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I'm building a startup

Your venture is the opportunity. This is where you bring it and find the capital, partners, market access or capabilities it needs to grow.

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This page is for you if…

You are looking for capital or a strategic partner for your venture.
Your product works and you now need access to a new market.
You are a Turkish venture looking for international capital and connections.
You are a validated foreign venture looking for Turkish market access, customers, distribution or an operating partner.

What happens next

You introduce the venture
What you build, for whom, where you are on the road. Short, but specific — not pitch-deck prose.
You write the ask and the offer
Capital, partner, market, capability — and in return, what you have on the table. The offer matters as much as the ask.
Matches arrive
An investor, a strategic partner, or a distribution channel. Each with the reason, and unnamed at first.
You open the introduction
If both sides want it, contact opens and you set a meeting. Until then nothing leaves you.

An illustration

A startup, from form to the table

What you want and what you have, both. The network feeds on both.

Made the ask specific

Instead of “looking for investment”, they wrote: 300k for eighteen months, and more important than money, a distribution partner in Türkiye with a retail channel.

Did not undersell what they had

A six-person technical team, a product already working in Iran, and a signed contract with one large customer. It was that last one that drew attention.

Two tracks opened at once

An investor whose thesis fit the stage, and a distribution company looking for a new product for that same channel — the second was not expected at all.

A meeting in the lounge, not in email

Both contacts opened and the first meeting happened in Istanbul. The distribution contract closed before the investment did.

This is an illustration of how the work is shaped, not a real member case. Real cases are published only with both sides’ permission.

What we ask

Venture and stageWhat you build, how many of you, where you are — pre-seed, seed, or further.
What you wantCapital, partner, market or capability — and why now.
What you haveTeam, product, customers, contracts. This is what separates you from an idea.
Target marketWhere you want to enter and what you are missing there.

Filling this in does not make you a member; it is a request a person reads.

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What you get

More than capital. Strategic partners, distribution channels and market access live in the same network.
A reason, not a list. Every match says why it reached you; your time is not spent on the irrelevant.
A meeting in Istanbul. The lounge is where a first meeting happens without ceremony.
No forced display. You do not have to make the venture public to be seen.

Where this path ends

This is not an investor queue and it guarantees no funding. What we do is understand your venture and take it where it fits.

Your venture is never published anywhere without your permission.
Introductions happen only when both sides are interested.

If instead… you have a defined objective you want us to work on actively — The specific-opportunity path

Before you write anything

Your contact details stay put

Phone and email sit behind a boundary and open only when both sides agree.

A person reads it

This form does not go into an automated queue; someone on the team opens it.

Deleted whenever you ask

We accept a request to delete your data at any time.

What happens after you send it

A person reads it, not a queue
Your form reaches someone on the team who knows the field. If anything is unclear, they ask — before your profile is seen anywhere.
Your profile is built
What you wrote becomes the network’s language: needs, offers, markets, fields. That is what makes matching possible; free text does not match.
The first matches arrive
Unnamed, each with the reason beside it. You see why this one reached you and decide whether to go further.
An introduction opens on both sides
No number or email moves until both sides want it. That is our boundary, not a setting that can be switched off.

If something needs doing by you, it arrives both as a notification and on your own page — you never have to go looking.

Frequent questions

Will my venture become public?

No. What you write is never published without your permission, and introductions happen only when both sides want them.

Do I need to be a member?

No. This form is a request, not a membership. Membership has its own route and runs through invitation.

What if I am not ready to raise yet?

We say so plainly, and suggest structuring work if it is needed. A straight 'not yet' beats an introduction that goes nowhere.

How long does it take?

Reading and a first reply usually take a few working days. If we have questions, we ask them then.

Do I need to send a deck?

Not at this stage. The form asks for a few lines, not a document. If a match goes further and the other side asks, you decide then what to send.

What if I have no product yet?

You can still write. But be honest about where you are — the network matches on what you wrote, and a match built on overstatement breaks in the first meeting.