MIT Arab Competition

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Competition 08 - 09

Round 3

Saudi team Syphir and UAE team Hayati Healthcare were announced as dual winners of the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition 08-09 during a gala dinner on the night of June 11, 2009 at Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, both teams receiving a USD 25,000 in prize money. Syphir involves the development of a web mail application to rank all e-mails in order of their perceived importance; whereas, Hayati Healthcare offers short-term loans for medical procedures.
Egyptian team Rice Straw Fertilizer ranked second and received prize money of USD 10,000 for a project that converts burnt rice straw into high quality compost; while Jordanian team Blog Souq came in third place with prize money of USD 5000 for an innovative stock market concept for blogs.

Rank	Project	Team Members	Country

1^st	Syphir	Abdulrahman Tarabzouni Courtland Allen Faisal Alibrahim Ghassan Fayad Husain Al-Mohssen	KSA
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1^st	HAYATI Healthcare	Michael Matly Tariq S. El-Titi David Matly	UAE
2^nd	Rice Straw Fertilizer Company	Ibrahim Khater Youssef Ahmed El Dorghamy Mohamed Abdel Raouf	Egypt
3^rd	Blog Souq	Ahmad Takatkah Adey Salamin Ammar Ibrahim	Jordan

Click on the following links to read the press releases .

Round 2

These are the names of the nine finalist teams that were selected among 30 teams, who submitted their business plans, for the oral presentation of the final round.

Rank	Project	Team Members	Country

1	Aqarmap.com	Amad Almsaodi Mohamed Hareth Abdallah Meslem Redwan Mohamed	Yemen
2	Blogsouq	Ahmad Takatkah Adey Salamin Ammar Ibrahim	Jordan
3	Digital Security Innovations (DSI)	Adel Bouhoula Sonia Ouachani Bouhoula Amine Ben Khalifa Seifeddine Aloui Mohamed Abid	Tunisia
4	EnglEasy	AbdulAziz Ahmed Al-Sulaim Ahmed O Siddiqui Tim Seamans A.J. Schmalenberger Ayman Makki Hoho	KSA
5	Hayati Healthcare	Dr. Michael Matly Dr. Tarik S. El-Titi David Matli	UAE
6	Rice Straw Fertilizer Company	Ibrahim Youssef Ahmed Dorghamy Mohamed Badawy	Egypt
7	Syphir	AbdulrMahman Tarabzouni Courtland Allen Faisal Alibrahim Ghassan Fayad Husain Al-Mohssen	KSA
8	Transterra Media	Hassan Ibrahim Raya Mamarbachi Irina Prentice Eli Andrews Jonathan Giesen	Egypt
9	White Smile	Jomana Musmar Saoussen Bersour Lamis Maddur Nigah Ajaj	UAE

Round 1

These are the names of the thirty semi-finalist teams that qualified for round 2 of the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition ’08-09. These teams did a thorough research on their business plan. Right after this period of preparations on their own, the 30 teams were invited to Beirut to attend a two-day Entrepreneurship Workshop.

Rank	Project	Team Members	Country

1	Aqarmap.com	Amad Almsaodi Mohamed Hareth Abdallah Meslem Redwan Mohamed	Yemen
2	Blogsouq	Ahmad Takatkah Adey Salamin Ammar Ibrahim	Jordan
3	Digital Security Innovations (DSI)	Adel Bouhoula Sonia Ouachani Bouhoula Amine Ben Khalifa Seifeddine Aloui Mohamed Abid	Tunisia
4	EnglEasy	AbdulAziz Ahmed Al-Sulaim Ahmed O Siddiqui Tim Seamans A.J. Schmalenberger Ayman Makki Hoho	KSA
5	Hayati Healthcare	Dr. Michael Matly Dr. Tarik S. El-Titi David Matli	UAE
6	Rice Straw Fertilizer Company	Ibrahim Youssef Ahmed Dorghamy Mohamed Badawy	Egypt
7	Syphir	AbdulrMahman Tarabzouni Courtland Allen Faisal Alibrahim Ghassan Fayad Husain Al-Mohssen	KSA
8	Transterra Media	Hassan Ibrahim Raya Mamarbachi Irina Prentice Eli Andrews Jonathan Giesen	Egypt
9	White Smile	Jomana Musmar Saoussen Bersour Lamis Maddur Nigah Ajaj	UAE
10	Vaxeal Therapeutics	Dr. Ahmed Bouzidi Dr. Bernard Maillere Pr. Giampietro Corradin Pr. Wassim Chehadeh	UAE
11	AGM Intelligent Speed Bumps	Amer El-Rifai Gaisse Abed Maher Jajeh	Bahrain
12	Basateen	Munira Khayyat Khalil Olik Samah Oueiny Fady Kleib Ghassan Khayat	Lebanon
13	BioBusiness	Islam Samir Badreldin Mostafa Abdel-Rahman Elwakeel Amr Abdel-Rahman Elwakeel	Egypt
14	ConveTech	Shant Khatcherian Elie Waked Nadine Waked	Lebanon
15	CSR- Middle East	Alaa Rady Sherifa El-Adawi Nivanne Mortagy	Egypt
16	Design Incubation Center	Fady El Gedawy Ramadan Hanadi Tarek Al Omari Sherif Farid	Egypt
17	Dinar	Hamid Chbouki Issam Lahlali Jamal M Rahhali	Morocco
18	Elite Performance Center	Roland Aoun Zeina Aoun Marc Aoun	Lebanon
19	Globomate	Bodoor Hamid Samman Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Mashhadi Khalid Manie Bamanie	KSA
20	GuideMe	Talal Al-Asmari Salman Al-Ansari Omar Al-Amoodi	KSA
21	Intelligent Soft	Nabil M. Hewahi Moaataz Saad Alaa Ahmad Odwan	Palestine
22	MareMaris Group	Maroquine Aziz Majed Atwi Dina Wasfy	Qatar
23	Matrix TRC	Walid Semaan Souline Hallal Pascale Salameh	Lebanon
24	Novel-RD (C-CAP)	Ahmed Mohamed Abdelaziz Kariem Ezzat Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Assabri	Egypt
25	Orifeed	Ziad AbdulGhani Badr Amr Osama Malek Yasser Sulaiman	Egypt
26	StegoTech	Wael Al-Alwani Adnan Gutub Amr Al-Ash’al	KSA
27	The Snail Farm	Ghassan Manasra Falah Muhialdeen Arupjyoti Rai Baruah	Jordan
28	TimelyCare	Nael abu-Ghazaleh Iyad Hadba Georges Khoury Abdulla Al-Fehani Naged Daalees	Qatar
29	T-Couture	Tala Sinno Hussein Abbas Amal El-Kabbout Nael Halwani	Lebanon
30	3eesho	Rafah Alkhatib Aiman Said Khaldoon Said	KSA