Arab Technology Business Plan Competition 2009 Semi-Finalists

The Arab Technology Business Plan Competition, which is a regional Technology investment competition organized by Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) in cooperation with Intel Corporation, has just announced the list of semi-finalists for this year’s edition of the competition.

The list of 12 semi-finalists includes, in no particular order:

• AqarMap (Yemen): An online real estate marketplace.
• Telephone line powered lamp (Palestine): A solution to the frequent power outages in Gaza.
• EDOM (Jordan): A system to produce green energy.
• m-CASH (Palestine): A mobile payments solution.
• Human Heater (Jordan): A new innovative heating product.
• Therapeutic Vaccines (UAE): Vaccines to help treat chronic inflammation and cancer.
• NovelMed (Egypt): New medical device.
• Eye Controlled Typing (Palestine): Technology to help people with physical disabilities use computers.
• Collapse Analysis (Egypt): Software applications to analyse building structures.
• Wiphone (Egypt): Technology to convert earth frequency into wifi frequency and vice versa.
• Blue Soft/Blue Phone (Egypt): Solution to minimize train accidents.
• HFF (Egypt): Technology to  extract hydrogen from water and use it to generate green energy.

The competition provides the Arab entrepreneurs with a number of needed tools and skills through training and mentoring, in order to turn their Technological innovation into business opportunities.

The top 3 winners will get cash prizes of $10k, $6k and $4k respectively; and will have the opportunity to show their business plans in front of venture capitals, angel fund and investors in the ASTF Investment in Technology Forum.

The top 2 winners will also get to represent the Arab World in the world wide finals of the Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge (USA).