Title: Slush 2025 MoM 🚀
Date: 19–20 November 2025
Meeting With: Technology Innovators
Participants: Media, Investors, Startups, Volunteers
1. Purpose of the Meeting 💡
- Capture the SLUSH energy!
- Showcase iyzico capabilities
- Identify technology trends shaping fintech
2. Key Contacts
- Decision Maker: 13K+ total attendees
- Financial Contact: 3,500+ investors
- Champion / Main Contact: 1,700+ partners and ecosystem builders
- Technical Contact: 6,500+ founders
3. Discussion Summary
Current Setup
- $4T AUM
- 20K+ meetings
- 4 main stages, 150+ iconic speakers
- 600+ side events
Main Challenges
- No time for sleep
- No chance to explore the city
- No way to walk even 50 meters without networking
What We Proposed as iyzico 🔒
- The way of iyzico, fast, happy, easy
- Female Entrepreneurs Program
- 300B+ transaction volume, 14M protected shopping, 93% customer satisfaction powered by iyzico infrastructure
- Secure, regulation-ready payments architecture trusted by world-class companies
4. Agreed Action Items 📌
Follow Slush 100 Winner Closely
Follow Diffraqtion, AI backed cameras 20x better than any camera on the planet.“Still doubting Europe? GO TO HEL”
Track EU reaction on startup regulation landscape, interesting times ahead.
Still doubting Europe? GO TO HEL
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US vs China vs Europe Startup Comparison 🌍
- US Gen AI startups raised $50B+ in early 2025, high bar.
- China VC market projected at $47.6B+, competition in tech and scale is real.
- Europe tech funding rebounded €21B in Q3 2025.
5. Next Steps & Notes 🎯
- Be prepared for Slush 2026
- Include musicians in quarterly product retros
- “Great products are art, not science.” — Stephen Whitworth, CEO of incident.io
- Network with sailors and pirates
- Embrace the "shipping culture" mindset, key lesson from Doordash and Wolt
- Learn from Pieter van der Does
- Adyen scaling payments globally requires the right strategy of talent and culture
- JSON is dead, TOON on next.
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