A municipal company near Madrid connects founders with real users, turns public roofs into power plants and puts new technology through everyday tests. The useful part is what happens after the pitch.
Free support is the easy part to explain. Tech Istanbul’s more interesting offer is a chance to test a startup’s product inside the machinery of Istanbul’s municipal services.
The Boston nonprofit pairs startup training with prepaid city pilots. Its real test comes after the pitch: getting a charger onto a curb, a map into local hands, and a useful experiment into everyday service.