5 Turkish Tech Companies to Watch

I had the opportunity to spend the last week in Istanbul, Turkey with <a href="https://www.siliconvalleyabroad.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Silicon Valley Abroad</a> learning about the startup and technology ecosystem in the country. A country of ~80M people, a GDP per capita (nominal) of ~$10k, and ~56M internet users, Turkey is the <a href="https://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">world’s 18th largest consumer internet market</a>. With the help of rising local entrepreneurs <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkerelal/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ilker Elal</a>, founder of <a href="http://www.minorpreneurs.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Minorpreneurs</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mert-zeybek-56452866/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Mert Zeybek</a> & <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kubilay-y%C4%B1lmaz-84b170134/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Kubilay Yilmaz</a>, founders of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/lorem-software/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lorem Software</a>, here’s a list of 5 tech startup success stories to come out of Turkey in the past decade that you should know about. <a href="https://www.trendyol.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Trendyol</a>: Founded in 2009, Trendyol is Turkey’s leading e-commerce company with over 16M customers received a <a href="https://en.webrazzi.com/2018/07/31/alibaba-investment-trendyol/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">~$750M investment from Alibaba</a> earlier this year to accelerate it’s growth, which likely makes it a unicorn company. <a href="https://medium.com/@siliconvalleyabroad/5-turkish-tech-companies-to-watch-b83f2c0bbef">Click Here</a>