Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to Bahrain on December 15th, 2016 to host Seedstars MENA Regional Summit at CH9 Hub in Manama.
The goal for this event is to find the world’s most innovative startups in emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes. Every year ambassadors of Seedstars World travel around the world to organize local pitch competition events in order to find the best startups in each region. In Iran, this event has been held for 3 years now. Blocks, a modular smart watch won the first place and advanced to the world finals in the first year of the event in Iran. For the second year, SmartBeen, an IoT startup which helps greenhouse owners to manage and analyze their greenhouses won the first prize of the event. For the third event which took place in September 2016 in Tehran, 2nate a crowdfunding website took home the first prize of the event and got invited to the global event in Geneva. 2nate will also pitch at Seedstars CEE regional summit as Iran’s representative on December 3rd, 2016 in Kazakhstan.
The Regional Summit is the culmination of Seedstars’ work to develop the MENA entrepreneurial ecosystem throughout the year. The event will bring together startups from Tunisia, Egypt, UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, GCC, and Algeria to pitch in front of an audience of 300 investors, media, and entrepreneurial representatives. All of the participants are the winners from their respective countries and following the MENA Regional Summit they will travel to the Global Summit in Switzerland on April 6 to represent the region as they compete with 65 startup winners from around the world for investments and prizes over $500K.
The MENA Regional Summit will commence with a bootcamp for the participating startups and culminate with a Conference and Pitch event on December 15th that will feature the startup pitches, keynotes ,and panel discussions that will engage a range of topics and ideas pertinent to entrepreneurs in the region. The conference will showcase success stories of entrepreneurs who scaled successfully and look into the success factors as well as the elements that still need to be improved in order to allow a MENA startup to scale and compete on a global stage.
Source: techrasa.com
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