18/12/2018
NANOMATTR, an Inovent seed capital company established by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences member Yusuf Menceloğlu, won both the Hello Tomorrow Turkey Finals and the "Energy and Environment" category of the competition for startup companies that produce both science and technology. NANOMATTR team member Senem Avaz made a presentation in the finals.
Sabancı University had 3 spinoff companies in the competition, and INTERACT, founded by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences member Volkan Patoğlu, came first in the "Health and Biotechnology" category.
NANOMATTR and INTERACT will take part in the global summit of Hello Tomorrow, the world's largest deep-tech venture initiative, on March 14 and 15, 2019, to compete for various training and mentorship entitlements and a chance to develop their ventures. The teams will represent Turkey at the 5th International Deep-tech Competition Hello Tomorrow Global Summit in Paris, and pitch their ventures to over 200 international investors and innovators.
The Hello Tomorrow Turkey Finals saw the competition of 12 successful Deep-Tech ventures in the categories of Energy and Environment, Health and Biotechnology, Data and Artificial Intelligence, and Industry and New Materials.
NANOMATTR, the winner of the competition, focuses on material production, high-technology additives, and functional surface coatings. The team receives business development mentorship from the Sabancı University Industry Partnerships and Licensing Office (İLO). NANOMATTR took part in the competition with the ‘Controlled-Emission Greenhouse Sheet’ technology that is within the Sabancı University patent portfolio.
INTERACT develops medical devices to improve the lives of persons with limited mobility.
About Hello Tomorrow Turkey:
HHello Tomorrow is one of the world's leading deep-tech startup initiatives. Supported by prominent figures including Michael Bloomberg, Emmanuel Macron and former Nasa Director Dan Goldin, Hello Tomorrow brings tech-based ventures from the leading R&D hubs of the world together with institutions and investors to accelerate the commercialization of the technologies of the future. Hello Tomorrow Turkey has been active for over two years, accelerating Turkish science- and technology-based ventures onto the global platform. The initiative introduced Turkish finals to the Global Deep-Tech competition for the first time this year, which resulted in a sixfold increase in the number of entrants to 120 science- and technology-based ventures. To put into context, Istanbul has recently surpassed Boston and Toronto, and become the 8th city with the most startups in the Global Top 500 list.
