The Euromena Awards was held at the heart of the startup ecosystem in Lebanon

December 6th, 2018 - Beirut, Lebanon

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Six finalists were invited to pitch & 3 winners were announced!

December 6th, 2018 - Beirut, Lebanon

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DATE

December 6th, 2018

Location

Beirut, Lebanon

Venue

Beirut Digital District

Participants

100+

Counter until the big event

The Euromena Awards is an annual startup competition organized by Euromena Consulting to benefit local and regional startups. Following the first successful Edition of the Euromena Awards held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 2017, Euromena Consulting launches the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Edition of the Awards this December, empowering and equipping startups to scale their businesses in the region.
The objective of the Euromena Awards – MENA Edition was to address the region’s most pressing problems through technology that serves a social impact. Amid a rapidly developing startup and tech scene in the MENA region, Euromena Consulting is eager to learn more about and engage with the region’s promising social enterprises that can demonstrate a clear impact on local problems.


9 Themes

The Euromena Awards – MENA Edition welcomed startups that aim to resolve a specific challenge or problem

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6 Eligibility Criteria

The Euromena Awards – MENA Edition welcomed businesses that met six key criteria

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6 Selection Criteria

The jury members selected the finalists based on six main criteria

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4 Impacts

The impact of the Awards focused on both the short and long term

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Selection Panel

Mansour Mansour
Mansour Mansour

Multi-Industry Head
Christos Mastoras
Christos Mastoras

Founder & Managing Partner
Kais Ben Hamida
Kais Ben Hamida

CFO
Medea Nocentini
Medea Nocentini

Co-Founder & Partner
Jeanine Jaafar
Jeanine Jaafar

Senior Manager

our winner

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Spike is a mobile assistant that helps diabetics better manage their diabetes. Spike monitors the patient’s daily behavior and jumps in with reminders and tips when needed about insulin, food, activity. 

+ 5
Investors
5 K
Users
Finalists
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Lebanon

Spike is a mobile assistant that helps diabetics better manage their diabetes. Spike monitors the patient’s daily behavior and jumps in with reminders and tips when needed about insulin, food, activity… In addition, Spike stores the patient’s data for further analysis and/or sharing with doctors and caregivers. Spike detects which restaurant the patient is stepping into and sends him/her healthy recommendations from the restaurant’s menu. They also make sure that caregivers get notified when the patient intakes medicine, and a monthly report is sent to the patients’ doctor or nutritionist to track the diabetic’s health status.
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Egypt

PraxiLabs aims to provide equal opportunity for an enhanced STEM education, by providing virtual simulations that are accessible, usable, and affordable for educational institutions and students. Through online access and a simple subscription model, students and universities can access their labs anytime anywhere and benefit from better student progress observation and the enhanced engagement that not only improves the learning experience, but helps in overcoming major challenges like safety hazards, lack of student motivation, high laboratory maintenance costs, lab accessibility issues and relevant time and space constraints.
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Lebanon

Augmental is an educational technology application initially targeting 12 to 18 year old students where course material is adapted to each student’s learning abilities using Artificial intelligence and Augmented reality. Augmental offers three main features. First, adaptive learning through a personalized learning course material that adapts to the student progress. Second, an interactive feature visualized using 3D interactive content that is informative and enjoyable. Finally, an educational assistant – an intelligent student companion ready to answer questions anywhere, anytime.
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Tunisia

Cure is a startup that aims to empower physically disabled persons by providing them with technologically-advanced solutions. Cure develops affordable and easy to use prosthetic limbs for amputees.They provide amputees with 3D printed prosthetic hands which are controlled via muscle signals, personalized and stylish, with adjustable socket and freeze mode for long duration tasks like driving. Cure also offers a physical rehabilitation platform using augmented reality to gamify rehabilitation exercises, making the recovery process shorter and more motivating. Cure works on providing social assistance and professional training to help patients overcome psychological problems and enter the job market or start their own businesses.
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Egypt

Chefaa is a vision-driven company that utilizes GPS to help patients order and schedule medicine and have it delivered in 3 clicks from the nearest pharmacy. Chefaa offers the first CSR platform dedicated to facilitating access of donations to vulnerable communities who require medicine. Chefaa’s services extend to non-pharmaceuticals via their e-commerce marketplace. Using AI technology, Chefaa, as a one-one-stop shop, is the first medical data warehouse in the MENA (HIPAA compliant) enabling decision makers make data-driven decisions.
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Lebanon

Bridge. Outsource. Transform (B.O.T) is Lebanon’s first impact sourcing platform providing high quality digital services to companies executed by skilled youth from untapped communities in Lebanon. Our mission is to build the digital capacities & create digital income generation opportunities for the youth of Lebanon while creating the fastest growing, most trusted workforce providing Arabic & Multilingual digital services to companies & organizations in the world.

Rewards

      • 6 months of customized, high quality business consulting support including coaching, mentorship, and advisory services adapted to the top winner's needs, valued at $150,000
      • Networking, exposure and access through Euromena Consulting’s vast existing network of key stakeholders across the MENA region
      • Local and regional engagement with partners, clients and beneficiaries through access to Euromena Consulting events and opportunities

      For the winner

      10000$

      For the 2nd place

      3000$

      For the 3rd place

      2000$

      our partners

      Arabnet
      Beirut Digital Discrtict
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      Euromena Awards 2017 - Africa Edition
      Euromena Awards 2017 - Africa Edition
      Location: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
      November 24th, 2017
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      Location Dakar, Senegal
      December 12, 2019
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