OzU Ventures Club: Özyeğin University's student-run startup club and pre-accelerator. We exist to understand, empower, cultivate, bridge, transform, guide, advance, and unite.
Who we areWe are not investors. We are the next step on the ladder.
A pre-accelerator is the step before an accelerator: a semester-long program where a student team turns an idea into something real with mentors who have done it before, then presents what it has built at Demo Day. Held at the end of the semester, Demo Day brings every team into a room with the mentors who coached them and the investors and practitioners we invite. The club takes no equity and charges nothing. What you build is yours, and the entire program exists to get you ready for that room.
Demo Day sits on the boardHow the cohort runs
Apply
a form and a 15-minute conversation
Build
weekly mentor sessions, all semester
First users
your product in real hands
Demo Day
the first real audience
Our principles.
Every founder who walks in should know what they can expect from us.
Read the manifestoThe ventures we back.
There are no ventures yet.
You can become the first one. Every team that reaches Demo Day docks on this page with its name, story, and what the team shipped.
Built by students. Backed by people who have done it.
Founders run the club, mentors coach the teams, and practitioners open the doors a first venture can't reach alone. Meet them.
The people who dare to think big are exactly the ones who will shape the future.