159 Startup Battle Dubai in Dubai, 25 September, 2019
Startups
Healthigo
ONE MOTO
Carasti
Upswot
B2Butterfly
TruckonClick
help4u.today
Yovza
LOKACI
Judges
V.Gowribalan (Gowri)
Issa Aghabi
Usama Wahab Khan
Preeti Chaudhary
Sohail Munir
Jazeer Jamal
Muhammad Salman Anjum
Saeed Al Nofeli
Anshul Srivastav
Rahul Mandal
Speakers
Muhammad Salman Anjum
Jazeer Jamal
Saeed Al Nofeli
V.Gowribalan (Gowri)
Agenda
The Agenda of the event:
16:30 – 17:00 – Registration (please, bring your ID and a ticket)
17:00 – 17:10 – Organizers presentation
17:10 – 18:00 – Panel discussion with Venture Industry Experts
18:00 – 18:15 – Coffee break
18:15 – 19:30 – Startups presentation
19:30 – 20:00 – Networking: a great opportunity to establish the right and reliable personal contacts
About:
If you were in Dubai yesterday – you should have seen unbelievably happy people coming out of One JLT tower out of cozy ONE JLT - One Business Centre DMCC around 9:00 pm!
And there was a good reason for that – our 159 Startup Battle in Dubai just have ended.
It was a great event with highly-respected judges from different spheres of VC industry, guests representing different businesses and really wonderful startups had come together that night for the event hosted by Startup.Network and sponsored by Network VCFund (https://network.vc/).
And, as always, we had a contest for spartups pitching that night and the winner got it all! Healthigo - Healthcare Engagement Platform - who got the 1st prize - was overwhelmed with emotions: he got really good attention from the judges willing to learn more about his project during private meetings afterwards. He also was welcomed by Startup.Network for the next Startup Battle we will held in Benagluru on November 6. https://battle.startup.network/events/402244/
Two other contestants: one.moto (electric Moto transport production) and Carasti (Car subscription App) were also greeted with the 2nd and 3rd palaces correspondingly and established solid business relations right after the event as well!
So, everyone was happy and satisfied – especially we – for making this world a little better by helping great ideas come true in life.
Thank you Dubai for being a great place for us! Looking forward to coming here again and again!
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.
