The third cohort of the HUBrica business acceleration program, organized by Halkbank in collaboration with İTÜ ARI Teknokent, concluded its activities with a Demo Day held at the Halkbank towers within the Istanbul Financial Center, where 10 startups presented their technical solutions to investors and venture capital representatives.
The program focused on the sectors of financial technology, artificial intelligence, and sustainability, providing startups with mentoring services and opportunities for direct meetings with bank executives. According to data revealed by Halkbank General Manager Recep Süleyman Özdil, a total of 30 startups have graduated from the program's three cohorts, with the bank signing contracts with 5 of them, while cooperation assessments continue with the remaining companies.
What do the 10 participating startups offer?
- Cherry Mic: Develops microbial fertilizer technologies using local microorganisms to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers in agriculture and increase production efficiency.
- Clamint: Analyzes brand visibility in AI-powered search engine results and provides solutions via AI agents for marketing teams.
- Innolife: A digital health platform that combines biosensors, cameras, microphones, and artificial intelligence to monitor sessions, provide analytics, and support decision-making.
- Inopolyme: Develops smart bio-packaging that indicates the freshness of food by changing colors to reduce food waste and safety risks.
- Kitchenest: Transforms idle kitchens in small and medium-sized enterprises into independent digital restaurants using autonomous AI agents to increase revenue without additional investments.
- Odigos: Consolidates candidate searching, phone interviews, and appointment scheduling into a unified platform for human resources teams.
- Parkera: A mobile application for parking operations that allows users to view available spaces, book them, and pay electronically.
- Saspera: A SaaS platform that manages sustainability, financial, and operational data for companies, helping them measure, manage, and report on green performance.
- Tylus AI: Enables administrators to convert natural language commands in Turkish or English into SQL queries without the need to write code.
- Vericore: Develops infrastructure for documenting decision-making and critical processes in a unified tracking log that clarifies the basis of the decision and the authorized party.
Why does this news matter?
The program reflects the trend of major financial institutions and the technology sector toward integrating AI-driven innovation and environmental solutions into banking and commercial operations, in addition to providing funding and cash pathways for startups and preparing them to participate in larger platforms such as the Big Bang Startup Challenge.