StartIT Incubation Program

If you have a business plan and a prototype.

Now you can apply to TIEC incubation at any time during the year.

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Incubation Package

If you have a business plan and a prototype and you are looking for incubation at one of TIEC's incubator centers. You can now apply to TIEC incubation at any time during the year. Every three months, the submitted applications will be evaluated and an invitation for pitching will be sent to the preliminary accepted teams. The incubation package exists of:

60,000 EGP in Cash over three installments based on milestones achievement

Up to 120,000 EGP of in-kind services such as consultancy services, software, hardware and support in marketing.

A working space with basic furniture and Internet Access.

Basic hardware and software tools during incubation time.

Access to technical, subject-matter advisory, business consulting and mentoring.

Application Process

1Step 1: Apply and Submit your business plan
If you don't have a business plan, you can use Business Plan Template to prepare your business plan.

- Fill in the application form.

2Step 2: Interview Phase

3Step 3: Pitching

Eligibility Criteria

TIEC's incubation is all about finding and supporting innovative startups with high commercialization potential. Therefore, for the project to be adequate for incubation, project must score well on the following set of criteria:

ICT-based or ICT-related: The project must be serving any of the broad ICT categories or related to any of its vast inclusions.

Innovativeness: The project must be original, new and an advancement to any of the solutions readily-available in the marketplace or industry.

Readiness:The project must be supported by a working prototype (Full conceptual ideas will not be considered).

Entrepreneur-led:The project must be created, conceptualized and led by young entrepreneurs or those who have entrepreneurial traits. University undergraduates are not eligible for incubation, while graduates with a university degree should have the needed skills in order to be incubated. We accept a startup with a single cofounder in case the cofounder has a good team with him. Moreover, the team should be dedicating their full time/efforts to lead the project.

Solving a real problem: Idea must be offering a smarter or cheaper or upgraded or better solution to a real market problem than the existing solutions or solving a future problem or need.

Using Information Technology as a core product or as an enabler to provide a service: the project needs to be focusing on developing a technology related product or providing a service related to any sector but through developing a tool using information technology as an enabler such as developing a mobile/web application, a platform or a software etc.

Commercialization Potential: The project must be commercializable in nature and supported by a clear vision on how to penetrate the target market(s) and how it shall grow from there.

Economic Viability:The project should offer an economically compelling proposition for investors or incubators.

Scalability: The project should have the potential to grow among significant market sectors and within multiple verticals or layers.

Status: Either entrepreneurs with prototypes/ proof of concept or startups that have been in business in less than one year can apply.

Dedication: The project/startup can not be incubated in another incubator or accelerator at the same time of its incubation at TIEC.

Reapplying for Start IT program

Projects/Startups that did not pass the pitching phase can reapply only one more time but after two rounds from their first pitch, and with the condition that they should have worked on the judges ‘comments that caused their rejection and validated their product/ solution.

Evaluation Criteria

The uniqueness of the proposed service/product and its commercialization potential.

Clearly defined target markets preferably large markets with high growth potential.

A well defined competitors analysis.

The competitive advantage of the service/ product.

The skills and expertise of the management team.

The prototype maturity

The submitted business plan should at least include a clear understanding of the following:

- Problem and/or gap in the market and/or need and/or opportunity.
- The Solution with all its features/ description and its current status.
- The prototype current status (include all images and links).
- Market size, core and adjacent markets and the targeted market.
- Competitors and the startup competitive edge.
- Teams skills, experience and qualification.
- The business model, revenue streams and value proposition.
- Got to market, sales and marketing strategies and channels and the plan to acquire the targeted market.
- Financial projection.
- At least one year business and technical comprehensive milestones.

Startups

Wuzzuf

Wuzzuf is a technology firm specialized in developing innovative web-based online recruitment software solutions. BasharSoft is the only software solution provider in Egypt fully focused on online recruitment, talent management, and workforce planning software systems.

https://wuzzuf.net

MUMM

MUMM is the place where you can order online delicious home cooked meals in Egypt, prepared especially for you by moms, housewives and freelance chefs near you, with the best quality in mind. Mumm enables homebased women with the right tools to create sustainable job opportunities for themselves from the convenience of their homes while insuring they are equipped with the right tools to deliver quality, healthy, safe and tasty food through utilizing ICT technologies.

https://www.getmumm.com

PayMe

PayMe, website and mobile app, allows businesses to accept credit card payments, without the hassle of long bank procedures, and hardware installation. It provides the seller with a simple QR code, which allows buyers to pay through scanning the QR code with their phones, and fulfill the transaction within seconds.

https://www.paymestore.co

Crowd Analyzer

Crowd Analyzer is a tool that helps companies and agencies monitor the crowd on the social web. The solution collects, analyzes and presents people’s opinions about products, campaigns, brands, events and news. Innovation, in this tool, emanates from its ability to understand Arabic text automatically in terms of relevance, dialect and sentiment. It also tailors the dashboard automatically for different business purposes. Crowd Analyzer provides a window to historical data so that companies can capture and analyze people’s opinions in the past.

https://www.crowdanalyzer.com/

Shezlong

Shezlong is a social startup working on mental health and psychotherapy. The startup offers a mobile app and website that provides an effective online platform for anyone who needs to communicate with professional and licensed therapists with full guarantee of privacy and anonymity. It stands this concept according to international studies, which proved the effectiveness of online psychotherapy against face to face therapy.

https://www.shezlong.com

Cyber Talents

Cybertalents is an online ethical hacking, computer network and security challenge platform, dedicated to finding and educating cyber security talents. Cybertalents helps universities, schools, governments and companies to discover and recruit talents in the Cyber Security field through hackathons, competitions and online lab assessments.

https://cybertalents.com

Mermaid

Mermaid is an online platform connecting professional trusted cleaners with our customers offering you hassle-free help for your home. We are an amazing team of professional cleaners, customer service and business professionals, all having just one target, to help our customers and let them enjoy their time, while we get the cleaning done!

http://www.getamermaid.com

iMedical

iMedical is an web and mobile application to link doctors and medical students with medical equipment suppliers. iMedical saves the time and efforts of those looking for medical equipment through providing the different options of medical equipment brands offered by different suppliers with their components and material information, and prices. iMedical allows users to order, pay online and have their orders shipped to their doors . iMedical covers mainly Assiut and Upper Egypt where this service is highly needed.

https://imedical-eg.com/

Faggala.

Faggala.com is an online marketplace specialized in stationary books. The website provides a wide variety of products that fit the needs of school students, university students, art students and companies with a smooth convenient shopping experience. Its social value is enriching the Egyptian economy through connecting small merchants to the internet and enabling them to increase the sales efficiently.

https://faggala.com

Fit and Shop

Fit and Shop is a mobile app that aims to help those who shop online to know their correct size according to the respective shop measurements. The application matches the customer’s measurements to the brand sizes database, finds the perfect size for the user in every brand, and give him the option to see how the piece of clothes looks on his/her avatar before buying it. The application offers our customers a new experience in shopping clothes online full of confidence, fun and pleasure

OC-VR

OC-VR offers a desktop virtual reality solution targeting real estate companies. OC-VR allows potential clients to experience the units’offered landscape and spaces even before the units’ construction has started. The user can animate the experience of living in his own property before the unit is built. This service is mainly targeting the real estate developers and architects as it helps them to easily visualize and market their products to their clients.

Okhtub

An intelligent matchmaking mobile app that provides verified, serious, suitable recommendations to find the right life partner. It takes into consideration PRIVACY, REALITY, and TRUST that fit with the MENA culture.

http://okhtub.com/

The Lady

A platform that collects all fashion designers in one place helping them to outline their outfit, take professional photos for their products, make marketing and sales which lowers their cost and at the same time it facilitates online shopping for users.

Maid and Helper

Maid and Helper is an international recruitment online platform for Maids and Helpers Jobs, which help in saving money and time to hire maid or helper. The platform connects job candidates from their home countries or working countries with employers all over the world. “Maids” stands for all technical female jobs like Nurse, Maid …etc. While “Helpers” is an umbrella for all male technical jobs like Security, Technicians, waiters, etc.

http://www.maidandhelper.com/

XPayHub

A platform to boost companies’ sales through accepting online payments, automating the sales process and customer communication, and customer values management tools built on data insights and reporting tools.

https://www.xpayhub.com/

Wasel

Wasel platform connects passengers between cities and governorates with professional drivers. And offers two types of trips (Flat Rate) Economy Trips: booking a seat or two in a limousine travelling from a fixed pickup point to a fixed drop off point. Private Trips: booking the whole car from door to door

https://www.waselegypt.com/

Electrobekia

Electrobekia mobile App is a platform providing convenience for household e-waste disposal. Electrobekia e-waste mobile App is useful for Citizens conveniently choosing from a list which e-waste item that would like to get ride off, the quantity they have and accordingly the app shows the price Electrobekia’s offer. If the user accepts the deal, he/she confirms the order then they get a confirmation with the date and time of collection. For the users’ convenience they can also choose to take a picture of the item they have instead of choosing from the list and send it through the app asking for a quotation then they follow the same sequence of confirmation and e-waste pick up

Life Style

Life Style is a mobile and Web application that covers the four factors of healthy lifestyle (healthy diet, drinking sufficient water, periodic physical activity and early sufficient night sleep). This is through a reactive feature that offers the possibility of modifying personal suggested diet plan (adding/removing some items); modifying time and way of alerting methods to eat, drink, move or sleep according to personal needs and situation.

MobiBills

MobiBills is a mobile application developed to provide a cashless experience in the food-service industry. By facilitating the ordering and payment process for the users in their outing places, the consumer will not have to carry cash again on top of that it reduces the time interactions with the Staff. On the other hand, the cashless experience also serves the merchant by reducing the theft probability from staff and the cost of money logistics since the payments will be directly transferred to the merchants bank account plus that the data collected about the application’s users will help the merchant reducing their marketing and CRM cost by personalizing their promotions to reach consumers more effectively.

http://www.mobibills.com/

Mowafer Care

Mowafer Care is a mobile application that facilitates the provision of medical services for individuals who are not covered with medical insurance. Mowafer Care mobile app offers users discounted medical services for those who downloaded it on their mobiles and hold IDs. It has a directory networking +5000 medical service providers.

https://www.mowafercare.com

Marketizer

Marketizer is a POS platform that facilitates the management and sales of inventory for small shops in Assiut, Sohag and Menia. The Marketizer enables easy access and management of information as the POS desktop application is also connected online to mobile and web applications.

Harmonica

Harmonica application demonstrates a modernized and advanced approach towards matching people together through a set of scientifically driven, technologically enabled, and culturally sensitive set of inquiries that are validated by our matching algorithm. Harmonica provides users with reliable and intuitive opportunity to discover their life-partner.

Weelo

Weelo is a platform and mobile application that offers a hassle-free solution to all inefficient supermarkets phone-ordering processes. Weelo app streamlines order and delivery management process for supermarkets at a minimal cost.

https://www.weelo.com.eg

Gbarena

GBarena, an online gaming community, connects gamers to global tournaments and challenges. It provides tournaments’ organizers with a platform to manage and organize their tournaments from scratch. GBarena’s mission is to found a new marketing channel for tournaments’ organizers, by connecting them to the targeted gamers within their demographic areas and according to their needs and preferences. The community also helps these organizers get sponsors by highlighting tournaments’ traffic and analytics to businesses interested in such a target audience.

https://gbarena.com/

Fulltact

Fultact is a mobile application that integrates users’ social network profiles (such as phone number, email address, Facebook account, twitter, Instagram) to facilitate communication among its users. Once the user is connected to FulltactID and updated personal info, other application users will have the automatically updated info.

https://fulltact.com

Djaty

Djaty provides a complete solution for testing, error tracking, reporting, and error fixing for software projects.

https://djaty.com

Kemitt

Kemitt, platform built for product designers from all over the globe, offers an opportunity to sell unique designs in new markets. The risk and hassle-free platform handles all manufacturing and shipping processes.

https://kemitt.com

AION

AION Innovations works in the field of smart home solutions that allows the customer to access and control their entire house remotely through a user-friendly mobile application.

Scienup

Scienup is a website for researchers and businesses looking to outsource experiments in the fields of science and engineering through a network of research institutes, universities, and private labs.

https://www.scienup.com

SKN

SKN is a marketplace and hospitality service brokerage company based in TIEC incubator in Assiut. SKN connects people who want to rent out their homes in Assiut governorate with expats, whether students or employees, who are looking for accommodations.

http://www.sknhost.com/

Orenda

Orenda is a user-friendly platform that uses DevOps tools to enable individual developers, freelancers, startups and micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSMEs) to manage and maintain their VPS cloud instances/servers.

Amwal

Amwal is a website where SMEs and financiers meet. By presenting their funding requirements on the platform, SMEs are able to find the appropriate finance. Amwal identifies the financial deficit in the business then the financial product that fits the business’s needs is selected. A full financial analysis of the company is made and Amwal creates and submits an application of the solution to the financial institution until the loan gets approved by them.

https://amwal.com.eg

Watan Arts

Watan Arts is a mobile app and website that enables customers to customize any design they want on different products (photo-boards, t-shirts, mobile case, etc.). It gives customers a chance to browse many artworks from different independent designers around the world and choose the design they favor. Watan Arts then ships it to their home. On the other hand, designers will earn money when a customer chooses her design to print on the purchased product.

https://www.watanarts.com

Zoorest

Zoorest is a mobile app that facilitates multiple services for pet-owners in Egypt such as browsing vets, kennels, grooming services, pet food, accessories and toys.

https://www.zoorest.com

Bznsboost

Bznsboost is a hardware device and online portal that enable users, such as hypermarkets, to monitor temperature changes (i.e. in fridges). Our monitoring feature is live and is updated in real-time. The clients receive alarms whenever an incident happens and are able to maintain a history of all the data for future reference and analysis. The entire process uses a simple plug-and-play device does not require a technician for installation. The device is currently used in several hypermarkets.

Garment IO

Garment IO is a smart IoT platform tailored to boost the productivity of the Garment Manufacturing industry. It is a plug and play, software/hardware solution providing garment factory managers and owners a complete overview on production processes, worker performance and production cost calculation.

ReferCV

A recruitment website that matches companies with candidates through referrals in a unique, profitable and mutually beneficial way. Candidates are based on references and those who refer strong applicants can earn money in return.

TechieMatter

A specialized technical recruitment website that delivers tech talents to employers quickly without any hassle thanks to their proprietary vetting system. The hiring is based on a trusted network of referrals and head-hunting.

Sal7lyy

A mobile application that provides repair and maintenance services for household appliances, electricity, plumbing, carpentry, air conditioning, refrigeration, showers, heaters etc. for individuals and businesses.

Arzakhana

A mobile app that provides online booking services, medical consultations, offers and discounts to patients. The startup is now focusing on Sohag governorate.

StackNet

A web app that acts as a medical insurance management system to facilitate requests by medical service providers.

Aff Square

A website that links small-to-medium business advertisers with publishers (freelance marketers & influencers). The platform provides a powerful set of tools and features that help the advertiser in their campaigns.

Community of Babel

A language learning website that focuses on fast-growing regional Middle Eastern and African languages and targets language learners mainly in Europe, USA and Australia.

Volaro

A blockchain web application that allows business users, with absolutely no coding skills, to create their own blockchain applications or integrate it with their existing ones. As the startup positions itself, “the WordPress of blockchain”.

Talents Arena

A technical hiring website that brings together both the top technical talents and hiring companies in the EMEA region. The platform helps companies recruit and assess technical talents with less time and effort while providing developers with new job opportunities.

Najma

A hardware device that uses IOT to act as a solution for petroleum companies to watch and monitor their pipelines and oil production wells. This saves time, avoids inaccuracy and avoids late hazard detection.

Raccoon

A PAAS recommendation engine that can be easily integrated to provide personalized recommendations. It is typically used by online shops (ecommerce) to boost sales, conversions and provide a personalized experience.

Closor

A call-back software that turns website traffic into actual sales calls. It is used to track remote marketing & sales teams' performance in real-time.

Hafs Quran

Hafs Quran is a website that aims to educate people on how they can recite the Quran and learn Arabic. It is an online Quran and Arabic school which targets people in Europe and the US.

http://hafsquran.com/?fbclid=IwAR2wj5iuPngJzzUQQk9dBjN1o1lxcuIBEnvf7MaqaFVMS3bR0NDpd2FUr_s

Analog Designer’s Toolbox

Analog Designer’s Toolbox is Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for engineers that address the shortcomings of previous and current market offerings.

Thotron

Thotron uses artificial intelligence to group and organizes ideas expressed by people in discussions, representing idea relationships in maps, and merging independently created maps.

https://thotron.com/user/login

Technowelle

Technowelle is an AI models training and data labeling platform which offers this service with half the prices and double the speed of current solutions in the market.

https://www.techno-welle.com/

Dinamo

Dinamo is a mobile app that allows users to go from cities to villages as well as provides different car types and packages.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starbugs.wasalni_rider&hl=en&gl=US

Dopal

Dopal is an AI-powered leisure activities platform that not only enables users to explore, search, compare and book activities online but also offers them a personalized recommendation for the best activities and things to do around Egypt.

Qme

Qme is an AI-based real-time digital queuing application with an automated end-to-end user handling experience. The allocated tickets are based on the customer’s location and arrival time to the branch, guaranteeing minimal to almost zero waiting time. Customers also get customized alerts based on their location and based on the branch’s queues – resulting in a more streamlined and better customer handling experience.

Caviish

Caviish is a social enterprise startup aim to raise fund to charities and causes through collaboration and partnership with public figures and celebrities through an E-commerce application where public figures can sell their new or used belongings to their fans base.

Vtrol

Vtrol is a Startup that helps company owners follow up and control the fuel management of their vehicles through a mobile application in a way that leads to controlling expenses.

Muqbis

Muqbis is a multi-store eCommerce website that connects talented hands and home-based businesses to their targeted customers and support them to grow their businesses hassle free. Muqbis opens a wide market to support customers find “the made with love home products and services” they look for and compare varieties, prices and find nearby providers.

Assess

Assess is a mobile application that supports new parents to create a localized easy-to-implement early childhood development assessment & personalized activities, using evidence-based early childhood development methods for children aged 0-5 years old. The module supports parents with an assessment of child development based on his/her age, and against different milestones and developmental areas (cognitive, linguistic, physical, social, and emotional). Then follows that with an activity plan personalized based on current child development & age.

PH Store

PH Store is an integrated platform that targets the pharmaceutical community at all stages through various stages (scientific rehabilitation, undergrads, supporting pharmacist to face daily work challenges and provide all the services that he needs.

Lista

LiSTA is B2B application that allows both FMCG companies & retailers to an enriched daily experience that ease their daily tasks whether its retailers orders, access to new promotions or even checking market analytics.

MEDK

MEDK is a mobile app that provides users in urgent medical situations to request the nearest available healthcare providers while having medical phone support to help through the situation until the support arrives.

Gmind

Gmind is an Artificial Intelligence and gamification platform that offers a learning by memorization solution for primary and preparatory students. The game consists of educational levels and each level consists of subjects; each subject is divided into lessons levels. Students, parents and teachers have access to this game. Student has some instruction and information about the selected lesson with some animations and videos to study the lesson, and then he has a task on the lesson as a game with score. Finally, the student can find his name in the dashboard depending on his total score. Teacher can monitor the content and the student's progress; he can suggest modified content. Parents also can monitor their son's progress.

Elmawkaa

Elmawkaa is a smart marketplace for construction materials. Through our innovative matching algorithms, we assist contractors, engineers, and property owners in obtaining competitive, accurate quotations for their materials from our vetted suppliers in a matter of minutes in a documented and automated process.

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