• Artesis – Ahmet Duyar:
  
  It's product, the MCM (Motor Condition Monitor), "provides early warning of progressively deteriorating machine and process conditions, thereby maximizing a plant’s available assets through reducing unplanned downtime, and improving revenue and savings," said Ahmet Duyar, CEO of Artesis. "In addition, MCM provides information about the quality of the incoming power, energy consumption as well as the abnormalities in the plant."
  
  MCM is a unique solution that safeguards rotating machinery from common faults, both electrical and mechanical, such as misalignment, imbalance, bearing faults, short-circuits, etc. by measuring only voltages and currents. Applications include sectors of iron and steel works, glass plants, power generation plants, water departments of municipalities, cement plants etc.
  
  A subsidiary of Arcelik A.S., the company is dedicated to the research and development of state-of-the-art systems for quality assurance and condition monitoring.
  
  It received the "Editor's Choice Award" by the Control Engineering Magazine published in the USA stating that it was amongst the 40 best products in 2000.
  
  This patented core technology, a result of a 25 year-long research effort, has previously been applied in the US at NASA.



• Bizitek – Murat Şahinoğlu & Kerem Erdem:
  
  Bizitek was founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Probil to provide companies with e-business end-to-end customer and solution oriented software, consulting services to achieve maximum efficiency, and turn changes in technology to a competitive advantage. Since 2004 Bizitek has grown by providing quality business solutions to Companies in Turkey and around the world.



• Monopoli Sigorta – Erol Esentürk & İzzet Bonofiyel:
  
  A new kind of insurance agency, buying and reselling insurance - one insurance policy for multiple needs online.



• Speedcity – Ahmet & Ali & Canan Özgün:
  
  This is a motorsports enthusiast's entertainment destination, hosting all motor racing products, clothing and accessories, simulation games, as well as a cafe.



• Türkmix – Aydın Şeker & Damla Gönül & Elda Maraşlı:
  
  By the looks of its website, Türkmix strives to be a high quality fast-food restaurant chain. With simple menu options, this could be the "McDonaldization" of Turkish food.

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