Hackzone by Allianz
January - June 2025
Istanbul
Join Hackzone, Türkiye's first accelerator program in the insurance sector, and collaborate with Allianz Türkiye to bring your products to life through PoC opportunities.
Apply by 12 December 2024
The HackZone Accelerator is a six-month program designed to propel growth-stage startups by helping them develop innovative solutions and expand their business reach in the insurance industry. Through access to Allianz APIs, mentorship, and hands-on support, startups gain the tools to enhance customer experiences, explore new business models, and build a competitive edge on a global scale.
Allianz Group, as one of the world's largest insurance and finance groups, provides banking, insurance and asset management services to more than 125 million customers with more than 157 thousand employees in approximately 70 countries. A global leader in asset management, Allianz Group oversees €737 billion in assets for its insurance customers, alongside €1.7 trillion managed by PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors. In Türkiye, Allianz operates through Allianz Trade, Allianz Partners, and Allianz Türkiye.
Founded in 1923 as Şark Sigorta, Allianz Türkiye shares its centennial legacy with the Republic of Türkiye, celebrating 100 years of operations in 2023. A member of Allianz Group since 2008, Allianz Türkiye operates through Allianz Sigorta (non-life insurance), Allianz Yaşam ve Emeklilik, and Allianz Hayat ve Emeklilik (private pension and life insurance).
Achieving consolidated GWP and pension contribution of 74.4 billion TL in 2023, Allianz Türkiye leads the industry in customer experience, digitalization, agility, employee engagement, sustainability, and innovation. With its 2,500 employees, 12 regional directorates, 4.800 agencies, 1.400 bank branch channels and 9.000 contracted institutions, Allianz strives to say ‘we secure your future’ to its 7,9 million customers in 81 provinces whenever they are in need.
The company’s headquarters, Allianz Tower, is located in Istanbul, while its operations center, Allianz Campus, is based in Izmir. Allianz Türkiye has also made significant social investments, including the establishment of the Allianz Teknik Earthquake & Fire Test and Training Center. Since 2008, Allianz’s investments in Türkiye have exceeded €1 billion.
- Next Best Action / Offer Solutions
- Cybersecurity and Image Processing
- Scaling Financial Advisory Services
- Enhancing Financial Literacy
- Preventive Healthcare Solutions
- Wearable Health Tech Innovations
- Early Diagnosis
- Chronic Disease Monitoring, and Management
- Sustainability Solutions
- AI-Powered ESG Risk Scoring
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Orbina is an artificial intelligence assistant specially developed for individuals and institutions, automating creative content production while enabling it.
Novus specializes in data-driven generative AI and on-premise Large Language Model (LLM) services, focusing on empowering enterprises with comprehensive multi-agent AI workflows. Novus’s mission is to harness the transformative power of AI, overcoming challenges faced by businesses in integrating and effectively utilizing AI technology.
Pivony is a B2B SaaS Platform for business professionals to understand ever-evolving customer expectations in just a few clicks.
ForestGuard is an Early detection and warningin open air fires, providing Air Quality Measurement, Toxic, Flammable, and Explosive Gas Detection through an IoT-based mesh network system solution.
3pmetrics simplifies carbon and water footprint accounting, along with ESG analysis, through its user-friendly SaaS platform and API services. The 3pmetrics Sustainability Gateway empowers companies to autonomously manage ESG metrics for the entire value chain in just one day.
Wyseye creates an appraisal report based on damage photos and videos within seconds, speeds up your requests, calculates your claims instantly and resolves your damage process in the shortest time possible without any human touch.
Magnus is an AI-based portfolio optimization and Robo advisory platform. We provide investment management and fund management services to portfolio management companies, banks, trading platforms & fintech.
Laska is a high-tech company that upcycles end-of-life tires with innovative, environmentally friendly and sustainable production approaches. As Laska, we obtain two high-added value products from waste tires with our patentable technology and the circular economy approach we adopt: carbon black and biofuel.
Consumer loans that are provided by banks or any financial institutions digitalisation platform at all kind of sales points from conventional trade to e-commerce.
Yancep allows individuals to micro-invest in professionally managed portfolios designed according to their risk appetite and financial targets.
Artificial Intelligence Solutions on the Big Data for Capital Markets
Connected Insurance (CI) helps businesses embed insurance into their offerings to strengthen their value proposition, create new revenue sources and bring peace of mind to their customers. CI accelerates the creation of bespoke, data-driven, insurances. We utilize advanced event sourcing technology and real-time data analysis algorithms to build the next-generation insurances that are covering new risks, dynamic and proactive.
CarPal makes drivers and cars connected to its marketplace to make product referrals by capturing and processing car and driver data with its AI technology.
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B2Metric is a machine learning automation solution predictive analytics for price optimization, risk management and customer journey forecasting for companies.
Uservision helps brands to empathize with customers. We provide a platform where brands could quickly reach their target audience and get explicit, subconscious and implicit insights. Where google analytics provides analytics at a dashboard, we provide voice of the consumer.
Co-one is an AI-based, gamification supported, crowdsource and mobile data annotation services
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F-Ray develops machine learning software that saves time and efficiency for financial statement interpreters by performing instant algorithmic financial analysis and evaluating all public or non-public companies.
Stox provides the tools you require to monitor your global stock portfolio, track your performance over time and stay up to date on your trade game with an easy-to-use, calming, responsive interface
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Albert is a voice based health assistant that helps patients to manage their medications and have virtual doctor visits.
Utilizing NuManufacturing’s high-end NumBox Sensor Array along with advanced algorithms and software, this unique solution transforms factories by enhancing efficiency and promoting eco-friendly operations.
Prime Digit is a End to End Software and Machine Learning Consulting firm experienced in applying AI and Machine Learning to business problems.
MindBehind helps non-technical teams to build, launch and growth their chatbots and virtual assistants in a single platform.
IonAd is a platform that creates outdoor advertising analysis by detecting metadata such as the number of views, the duration of the views, the gender and ages of the audience, the time period of the audience interacting with more ads, using cameras and Artificial Intelligence to create a report on Ad Return on Investment value for brands. We use image processing methods for a long time, thus we believe we can overcome damaged part challenge.
İyi Gelir aims to revolutionize the way people make investments by distributing their savings in the most efficient way.
Freightest is a supply chain management platform for logistics companies end export imports companies. They can manage their supply chain from getting a quote to delivery, they can track their freight, make documentation and find the right insurance.
Risk transfer platform of CoSure supercharges to access any market, any time
11Sight is a HubSpot optimised conversational sales & marketing platform you can start converting with in just a few days. Unlike other platforms, 11Sight's conversion tools are not limited to your website.
The HackZone Accelerator Program is an innovation-focused accelerator aimed at transforming the insurance industry through collaboration with startups. We focus on fostering cutting-edge InsurTech solutions.
As you can see from the detailed program categories, HackZone 5th Batch will specifically focus on startups in the areas of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Financial Consultancy, Digital Health Solutions, and Combating Climate Change. Startups applying should have previously tested their products in the market and be capable of collaborating with Allianz Türkiye.
Startups at an advanced stage with previously tested products should apply.
Startups at the MVP or idea stage are not accepted.
After submitting your application, you will receive an email confirming that we have received it. If your startup passes the preliminary evaluation, we will invite you to a 5-minute online session on Selection Day, scheduled for December 18. You will receive an email about this from us on the evening of December 16.
We recommend marking these two dates on your calendar in advance.
During the selection process, startups are screened based on their innovation, potential impact, and alignment with the program’s goals. Selected applicants are then invited to pitch on Selection Day, where they present to C-level executives and experts from Allianz Türkiye and the Tenity team.
A payment of 400,000 TL per startup will be provided as PoC support without any equity taken.
Startups in the program receive mentorship, participate in workshops, and access resources tailored to their focus area. They can also collaborate with Allianz Türkiye experts, explore potential partnerships, and expand their network within Allianz Türkiye and Tenity.
No, the HackZone Accelerator Program is free for selected startups. Participants gain access to all program benefits at no cost.
The program will start in January and conclude in June. During this period, online participation is required for Selection Day, and physical attendance is required for events such as Kick-off, Alumni Day, Investor Day, and Demo Day. Additionally, there is an 80% attendance requirement for online training sessions.
Support includes guidance from experienced mentors, tailored workshops, networking and PoC opportunities, and Tech perks.
While investment is not guaranteed, Allianz is open to potential collaborations and partnerships depending on the program's outcomes and mutual interest. As part of the program, we will connect you with VCs and angel networks that have made various investments, and if you are in the funding process, we will facilitate introductions to relevant investors.
Applications are accepted through our website during the open application period. Be sure to check our website and Tenity social media for announcements on application dates.
For additional inquiries, please reach out to Tenity Program Manager Gizem Severoglu Tigin at gizem.severoglu@tenity.com. We are happy to assist with any questions regarding the program or the application process.
