BEBKA aims to improve the investment ecosystem with the ‘Startup Investor Training Seminars Programme’ launched in cooperation with Invexen and Startups.watch. In the first module of the training seminars, important information that will shape the road map of investors was shared.
Bursa Eskişehir Bilecik Development Agency (BEBKA) started to organise ‘Startup Investor Training Seminars’ in cooperation with Invexen and Startups.watch in order to contribute to the development of the investment ecosystem in TR41 Region and in our country. While BEBKA Secretary General Prof. Dr. M. Zeki Durak and DOMiNO Ventures Managing Partner Mustafa Kopuk made the opening speech in the first module of the training, Startups.watch founder Serkan Ünsal and Lima Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Ahmet Argun evaluated the investment ecosystem and technology startups, which is the first module of the seminar series.
‘NEXT YEAR WE WILL BE IN USA WITH 100 ENTREPRENEURS’
In his speech at the opening of the programme, BEBKA Secretary General Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki Durak stated that he held important meetings in the USA together with Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank for the CES 2023 Fair and said, ‘52 entrepreneurs participated in the fair with the organisation of Istanbul Development Agency. Next year, with the instruction of our Minister, we will bring 100 entrepreneurs together with this fair. We are negotiating on how we can move our funds and entrepreneurs to the USA. Thus, we think that it will be a good entrepreneurship year for both our region and our country. After the seminar, an extremely productive process will start in our region for both our entrepreneurs and investors.’
FUND MANAGERS WILL BE HOSTED
Mustafa Kopuk, Managing Partner of DOMiNO Ventures, said ‘I congratulate BEBKA for realising such a training seminar. In the 9-week seminars, valuable information about Startup investing will be shared by hosting very valuable investors and fund managers. At the end of the programme, many issues will be evaluated and information will be shared in different options such as what the participants should pay attention to in Startup investing, which issues should be paid more attention while investing, angel investing, fund investing, investing as a group to become a Startup investor.’
‘RISK AND COURAGE ARE VERY IMPORTANT’
Serkan Ünsal, founder of Startups.Watch, one of the seminar speakers, said, ‘The years 2010-2017 were the years when the firsts were made in the startup ecosystem as a country, but after 2017, we entered a much more experienced period. The increase in experience provides a big plus for things to go well. It is very important for investors to know the mechanics of this business and the sharing of experienced people.’ Ahmet Argun, Founder & Managing Partner of Lima Ventures, said, ‘The dynamics of the corporate world and the dynamics of startups do not match. The startup world consists of people who are creative and have the ability to sense opportunities. In this way, projects emerge. This process turns into a process that provides benefit and contribution. The ability to take risks is also of great importance in this process. Courage is a must in the startup world.’
