Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
10th INTERNATIONAL BLACK SEA COASTLINE COUNTRIES SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Samsun, Türkiye, 7 - 09 Nisan 2024, ss.123-124
Introduction and Purpose: The word Start-Up basically means “start-up” or “start-up” and comes across as “entrepreneurship” in the business world. The definition of a Start-Up, which means ”a new venture", has started to be mentioned for the first time in America, in Silicon Valley. The fact that a company is a Start-Up is not related to its capital. The product that the company will produce or the service that it will offer starts from scratch and produces solutions by focusing on problems that have not been solved before. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the current state of the Start-Up ecosystem in Turkey. Materials and Methods: By taking into account the data of the Turkish Start-Up Ecosystem Investment Report (2023), the highest investments, investment amounts, the sectors that receive the most investment, cities and investors are examined with a qualitative approach. Results: According to the report, Turkey's entrepreneurial ecosystem witnessed 347 investment transactions and a total investment of 901 million dollars in 2023. The provinces with the most invested startups are Istanbul (126 startups and 190 million dollars), Ankara (14 startups and 9.2 million dollars), Izmir (10 startups and 12.5 million dollars), Kocaeli (4 startups and 3.3 million dollars), Kayseri (2 startups and 324.600 dollars), Sakarya (1 startup and 239.500 dollars). Discussion and Conclusion: Artificial intelligence and machine learning, gaming, finance and health are attracting attention among the sectors that receive the most investment. In addition, investments in the digital marketing and sales vertical have also been prominent in recent years.