Case Study: A Bank-Led Startup Accelerator: Albaraka Garaj

Albaraka Garaj is a startup acceleration center within the premises of Albaraka Türk Participation Bank in Turkey. Albaraka Türk Participation Bank, one of the subsidiaries of Albaraka Banking Group, was founded in 1985 as Turkey’s first Islamic bank. Albaraka Garaj is an entity where entrepreneurs with technology-based projects are supported in their acceleration process. It supports a wide array of entrepreneurs who work on technological applications with innovative solutions from educational technologies to machine learning, from artificial intelligence to software as a service. Welcome to this case study, “A Bank-Led Startup Accelerator: Albaraka Garaj”, by Talha Erdoğan, Director, Albaraka Garaj.