New meeting point of entrepreneurs and investors: “BThaber Angels Platform”
Due to the pandemic, all the norms of business life started to change and we entered a new process that is called the “new normal”. We do not know exactly what this process will bring, but there is a known fact that nothing will be the same as before. We will see and learn what the new normal will be in time. Concepts such as innovation, R&D and P&D are also more prominent in this period than before. Every organization, large and small, has to make innovations because we need new ideas in every field and initiatives & investment platforms to implement those ideas more than before.
ICT 500 Research, prepared by BThaber and one of the oldest and most important reference sources of Turkey IT sector, has continued to be an “investment platform” for over 20 years with its special publication and ceremony. Many domestic and foreign investors have invested in many companies using the ICT 500 data. Due to the pandemic, an important work was carried out within the scope of the ICT 500 event, which took place digitally in August 2020. The question: “Would you like to invest?” was asked and an environment was created where entrepreneurs seeking investment met with local and international investors personally and made presentations. While some of these talks are still ongoing, one meeting resulted in a happy ending. An investment agreement worth 1.1 million TL was signed between Escort Technology Investment and Robotistan, a domestic startup that offers STEM, Maker, 3D, Electronics, Robotics and DIY products to users in the field of e-commerce and develops products in the field of educational technologies.
BTHABER Corporate Group is now implementing the “BThaberAngels Platform” in order to make the investor-entrepreneur meeting platform within the scope of ICT 500, only not once a year, always available. Stating that “BThaberAngels Platform” will fill an important gap for our country today in the new normal process, BTHABER Corporate Group President Murat Göçe gave the following information:
“As a press organization, it is among our main duties to support newly established companies in the sector or companies that have difficulty in growing. We were giving them marketing support from time to time. In our new step, we are creating a platform to support our companies that are in this situation and are waiting for investment. In this platform called BThaberAngels, companies that needs to receive investment and investors will come together. In this way, we will contribute more to the growth of the ecosystem. Firstly, Bakiyem.com had introduced itself to the sector by benefiting from the BThaber Kobi support program and received an investment, then Robotistan and finally Malwation company received an investment of 7 million TL as a result of BThaberAngels. The number of such news will increase in the future. On this occasion, I congratulate our successful organization Robotistan, who deserves this investment and Escort Technology for this investment.”
