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Fazla Gıda

Fazla Gıda

  • Country: Turkey
  • Round: Round A
  • Area: Food and agriculture

Supported by global organizations such as UNDP, MIT Solve, and EBRD; Fazla Gıda offers holistic and technology-based solutions to manage food waste in line with the Food Recovery Hierarchy and matches surplus with the right partner who offers the highest financial, environmental and social value. Placing technology at the heart of its business model, the platform creates a unique management system where food businesses can manage all of their unsold, surplus inventories from one place.

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Spero

Spero

  • Country: United States
  • Round: Round A
  • Area: Food and agriculture

Spero - the food technology company with patents and intelligent automation to drive down the cost of plant-based dairy products and compete on price and quality with animal dairy. Spero is addressing the largest unserved consumer: shoppers who buy in conventional doors but want better-for-you dairy products. Think Beyond Meat, Impossible 2.0 - affordable with quality ingredients consumers trust. This is what we’ve all been waiting for.

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iSchool

iSchool

  • Country: United Arab Emirates
  • Round: Post Seed
  • Area: EdTech

It’s all about inclusion: our mission is to create technology that allows people of all abilities to interact with the world on their own terms.

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Bansen Labs

Bansen Labs

  • Country: United States
  • Round: Post Seed
  • Area: EdTech

iSchool is the MENA leading online coding platform for 6 to 18 years old students that offer 1:1 or 1:6 live coding classes in artificial intelligence, data science, game dev, VR, AR, helping them to start a tech-based career, freelancing, or even launch their own startups.

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The Jury

Dr. Plamen Russev Host
Dr. Plamen Russev

Webital Investment Network

Fund size
Evergreen 
Average ticket
€500K to €2.5M 

Dr. Plamen Russev

Executive Chairman
Webital Investment Network

Fund size Evergreen 
Average ticket€500K to €2.5M 

Dr. Plamen Russev is the initiator and focal connector of one of the world’s largest impact networks and curator of the global Webit community, reaching out to over 800,000 digerati, policy makers, innovators and media. His success stories include creating the global Webit brand from scratch, supporting founders and brands in establishing and growing a successful marketing strategy, creating meaningful relations with potential partners, customers and media. Plamen supports causes which impact the achievement of the UN’ SDGs.

He is an investor, philanthropist and serial entrepreneur and proven success record in developing business ventures in multicultural and challenging business environments.

Plamen Russev is B.Sc in Marketing and Management, M.Sc in Electronic Education/Mathematics and Physics, and Ph.D in Healthcare Management.

Plamen Russev has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for Digital Affairs of his home country – Republic of Bulgaria and a member of European Commission’ BOF.

Dr. Russev’ work and impact have been recognised and awarded by governments, associations and NGOs along with 2 honorary doctorates from Universities in Europe and South America. Plamen Russev is featured in hundreds of international and local media including The Economist, Bloomberg, CNBCe, Forbes, Venture Beat, CNN to name a few.

Dr. Russev is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Webit Foundation and host of Webit Virtual. He is happily married to the most wonderful girl in the world and father of 2 boys.

Dr. Michael Hoeck
Dr. Michael Hoeck

Earlybird

Fund size
€500M 
Average ticket
€5M 

Dr. Michael Hoeck

Partner
Earlybird

Fund size €500M 
Average ticket€5M 

Dr. Michael Hoeck serves as a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. Earlybird is a venture capital investor focused on European technology companies. They invest in all growth and development phases of a company. Earlybird is amongst the most experienced venture investors in Europe.

Wissam Mansour
Wissam Mansour

Neventa Capital

Fund size
€100M 
Average ticket
€10M 

Wissam Mansour

Founding Partner & CEO
Neventa Capital

Fund size €100M 
Average ticket€10M 

Wissam Mansour is a founding partner & CEO of Neventa Capital. He was also the co-founder of MIG Bank and has more than 21 years of experience in investment management, banking, strategic planning, operations, and innovation. Please share with us Wissam Mansour.

Milena Nikolova
Milena Nikolova

Aera VC

Fund size
€50M 
Average ticket
€700K 

Milena Nikolova

Partner
Aera VC

Fund size €50M 
Average ticket€700K 

Milena is Partner at Aera VC - a global, early stage venture fund who have been investing in breakthrough climate innovation since 2017 with some impressive successes in decarbonising industry ( two of their companies are in the top 3 Most Innovative Companies for 2022 by Fast Company). Milena lives in Singapore and has over 20 years of finance experience, spanning investment banking, wealth management, venture capital investing and startup advisory.

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