Borsa İstanbul Private Market was promoted at Angel Labs Angel Investor Academy Seminar

Borsa İstanbul, founder of the Private Market, held “Angel Investor Academy Seminar” in collaboration with İstanbul Business Angels Center and Angel Labs, an international platform supporting new entrepreneurship ecosystems in more than 50 countries around the globe.  

Borsa İstanbul continues to support efforts towards fostering the entrepreneurship ecosystem including; innovation, employment, expansion of the ecosystem, and increasing number of entrepreneurs and relevant investors.

In this context, “Angel Investor Academy Seminar” was held at Point Hotel – Beşiktaş on January 22, 2015 led by Angel Labs, an international platform supporting new entrepreneurship ecosystems in more than 50 countries around the globe, in collaboration with Borsa Istanbul and İstanbul Business Angels Center, a network of angel investors working towards further developing angel investor practices in Turkey. Mr. Sertaç F. Karaağaoğlu, Listing and Private Market Group Manager and Mr. Recep Bildik, Director of Private Market Department attended the seminar from Borsa İstanbul. Opening speech was delivered by Gülsüm Çıracı, Founding Partner of İstanbul Business Angels Center. Tuğçe Ergül, co-founder of Angel Labs, delivered a training session during the seminar.

Borsa İstanbul Private Market Director Recep Bildik, during his speech at the seminar gave information on Private Market, which was established with the aim of bringing together the entrepreneurs and investors in long term partnerships to provide the funding and liquidity they need. Recep Bildik said that such organizations had significant contribution in raising awareness about angel investments as well as attracting new investors to the ecosystem and added:

“We headed for a new area with the aim of improving the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Borsa İstanbul Private Market, aiming to bring together the entrepreneurs and investors, is the first of its kind and an example of entrepreneurship towards this end. Entrepreneurship has strategic importance in terms of innovation, growth and employment creation, and Turkish government implements major incentives in this regard. Angel investors have an important role in the entrepreneurship ecosystem as they invest in early start-ups, providing them funds and mentorship. Their number needs to be increased. We, as Borsa İstanbul, will continue our efforts to expand the entrepreneurship ecosystem in our country”.

The opening speech of the seminar was delivered by Gülsüm Çıracı, Founding Partner of Istanbul Business Angels. Çıracı noted that as Istanbul Startup Angels, they targeted to discover the business ventures with high potential at early stage, give mentoring services and enhance the potential investors in Turkey, and said “Until today, a total of 160 angel investors were given training. This number is very important for Turkey where the investment ecosystem is at developing stage. With Borsa İstanbul Private Market platform, we aim to reach the potential angel investors in Anatolia, expand the ecosystem and increase the number of angel investors in 2015”.