Sabancı ARF Almost Ready to Fly helps startups to take off.
Every entrepreneur has its own unique opportunity and circumstances. While to take off, needs the right connections, mentorship, and financial support. We invite them to Sabancı ARF, which empowers and accelerates the commercialization period of entrepreneurs, to take off. Sabancı ARF is a 20-week acceleration platform open to all Sabancı Group employees and Early-Stage External Entrepreneurs, offering customized accelerator support tailored for each startup.
As Sabancı ARF, our goal is to support open innovation and provide mentoring, structural support, and pre-seed investment to help entrepreneurs take off. Accepted entrepreneurs who qualify for the 20-week program are offered the opportunity to work in a shared workspace at Sabancı Center, 4 Levent, Istanbul.
We recommend applying for Sabancı ARF program as soon as you have found your company with almost ready/ready product or service that you are excited about. All applications will be evaluated based on your application form. Please do read all the information on our website before submitting your application.
3% of the applicants has been accepted in our 1st cycle. After short-listing the applicants, we conduct interviews and select two batches of companies per year. If you are looking for the ways to make your application stand out, do not miss our live Zoom interviews.
During the 20-week program, we are conducting intense mentorship sessions to make founders find how to market their product, refine their teams and business models, achieve product/market fit, and scale the startup into a high growth business, etc. After 20-weeks, Sabancı ARF Jury decides whether to invest further of $120,000 seed funding. Also, the program ends with Sabancı ARF On Air Demo Day where startups meet with potential investors and with the ecosystem.
Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. (Sabancı Holding), Türkiye’s leading conglomerate, is a holding company engaged in a wide variety of business activities through its subsidiaries and affiliates, mainly in the banking, financial services, energy, industrials, building materials, digital and retail sectors. Sabancı Holding is domiciled in the Republic of Türkiye, with headquarters in İstanbul.
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