9th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition

ROADSHOW 2015

WHO ARE WE?

Launched in 2006, the MIT Enterprise Forum of the

Pan Arab Region is one of the 28 worldwide chapters

of the MIT Enterprise Forum Global, an avid promoter

of entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide.

www.mitefarab.org

WHO ARE WE?

To INSPIRE young ARAB entrepreneurs through

ROLE MODELS

OUR MISSION

To DEVELOP and NURTURE a culture of

ENTREPRENEURSHIP across the ARAB REGION

OUR MISSION

Organized by the MIT EF Pan Arab Region in partnership

with Community Jameel and Zain, the MIT Arab

Competition is one of the biggest entrepreneurship

competitions engaging entrepreneurs in training,

mentorship, exposure and networking.

mitarabcompetition.com

COMPETITION

FACTS & FIGURES

FACTS & FIGURES

Received

5000+ applications

Applications’ Countries Distribution (2014-2015)

RUNNING IN TRACKS

WHO ARE WE?

Are you an ENTREPRENEUR

with just an idea?

IDEAS TRACK

Eligibility Criteria

No registration

No prototype

No funding

No sales

WHO ARE WE?

Are you an ENTREPRENEUR

generating some revenues?

STARTUPS TRACK

Eligibility Criteria

Registration in one of the Arab countries

Ready working prototype

Some user traction

Some sales

WHO ARE WE?

Are you an ENTREPRENEUR

With a sustainable project addressing a

SOCIAL problem?

SE TRACK

Eligibility Criteria

Core product addressing a social issue

Registration in one of the Arab countries

JUDGING CRITERIA

WHO ARE WE?

WHO ARE WE?

TIMELINE 2015-2016

OUR PARTNERS

SCHEDULE APRIL 2016

Lean Startup

Training

Part 1

Lean Startup

Training

Part 2

Round 2 Judging Speed Dating Finalists Announcement

Round 3 Judging Final Award Ceremony Gala Dinner Winners Announcement

Full Day Conference

WHO ARE WE?

MIT Technology Review Arab Edition is the

regional edition of MIT Technology Review, the world’s most

established technology publication founded in 1899.

It’s mission is to equip the audiences with the intelligence to

understand a world shaped by technology.

www.techreviewpanarab.com

CONFERENCE

2014-2015 GLIMPSE +300 Arab ENTREPRENEURS attended, in addition to

speakers, mentors, and investors from around the world.

Launched for the first time in June 2014, the "Arab World Meets

Silicon Valley" Program, also known as the Global Track, is a week-

long immersive program in San Francisco, where entrepreneurs

participate in premier conferences and take part in diverse workshop,

mentorship, and pitching sessions with experts, industry leaders,

investors, members of the Diaspora community, and other successful

entrepreneurs.

GLOBAL TRACK

GLOBAL TRACK

IN THE MEDIA

CONNECT WITH US

WHO ARE WE?

Kamkalima

Winner 2014, Lebanon

• It is a web‐based platform that

transforms writing assignments

into a competition‐based activity.

• The platform is unique in the world of

K‐12 Education, since it creates a safe

and secure social network, where

students and teachers can share their

artwork with the school community,

which are then used to compose

stories, articles, poetry, letters, and

other forms of writing.

SUCCESS STORIES

The Little Engineer

Winner 2010, Lebanon

• Provide its students with a hands-

on experience in selected scientific

topics.

• The Little Engineer is therefore,

positioned as a serious scientific

foundation geared towards

becoming a recognized pre-

engineering school in the areas of

Robotics & Renewable Energy

Sciences.

SUCCESS STORIES

I mimic

Winner 2015, Iraq

• A solution to solve the problem of

the complexity of motion capture.

• It is the technique used to move 3D

characters through a suit worn by

the person doing the act; through

which he can control the 3D

character, and is recorded in the

suit’s software in a movement file

format and then it will be exported

to 3D design programs.

SUCCESS STORIES

Colorbug

Winner 2015, UAE

• An augmented reality edutainment

application that magically brings

kids’ storytelling and coloring books

to life.

• Received award from the Lebanese

Ministry of Communications and

Touch on their success.

SUCCESS STORIES

Concure - Ateeq

Winner 2015, KSA

• Concure is a startup company that

introduces an innovative solution

that meets the construction market

pain of having an approach for

concrete curing process.

• The company employs 50 women.

SUCCESS STORIES

SudaMed

Winner 2014, Sudan

• Sudan’s first and only online medical

directory

• 16 different medical services in 5

countries, with 672 full time employees

• Named as one of the 2014 Washington

fellows for Young African Leaders

• Featured in the Wall Street Journal

• Speaker at the Mashable’s Social Good

Summit 2014

SUCCESS STORIES

Looly’s

Winner 2014, Morocco

• The first impact-driven food start-up in

the MENA Region

• Underwent a 4-month acceleration

program at MassChallenge

• Awarded the Startup with the Best

Social Impact by the Skoll Foundation

and the Best Woman Entrepreneur by

Google for Entrepreneurs

SUCCESS STORIES

Instabeat

Winner 2012, Lebanon

• A heart-rate tracking technology for

swimmers

• Received double of the target amount

through the crowdfunding campaign on

Indiegogo from 45 countries

• Named by Forbes as one of the Hottest

Global Startups of 2013

• Features in The Wall Street Journal;

TechCrunch ; Mashable ; SwimSwam;

Gizmodo ; PSFK

SUCCESS STORIES

Silkroad Images (Gallery ElSharq)

Winner 2013, Jordan

• An online platform that sells oriental

media services (images, sound effects,

videos) meeting the specific needs of

various audiences from advertising

agencies to individuals in the MENA

region

SUCCESS STORIES

SUCCESS STORIES

YUZU

Finalist 2015, Morocco

• Through an online platform, Yuzu offers

a list of diversified meals that users

can choose to cook.

• After ordering online, the company

delivers the ingredients cleaned, cut,

weighed, and adapted to the number of

people indicated by the customer.

Following an index card delivered with

the products, each customer is guided

through the cooking process, step by

step.

SUCCESS STORIES

Kotobna

Finalist 2015, Egypt • The first online self-publishing platform that

helps authors securely publish their work and

reach millions of online Arab readers

• Young authors of comics, novels, research

papers and collections have the opportunity

to get the exposure they need and reach a

wide network of around 30 million users in

just a few simple steps

SUCCESS STORIES

EXA.IO

Semifinalist 2015, Bahrain

• EXA.io is a Supercomputing based,

Rendering-as-a-Service. Rendering time is

not a problem anymore!

Simply upload your file for processing on our

high performance supercomputers and you’ll

have your output before you’re back from

your coffee break. In fact, even before you prepare that coffee..

SUCCESS STORIES

Project io

Finalist 2015, Jordan • Project io is a 3-D mobile reconstruction and

measurement technology company in a wide

range of industries, from apparel fit to

prosthetics to furniture.

SUCCESS STORIES

CashBasha

Arab World Meets Silicon Valley

Program 2015, Jordan

• Allows you to shop on Amazon & pay with

CASH!

• Provide our customers with a seamless &

unlimited buying experience from any online

business