LA FRENCH TECH ISTANBUL
A BRIDGE BETWEEN FRENCH & TURKISH STARTUP ECOSYSTEMS

WHAT WE DO

ACCELERATE

We connect French startups to the Turkish ecosystem

to support their launch in Turkey.

We help Turkish startups settle in France.

FEDERATE

We wish to gather all actors around common goals: from startups, scale ups, big players, investors, incubators, and more, to create new opportunities.

EMULATE

France is a wonderful place to launch and drive a business.

We promote its attractiveness and make its innovative actors shine!

Through events such as the monthly French Tech Kahvaltis, innovative idea contests for high school students, or even an Innovation Club, we wish to bring our community members together and exchange.

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OUR KAHVALTIS

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Alongside with Business France, we also provide help with administrative VISA procedures for any start-up that wishes to develop its activity in France.

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VISA

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We support and accompany start-ups and companies setting up in Türkiye by welcoming them. With our partner Startup Centrum, we also provide reports about Investments in the French start-ups ecosystem over 2021.

GET YOURS

Discover an in-depth report on the state of French investments, their development, as well as the ecosystem of innovation in France

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WHO WE ARE

“La French Tech” is the French startup scene in France.

It’s a unique movement bringing together startups, investors, policymakers and community builders.

Created in 2013 by French President Emmanuel Macron, this giant ecosystem is today rich of 24 unicorns, more than 21 000 startups, 400 accelerators, more than 3 000 investors and 3 500 VC funds.

La French Tech’s national team, known as the French Tech Mission, sits administratively inside French government, and physically at the world’s biggest startup campus, Station F.

As of today, 45 official “La French Tech” communities are active in France but the concept of “La French Tech” goes beyond the French borders: there are also 63 communities abroad and Istanbul is one of them!

MEET THE TEAM

Visit La Mission French Tech

2021

Year of creation

225

Members

20+

Partners

Philippe Alcaras

Dara Hizveren

Aylin D. Berent

Murat Peksavas

Orkun Saitoglu

Pinar Tekinsen

Eren Arasan

Omer Hantal

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OUR COMMUNITY

La Fench Tech Istanbul Community stands as a bridge between French & Turkish start-up & scaleup ecosystems, and entrepreneurial innovation in general.

French Tech Istanbul brings together entrepreneurs and managers of technological and multi-sector companies, investors, university presidents and merges into a dense network of incubators, accelerators, and experts in the local ecosystem.

We enable them to meet, exchange best practices, promote synergies and cross-innovation in order to build the Tech4Good of tomorrow together, on both sides of the Bosphorus.