SPEAKERS

Muhammad Salman Anjum
Managing Director at Avantas Technology Accelerator
Bin Zayed Group
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Tarek Ahmed Fouad
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Vishal Pandey
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Muhammed Yesilhark
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Abdul Rahman
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JUDGES

Vishal Pandey
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Muhammed Yesilhark
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Tarek Ahmed Fouad
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Muhammad Salman Anjum
Managing Director at Avantas Technology Accelerator
Bin Zayed Group
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Richard Stockdale
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Jazeer Jamal
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Yalman A. Khan
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Dr. Christiane Schloderer
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Mukund Menda
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Khalid Shaikh
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Sajith R Channadathu
Managing Partner, Olmec Consulting
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Kevin R. Soltani
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Rahul Mandal
Transformation Specialist at Group AMANA
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Dr. Anuraag Guglaani
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Jad El Boustani
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Usama Wahab Khan
Managing Partner at Evolution Capital
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Abdul Rahman
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Rita Sudheer
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Varis Sayed
Investor at Fincasa group, Medley Capital & Key investments.
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Jason King
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Anvita Varshney
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ORGANISERS

Startups pitching live

Buglance
Average rate:
4.33
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Vivoo
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3.42
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iLearn Business Intelligence
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3.20
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PatentBot
Average rate:
3.08
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Raccoon
Average rate:
2.92
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Paloma365
Average rate:
2.75
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Cardiomo Care
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2.36
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exeDrive
Average rate:
1.67
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Body Forming VR Suit
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Startup Battle,
April 24, 2019

Buglance is the winner of the 143rd Startup Battle, Dubai!

Startup.Network is grateful to our Experts and Guests for participating at the event and supporting the Startups’ Teams.

During the event, nine promising startups revealed their projects to a wide audience.

The Judges' panel of the 143rd Startup Battle, Dubai included:

- Anvita Varshney, Co-Founder of Dubai Angel Investors | Digital Advisor at Delta Partners | Mentor at YourNest Venture Capital;

- Khalid Shaikh, Founder, CEO of Prognica Labs and Affaan Technologies;

- Rahul Mandal, Management Consultant with more than 5 years of experience focused on emerging markets, including the Middle East;

- Usama Wahab Khan, Managing Partner at Evolution Capital (VC) | Community Speaker at Microsoft| CTO at Evolution Technologies’s;

- Rita Sudheer, Senior Executive - Investments & Research at ASA Ventures;

- Sajith R Channadathu, Management Consultant Dubai;

- Muhammed Yesilhark, Chief Investment Officer at Q2Q Capital;

- Abdul Rahman, Investment Associate at VentureSouq;

- Dr Anuraag Guglaani, Investor and mentor for Startups;

- Dr Christiane Schloderer, CEO at Growth Partners;

- Yalman A. Khan, Managing Partner at Nakeiya Ventures;

- Richard Stockdale, President of the UAE Regional Board of the City of London’s Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI).

You should attend Startup Battles not just for watching Pitch Competition but also for listening to Panel Discussion. Each event we assemble a great number of sophisticated speakers and moderators. At the 143rd Startup Battle, the Panel Discussion was dedicated to the topic “How to structure your startup to get investors excited”.

Meet the Speakers of the Discussion:

- Tarek Ahmed Fouad, Venture Growth Manager at Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center;

- Muhammed Yesilhark, Chief Investment Officer at Q2Q Capital;

- Abdul Rahman, Investment Associate at VentureSouq.

The Discussion was moderated by Muhammad Salman Anjum, TechPreneur | Author | TED Speaker | Moderator | Trainer | CIPD | PwC Faculty. Mr Muhammad asked our Speakers the following questions:

- What are 3 important elements you want to see in the startup when you see their pitch deck?

- What are the common errors you see when startups approach funds/VCs?

- What stage of startup attracts you to invest and why?    

- Any particular emerging technology you are betting on for the “next big thing”? For startups to focus on…

- 1 tip you want to give to startups which are battling today?

The second part of the Battle was devoted to the Pitch Competition. The entrepreneurs did their best to present their truly innovative startups.

During the competition, Judges marked the Startups.

Buglance becomes the leader according to the Judges voting.

Buglance is crowdtesting platform, connect testers with software development companies.

Toghrul Samad, CEO Buglance: “It was an amazing experience participating in the Startup Battle and hearing feedback from the jury and discussing with potential Investors. Thank you for choosing us as the winner of the 143 Startup Battle.”


Here are ratings:

First place: Buglance - 4.3

Second place: Vivoo - 3.4

Vivoo - wellness app that guides users to a healthier lifestyle with personalized advice based on their urine tests.

Third place: iLearn Business Intelligence - 3.2

Fourth places: PatentBot - 3.08

Fifth place: Raccoon.Recovery - 2.91

Sixth place: Paloma 365 - 2.75

Seventh place: Cardiomo Care - 2.36

Eighth place: exeDrive - 1.66

Ninth place: Body Forming VR Suit - 1.5

We hope that was a good experience for all Entrepreneurs and wish them good luck.

Special grateful to our Partner, Quadrate 28 DMCC, who presented the certificate for 1000$ on the firm’s service.

Quadrate 28 DMCC is a marketing team on demand in Dubai, which belongs to the group of companies Quadrate 28 Corp.

Key specialization is marketing strategy + promo plan and implementation of marketing solutions.

Main customers are a small and medium business of various fields: HoReCa, healthcare, retail, services, technologies, education, telecommunications, consulting and others.

Quadrate 28 DMCC helps companies achieve business goals by building a marketing system from scratch or by improving and adapting an already enabled model. We save time for business owners to select a marketing team by forming working groups and take all operational day-to-day marketing activity upon ourselves.

Next Startup Battles will be held in the USA: the

144th Startup Battle, San Francisco on May 23rd and the 145th Startup Battle, Los Angeles on May 30th.

Feel free to invest in promising startups with Startup.Network!

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