BETAPITCH is returning to Tirana on October 5th, 2018 in search for the best startups in town! 10 best startups get to pitch on the stage before our jury for the main prize - a trip to Berlin! The winner comes to Berlin on November 15th to have private meetings at the Investors day and compete with the rest of the global winners at the BETAPITCH Global finals. These guys will be revealed soon Jonida is part of betahaus team in Tirana. She covers all the marketing and communication activities behind BETAPITCH. Enki has a nine years strong experience in customer service, communication and sales she developed abroad - Tirana, Albania and London. She is currently working in public relations and communication at Adriapol Institute.
Amir is an IT engineer, university lecturer and web developer with extensive experience in digital marketing, online media and PR, e-commerce and startup mentornship. He has co-founded numerous successful start-ups in Albania and is well known among the startup community. Is a full-time lecturer and researcher at the Department of Economy and Finance at HEI “Marin Barleti University” in Tirana and a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Economy at the “University of Tirana”.After graduating in International Economic Relationships and in European Economic Integration at the “University of National and World Economy” in Sofia, Bulgaria, He
has been engaged in several business executive positions. Actually, he is concluding his PhD studies in finance and he’s research work spreads through a wide field of interests, including issues on access to finance; financial markets and institution; Islamic banking and finance; political economy; economic growth; public finance; welfare economics; etc.BETAPITCH Tirana
Who won it in the past years?
An augmented reality startup Tikapps and smart wheelchair maker ITforEquality.Alumni startups
Albanian tourist agency
The focus of the Albanian toursit agency is concentrate in opening a tourist agency in Permet, which will provide a lot of tourist services such as rafting, climbing , hiking, walking, camping, etc..
Center Health
For assistance in solving the problems of diagnosis and treatment to create a special resource, which collect information on all existing health facilities and medical specialists in various fields of activity. The resource is organized in such a way that when receiving a request offers a choice of several options depending on the customer‘s location, its status and opportunities. The main criterion for selecting options is the ratio of „availability - price -
quality“ settings.
Drone Alb
The focus of DronAlb is to use drones in different economic sectors like digital marketing, real estate, inspections,
agriculture, surveying, events, industrial and many other. They are also involved into the sales sector, offering a large number of drone aircrafts.
Dyrrota.al
The website ‚dyrrota.al‘ aim is to advertise and increase the chances of finding your ideal bicycle or selling bicycles and various cycling accessories that you have, in the easiest way possible and in a safe environment.
EcoART
EcoArt Albania is a trusted source for vacation rentals. We help families and friends find the perfect accommodations to enjoy their dream vacations together. Through ‘EcoArt Albania’ and our sophisticated online reservation platform ‚ecoart.al‘ owners and property managers offer an extensive selection of vacation and authentic homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, including: more room to relax and added privacy, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations.
Elephant apps
Elephant is a software company that specializes on developing innovative demand driven solutions for the business community.
FoodIDapp
We have developed a smartphone application that people can use to view menu items by scanning QR codes in restaurants. The app is developed for iOS and Android phones. Users can view the restaurant menu with food pictures and ingredients on their smartphones. Also, users can choose to subscribe for notifications from the restaurant when they have daily offers.
Organic Vision
Organic Vision focuses on the healthy nutrition of people and since the major part of people more compromises their health by eating unhealthy snacks or desserts, they will to bring them value by their plant based low calories healthy products.
Pikark.al
Pikark, refers to the ability to Pick your favourite designer or architect [ ark ] as you had a glance to each professionals work. Pik [ pikë ] also means dot in Albanian language, as it is the design genesis.
We want the world to taste a flavour of our local creativity, by promoting the most well-crafted projects by our professionals.
ProCare
ProCare lives on the dock at home and must be carried when out and about. When needed, it has an alert button which, when pressed, allows the wearer to contact and speak to the 24/7 alarm monitoring centre. It can also find your location by using GPS mobile technology.
The wearable is waterproof and designed to be worn at all times. It senses motion, detects falls and communicates with our servers. By pressing the buttons, you can ask for help, or cancel an alert.
Tikapps
Provides ugmented Reality solutions as a new innovative and interactive advertising tool to connect the consumers in their physical world with the client products in the virtual world, with a tremendeous future of the business in this industry considering that the application of Augmented Reality solutions is very broadbased from advertisements (which is their initial focus) to mobile phones, to games, to GPS and many more.Prizes & Supporters
INVESTORS DAY & BETAPITCH GLOBAL 2018
The winner will go for a trip to Berlin to pitch at Investors Day & BETAPITCH Global against the rest of our global finalists and win 5000EUR, a trip to Silicon Valley or 6 months at betahaus.
Taking place at betahaus | Berlin on November 15th, along with the final pitch off the founder will also get to attend our Investors Day. This great networking event gathers the major players in European startup scene where the founders meet investors and corporates face-to-face during speed-dating, matchmaking sessions, workshops or get inspired at panel discussion tackling the latest trends.
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The best startup wins a free 6 months of workspace for the team in Tirana! We are looking forward to introduce you to our community and network of business angels and friends in the media to boost your startup!
GIZ
PC World
T-mobile Albania
Business Magazine
Jury
EDMIR DERVISHIB2B Product Development at Telekom Albania
Patrick BarthSenior Consultant
Iva JankovicCOO of betahausX
Jerina LlukmaniInvestment product manager at Alpha Bank
IGOR MADZOVassociate at South Central Ventures
Michael GoldManaging Director of Crimson Capital
REZART SAKOGeneral Director Regional Economic Development Agency
Team Tirana
Jonida KëlleziAdriapol Institute
Enki ÇokajPR & Communication at Adriapol Institute
Amir Esmaeilakhtar
Eugen MustaUniversity lecturer
Esmeralda MihanaComputer science specialist
Esmeralda is an experienced lecturer and specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She is skilled in Web Programming, Data Integrity, Computer Networking, Programming, Databases, and IT Strategy and has a strong education professional with a PhD degree focused in Computer Science