Gearing Up For Victory: The Search Begins For The Winners Of Dubai Startup Hub’s Smartpreneur 6.0 Competition – Entrepreneur

Gearing Up For Victory: The Search Begins For The Winners Of Dubai Startup Hub’s Smartpreneur 6.0 Competition – Entrepreneur

The search for the winners of the Smartpreneur Competition 6.0, an annual startup contest organized by Dubai Startup Hub, the entrepreneurship support arm of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is now well on its way.

In mid December, Smartpreneur Competition 6.0 held a three-day virtual pitching session to determine who among the 30 selected participants would proceed to the finals and be enlisted as the top 10 startups for this year's edition of the competition. The candidates were all required to submit solutions aligned with the Expo 2020 Dubai’s sub-themes of trade, opportunity, and sustainability, and they had also attended a four-day pitch bootcamp prior to the pitching session. 

The panel’s jury members featured entrepreneurs and past participants of the Smartpreneur program, including Nader Amiri, founder of elGrocer, Sameer Nawani, Head of of International Office – India at Dubai Chamber, Kareem Ayyad, founder of Cerebian and Ventures Associate at Plug and Play, Shonam Khaitan, Head of Startup and Venture Capital Ecosystem at Amazon, Nadine Imad, Chief Product Officer at Lexyom Law Firm, Ahmad Aly Eldabaa, MD of Ajax Business Solutions at Ajax, and Mohamed Fagiri, founder and CEO at Uqudo, among others.