Having Announced Its 2020 Winners, KAUST and SABB Now Welcome Applications For Its 2021 TAQADAM Startup Accelerator Program – Entrepreneur

Having Announced Its 2020 Winners, KAUST and SABB Now Welcome Applications For Its 2021 TAQADAM Startup Accelerator Program – Entrepreneur

TAQADAM, a Saudi Arabia-based startup accelerator program that aims to develop high-potential startups, has announced its 2020 winners and opened applications for its 2021 cohort.









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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Saudi British Bank (SABB) have announced the 11 winners of the 2020 TAQADAM startup accelerator program, all of whom received a prize valued at SR375,000.During a virtual event, the 2020 TAQADAM judges selected 10 winners out of 76 founders from 37 startups which competed for a prize pool of over SR4 million in zero-equity funding,  while the audience of over 4,200 virtual attendees voted on a People's Choice award winner.The door is now open for applicants to the 2021 TAQADAM startup accelerator cohort, with applications closing on April 10, 2021. Startups from around the world are encouraged to apply by clicking here. The competition was fierce for the 2020 cohort, as only 59 of the 561 startups that applied were accepted. Selected teams received SR150,000 in zero-equity grant funding, while the following 11 were declared as winners:AlGooru, a mobile education platform that matches students with