Tirana -

BETAPITCH Tirana

BETAPITCH returned to Tirana on June 12th, 2017 to search for the best startups in town! Up to 10 startups pitched on the stage before our jury for the main prize - a trip to Berlin on December 7th when the founders attend the Investors day and compete with the other global winners at the BETAPITCH global finals. This year's winner is augmented reality startup Tikapps.

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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

BETAPITCH GLOBAL & INVESTORS DAY
The winner will go for a trip to Berlin to pitch at BETAPITCH Global against the other global finalists. Taking place at betahaus | Berlin on December 7th, 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 startup founders attend investors' office hours, workshops and panel discussion.
betahaus |
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!
Telekom Albania
Telekom supports the Team Albania in making the BETAPITCH Tiranna happen.
Local Web
GIZ
GIZ (DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT) is helping to make BETAPITCH Tirana possible through their support of international collaboration between Berlin and Tirana. Thank you GIZ!
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Jury

Landa GrembiTelekom Albania
Lindita ShomoEasyPay Albania
Katka NagyovaBETAHAUS
Gjergji HamitiCCO LOCAL WEB
Anila MukaRegional Economic Development Agency
Erton GraceniProtik CEO
Enio CiviciDirector of Information RTV SCAN

Team Tirana

Jonida KëlleziAdriapol Institute
Jonida is part of betahaus team in Tirana. She covers all the marketing and communication activities behind BETAPITCH.
Kostaq CipoInnovation Manager at Adriapol Institute
Kosta is a Programmer Analyst / IT Project Manager experienced in various programming languages and platforms. Kosta covers the position of Innovation Manager at Adriapol Institute.
Erlis HasaAdriapol Institute
Erlis is the coordinator of ICT projects at Adriapol Institute and works closely with start-ups, bringing together innovation and technology.
Amir Esmaeilakhtar
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.