Startup Battles in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, 11 February, 2019
Startups
Judges
Dr. Sara Al Madani
Sohail Munir
Anshul Srivastav
Issa Aghabi
Ovais Naqvi
Tarek Karaman
Jean-Luc Scherer
Anvita Varshney
Imran Sarwar
Jazeer Jamal
Shmuel Bornstein, CPA
Marc Green
Omri Toppol
Esther Barak Landes
Eran Yarkoni
Volodia Voronel
Leonid Beder
Rafael Aviram
Eric Edelstein
Agenda
The Startup Battle Agenda:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Panel Discussion.
During this section, the true sharks of the investment business and so-called old-timers of the market will speak about the latest trends, share their own experiences and answer questions.
7:00 pm – 7:15 pm: coffee break.
7:15 pm – 8:30 pm: Pitch Competition.
The second stage is devoted to presentations by entrepreneurs. Each founder will have 6 minutes: 3 minutes for a pitch, and 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions from Judges.
Based on the results of the Judges’ online voting, one startup will be chosen as the winner of the Startup Battle.
From 9:00 pm: Party.
Funds
About:
Startup.Network is pleased to announce,
the next Startup Battles will take place in the UAE & Israel!
We have already conducted more than 120 Startup Battles in various countries.This are events where the most promising startups from all over the world compete for the attention of select members of Venture Funds and Angel investors. This pitch competition is where Investors could meet their “rough diamonds”.
The Battles will be held this Winter:
- in Abu Dhabi on Feb 11, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm;
- in Dubai on Feb 13, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm;
- in Jerusalem on Feb 18, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm;
- in Tel Aviv on Feb 20, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.
Pitch at the Startup Battle is a great opportunity:
- raise money from venture funds and private investors;
- find partners and clients;
- acquire practical advice from Judges;
- improve the network.
If you’re interested in participating, please register your startup and fill out the profile. Upon reviewing your application the Startup.Network team will contact you with feedback.
The participation cost for the 4 events (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv):
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Super Early Bird: until December 15th, 2018 - $3000;
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Early Bird: until January 15th, 2019 - $4500;
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Regular: until February 10th, 2019 - $6000.
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Super Early Bird: until December 15th, 2018 - $3995;
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Early Bird: until January 15th, 2019 - $5600;
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Regular: until February 10th, 2019 - $7995.
* The participation fees do not include visa processing, air travel, or lodging.
The Startup Battle Agenda:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Panel Discussion.
During this section, the true sharks of the investment business and so-called old-timers of the market will speak about the latest trends, share their own experiences and answer questions.
7:00 pm – 7:15 pm: coffee break.
7:15 pm – 8:30 pm: Pitch Competition.
The second stage is devoted to presentations by entrepreneurs. Each founder will have 6 minutes: 3 minutes for a pitch, and 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions from Judges.
Based on the results of the Judges’ online voting, one startup will be chosen as the winner of the Startup Battle.
From 9:00 pm: Party.
After the business format event participants will be invited to the Party at the restaurant. This is a good opportunity to spend time with the right audience from the venture community in an informal setting combining business pleasure .
The Ticket Cost for Guests of the Startup Battle - $20
* Ticket is non-refundable.
See you soon at the Startup Battles!
Testimonials
Ok, yes I'm excited that we won the Startup Battle this week. But mostly I want to let my other entrepreneur friends out there know that this event is really great. The Judges were all very impressive active investors - and all super engaged with Q&A and feedback - the programming beforehand was excellent, and all the companies that pitched were outstanding. If you have an opportunity to participate in one of these events, do it!
The main thing I would like to share is the event went beyond our expectations.
The venue was really full of interested people and even overcrowded, and that created the right emotional state for the pitching startups and for the audience. We met a few potential investors and made very valuable connections during networking.
After 1 month we are still in connection with the attendees of that Startup Battle. We are working on the Third Opinion Care development together.
We will definitely consider participating in the next events organized by the same team.
Thank you Startup Network for giving Fanalyze the opportunity to pitch at your event! I met some awesome founders and was able to network with several investors. I enjoyed pitching and learning about the other startups in different industries.
After participating in the Startup Battle, which was held by Startup.Network in the Silicon Valley, we gained tremendous amount of experience on how to build the startup and attract investments. Especially it was very cool to talk with MS. He gave us a lot of advice. If it were no it for this event, we would not be able to get such advice. Then we actively worked on searching for investors which we did. We began due diligence but we realised that we did not want to take any investments on the early stage. Again, useful advice from Mike Sandler, his criticism to be precise, helped us to find the way. At this point, we have several investors from among the surgeons, but for now, we are managing on our own.
Now we have an MVP that is not just a set of tools but a surgical robot. The manufacturing of the primary product is taking place in Taiwan. At this point, it is on the stage of being certified.
If somebody asks me whether I need any investments in the early stages, I will say no. It is significantly more important to develop the right network and to get proper advice.
Everything that happened is the credit to Startup.Network!
I want to thank Statup.Network for precious experience and help we've got during startup battles in USA and Berlin.
Mentors your team chooses for jury on battles are always very professional and ready to help.
We got valuable feedback and a good quantity of insights.
Raccoon.World team continues communication and builds relationships with several investors we met on the battles.
Hello!
We took part in several Startup Battles, organised by Startup.Network, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Almaty, Kharkov and attended Startup Battle in San Francisco.
I believe that it helped us to be selected from more than 1000 competitors for acceleration program in the Netherlands, where we were the only startup from Eastern Europe.
Attending the Startup Battles is very beneficial for expending networking and gaining useful feedback. In particular, the feedback, what we got on Startup Battle, from the investor form the Silicon Valley helped us to find new and more perspective niche and make the pivot. We would be glad to collaborate with the Startup.Network team again.
We took part in two Startup.Network events: Startup Battle in Moscow and Startup BAttle in Silicon Valley.
We won the 1st place in Moscow and got a lot of attention from the media and investors. After that event, we received lots of useful pieces of advice and attended meetings with investors.
And we won the 3d place in Silicon Valley, and right after the pitch Marvin Liao
(Partner 500 Startups) offered us to join 500 Startups accelerator. Being acquainted with Marwin helped us one more time in Moscow in some time.
We would be glad to pitch at Startup Battles again!
Thank you.
