圣artup Weekend Dubai Runs A 54-Hour Educational Experience For 'Treps圣artup Weekend Dubai 2015, a 54-hour annual event, was staged at AstroLabs headquarters in Jumeirah Lake Towers from November 19-21.

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圣artup Weekend Dubai2015, a 54-hour annual event, was staged at AstroLabs headquarters in Jumeirah Lake Towers from November 19-21. Organized in over 150 countries, more than 250 cities ran the Startup Weekend Global Startup Battle simultaneously last month. In the UAE alone, 103 entrants took part and 44 of those entrepreneurs even rose to the challenge of a 60-second warm up pitch on day one.

Supported by Platinum partner SOTI, Gold partnersAstroLabs, Bird & Bird, SnappCard and Uber, and Silver partnersCarpool Arabia,Flat6Labs, DotShabaka, Stationary Inc., The Sustainability Platform,Vaniday, VentureFin, andWOMENA, the event's "overall objective is to teach entrepreneurs the basics of how to get their business off of the ground through a structured process. It exposes them to mentors and facilitators who volunteer their time throughout the weekend tohelp the startups achieve the best possible results in an educational environment," explains Aya Sadder, Lead Organizer, Startup Weekend Dubai.

Aya Sadder, Lead Organizer, Startup Weekend Duba

The first place winner, MyCars, is a model that allows users to find cars to rent in different cities and included team members Ben Pullen, Benjamin de Terssac, Finney Thomas, Heloise Andrade, and Zahed Mirza. Second place winner Fitness Buddies, a model based on matching users with other users forworkouts, was made up of team members Amit Vaghasiya, Darreen Al-hiyari, Hina Gulzar, Jiahao Liu, Richard Humberstone, and Andrew Broekelmann.

Second place winner Fitness Buddies

第三位得主Wa9faat.com,由艾哈迈德buSaad and Abdulhadi Hafez, facilitates access to Arabic recipes via referral. The B2B prizewinner of the event, VVIP, was made of up team members Andrey Simeonov, Danni Lu, Saber Ghaith, and Sajad Ahmed.

Third place winner Wa9faat.com

MEET THE JUDGES

Joshua RajkumarCo-founder, The Sustainability Platform

Chantalle DumonceauxCo-founder, WOMENA

Muhammed MekkiFounding Partner, AstroLabs

Herve? CollignonFounder, HOOKS Strategy & Innovation

Emad GhanemRegional Manager Middle East and Gulf Region, SOTI Inc.

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