Startup Grind Doha in partnership with Jeeb is bringing a first-ever pitch battle event to Qatar for the local startup community featuring a pitching competition where local founders will battle it out to win exciting prizes for the best pitch.
We are calling all early-stage entrepreneurs - who are planning to launch, contemplating to launch, wondering if they should launch, or even dreaming they had a startup to launch.
What are we looking for:
- 0 to 2 years early-stage startups
- Pre-launch, MVP Stage, Ideation stage
- Qatar based
- A unique 5-minute pitch that creatively displays your business model.
What do you get :
- 5000 QAR Cash prize for the winning team.
- In-Kind rewards of up to 100,000 USD by companies like - Hubspot, Chargebee, Mixpanel, American Express, Zendesk, DuploCloud, and many more.
- Chance to network with Investors, key people involved in the Qatari startup ecosystem, and serial entrepreneurs.
- Meet local partners and startup services
Submit your pitch deck here - https://forms.gle/tCE2NhdmUQdjh64t9
Jeeb
Founder
Bashar, fondly known as BJ, founded Jeeb -the easiest grocery delivery app in Qatar, following successful experiences with many e-commerce companies. Bashar is one of the youngest entrepreneur in the Middle East to have launched an internet business and revolutionise grocery delivery. He is also pursuing his degree (in his third year) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, en…
Bashar, fondly known as BJ, founded Jeeb -the easiest grocery delivery app in Qatar, following successful experiences with many e-commerce companies. Bashar is one of the youngest entrepreneur in the Middle East to have launched an internet business and revolutionise grocery delivery. He is also pursuing his degree (in his third year) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, encompassing IoT, ML, and branches of AI. While he also is backed with an impressive track record of accomplishment with numerous endeavours at such a young age.
Etoile Creative
Co-Founder
Étoile @etoilecreativestudio is a digital and creative agency located in Doha.
Their services include user experience design, branding, digital marketing, social media management, public relations, and business strategy. They have 10+ years of experience in developing and supporting brands in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Étoile supports Startup Grind Doha Pitch Battle by providing pitching and deck design mentorship.
Business Start Up Qatar
Founder & Co-Owner
Steve is the Founder of Business Start Up Qatar, a Partner at Soutien Group and the Chief Executive Officer of Solutions Four.
He has assisted more than fifty companies to establish in Qatar and plays a role in the startup ecosystem here. He is the host of “In the Game”, Qatar’s first sports podcast, a speaker at events and initiatives, a mentor for start-ups and scale-ups and an advisor to small/medium-sized enterprises.
In essence, he builds bridges between those who need help and those who can help in line with his purpose to advance, enhance and improve the ease of doing business in the State of Qatar and the Middle East & Africa.
Workinton
Country Manager
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Founder
Ministry of Communication & Information Technology
Innovation Consultant
Business Start Up Qatar
Founder & Co-Owner
European Business Angels Network
Board Memer
A New York University graduate in Business and Technology Management, Kerem Mergen has been involved with the coworking industry since the beginning. Establishing Qatar’s first innovation-driven coworking space - Workinton Qatar in 2018, Kerem has been playing a key role raising market awareness, while leading the business growth across Qatar and Oman.
Workinton’s General Manager in Qatar and Oman has completed five projects, grown the square meters in capacity and number of members by approximately five times over the last four years, giving a compound annual growth rate of 150% since the establishment of Workinton Qatar. By introducing and adopting Enterprise model for the first time in Qatar, he completed a 1,700 sqm project for the World’s largest Private Bank: UBS.
After the recent development and launch of Workinton M7, Kerem Mergen still remains very excited for Workinton’s future in the region, as he is currently working on further expansions.
Bashar, fondly known as BJ, founded Jeeb -the easiest grocery delivery app in Qatar, following successful experiences with many e-commerce companies. Bashar is one of the youngest entrepreneur in the Middle East to have launched an internet business and revolutionise grocery delivery. He is also pursuing his degree (in his third year) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, encompassing IoT, ML, and branches of AI. While he also is backed with an impressive track record of accomplishment with numerous endeavours at such a young age.
Heba Al Masri’s career has been dedicated to innovation and investing in technologies that have a global impact. Since 2008, she has built successful innovation hubs in the United States & Middle East, became a certified Executive Coach, and earned membership to the International Business Incubation Association. Some career highlights include winning the Small Business Innovation Award in 2008, leading a program that earned the Best Higher Education Institute in Entrepreneurship in 2012, and earning the Most Innovative Company in Qatar from Qatar Financial Centre in 2019. She is currently managing the innovation programs within the Digital Incubation Center at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in Doha, Qatar.
Steve is the Founder of Business Start Up Qatar, a Partner at Soutien Group and the Chief Executive Officer of Solutions Four.
He has assisted more than fifty companies to establish in Qatar and plays a role in the startup ecosystem here. He is the host of “In the Game”, Qatar’s first sports podcast, a speaker at events and initiatives, a mentor for start-ups and scale-ups and an advisor to small/medium-sized enterprises.
In essence, he builds bridges between those who need help and those who can help in line with his purpose to advance, enhance and improve the ease of doing business in the State of Qatar and the Middle East & Africa.
MARCEL BRUNO DRIDJE is a British Citizen currently leading these Initiatives:
Sophia Business Angels President / EBAN Board Member / Mentor at The Camp Aix en Provence
France / Mentor at the ISA BICC Cork Ireland/ Executive Coach / Business Angels trainer /
International Business Dev and GTM Strategist.
A seasoned European Sales Executive, Marcel has substantial field experience helping IT and
Telecom start-ups in the US and EMEA. Marcel has a broad range of experience in all aspects
of sales, marketing, communication and management with direct experience with Fortune
500 enterprises (IBM, Nortel, Lucent, Cisco, EMC, ALU) and start-ups (Quantum, Andrew
Networks, Pluris, Corvis, Ascend and Airespace). During the course of his career he has held
VP roles most notably as VP EMEA Corvis (first all optical router) where he grew the team
and business to an outstanding success. Of French-Algerian and British origin, Marcel
launched his career after completing a BSC in Electronics and Computer Science from
Portsmouth Polytechnic UK. He walked away from his first position with IBM UK as an
Applications Engineer greatly relieved to embark on a career in sales…his forte and passion.
Bi-Lingual in French and English with a working knowledge of Spanish, Italian, German and
Arabic.
Three major highlights from his career include helping Airespace to be the #2 WLAN in EMEA
market share and positioned Cisco to be #1 WLAN vendor worldwide. He has helped start
promoting Cisco VCE alliance (VMware, EMC, Cisco) and the BMC OEM relationship to Kick
Start their first SP IaaS Cloud offering on a worldwide basis .He also pioneered the French ISP
Internet business while leading Ascend’s insertion into FT/Orange first ISP business to
include ISDNET, OLEANE and Internetway back in 1995-1999.
Marcel most recently left CISCO Systems in 2013 after 30 years in IT and Telecom Sales to
start his new venture as a Business Angel to help start-ups with seed money, VC connections
and International Business development & GTM Strategy. Ivas Systems ,FAVEEO ,Digitalarti
,OnePulse,Mpearl,Netwookie and Cyberflowanalytics ( Just acquired by Webroot Inc) are
some of his star ventures. Currently focusing on the new AI investments projects.
A self-proclaimed Serial Entrepreneur & Intrapreneur, Marcel loves new Challenges in
sharing his 30 years IT & Telecom experience with IT VC firms and new High-tech Start Ups
Ready to expand their Sales & Mktg success across EMEA, USA and APAC.
Currently he is giving Master Classes for both Junior and Senior BA associations across EMEA,
including the ‘Investment Readiness’ workshops for start-ups going through their Incubators
& Accelerators scale up programs
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