Aktif Ventures

Workindo Teknoloji ve İnsan Kaynakları Danışmanlık A.Ş. was established in 2020 to offer high-quality solutions to meet the construction industry’s need for competent personnel. Having started to grow its sectoral portfolio in 2021, Workindo further expanded its product range and country reach in 2023, and now offers and international workforce service network and new contracting models in Aktif Ventures has been continuing its activities with the mission of building, growing, and investing in ventures, leading innovation in financial technologies and various other categories since 2022. Aktif Ventures helps ventures grow in scale by leveraging its own ideas and the resources of the ecosystem, and has recently opened a second branch at Dijitalpark Teknokent to keep abreast of technology and innovation. Aktif Ventures has developed Türkiye’s most robust API marketplace, Apilion, enabling the integration of numerous innovations into products, including financial technologies, banking products, insurance brokerage, e-wallet infrastructure, virtual POS, and licensing solutions. In 2023, Aktif Bank ranked first among 15 banks in the category of banks providing API portals, with 565 APIs, according to BirAPI Open Banking Türkiye data. Apilion, the API marketplace strategy developer, has increased its collaboration count to 29 and expanded its product range by incorporating various innovation services from different categories during this period. To establish its presence in the international market, Aktif Ventures continues its efforts to globalize its API portfolio. In this context, it is making its mark in the international banking network and positioning itself in the marketplaces of global API business partners. Through the first collaboration, customers were provided with invoice payment and international money transfer services thanks to Apilion's products. This collaboration, officially launched with a signing ceremony, will be followed by others in the new year as Apilion continues to maintain its leadership in the market Adhering to the philosophy of supporting entrepreneurs, Aktif Ventures partnered with Bahçeşehir University in 2023 to crown industry development with an academic aspect. In this context, Aktif Ventures launched the BAU-Aktif Ventures Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (En) Non-Thesis Master’s Program. Supporting ITU Çekirdek Incubation Center, named as the “World's Best University Incubation Center” by UBI Global, to keep abreast of the entrepreneurship ecosystem, Aktif Ventures joined the mentorship system to provide strategic and developmental support to entrepreneurs.It also participated as a Gold Partner in the 12th edition of the Big Bang Startup Challenge organized by İTÜ Çekirdek this year. The challenge offered a total of TRY 300,000 in cash prizes to two startups. Aktif Ventures will continue its efforts to contribute to the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the future.