle East Technical University, decided to establish his own startup after achieving great success in software. Bali’s Udemy platform is worth $3.3 billion today. Among the most valuable Turkish startups.
2- Getir (2015):
Getir is an online market application that aims to deliver the needed products to the user in a short time. Nazım Sular, the founder of Getir, graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Business Administration. The first startup company he founded is BiTaksi (2013), which operates in Istanbul. Shortly after the ‘Getir’ application met its users, it started to serve in many cities of Turkey.
The company has received many investments in a row, has met the online market need arising from the curfews, especially during the pandemic period, quite well. Bring into service in many countries in Europe, with a value of $ 2.6 billion, took its place among the unicorn startups of Turkey, thus proving the power of Turkish startups to the world.
3- Insider (2012):
Insider is a kind of “life coach” platform for online companies and applications. It is accredited in real-time with the feedback from users of online trading sites and reduces costs. The marketing and advertising strategy are optimized by examining the behavior of users. Insider has been serving in 24 countries since its establishment.
It has also been selected as the best start-up in Turkey 3 times. Insider aims to deliver its service to more countries with the many investments it has received recently. Insider is taking firm steps towards becoming a world-renowned Turkish startup.
4- Peak Games (2010):
Peak Games, one of the biggest technology companies in Turkey, also has a large share in the mobile game market in the world. Peak Games, founded by Sidar Şahin, was sold to Zynga in June 2020, becoming Turkey’s first unicorn startup. Sidar Şahin founded many startups before establishing Peak Games.
The most important ones are Izlesene.com, Gamegarden, and Trendyol.com. Peak Games released a game called Toy Blast in 2015 and this game was among the top 10 games with the highest turnover and the most users in the USA in 2016.
5- Sierra Nevada Corporation (1963):
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is a US-based electronic system provider specialized in space technologies, micro-satellites, energy, telemedicine, and nanotechnology. When it was bought by Eren Özmen and her husband Fatih Özmen in 1994, it had 20 employees.
Today, SNC, which has a team of 3000 people, is the manufacturer of Dream Chaser, the aircraft that will carry people into space by NASA.
In addition, the company, which works with the American Ministry of Defense, produces many tools used by American soldiers. SNC, which is a very good example for Turkish startups, also shows us the foresightedness of the Özmen couple.
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