Grants

KOSGEB Girisimci Destek Programi 2026/2

Track for a future or conditional window when new-company, early-revenue, pre-seed teams in software, telecommunications, data infrastructure match turkey eligibility and non-dilutive funding or grant support is relevant.

Terms

Funding

Up to 2,000,000 TL total support envelope; announcement lists 1,500,000 TL business-development support at 80% rate plus credit-financing support

Equity or cost

No equity; public support includes repayable support terms and credit-financing support according to the official announcement

Perks

Personnel, machinery/equipment, software, services, certification, testing, marketing, design, and IP-related eligible expenses

Founder fit

Founder

Turkey founders forming or growing a young company in eligible sectors such as software, telecom, data infrastructure, R&D, or manufacturing.

Company

Official call targets qualifying businesses under KOSGEB criteria; company age, sector, founder certificate, and ownership rules must be checked before preparing an application.

Geography

Turkey only.

Application effort

High-friction public grant process; requires eligibility proof, business plan, e-Devlet/KOSGEB process, and committee evaluation.

Verification note

Official KOSGEB announcement page scraped 2026-06-14 and confirms the 2026/2 window ran April 20 to May 8, 2026. No 2026/3 period has been announced as of verification date. Track for a possible third-period call later in 2026. Support envelope remains up to 2,000,000 TL with 1,500,000 TL business-development support at 80% rate.

Source quality: official KOSGEB announcement page confirmed; application window April 20 to May 8, 2026 now passed. Status confidence: high.

Currently closedPublic grant processHeavy eligibility

Stages

new-companyearly-revenuepre-seed

Sectors

softwaretelecommunicationsdata infrastructureR&Dmanufacturing

Fit tags

turkeypublic-fundingnon-dilutivewatchlistclosed

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