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The long awaited Arabnet Startup Championship 2019 is happening in a couple of weeks! The winning startups from Kuwait, Beirut, Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, and Baghdad will take the stage during Arabnet Beirut X on June 12 and 13 to pitch their businesses to an audience of high-level investors and entrepreneurs.

The contestants will be competing for a chance to win a $20K cash prize, acceleration scholarship in Silicon Valley, along with in-kind prizes! Make sure you register to watch the pitches firsthand and join us as we celebrate 10 years of tech & innovation.

The startups will be judged and graded by a roster of renowned judges including:

 

Meet the Startup Championship Finalists:

Augmental

Entrepreneurs: Paul Barakat Diab, Elie Nahas, Elie Matta

Country: Lebanon

Augmental is an educational technology application targeting school students. Course material is adapted to each student learning abilities using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and student engagement tools. 

BlocRecs

Entrepreneurs: Amir Abdel Baki, Hanady Al Ahmadieh, Rawane Madi

Country: Lebanon

BlocRecs is a blockchain-based platform launched in 2018. It allows recruiters to instantly validate the education and employment records of job candidates. Using this software can save HR and University registrars’ time and money, along with eliminating the risk of fraud.

Botme.com

Entrepreneurs: Saaid ElHakeem, Soliman Samy, Ayman Mohamed

Country: Egypt

Botme is a platform that combines 2 major functions: easy chatbot building and professional business operation management. The startup’s future plans include posting new innovations and providing developers with a place to post their own bot-related products.

Chefaa

Entrepreneurs: Doaa Aref, Rasha Rady

Country: Egypt

Chefaa is a mobile application that aids chronic patients order/schedule, refill, and locate their recurring medicine through a fully integrated system and AI structure.

Dada Babysitting

Entrepreneur: Laylan Attar

Country: Iraq

Dada Babysitting is an online platform that helps parents hire local babysitter for in-home care for their children for a temporary time.

Fallound

Entrepreneur: Stefano Fallaha

Country: Lebanon

Fallound, TIP’s 2^nd cycle alumni, is an application and software for cars that optimizes audio content based on commute time and personal interests. The company’s algorithm identifies the length of time users will be driving and selects a podcast with the same duration.

Gamiphy

Entrepreneurs: Aws Al-Nabulsi, Ramzi Barakat

Country: Palestine

Gamiphy is an innovative digital loyalty and gamification platform designed for online businesses to offer their customers incentives and rewards that ensure high engagement and retention levels.

Homoola

Entrepreneur: Ziyad Alhomaid

Country: KSA

Homoola is a tech-powered transportation solution company connecting customers who want to ship (shippers) with the service providers who deliver (carriers) by offering them an easy way to connect and perform complete transactions. 

MetaPharma

Entrepreneur: Hani Qassim

Country: Iraq

MetaPharma is Iraq’s 1^st and only pharmaceutical network platform for pharmacies, wholesale suppliers, and pharmaceutical companies.

Nutribox

Entrepreneur: Noora Alaskar

Country: Kuwait

Nutribox is an application that acts as the user’s personal nutritionist and healthy living coach. With their vast experience in the health sector, Nutribox helps people discover healthy places and find choices that work best for them. In addition, it connects them with their trusted nutritionist for constant support and guidance. 

PraxiLabs

Entrepreneurs: Khadija Elbedweihy, Essam El-Saadi

Country: Egypt

PraxiLabs aims to provide equal opportunity for an enhanced STEM education to students everywhere, by providing an immersive lab experience through 3D interactive virtual simulations of science labs that are accessible, usable, and affordable for educational institutions and students alike.

Sandoog

Entrepreneurs: Ahmed Malik, Mustafa Al Obaidi

Country: Iraq

Sandoog provides tech-based solutions for last-mile delivery and logistical issues in Iraq and beyond.

Searchie

Entrepreneur: Harvey Bennett

Country: UAE

Searchie is a talent acquisition platform that helps employers source, screen, and shortlist candidates by augmenting the skills of the flexible recruiter network with psychometric AI.

Seez

Entrepreneurs: Tarek Karbit, Andrew Karbit

Country: UAE

Seez  is a mobile application that simplifies the process of car purchases by providing a transparent AI-powered search engine. The time allocated for car hunting is majorly reduced through this app.