MIT Arab Business Plan Competition Announces Top 12 Finalist Teams
MIT Arab Business Plan competition which organize a yearly business plan competition for Arab startups has announced round 3 finalists.
12 teams from 30 semi-finalist teams hat qualified for Round 3. The 12 teams will fly to Tunisia and attend a coaching session with Booz & Co. guiding them through how to better perform in oral presentations and pitch their ideas in front of investors. The final award ceremony will be taking place in Tunisia on Friday, June 17. The 3 winning teams will receive up to $65,000 in prize money to help them take their business to the next level.
Here is the list of teams as per MIT Arab Business Plan Competition website:
| AlKhawarizmy Language Software | High-Tech, Telecommunications, and Software | Hossam Eldin Mahgoub
Noha Fathi Mostafa Helmy Yasser Shaaban Mohamed Ibrahim Tarek Sayed Maissa Megahed |
Egypt | |
| 2 | BasharSoft | High-Tech, Telecommunications, and Software | Muhammad Algarhy
Ahmed Mostafa Ahmed ElSharkawy Ameer Sherif |
Egypt |
| 3 | Bit Bait | Agriculture | Abdel Yamine Zeinou
Rafahat Zeinou Soumia Yahiaa |
Algeria |
| 4 | Buffle.com | High-Tech, Telecommunications, and Software | Aboud Akhdir
Elias Dabbas Kinda Sayegh |
Jordan |
| 5 | CardioDiagnostics | Health and HealthCare | Ziad Sankari
Ramzi Farchoukh Wassim Shatila Najwa Sahmarani |
Lebanon |
| 6 | Diabetes Healthcare | Health and HealthCare | Rehab Mahmoud Moh’d
Jalal Bani Younes Mashhour Bani Amer |
Jordan |
| 7 | iNavigator | High-Tech, Telecommunications, and Software | Rasha Ahmed
Asem Mohamed Mahmoud Salaheldin |
Egypt |
| 8 | Marhaba | Entertainment, Recreation, Travel, and Tourism | Pascale Baaklini
Pierre Daher Ghady Felefleh Jessica Abou Haydar |
Lebanon |
| 9 | Presto Wireless | High-Tech, Telecommunications, and Software | Alaa Khalifeh
Matt Knebl Hassan Selim Shankara Raghurama |
Egypt |
| 10 | PT Screen | High-Tech, Telecommunications, and Software | Mostafa Tawfik Mostafa
Cherif Atia Mostafa Ahmed Samir Awad |
Egypt |
| 11 | TalebTech | Education and Training | Zaid Tufaha
Dana Abu Hamdan Omayyah Abu Hamdan |
Jordan |
| 12 | Wild Guanabana | Entertainment, Recreation, Travel, and Tourism | Omar Samra
Marwa Fayed Amr El Salanekly |
Egypt |
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Gaith Saqer | May 20th, 2011 at 12:14 AM #
congrats ArabCrunch DEMO Startup: AlKhawarizmy Language Software
Adil | June 10th, 2011 at 7:07 PM #
I am genuinly happy to see new tech competitions and startups in the arab world. But we are still to see the outcome. Investors are still not doing their part of the deal. No funding, no talent acquisition, no new markets
Arab startups are doomed to stay small local players. Hope this will change one day.