SANI Speaker Series Easter Celebration had taken place at the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, featuring two KTH Alumni, Emre Danacı and Erdi Yerebasmaz. After working at private sector for a while, they started working on projects to improve the personal donations in Turkey by providing simple solutions to people. At 2014, they started Yuvarla, which is a social startup as non-profit organization.
Yuvarla converts the donation boxes we see in the shops to digital world and new payment practices. As a team of two, they’ve converted more than 1 million shoppings into donations and touched to lives of people who are in need. Yuvarla, has been awarded with lots of rewards from lots of universities, international organizations and private sector companies, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Intel, SAP etc.