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 – 20:30 – Networking: a great opportunity to establish the right and reliable personal contacts
Meet the winners of the 188 Unicorn Battle in Dubai that took place at In5 Tech on March 1. The event was held thanks to the support of the Network.VC California Seed Fund and ICU.
1 place: AladdinB2BGlobal.com
It helps buyers to find the ideal supplier, and help suppliers to find the ideal buyers anywhere in the world. By matching them through technology, help them to meet each other, request and provide quotations, close the deal, secure the payment transaction via Aladdin pay, and even provide other trade activities such as find the best shipping options and inspections providers.
2 place: ZagTrader
A Global Markets platform that helps banks and financial institutions expand their business offerings and streamline all their operations.
3 place: Foloosi
A UAE Fintech startup facilitating consumer-to-business card payments by enabling the business to display QR code, Payment Link and API integrations for the customer to scan & pay.
We wish the rest of the participants good luck in the next battles!
Do not give up! Each of you deserve respect and ranks of unicorn!
We’d like to say special thanks for the great support and easy cooperation to our Co-Organizer and Venue Partner In5 Dubai represented by Rekha Setpal and Parvez Mohammed. Guys, you are really awesome!
We thank all judges for their keen interest in the projects, thoughtful questions and valuable comments: Alex Gemici, Jazeer Jamal, Vishal Pandey, Anne-Sophie Perret, Waqas Nakhwa, Khalid Shaikh, Ameen Allibhoy, Ruchi Dana, Hamdi Osman, Sajith R Channadathu, Rahul Mandal, Suresh Coelho, Danish Chotani and Muhammad Salman Anjum.
"Full house" seems to be great tradition of our Unicorn Battles in UAE:) We recommend all stay tuned not to miss the announcement of the next battle in Dubai. We plan to hold it in May, 2020.
If you want to join our events as a Partner or Sponsor, please do not hesitate to contact us directly: Elena ees@startup.network or Kate ki@startup.network. We are open to all offers and all countries :)
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I am so happy that I have participated in Dubai Unicorn Battle. Winning the 1st place of this prestigious award is one of many excitements. As an entrepreneur I am actively raising funds and super busy scaling my startup, therefore I was looking for battles with cash prizes! but after I attended the Unicorn Battle, the benefits were more rewarding than immediate cash. All the 18 judges were active investors or consultants who help raising investment, their feedbacks and advices were impressive and helpful to scale to the next level. The organization by Lena and Kateryna was great, the networking and coffee breaks allowed me to make new connections, and we got approached by two interested investors right after the award ceremony.
Will definitely participate again in the future.
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.