Bilkentpreneurs – 2025 Winners
🎉 We are excited to share that the #BilkentpreneursChallenge 2025 — our annual startup pitch competition — successfully concluded on May 30, 2025!
Organized in collaboration with the Bilkent University Faculty of Business Administration, the Beba Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundation, Loop Games, and the logistic support of Bilkent Cyberpark and Durukan Şekerleme, the event brought together some of the most promising student entrepreneurs.
Out of 26 applicant teams, the top 10 finalists pitched their business ideas to a curious audience and a distinguished jury for a chance to win 💰 prizes sponsored by Beba Foundation and Loop Games:
1st Place: $7,000
2nd Place: $4,000
3rd Place: $3,000
Our finalists impressed both the crowd and the jury — which included Korhan Beba, Mert Gür, BarışKarakullukçu, Nihal Yazgan, Yekta Özcömert, and Tolga Demir — with their creativity, innovation, and energy.
🎉 Congratulations to the winning teams:
Team Jared AI – 1st Place
Team Heidi – 2nd Place
Team Kocly – 3rd Place
📽️ The full competition was recorded and is available to watch here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WJoERhzLsb1tF3Aflks0l-PtA4l0xH8b/view?usp=sharing
A heartfelt thank you to all the participating teams for their outstanding pitches, and to our sponsors and jury members for their invaluable support.
We look forward to seeing you at the Bilkentpreneurs Challenge 2026!
Bilkentpreneurs – 2024 Winners
On May 10, 2024, we organized the #BilkentpreneursChallenge2024 Entrepreneurship Competition in collaboration with Bilkent University Faculty of Business Administration and Beba Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundation at Bilkent CYBERPARK. In this event, the first-place team, WePrep, received a prize of 100,000TL, the second-place team, BlueBit, received 60,000TL, and the third-place team, Health Friend, received 40,000TL. We extend our thanks to our Rector, Prof. Dr. Kürşat Aydoğan, Dean, Prof. Dr. M. Selim Aktürk, Assoc. Dean Dr. Lale Tomruk Gümüşlüoğlu, Asst. Prof. Tolga Demir, Bilkent Cyberpark General Manager Faruk İnaltekin, esteemed jury (Korhan Beba – Executive Director, Beba Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundation, Kadir Bulut and Yasemin Tavlaşoğlu – İş Bankası AI Startup Factory, Tolga Demir – Bilkent University FBA, Yekta Özcömert – Apple Search Ads Automation & Insight Platform), Organizing Committee Member Buket Bıyıklı, our dear students Elif Anık and Hüseyin Güngör, and everyone who have contributed to this event. Congratulations to the winning teams!
We are looking forward to next year’s Bilkentpreneurs Challenge!