Türkiye has brought 26 technology start-ups to the VivaTech 2026 fair in France, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacir has said.
According to a ministry statement on Thursday, VivaTech 2026, one of Europe's largest technology and entrepreneurship events, runs through 20 June and brings together companies, investors and innovation leaders from around the world.
The Ministry of Industry and Technology and the Presidency's Investment and Finance Office are participating in the event with a Türkiye pavilion.
Speaking during a visit to the pavilion, Kacir said 14 of the 26 participating start-ups are part of the Turcorn 100 programme, which supports Turkish technology companies with the potential to achieve valuations exceeding $1 billion.
"We are at the VivaTech technology summit in France. This is a platform where technology start-ups from around the world meet and connect with investors," Kacir said.
"We brought 26 technology start-ups from Türkiye. Fourteen of these start-ups are companies in the Turcorn 100 programme that are candidates to become future Turkish technology ventures valued at more than $1 billion," he added.
Kacir said the start-ups are presenting their products and services to investors and helping promote both their businesses and Türkiye's technology ecosystem.
"As the Ministry of Industry and Technology, together with our Presidency Investment and Finance Office, we support the participation of Türkiye's technology start-ups in international platforms under the Turcorn 100 programme," he said.
Kacir said Türkiye's innovation ecosystem now includes more than 13,000 technology start-ups operating in 114 technoparks, including nearly 3,000 early-stage ventures.
"Our goal is to see 100,000 technology start-ups established in Türkiye by 2030 and to increase the valuation of our Turcorns, Turkish technology ventures worth more than $1 billion, to $100 billion," he said.
He added that Türkiye would continue to advance its National Technology Initiative under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"We will continue to strengthen our ambition to be a country that develops its own domestic and national technology products and services with its own resources and people and can offer them competitively to the world," Kacir said.
