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Uniqgene creates the most ideal sports and nutritional habits in your daily life with gene testing for athletes and those who want to eat healthily. Reaching its customers with 3 different products, the initiative stands out with its solutions for professional athletes. The initiative, which received crowdfunding and support from Izmir Institute of Technology Technopark, aims to shed light on sports and healthy living with gene technology with the support of famous Turkish basketball player and angel investor Sinan Güler.

Meet the Music, which brings people together in the unifying power of music, attracts great attention from its users with its daily 1.2 million message record and the Google Play Store category winner. The mobile app is matching people who are listening to the same music at the same time. The team, who started to work on this app at the bootcamp of University4Society, is heading to create the biggest dating app in Turkey. They have more than 200.000 users right now!

Providing customer insight for companies, Clico is seriously different from its competitors with the technology they developed. Verifying their technology in their work for Big Chefs, Setur and Mamak Municipality, the team continues to work for companies to improve themselves with the support of ITU Çekirdek and Mettü Bigg with digital user feedback.

Aiming to increase efficiency in digital advertising, Alcago offers a new advertising experience for both companies and users in its application. The team, which established a special bond between the user and the brand with its interactive ads and personalized user coupons, received their first investments with a lot of support. Products in Turkey after the market continue to work to move globally.

With the business idea they developed and validated with their mentors, team signed term sheets with 6 big national & international brands including Koton, LCW, Mavi. After receiving seed investment from an investor they met in Grand Finale, team continues discussing partnership with one of the largest technology firms in the world in order to expand globally.

After numerous customer interviews and product validations, team found a market in Kocaeli, Turkey and started their pilot operations. After University4Society program, they received support from E-Tohum, İzmit Young Entrepreneurs Center, Kocaeli University Technopolis and ITU Çekirdek. Team went to Egypt, sponsored by World Youth Forum to continue their global market research.

The team was having problems regarding their lean product and from the time between the accelerator and the grand finale, they reached 1.000.000₺ in revenue. Sponsored by University4Society, they were accepted to Draper University Hero Training entrepreneurship program in Silicon Valley, where they will begin their global growth plans.