BETAPITCH Istanbul 2019
On October 16th BETAPITCH is returning to Istanbul in search for the most internationally promising startups in town. The best 10 startups will pitch on stage before jury for the main prize - a trip to Berlin on December 6th. There the winner attends personal meetings with investors and corporate partners and competes at the grand finals BETAPITCH Global.
Who won it last year?
ParkPalet!
Alumni startups
Bragi
Bragi produces Dash, in-ear headphones working without any phone – measuring the heartbeat, serving as a mic, music player…. They‘ve just crowdfunded over $3.4m on kickstarter.
Vienna Skill Smiths
Vienna Skill Smiths aims to open up learning and teaching and connect members of the local community through affordable, accessible and fun classes on…everything!
Form
Form makes intelligent things that look after your home. Starting with smoke detector.
PeerAce
PeerAce is a community marketplace where people can find personal fitness or sports trainers and offer their own services as a trainer to others. No long-term contracts and an easy way to get to know other sports-minded people around.
Little Riot
Little Riot specialises in connecting people with technology, through design. The company was formed to develop our flagship product, Pillow Talk, but we can also work with you to help your product or service emotionally engage with your users and customers.
BeeCanvas
BeeCanvas is an online visual collaboration tool: a virtual canvas for anything. It enables you to arrange files, links and other resources along with visual comments on a single canvas, so all shared information can be understood at a glance. BeeCanvas can be used for aggregating song lyrics, music videos and scans of tickets, just as well as it can be used for sharing storyboard sketches, video clips and text scripts – all in real time.
LUUV
LUUV has designed a camera stabilizer that enables you to tape all your adventures shake-free.
Smartrade
Smartrade is an app planning to popularise access to the financial market so that anyone can learn and invest in the stock market. Through education and collaboration, users of Smartrade can migrate from a virtual to a real investment environment.
Prizes
BETAPITCH GLOBAL 2019
The winner will go for a trip to Berlin to pitch at BETAPITCH Global against the rest of our global finalists and win 5000EUR, a trip to Silicon Valley or other startup hub and 6 months at betahaus. Taking place at betahaus | Berlin on December 6th, along with the final pitch off the founder will also get to attend Investors Dinner and tailored Match Making. The founder gets to meet some of the major players in European startup scene, have face-to-face conversations with investors and corporates and build real connections with the community.
Jury
These names will be revealed soon.
Team Istanbul
Recep İlkbaharIncubation Centre Product Manager @ Workinton
İnci Usta DağıdırIncubation Centre Coordinator @ Workinton