About the Start-up Marathon

Support young entrepreneurs to start and scale innovative digital and tech start-ups that offers solutions to communities challenges and contribute to the advancement of the sustainable Development Goals

Throughout its journey, the marathon will look at building a digital eco-system and boosting the digital entrepreneurial mindsets through:

Building youth entrepreneurial capacities
Grasp essential entrepreneurial concepts from industry leading trainers and mentors
Bring the opportunity to pitch their digital ideas to specialized judges and investors
And compete to win a package of incubation, special mentoring and coaching, and seed funding to start-up Digital-led businesses.
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IDEATE and APPLY

IDEATE a solution-based idea that contribute to one or more of the current societal challenges And APPLY to the marathon call for application.



Deadline 31st of July 2021

LEARN

LEARN Through the marathon boot camps and be equipped with the essential digital entrepnreuship skills, innovation tools and methodologies, business modeling, pitching skills, and get reflections from the digital industry leaders.


1st bootcamp "Basics & Reflections" 15 -> 19 August

2nd bootcamp "Advanced digital camp" 10 -> 13 October

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PROTOTYPE

PROTOTYPE and design your low fidelity product to evidence your idea in the 1st marathon pitch.


21 -> 28 August

BUILD

BUILD your minimum viable product (MVP) with the support of mentors associated with special coaching hours from the digital industry leaders.


1 September -> 9 October

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PITCH

PITCH your Digital entrepreneurial idea to a specialized judge and investors.


Final pitch 15 October

START-UP

START-UP your digital-led early-stage business with a package of incubation, special mentoring and coaching, and seed funding.

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Why should you join the marathon?

Five days boot camp “basics and reflections”
Technical and financial support to develop the low fidelity design and the MVP
Mentoring and coaching
Bootcamp “Advanced digital Camp”
Incubation
Seed funding

Meet Our Judges - 2021 Edition

Ubai Sandouk

Ubai Sandouk

Manager of Entrepreneurship project in Syrian Computer Society
Mouhamad Kawas

Mouhamad Kawas

CTO of Medicus AI
Mohammad Baghdadi

Mohammad Baghdadi

Expert in Auditing and financial studies
Kinda AlTarboush

Kinda AlTarboush

Co-founder and CEO of Lebleb
Maya Patsalides

Maya Patsalides

Founder and CEO of direct line

Meet Our Mentors - 2021 Edition

Abdulrahman Dawara

Abdulrahman Dawara

Founder & CEO of BEETRONIX TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS
Hassan Al Khateeb

Hassan Al Khateeb

Trainer and Consultant Founder and CEO of Fo’shatA’amal
Mutaz Bellah Hakmi

Mutaz Bellah Hakmi

SEO Specialist, founder of Mutaz.net
Ahmad Alkassar

Ahmad Alkassar

Co-founder of KickOut interactive Startup
Waseem Kntar

Waseem Kntar

Co-founder & CEO of KickOut interactive Startup
Some of our statistics from last year start-up marathon.
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Entrepreneurs trained and capacitated
Teams participated
Start-ups established
Entrepreneurs awarded

Marathon Alumni

Startups funded by the Marathon

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Art Shop

An platform for disseminating, marketing and selling the Artifacts of painters and plastic artists.

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CNC Power

CNC machine with integrated working system to manufacture specific products based on the market.

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Future Laby

Interactive virtual lab to simulate the laboratory of reconstructive therapy in dentistry.

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Sabio

Sabio, a business management and marketing company, provides a range of administrative and marketing services based on artificial intelligence in data analytics.

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Things

Things, a company provides 3D printing services based on the designs requested by customers.

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Ultra Scent

Perfume vending machine which mixes the stored essential oils to fill perfume bottle based on the customer request.