The ecosystem of game technologies in Turkey is growing rapidly. At least five “unicorns” in the field of gaming technologies may appear in the country for the next ten years. This was stated by the General Director of Istanbul Technology Entertech Muhammad Casapoglu.
“At the moment in Turkey, 7” Unicorns “. Two of them in the field of the game industry. I assume that in the next 10 years we will create at least 5 more” unicorns “in the field of game technologies,” said He.
The term “unicorn company” or “Unicorn” (from the English Unicorn Company) denotes a private property company that has received a market value of more than 1 billion US dollars.
Entertech is the only technological party in which two research universities are the interested parties – Istanbul University and Istanbul University -Jerrahpash, told the Slush Casapoglu, one of the most important events in the field of technology and startups in Europe, which is held in Europe. In Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
He attracted attention to the advantages of working in such a large umbrella organization as Entertech.
“The main of them is access to human capital of the university. There is almost 100 thousand students, 6 thousand academics, millions of graduates in the university,” Kasapoglu said.
Technically uses scientific and academic knowledge gained at the university, have access to patents, dissertations, projects and laboratories of the university, the agency’s interlocutor attracted attention.
We plan to open an office in London in February 2025
Muhammad Casapoglu attracted that more than 150 companies engaged in research and developments, and more than 1,500 engineers engaged in research and development, operate in Entertech.
According to him, they prepared a five -year strategic plan in technological and decided that it was possible to attract entrepreneurs in Entertech, if they open access to foreign markets, provide them with access to finances.
Casapoglu said that in this regard, Entertech would open an office in London in February 2025 after the office in Amsterdam in order to bring entrepreneurs to the world arena. According to him, Entertech introduced 4 game startups on Slush 2024.
Technological general director attracted attention to the fact that “3-4 entrepreneurs control the world.”
“Therefore, an ecosystem of entrepreneurship is very important. We will soon create a fund for investment in startups. We plan to finance our own initiatives from this fund. Because financing is very important. The entrepreneur goes to where there is funding. If the fund is abroad, he goes beyond Therefore, we need to have our good funds, ”he said.
According to him, Entertech plan to invest in 25 initiatives in five years and are aimed at uniting companies and studios in the game sphere.