In 2025, METU assisted start-ups developing low-carbon technologies.

METU70 Venture Capital Investment Fund

Launched in 2025, the fund invests in start-ups founded by METU researchers, students and alumni, with energy among its priority sectors.

https://haber.metu.edu.tr/tr/2025/11/70inci-yilin-ilk-projesi-aciklandi-odtu70-girisim-sermayesi-yatirim-fonu/

METU Technopolis and METU-GÜNAM

• METU Technopolis hosts more than 450 technology companies and runs pre-incubation, incubation and acceleration programmes. METU-GÜNAM gives solar-energy start-ups access to its laboratories and expertise.

• In 2025, METU-GÜNAM was an active stakeholder in TÜBİTAK's BiGG-LABSOUT programme, which supports researchers in turning laboratory results into start-ups: across two call rounds in 2025 it gave expert input to the technical and commercial evaluation of applications.

https://odtugunam.org/medya/faaliyet-raporlari/ODT%C3%9C-G%C3%9CNAM_2025_Y%C4%B1l%C4%B1_Faaliyet_Raporu.pdf

• In 2025, METU Technopolis acted as a pilot site for Voltfox, a carbon-accounting start-up that calculates electricity-related (Scope 2) emissions hour by hour. The proof of concept, run on the technopolis campus's electricity use, found that the traditional annual-average method over-reported emissions by about 27% (4,557 tCO₂e against 3,590 tCO₂e with hourly accounting), and that the technopolis's on-site solar power plant cut its location-based emissions by about 18% in May and June (Voltfox case study, 30 September 2025).

https://voltfox.io/proving-whats-really-there-voltfox-x-odtu-teknokent/