Borsa İstanbul continues to receive applications for the Private Market. The Private Market offers the opportunity to have access to finance without going public for companies, liquidity for company partners intending to sell their shares, and new investment opportunities and liquidity for investors.

Borsa İstanbul continues to receive applications for membership with the Private Market, which will launch on November 17, 2014. The Private Market brings together entrepreneurs and investors together for long term partnerships and thereby offers a new alternative solution for raising funds and creating liquidity.

A web-based and member-based platform which brings companies and investors together for share trading without going public, the Private Market offers companies the opportunity to have access to finance without going public, company partners intending to sell their shares liquidity, and for investors, new investment opportunities and liquidity for their investments.

Start-Up Companies and Rising Companies to have Direct Access to Angel Investors

Thanks to this new Market, both early stage Start-Up Companies and Rising Companies that have already made some progress in their enterprise and reached a certain size will have direct access to qualified or licensed angel investors. Service Providers and Intermediaries that will offer companies and investors legal and financial consultancy for the acquisition and share trading processes will also operate in the Market, providing all services on a single platform.

Associate Professor Mustafa Kemal Yılmaz: “The Private Market will soon become the meeting point for those intending to make private capital investments, and those seeking private capital investments”

Borsa İstanbul Assistant Vice President Mustafa Kemal Yılmaz said that the Private Market, as the world’s first market that an exchange developed from scratch, aims to contribute to the development of Turkey’s entrepreneurship eco-system and investment environment.

Associate Professor Mustafa Kemal Yılmaz said, “We aim to make the Private Market the meeting point for those intending to make private capital investments, and those seeking private capital investments, in both Turkey and our region. Companies, company partners, qualified investors, certified angel investors, service providers and intermediaries may immediately become members of the Private Market.

We believe that the Private Market will make a significant contribution to making İstanbul an international financial center, and hope that it will prove beneficial for all entrepreneurs targeting growth, investors and the entrepreneurship ecosystem”.

Free –of-Charge Annual Membership for Applications filed by November 14, 2014

Membership applications for the Private Market started on August 26, 2014. The Private Market will be officially inaugurated on November 17, during the Global Entrepreneurship Week, and operations will start then. Companies and investors that apply for membership by November 14, 2014 will be offered free membership for a term of one year. Free membership does not cover intermediary and service provider memberships.

You may access the Private Market by clicking www.bistozelpazar.com.