ARGENTINA
Entrepreneur: Fernando Moya
Company: Ozono Producciones
Ozono Producciones has produced and promoted stage productions and live
events for over a decade, showcasing Argentine talent both at home and
in top locations worldwide.
BRAZIL
Entrepreneurs: André Massa, Felipe Salvini, & Luis Vabo, Jr.
Company: Sieve
Sieve’s price intelligence tool pulls critical pricing and product
information from online retailers’ websites. The proprietary technology
uses a "web crawler" to search thousands of websites daily for prices
so that retailers, manufacturers, and distributors can track
competitors’ products on Sieve’s easy-to-use website and change their
own prices accordingly.
EGYPT
Entrepreneur: Ahmed Ragab
Company: Baraka Optics Group
Baraka Optics Group (2008) provides unique and quality eyewear products
with premium service to meet the design and pricing needs of Egyptian
middle- to upper-class consumers.
Entrepreneurs: Hazem Dalati & Fahed Dalati
Company: Crave Restaurants
Crave’s casual dining restaurants fill the gap between Egypt’s high-end
hotel restaurants and international chains.
GREECE
Entrepreneur: Panos Paleologos
Company: HotelBrain
HotelBrain, a leading hotel management firm, provides bespoke
management and pre-opening consulting services to luxury boutique
hotels, allowing owners to retain full control over their assets while
improving guest experience and increasing revenue by an average of 20%.
JORDAN
Entrepreneur: Omar Tabbaa
Company: EAT Restaurant Group
EAT offers four distinct themed restaurant brands in eleven locations
across Jordan and Bahrain. The family-focused, alcohol-free EAT
restaurants serves Italian, Asian, or modern Arab cuisine in
thoughtfully decorated environments – and they stand out from typical
traditional Jordanian casual dining experiences.
INDONESIA
Entrepreneur: Hendy Setiono
Company: Kebab Turki Baba Rafi
Kebab Turki Baba Rafi is the pioneering and leading consumer brand for
Middle Eastern-inspired fast food in Indonesia. Baba Rafi manages 1,145
carts, stands and small store-fronts throughout Indonesia.
Entrepreneur: Elang Gumilang
Company: Elang Group
Elang Property makes the dream of homeownership a reality for thousands
of lower-income Indonesians. A property developer based in Bogor, Elang
Property focuses on developing subsidized houses.
LEBANON
Entrepreneurs: Mohamad Arayssi, Maha Arayssi Rifai
Company: Beesline
Founded in 1993, Beesline is a brand of natural personal care products
developed and produced in Lebanon. Based on the science of apitherapy
(the medicinal use of bee by-products), Beesline products are
rich in natural active ingredients that are free of additives like
artificial coloring, fragrances and harsh preservatives.
MEXICO
Entrepreneur: José Luis Correa Artasánchez
Company: Leonali
Leonali offers ready-to-eat, pre-cut and washed vegetables that
preserve their freshness and nutritional integrity 10-25% longer than
the industry standard. Leonali sells kid-friendly healthy snacks such
as carrots and dipping sauce, ready-made salads, loose-leaf lettuce,
prepared vegetables for soup, and side dishes like ready-to-cook
broccoli.
Entrepreneur: Hugo Moreno
Company: Ver de Verdad
Ver de Verdad’s 13 retail stores sell quality, stylish eyeglasses and accessories to low-income Mexican consumers at affordable prices. The company aims to bridge the gap between high-priced designer eyewear and the inadequate eyeglass options supplied to the nation’s poor by public health groups.
Entrepreneur: José Antonio Chaurand
Company: Periscopio Media
Periscopio Media is writing a new chapter for the Mexican publishing
world with its four distinct magazine titles, available in both online
and print formats.
MIAMI
Entrepreneur: Jesus Rodriguez
Company: KidoZen
KidoZen is an enterprise mobile platform that provides a simple, secure
and scalable middleware to integrate back-end and line of business
capabilities into companies’ mobile apps.
Entrepreneurs: Roger Duarte & Sam Gorenstein
Company: My Ceviche
Entrepreneurs Roger Duarte and Sam Gorenstein are securing customers throughout the Miami area with a fresh take on fast-casual dining: seafood in the form of ceviche. Ceviche, a dish popular in the coastal regions of Central and South America, is made from raw fish or shellfish marinated in citrus juices, spiced with chili peppers and accompanied by sweet potatoes, corn or avocados.
MOROCCO
Entrepreneur: Mourad Mekouar
Company: M2T
In the absence of a centralized bill payment system in Morocco, Mourad
Mekouar founded M2T, a multi-channel platform that enables unbanked
customers at the base of the pyramid to pay bills, transfer money, and
purchase mobile minutes and transportation tickets all in the same
location – saving them time, money and energy.
Entrepreneur: Youssef Chaqor
Company: Kilimanjaro Environment
Kilimanjaro Environment is at the forefront of the green energy
movement in Morocco. The company collects used cooking oil from
restaurants and hotels, which it filters, treats, and resells to
biodiesel manufacturers.
TURKEY
Entrepreneur: Emek Kırbıyık
Company: Düğün.com
Düğün.com (Turkish for "wedding") is the biggest wedding planning
platform in Turkey, connecting over 1,500 wedding vendors in 21 cities
to engaged couples.
Entrepreneurs: Bülent Tekmen & Çelik Ören
Company: İninal
As the fastest-growing reloadable prepaid debit card provider in
Turkey, İninal provides Turkey’s unbanked population with access to
plastic. Ininal aims to become the bank for the unbanked, by offering
İninal cards with online/offline transaction capabilities.
UAE
Entrepreneurs: Ravi Bhusari, Derv Rao, Brian Sigafoos
Company: Duplays
Based in Dubai, Duplays uses sport to engage communities, satisfying
social and physical activity needs by removing the logistics and
organizational hurdles that might otherwise deter participation.
Entrepreneur: Michael Lahyani
Company: Propertyfinder
Propertyfinder is an online real estate catalog that allows visitors to
browse for free over 80,000 residential and commercial properties,
posted by over 500 real estate agents in UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Egypt.
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