Dr. Aslı Elif Tanuğur is a food engineer and a mother. Aslı Elif Tanuğur decided commercially producing royal jelly and propolis, which she met for the treatment of her son who is allergic to antibiotics, and became the first company in this field in Türkiye. She expanded her business in a short time and opened an office abroad beyond the borders of Türkiye. She exports products to many countries and introduces Anatolian propolis to the world. Aslı Elif Tanuğur, who took risks, believed in what she could do and succeeded, created an important future for royal jelly and propolis in Türkiye.

Propolis, which was not produced in our country in those years, for producing it for the first time in our country and to extract it into drop form that the human body can digest, today both our country and Europe are providing food and supplement products from value-added Anatolian bee products. It has become the largest company in skin care products. It introduces our country's values to the world by exporting to 30 countries. In addition to producing Anatolian propolis and other Anatolian bee products in high quality, they also progress with an R&D-centered university-industry cooperation approach by revealing their health effects through scientific studies. With their scientific studies, social responsibility projects in the field of beekeeping and innovative projects they have developed, she has been deemed worthy of many national and international awards with those products since the day it was founded. She continues journey of becoming a world brand with firm steps in order to bring the healing of unique products coming from bees to the whole world.

Award Received

She has been deemed worthy of many awards in the national and international arenas to date with the products she has developed and the projects she has carried out. Some of these awards includes:

- Borsa Istanbul - Fastest Growing SME Award 2014

- ITU ARI Teknokent - BEETECH 2016

- TÜBİTAK, TTGV and TÜSİAD - Innovation Award 2016

- KAGİDER, Ekonomist Magazine and Garanti Bank - Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Award 2016

- European Union - Eco Efficiency 2016

- America Sofi Awards - New Product Category First-prize Winner 2017

- Turkish Exporters Association - E-Export Award 2017

- Design Türkiye - Design Award 2017

- Türkiye Entrepreneurship Summit - E-Commerce Award 2017

- International Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs Association - Türkiye's 10 Most Successful Young People Award 2017

- Turkish Exporters Assembly - Türkiye Innovation League ( İnovaLİG ) Award 2017

- ELELE Avon Women's Awards - Entrepreneurship Award 2017

- Denizli Businesswomen's Association - Innovative Businesswoman Award 2017

- World Beekeepers Association - Gold Medal Award 2017

- KOSGEB - Innovative Entrepreneurship Award 2018

- Game Changers - Best Technological Innovation Award 2018

- Best New Brand Award 2018

- Best Game Changer Award 2018

- Geneva NutraIngredients Awards – Finalist 2018

- America California Eco Excellence Awards - Good Life Award 2018

- Nutrition Award 2018

- Sustainable Business Awards - Sustainable Innovation Award 2018

- IBS Mother Baby Child Fair - Child Friendly Product of the Year Award 2018

- Istanbul Golden Values- Innovation Award 2018

- SupplySide CPG Editor's choice Awards - Finalist Food and Beverage Category 2018

- Finalist Supplements Category 2018

-London _ honey Awards - Quality Honey Award 2019

- Databird America's Best Businesswoman (Silver Medal) 2019

- EUROWOMAN Business Award-2019

- 'Türkiye's most admired chief executive (CEO)' within the scope of the Golden Leader Awards - 2022

-28. foodtech Vinaria Agra Fair innovation award -2023

She produces products for baby and mother health, such as Türkiye's first anti-colic valve feeding bottle and a USB-powered electronic breast pump. Mamajoo produced Türkiye's first bottle with anti-colic valve, which prevents gas formation while feeding babies. At the end of 2021, she brought innovation for the first time by producing Türkiye's first Night & Day feeding bottles, which glow in the dark and enable mothers to find them easily. Mamajoo, which made its first export to China in 2013, started selling on Amazon Europe in 2014. Currently, she has expanded its distributor network in many Asian, European and African countries and exports to more than 20 countries.

Award Received

Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Competition 2023 'Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur' award, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

She came second with Agricultural Unmanned Aerial Vehicle project in the 5th Entrepreneurship Camp competition themed "Women in Innovation", organized in cooperation with the Women and Democracy Association (KADEM), TÜBİTAK Marmara Teknokent, Informatics Valley, and TOBB University of Economics and Technology.

The opening of the Helimore company was held on March 8, International Women's Day. The company aims to serve the sectors included in its title, especially the aviation sector. An Agricultural Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with domestic production and software was produced with the trademark registration produced for the first time in Türkiye and in the world. The vehicle in question uses image processing technology to detect weeds on the land and spray them. When the charge drops below a certain level, the vehicle communicates with the produced charging platform and recharges its battery autonomously and then continues spraying.

Award Received

She was the First Prize winner in the Micro Producer Women Entrepreneur Category of the 2022 Halkbank Producing Women Competition.

She came first in Türkiye in the 2022 "Personal Achievement" category of the “10 Successful Young People of Türkiye Program” organized by Junior Chamber International (JCI) within the scope of Türkiye.

The initiative was selected as the pre-incubation initiative of the Turkish Technology Team Foundation (T3 Teknofest) Teknofest Enterprise Program.

Sanver Engineering was established in 2010 to provide services in industrial automation and high-tech robotic systems. Sanver Engineering, while it is the first engineering company to provide services under one roof in the fields of design, manufacturing, robotic systems, image processing solutions and traceability software, it is the only exemplary company in its sector founded and managed by a female entrepreneur nationally. She started her adventure with the support she received from KOSGEB in the field of women's entrepreneurship. Halkbank provided her another greatest support with its variety of financial supports for her R&D activities, patenting investments, women entrepreneurship support package and letters of guarantee.

The title of Design Center of the Ministry of Industry and Technology with its R&D activities and has achieved success in exporting high-tech systems with local-national designs and production to 13 different countries.

Award Received

First-prize winner 2022 Halkbank Producing Women Competition Micro SME Women Entrepreneur Category

Kara-Mağden decided to become an entrepreneur after seeing people who lost their limbs due to diabetic wounds while working on a biomaterial that enables rapid healing of diabetic foot wounds during her university years. She founded the BUGAMED Biotechnology initiative in 2017, when accessing the raw materials she needed turned into troublesome processes both in terms of time and money.

BUGAMED has been working on waste recycling and sustainable production technologies since its establishment and directly meets nine of the United Nations Development Goals, produces various biotechnology materials domestically, 100% of which are imported, and produces high value-added products for biotechnology and other related sectors. As a result of the company's R&D activities, type-1 collagen, hyaluronic products, 100% of which are imported in our country. By producing products such as acid, fibroin and sericin, it meets the needs of universities, research centers and other relevant institutions with its domestic production.

Award Received

2022 Halkbank Producing Women Competition Zero Waste Category Special Award

Yasemin Korkut first dried the figs in her garden and started selling them on social media. Upon the increase in demand, Korkut added products such as oranges, bananas, tangerines, pineapples, apples, kiwis, radishes, eggplants and peppers to her drying list. Seeing the gap in the market, she built a 200 square meter facility with the grant support of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development and Support Administration (KOSGEB).

Korkut, whose business is growing rapidly, increased production capacity from 1.5 tons to 5 tons per day by receiving 400 thousand lira support from the Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institution (TKDK) last year.

Award Received

Energy and Natural Resources Ministry 2022 Women Energizing Türkiye Entrepreneurship Award

In contrast to traditional methods, she is the founder of BETA nursery, which is a pioneering Turkish nursery company that exports 60% of its production in the agricultural company. Her business is the first and only private sector organization in our country that has many new fruit varieties and clone rootstocks registered with UPOV, which performs fruit variety breeding using classical and molecular breeding techniques. BETA’s competitiveness in the world fruit nursery market is gradually increasing.

Award Received

2022 Businesswomen's Association Female Entrepreneur Award

Kübra Yurtsever Kargı produces value-added products from scented grapes, which do not contribute to the regional economy, and brings them together with the economy. Kübra Yurtsever Kargı, who said goodbye to her corporate business life in 2020, was introduced to scented grapes, a product she had never known before, while studying in the Black Sea region through her husband's family. Discovering that fragrant grapes did not currently contribute to the economy of the region, she started to work on branding different products of the grape to utilize this potential. Aiming to reintroduce scented grapes to biodiversity in the Black Sea lands with their sustainable gardens, they have been producing fruit juice, marmalade, vinegar, grape pickle, grape juice, pickled leaves and frozen grapes from scented grapes since 2021. She ensures that production is increased and value-added gourmet delicacies are offered to the whole of Türkiye with modern and stylish packaging, and that the local people, especially women, contribute to the economy and the regional ecosystem.

Award Received

Türkiye's Women Entrepreneur Competition 2023 Women Entrepreneur Making a Sustainable Difference in Türkiye's Region Award, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

Vivoo, founded by Gözde Büyükacaroğlu, is a healthy living platform that allows people to better monitor and understand their own body with various tools. While Gözde Büyükacaroğlu was researching the effects of what she eats on the body with her other female partner, she realized that there were very few applications in this field that would obtain accurate and objective data and give results quickly. Based on this, she decided to establish Vivoo, which would reach the user quickly, be affordable and enable quick action. With urine tests that one can use in the comfort of their home, Vivoo shows users results of different parameters such as water consumption level, pH, calcium, vit -C, magnesium, and gives advice on how to live a healthier life.

The target market of the company, which has more than 100 thousand users and exports to more than 100 countries, is countries whose native language is English, especially America.

Award Received

Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Competition 2023 Türkiye's Promising Female Entrepreneur Award, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

While studying at ITU Environmental Engineering, Müge Baltacı realized the need for a change after her internship experience and visits to waste storage, recycling and waste water/drinking water treatment plants. With the belief that the correct use of technology and controlling the process can have a positive impact on the climate crisis, she developed the Köstebek project. Köstebek is a digital infrastructure for the management of electronic waste. With the electronic waste recognition system included in the Köstebek mobile application, it enables the registered collection of unused electronic devices, and offers an ecosystem where people can earn points for the devices they want to recycle and use these points on the donation platform of their choice. Thus, it provides the opportunity to monitor both environmental and social benefits from end to end.

Award Received

Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Competition 2023 Türkiye's Female Social Impact Entrepreneur, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

Aysun Aktaş-Akdoğan founded ACS Energy, which operates in the energy sector, in 2015, after working in various government organizations and the private sector. She produces PV solar panels in its factory in Izmir, which she started in 2017, with the slogan "We Produce for a Livable World". By carrying out R&D studies with her registered brand Lexron and constantly improving product quality, she has become a well-known brand at domestic market and abroad. ACS Enerji, which produced flexible panels for the first time in Türkiye, started exporting to the European market with the "Fiber Lens Flexible Panel Production" R&D project. Today, ACS Enerji, which started with an area of 500 m² and now has a production capacity in a closed area of 5000 m², does work that the entire energy sector talks about. ACS Energy currently employs 107 people, and 50% of these employees are women. Aktaş-Akdoğan's goal is to contribute to the reduction of global warming, to be among Türkiye's 500 largest Industrial Enterprises, and in the long term, to be one of the 500 most valuable brands in the world in the Brand Finance 500 list.

Award Received

Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Competition 2022 'Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur' award, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

Aslı Aksoy met asparagus at a fair she attended after working in marketing units in the textile and food industry for 13 years. In 2014, she started pilot production by planting asparagus on 2.5 decares. Aksoy, who continues to gradually plant every year, achieved first harvest in 2017. The company, which made its first export of 5 tons in 2020, reached 20 tons of production in 2021 in an area of 250 decares with a team of 50 people. Aslı Aksoy, who created a new market in our country with asparagus, is at Elibelinde Tarım, she became Türkiye's second largest asparagus producer. She dreams of popularizing the rural production model, spreading local asparagus to more production areas, and turning it into an industry by increasing asparagus production, which offers great opportunities in export.

Award Received

Türkiye's Women Entrepreneur Competition 2022 Women Entrepreneurs Making a Difference in Türkiye's Region, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

Burcu Karaca-Uğural founded Bpreg Composite in September 2017 as an advanced materials startup that develops and manufactures recyclable, high-performance and lightweight industrial biocomposites using natural fibers from fibrous agricultural crops such as flax and hemp. She develops industrial biocomposites from fibrous agricultural crops to increase the use of recyclable materials. BPREG's natural fiber reinforced composite materials, registered under the name "EcoRein", are used in sectors such as automotive, sports equipment, white goods, furniture and consumer goods. This product shows similar high performance to synthetic materials used in various sectors, reducing the use of petroleum-based synthetic materials with high environmental burden and reducing the carbon footprint.

Award Received

Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Competition 2022 Türkiye's Promising Female Entrepreneur, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

Venedik is the creator of Help Steps, a pedometer application that combines health and sports with kindness. Help Steps, which can be downloaded for free all over the world and has reached 1.4 million users today, supports non-governmental organization campaigns by counting the steps taken during the day. It also prevents inactivity by encouraging users, motivated by kindness, to walk more. Users convert the steps accumulated in the application into Help Steps points, and they can donate the accumulated points to individual beneficiaries in need, NGOs or clubs they support, if they wish. Help Steps is actively used in 193 countries and aims to collect donations for non-governmental organizations abroad reach 50 million users on 6 continents and implement the Help Steps marathon.

Award Received

Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Competition 2022 Türkiye's Female Social Entrepreneur, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

Başak Taşpınar-Değim completed her MBA at Koç University with a scholarship completed her master's degree in USA. Taşpınar-Değim noticed the lack of access to service when she returned to Türkiye and founded Armut.com with a capital of 50 thousand TL. The value of the site, which has reached 248 Million TL, is Türkiye's leading platform providing services. Armut.com has been taking firm steps towards offering a brand new e-commerce approach in the service sector since 2011, the year it was founded with the slogan "Service is cooked, falled into my mouth". Representing Türkiye at an international level, Armut appears as a site to collect offers for all kinds of services to be provided and received.

Award Received

Türkiye's Female Entrepreneur Competition 2014 Türkiye's Promising Female Entrepreneur, organized in cooperation with Garanti BBVA and KAGİDER

Born in 1968, Gamze Cizreli created her first venture, Ankara's first cafe "CAFEMİZ", after completing her education at METU Faculty of Business Administration. After her CAFEMİZ initiative, she combined her interest in pastry with different perspectives and founded the brands "KUKİ" and then "QUICK CHINA", which offers Far Eastern cuisine at affordable prices.

In her second entrepreneurship period, in 2007, when she continued on her own, she started working as BigChefs. She launched the Cafe - Brasserie brand. Big Chefs restaurant chain, which was opened in Ankara without any resources, entirely with bank loans and forward payment plans, expanded to Istanbul in 2009 with the partnership established with Saruhan Tan. It then continued to grow in other cities. Currently, it has grown rapidly abroad, especially in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, reaching a total of 31 branches and more than 1500 employees. In addition to restaurant management, Gamze Cizreli has taught "Entrepreneurship" courses at METU Faculty of Business Administration. She is actively involved in Non-Governmental Organizations as the president of the International Entrepreneurs Association (EO), and as a board member of KAGİDER and TURYİD.

Award Received

In 2010, she was the first-prize winner in the "Women Entrepreneur" competition organized by KAGIDER and Garanti Bank.

In 2011 and 2013, she received the "Women Entrepreneur of the Year" award in the "Business People of the Year" competition organized by Ekonomist Magazine.

Düşyeri was founded in 2001 by Ayşe Şule Bilgiç. In 2008, Ayşe Şule Bilgiç decided to reach mothers and children and contribute to their development through mass media, and Pepee, the first project of Düşyeri, was implemented.

Award Received

The Most Digitalized Female Entrepreneur award in the 2022 Türkiye's Entrepreneurial Women's Power Competition organized in cooperation with the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB), TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Board (KGK) and the Turkish Economic Policy Research Foundation (TEPAV).

Aysu Gürman, a Food Engineer, established AnadOlive at Ege University Technology Development Zone (EGE Technopark) in 2018 with the support of TÜBİTAK Individual Young Initiative (BIGG) and started to produce 'powdered olives' by recycling olive and olive oil process by-products with zero waste philosophy. During the commercialization of powdered olives, which are widely used in breakfast products and sauces, different spice mixtures, teas and herbal cosmetic products were produced simultaneously.

AnadOlive brings the by-products of the olive and olive oil production process to the table in brand new ways and uses environmentally friendly technologies that transform waste that can harm nature into value-added circular products. Aysu Gürman produces new products such as olive powder, olive pits, natural extracts and dietary fiber that can be utilized in the food industry. In the medium term, Aysu Gürman aims to create a positive impact such as sustainable practices in the olive oil sector, an increase in alternative sources of income from new products, and the protection of soil and water resources.

Award Received

2023 Halkbank Producing Women Competition Zero Waste Category Special Award

Ayşe Köksal, a mechanical engineer, founded Era Aluminum in 2021 and started to produce aluminum frames and constructions for companies operating in the field of solar energy with the clean energy motto.

Operating in Bursa OIZ, Era Group is among the pioneers of the sector with its production in aluminum extrusion and mechanical processing with high capacity and quality standards. Operating as a global supplier, Era Group employs 107 people, 45% of whom are women, and exports to 15 different countries.

Award Received

First-prize winner in 2023 Halkbank Producer Women Competition in the SME Producer Women Entrepreneur Category

Gülşah Engin is one of the founding partners of Mege Filter, established in 2007. Mege Filter produces solutions for industrial air purification systems using high technology and quality equipment.

Award Received

Third-prize winner in 2023 Halkbank Producer Women Competition in the SME Producer Women Entrepreneur Category

Hande Yiyen-Aka, a food engineer, developed solutions to problems that were not experienced in the machines used in domestic production but experienced in the sector she worked in. She dedicated her graduate studies to these problems, before establishing her company She produced this machine by conducting R&D studies with the support of TUBITAK and KOSGEB.

Yiyen-Aka produced snacks under the brand 'Rolling Pops' in the Lupa Nut company she founded. Vegan, healthy and high protein snacks are produced from grains such as chickpeas and chia.

Award Received

She was the first-prize winner sin the Micro Producer Women Entrepreneur Category of the 2023 Halkbank Producing Women Competition.

Dear Deer Love, which she founded, designs and manufactures personalized baby sleep sets, functional mother and baby products, pattern and product design. After graduating from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in fashion design, she worked as a designer in various ready-to-wear companies for a while. After becoming a mother, she realized that there was a gap in Türkiye in the field of 'personalized sleep set design', which is very popular abroad, and the products she designed first for her own daughter and then for her surroundings were highly appreciated by everyone. Since 2015, she has been working meticulously in the fabric design and product development stages, and quality and personalized sleep sets are prepared in her own professional workshops.

Award Received

She was the second-prize winner in the Micro Producer Women Entrepreneur Category of the 2023 Halkbank Producing Women Competition.

IDEA Aluminum Systems is a factory professionally manufactures Bioclimatic Pergola, Motorized Pergola, Guillotine Glass Systems, Sliding Glass Systems and Winter Garden Systems. The company, which provides disassembled and assembled services throughout Türkiye , also produces and exports Bioclimatic pergola, Motorized Pergola and Guillotine glass, Sliding Glass and Winter Garden systems to many countries in the world.

Award Received

She was the third-prize winner in the Micro Producer Women Entrepreneur Category of the 2023 Halkbank Producing Women Competition.

Demet Mutlu dropped out of Harvard in 2009 and founded Trendyol, which has become Türkiye's leading e-commerce platform and one of the largest technology companies in Europe. Trendyol offers a wide range of products ranging from fashion to grocery by bringing together more than 30 million customers and more than 300 thousand sellers. It continues to create value with its transportation network Trendyol Express, fast grocery and food delivery Trendyol Go, and Türkiye's largest second-hand product platform Dolap.

Demet Mutlu took an active and effective role not only in Trendyol, but also in supporting the technology entrepreneurship ecosystem and women entrepreneurs in Türkiye. She became one of the founders and angel investors of Peak Games. Trendyol, which she founded and currently serves as a board member, became the first technology company in Türkiye to receive the title of Decacorn.

Mutlu was also deemed worthy of many awards both in Türkiye and internationally. She was the only leader from Türkiye to be selected in the Young Global Leaders list organized by the World Economic Forum in 2016. Mutlu, invited to Davos as a speaker 3 times, was selected as Entrepreneur of the Year by Fortune USA in 2014, and 'Female Entrepreneur of the Year' in the Business People of the Year Awards by Economist magazine in 2019, was included in the Fortune 40 Under 40 List and in Fortune Türkiye's 50 Most Powerful Business Women List.