👋Did you know that in Turkey🇹🇷, 40% of young graduates 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓are unemployed? Many promising students work hard ⚒️to make sure they can get a job 👨‍💼👩‍💼after graduation. However, being accepted into a top Turkish 🇹🇷or international🌍 university is not enough. They need to pay💰 the tuition fees, and many of them cannot afford it😟. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Turkish students apply for scholarships.

A few years ago, Mesut was a brilliant 🌠🌠student at Galatasaray University. His dream🚀 was to become a computer💻 science engineer, but he needed a grant💰. After many time-consuming & inefficient applications, he finally obtained one and successfully attended great 💪universities such as Galatasaray, La Sorbonne and Boğaziçi University😀. During that process, he noticed that every foundation or institution had its own internal process, which was complex and tedious.

After graduating🎓, Mesut decided to digitize the scholarship system by launching a technology platform called E-Bursum, which seamlessly connects international 🌍donors with the most promising Turkish🌠 students. To make the process more efficient & trustworthy, he integrated artificial intelligence & machine learning. For example, the platform can run full background checks through government databases and calculate precisely how much a grantee really needs…

➡️And it works! 🌠300,000+ students are currently registered on E-Bursum. Since 2015, E-Bursum has distributed more than🌠 $5M to thousands of Turkish students. Mesut and his team are now targeting🌠 $10M by the end of the year.

🌠🌠🌠At our own pace and scale, everyone can aspire to change the world