Yemeksepeti has a stronger hand for its ecommerce journey with irmik.com
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 7, 2012
Yemeksepeti.com is one of the most successful startups in Turkey, and though it owes its growth to the food orders, it doesn’t stop making use of new ideas. One of those ideas is irmik.com, which has been providing services to restaurants for some time. İrmik.com is a private shopping website that offers sales products and [...]
inploid.com receives investment from Galata Business Angels
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 17, 2012
inploid became popular when it received investment from Dragons Den Turkey and got listed in Wired 100 list; and now it receives investment and mentorship support from Galata İş Melekleri (Galata Business Angels). inploid, the knowledge and experience sharing website included new features in April, and we have learned that it received 300.000 lira worth investment from [...]
GrupHediye.com receives 1.5m TL investment, changes its business model
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 28, 2012
We have introduced you Gruphediye.com as a startup that enables sending gifts to friends as a group before. Now the startup has adopted a new business model and gone international with the support of a loaded investment it has just received. The service started by Cengiz Coşkun, Talat İçbilen and Melis Sadıkoğlu, has left sales behind [...]
Ideasoft makes minority shares available for major partners
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 27, 2012
There has been a new investment in Turkish etrading industry, but for software this time. IdeaSoft, meeting small businesses with etrading by its etrading software, has sold its minority shares. Ideasoft, started by Seyhun Özkara, Fatih Çalışkan and Kerem Kaya in 2005, is planning to go international with the support of this investment. The startup [...]
Ersan Özer announced his new start-up Youlike – Webrazzi Startup’12
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 20, 2012
We knew Ersan Özer was planning to have a new start-up for a long time. Finally today at Webrazzi Startup12 conference, the secret of Youlike.com was revealed. First of all let me say that the domain name, which was planned to be Sosyo.com for a long time, was changed. The founding partners Ersan Özer, Can [...]
GROU.PS is aiming for the sky with its new team in Turkey
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on April 26, 2012
There are still very few Turkish start-ups that extend to global markets, and especially American market. GROU.PS is one of the first Turkish start-ups that have gone international, and it wants to make an impression with its innovations and new steps. We had a chance to talk to Balamir Nazlıca, the new director of sales and [...]
Pabbuc.com grows 500% two years in a row [infograph]
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 25, 2012
Pabbuc.com made a summary of its past years and shared its major growth in 5 years with us. Started by Serdar Yaman, the service received its first investment from the founders of Gittigidiyor. The first figure at the infograph reveals the interest of women in ecommerce. Female users make up of 70 percent of all Pabbuc.com users [...]
One Developer Challenge award goes to Turkey [Webrazzi is at BlackBerry DevCon]
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 19, 2012
On the last day of Blackberry Devcon Europe, BlackBerry Partners Fund ve RIM’s BlackBerry Developer Challenge awards were announced. In the competition selecting the best apps, Turkey got one award. The award for the best B2C application created by agencies was given to Yemeksepeti. The developer of the application is tmob, local Turkish tech company [...]
Online Banking Visitors Increases By 26 percent in 1 year in Turkey
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 15, 2012
While banking is among the fields of interests for internet users, we still cannot say there is a large usage average. We had previously learned about some details from comScore’s study on banking in the US. What about banking websites in Turkey, how commonly are they visited? comScore report, created in accordance with the number of [...]
Etohum 2012 announces 40 start-ups to grow
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on February 25, 2012
Etohum is the most popular incubation program among start-ups in Turkey, and it has been the most active year for Etohum, organizing dozens of events in 12 months. Founder Burak Büyükdemir has announced 40 start-ups selected at Etohum Start-up Summit. We have had the opportunity to know 40 start-ups of Etohum, which has an increasing [...]