Pioneered by İTÜ Arı Teknokent, entrepreneurship and innovation base of Turkey, pioneering companies of Turkish insurance market including Agito, Aksigorta, Allianz, Avivasa, Eureko Sigorta, Güneş Sigorta, HDI Sigorta, Sigorta Cini and Vakıf Emeklilik joined forces.

Details of the program was announced with an event held at İTÜ Teknokent on 15 January. Within the scope of this program, entrepreneurs will be provided with financial support, access to the market and successful entrepreneurs will receive a life line support of 900 thousand TL. 

Doç. Dr. Deniz Tunçalp, General Manager of İTÜ Arıkent Teknokent, gave a speech during the event and said: “Within the scope of İTÜ Çekirdek Insurtech Program, we are happy to have combined the giant names in the insurance market with the aim of developing initiatives that will develop Insurtech solutions, creating a market ecosystem in this area, commercializing the initiatives and ensuring that they create global success stories. These valuable institutions of our country will shape the future of their markets by supporting the entrepreneurs through the insurtech program which was initiated at İTÜ Çekirdek Early-Onset Incubation Center, one of the top 5 among other university incubation centers in the world. Therefore, İTÜ Çekirdek will become the innovation center of the insurance market.”
Okan Utkueri, Program Consultant and Mentor of İTÜ Çekirdek, gave a speech during the event. “Insurance market has a wide range of products that touch all the critical moments of the lifecycles of individuals and institutions. Therefore, recent technologies closely interest insurance market, as well. At the same time, there are many problems on which insurance market focuses to find solutions within this digitalization process. I believe that this program, which offers very important opportunities to insurance market and entrepreneurs, is a very important step towards the future of our market,” he said. 

Major companies of the insurance market announced their manifesto within the scope of the program:

• As the insurance market, we must include the new technologies that touch every aspect of our lives into our processes. Many technologies such as IoT, mobility, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation should be integrated into the insurance market.
• We have taken responsibility for the progress of our market and set off with the aim of supporting innovation and early-onset entrepreneurs.
• With İTÜ Çekirdek Insurtech Program, we will call out to technology entrepreneurs that touch every aspect of life, provide them with mentorship and training, organize meetings and seminars, and ensure that entrepreneurs and the insurance market come together.
• In this respect, we aim to create awareness about the needs of the insurance market and find new insurtech solutions, transform those solutions into business models, develop the market through new business partnerships, create added-value for our country, and build global success stories.
• As Agito, Aksigorta, Allianz, Avivasa, Eureko Sigorta, Güneş Sigorta, HDI Sigorta, Sigorta Cini and Vakıf Emeklilik, we invite the initiatives that will carry our market into the future to İTÜ Çekirdek, which is one of the top 5 entrepreneurship incubation centers around the world, and promise that we will support them with all our strength.

• Thereby, we aim to be an example for successful companies in other sectors through this cooperation.