The #BilkentpreneursChallenge 2025, the annual startup pitch competition, concluded successfully on May 30, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organized in collaboration with the Bilkent University Faculty of Business Administration, the Beba Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundation, Loop Games, and with logistical support from Bilkent Cyberpark and Durukan \u015eekerleme, the event brought together some of the most promising student entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a pool of 26 applicant teams, the top 10 finalists were selected to pitch their business ideas before an engaged audience and a distinguished jury. The competition offered cash prizes sponsored by the Beba Foundation and Loop Games: $7,000 for first place, $4,000 for second place, and $3,000 for third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The jury, composed of Korhan Beba, Mert G\u00fcr, Bar\u0131\u015f Karakulluk\u00e7u, Nihal Yazgan, Yekta \u00d6zc\u00f6mert, and Tolga Demir, was notably impressed by the creativity, innovation, and energy demonstrated by the finalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The winning teams were Team Jared AI in first place, Team Heidi in second, and Team Kocly in third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full competition was recorded and is available for viewing at the following link: Watch the Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The #BilkentpreneursChallenge 2025, the annual startup pitch competition, concluded successfully on May 30, 2025. Organized in collaboration with the Bilkent University Faculty of Business Administration, the Beba Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundation, Loop Games, and with logistical support from Bilkent Cyberpark and Durukan \u015eekerleme, the event brought together some of the[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,192,164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8940,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/8940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}