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IIstanbul Technical University is a state university founded as the Imperial School of Naval Engineering of the Ottoman Empire. ITU currently offers graduate and postgraduate education in a wide range of fields today. It has more than 30,000 full-time students across five campuses located in Istanbul. The university employs around 1,130 faculty members, and 1,300 research assistants in 13 faculties and 6 research institutes. Times Higher Education has ranked ITU as the 165th university worldwide in 2014 and 8th university in BRICS & Emerging Economies in 2015. ITU has developed a range of entrepreneurship and innovation platforms for commercializing technology-based knowledge and for facilitating entrepreneurial ecosystem: ITU TEKNOKENT, established in 2002, is one of the largest technology parks of Turkey with its 100,000 square meters area, over 2,000 completed R&D projects, 160 companies with more than 5200 employees. ITU Teknokent generates $137M total income and $110M R&D ex
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 4,523 investors in VCSift focus on the edtech sector.
- • 805 investors are based in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Sectors
- edtech
- Location
- Istanbul, Turkey
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