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Hackzone by Allianz

January - June 2025
Istanbul

HackZone 5th cohort applications have closed. Results will be announced soon.

The HackZone Accelerator is a six-month program designed to propel growth-stage startups by helping them develop innovative solutions and expand their business reach in the insurance industry. Through access to Allianz APIs, mentorship, and hands-on support, startups gain the tools to enhance customer experiences, explore new business models, and build a competitive edge on a global scale.

What
HackZone Accelerator is a 6-month program for growing and scaling up startups aiming to grow their businesses providing a global competitive advantage
When
January - June 2025
Where
Online / Allianz Tower

Application Timeline

Closing Applications
12 December 2024
Program Kickoff
8 January 2025
Demoday
Second Week of June 2025

Benefits

Cash Support

All startups that complete a PoC during the program will receive 400,000 TL PoC support

Mentorship

The opportunity to meet with over 50 Allianz experts as mentors

Perks

Perks of more than $300,000 value

API

An opportunity to explore and integrate Allianz's existing APIs

Networking

Engaging with 600+ Tenity ecosystem Investors and Mentors in different areas

Workshops

Regular Market Access Workshops and Introductions to speed the ScaleUp

Some of our success stories

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Meet The Partner

Allianz Group, as one of the world's largest insurance and finance groups, provides banking, insurance and asset management services to more than 125 million customers with more than 157 thousand employees in approximately 70 countries. A global leader in asset management, Allianz Group oversees €737 billion in assets for its insurance customers, alongside €1.7 trillion managed by PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors. In Türkiye, Allianz operates through Allianz Trade, Allianz Partners, and Allianz Türkiye.

Founded in 1923 as Şark Sigorta, Allianz Türkiye shares its centennial legacy with the Republic of Türkiye, celebrating 100 years of operations in 2023. A member of Allianz Group since 2008, Allianz Türkiye operates through Allianz Sigorta (non-life insurance), Allianz Yaşam ve Emeklilik, and Allianz Hayat ve Emeklilik (private pension and life insurance).

Achieving consolidated GWP and pension contribution of 74.4 billion TL in 2023, Allianz Türkiye leads the industry in customer experience, digitalization, agility, employee engagement, sustainability, and innovation. With its 2,500 employees, 12 regional directorates, 4.800 agencies, 1.400 bank branch channels and 9.000 contracted institutions, Allianz strives to say ‘we secure your future’ to its 7,9 million customers in 81 provinces whenever they are in need.

The company’s headquarters, Allianz Tower, is located in Istanbul, while its operations center, Allianz Campus, is based in Izmir. Allianz Türkiye has also made significant social investments, including the establishment of the Allianz Teknik Earthquake & Fire Test and Training Center. Since 2008, Allianz’s investments in Türkiye have exceeded €1 billion.

What we'll cover

Find out what we will cover in our masterclasses.

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Requirements

Focus topics

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

- Next Best Action / Offer Solutions
- Cybersecurity and Image Processing

Financial Consultancy

- Scaling Financial Advisory Services
- Enhancing Financial Literacy

Digital Health Solutions

- Preventive Healthcare Solutions
- Wearable Health Tech Innovations
- Early Diagnosis
- Chronic Disease Monitoring, and Management

Combating Climate Change

- Sustainability Solutions
- AI-Powered ESG Risk Scoring

Alumni Startups

Zuzzuu

2023
Istanbul

Sarente developed a platform called Zuzzuu and with dynamic data tracking,you can instantly track all actions of your customers on the web or mobile,score them, make offers and deals.With Zuzzuu,you can shorten your distance with your customers, gather your customers on a single platform and create a 360 degree customer experience.

Orbina AI

2023
Istanbul

Orbina is an artificial intelligence assistant specially developed for individuals and institutions, automating creative content production while enabling it.

Novus Writer

2023
Istanbul

Novus specializes in data-driven generative AI and on-premise Large Language Model (LLM) services, focusing on empowering enterprises with comprehensive multi-agent AI workflows. Novus’s mission is to harness the transformative power of AI, overcoming challenges faced by businesses in integrating and effectively utilizing AI technology.

Pivony

2023
Istanbul

Pivony is a B2B SaaS Platform for business professionals to understand ever-evolving customer expectations in just a few clicks.

Forest Guard

2023
Istanbul

ForestGuard is an Early detection and warningin open air fires, providing Air Quality Measurement, Toxic, Flammable, and Explosive Gas Detection through an IoT-based mesh network system solution.

3pmetrics

2023
Istanbul

3pmetrics simplifies carbon and water footprint accounting, along with ESG analysis, through its user-friendly SaaS platform and API services. The 3pmetrics Sustainability Gateway empowers companies to autonomously manage ESG metrics for the entire value chain in just one day.

Wyseye

2022
Istanbul

Wyseye creates an appraisal report based on damage photos and videos within seconds, speeds up your requests, calculates your claims instantly and resolves your damage process in the shortest time possible without any human touch.

Pincident

2022
Istanbul

Pincident is a location-based smart incident management system.

Magnus

2022
Istanbul

Magnus is an AI-based portfolio optimization and Robo advisory platform. We provide investment management and fund management services to portfolio management companies, banks, trading platforms & fintech.

LASKA

2022
Istanbul

Laska is a high-tech company that upcycles end-of-life tires with innovative, environmentally friendly and sustainable production approaches. As Laska, we obtain two high-added value products from waste tires with our patentable technology and the circular economy approach we adopt: carbon black and biofuel.

FINSO

2022
Istanbul

Consumer loans that are provided by banks or any financial institutions digitalisation platform at all kind of sales points from conventional trade to e-commerce.

Yancep

2022
Istanbul

Yancep allows individuals to micro-invest in professionally managed portfolios designed according to their risk appetite and financial targets.

iklim.co

2022
Istanbul

Severe weather alerts to save property and loved ones

FINRIX

2022
Istanbul

Artificial Intelligence Solutions on the Big Data for Capital Markets

Connected Insurance

2022
Istanbul

Connected Insurance (CI) helps businesses embed insurance into their offerings to strengthen their value proposition, create new revenue sources and bring peace of mind to their customers. CI accelerates the creation of bespoke, data-driven, insurances. We utilize advanced event sourcing technology and real-time data analysis algorithms to build the next-generation insurances that are covering new risks, dynamic and proactive.

CarPal

2022
Istanbul

CarPal makes drivers and cars connected to its marketplace to make product referrals by capturing and processing car and driver data with its AI technology.

Diyetkolik

2021
Istanbul

It is a meeting platform that supports people in healthy eating and living a healthier life. It is also a technological platform that enables dieticians to serve their services at industry 4.0 standards.

B2metric

2021
Istanbul

B2Metric is a machine learning automation solution predictive analytics for price optimization, risk management and customer journey forecasting for companies.

UserVision

2021
Istanbul

Uservision helps brands to empathize with customers. We provide a platform where brands could quickly reach their target audience and get explicit, subconscious and implicit insights. Where google analytics provides analytics at a dashboard, we provide voice of the consumer.

Co-one

2021
Istanbul

Co-one is an AI-based, gamification supported, crowdsource and mobile data annotation services

Oto Konfor

2021
Istanbul

It is a platform that brings together all the after-sales automobile services needed for the automobile.

F-Ray

2020
Istanbul

F-Ray develops machine learning software that saves time and efficiency for financial statement interpreters by performing instant algorithmic financial analysis and evaluating all public or non-public companies.

Stox

2020
Istanbul

Stox provides the tools you require to monitor your global stock portfolio, track your performance over time and stay up to date on your trade game with an easy-to-use, calming, responsive interface

BESAsistan

2020
Istanbul

The most free, social, and fun way to experience personal retirement. Now, understanding and managing our retirement plans is both easy and enjoyable.

ArtgeVision

2020
Istanbul

Our Business Model: Software and license sales. For B2B corporate customers. We have income. We have invoiced customers and projects, especially in the Defense, finance and industry sectors.

Albert Health

2020
Istanbul

Albert is a voice based health assistant that helps patients to manage their medications and have virtual doctor visits.

Numondial

2020
Istanbul

Utilizing NuManufacturing’s high-end NumBox Sensor Array along with advanced algorithms and software, this unique solution transforms factories by enhancing efficiency and promoting eco-friendly operations.

Prime Digit

2020
Istanbul

Prime Digit is a End to End Software and Machine Learning Consulting firm experienced in applying AI and Machine Learning to business problems.

Mindbehind

2020
Istanbul

MindBehind helps non-technical teams to build, launch and growth their chatbots and virtual assistants in a single platform.

IonAd

2020
Istanbul

IonAd is a platform that creates outdoor advertising analysis by detecting metadata such as the number of views, the duration of the views, the gender and ages of the audience, the time period of the audience interacting with more ads, using cameras and Artificial Intelligence to create a report on Ad Return on Investment value for brands. We use image processing methods for a long time, thus we believe we can overcome damaged part challenge.

İyigelir

2020
Istanbul

İyi Gelir aims to revolutionize the way people make investments by distributing their savings in the most efficient way.

Freightest

2020
Istanbul

Freightest is a supply chain management platform for logistics companies end export imports companies. They can manage their supply chain from getting a quote to delivery, they can track their freight, make documentation and find the right insurance.

Co-Sure

2020
Istanbul

Risk transfer platform of CoSure supercharges to access any market, any time

Cameralyze

2020
Istanbul

Creating AI based solutions for real-life

11Sight

2020
Istanbul

11Sight is a HubSpot optimised conversational sales & marketing platform you can start converting with in just a few days. Unlike other platforms, 11Sight's conversion tools are not limited to your website.

Meet
the team

Sabina Babayeva

Sabina Babayeva

Hub Lead | Tenity Istanbul Hub
Esengül Sağdınç Eren

Esengül Sağdınç Eren

Programs Director | Tenity Istanbul Hub
Gizem Seveoğlu Tigin

Gizem Seveoğlu Tigin

Program Manager | Tenity Istanbul Hub
Hümeyra Boztunç

Hümeyra Boztunç

Innovation Manager | Allianz Türkiye
Bedirhan Durmuş

Bedirhan Durmuş

Innovation & Customer Loyalty Expert | Allianz Türkiye

Meet the executive mentors

Onur Kırcı

Onur Kırcı

Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Digital | Allianz Türkiye
Kaan Toker

Kaan Toker

Chief Operating Officer | Allianz Türkiye
Evren Ayorak

Evren Ayorak

Chief Information Officer | Allianz Türkiye
Erdem Sağlamer

Erdem Sağlamer

Customer Experience Director | Allianz Türkiye

Have questions?

Reach out to our team

Gizem Seveoğlu Tigin

Gizem Seveoğlu Tigin

Program Manager | Tenity Istanbul Hub

Apply now

HackZone 5th cohort applications have closed. Results will be announced soon.

FAQ

What is the HackZone Accelerator Program?

The HackZone Accelerator Program is an innovation-focused accelerator aimed at transforming the insurance industry through collaboration with startups. We focus on fostering cutting-edge InsurTech solutions.

Who is eligible to apply?

As you can see from the detailed program categories, HackZone 5th Batch will specifically focus on startups in the areas of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Financial Consultancy, Digital Health Solutions, and Combating Climate Change. Startups applying should have previously tested their products in the market and be capable of collaborating with Allianz Türkiye.

Startups at an advanced stage with previously tested products should apply.

Startups at the MVP or idea stage are not accepted.

How does the application and selection process work?

After submitting your application, you will receive an email confirming that we have received it. If your startup passes the preliminary evaluation, we will invite you to a 5-minute online session on Selection Day, scheduled for December 18. You will receive an email about this from us on the evening of December 16.

We recommend marking these two dates on your calendar in advance.

During the selection process, startups are screened based on their innovation, potential impact, and alignment with the program’s goals. Selected applicants are then invited to pitch on Selection Day, where they present to C-level executives and experts from Allianz Türkiye and the Tenity team.

What are the program’s benefits?

A payment of 400,000 TL per startup will be provided as PoC support without any equity taken.

Startups in the program receive mentorship, participate in workshops, and access resources tailored to their focus area. They can also collaborate with Allianz Türkiye experts, explore potential partnerships, and expand their network within Allianz Türkiye and Tenity.

Are there any costs to join the program?

No, the HackZone Accelerator Program is free for selected startups. Participants gain access to all program benefits at no cost.

How long does the program run?

The program will start in January and conclude in June. During this period, online participation is required for Selection Day, and physical attendance is required for events such as Kick-off, Alumni Day, Investor Day, and Demo Day. Additionally, there is an 80% attendance requirement for online training sessions.

What kind of support can startups expect during the program?

Support includes guidance from experienced mentors, tailored workshops, networking and PoC opportunities, and Tech perks.

Will Allianz invest in the startups?

While investment is not guaranteed, Allianz is open to potential collaborations and partnerships depending on the program's outcomes and mutual interest. As part of the program, we will connect you with VCs and angel networks that have made various investments, and if you are in the funding process, we will facilitate introductions to relevant investors.

How can I apply?

Applications are accepted through our website during the open application period. Be sure to check our website and Tenity social media for announcements on application dates.

Who should I contact if I have more questions?

For additional inquiries, please reach out to Tenity Program Manager Gizem Severoglu Tigin at gizem.severoglu@tenity.com.  We are happy to assist with any questions regarding the program or the application process.