After 100 days of incubation, the 10 teams are ready to highlight their ideas in front of potential clients, ecosystem players, peers, friends, and family.
Tirana Inc. Demo Day will be an hybrid event that will bring together representatives of the founding universities, and ecosystem actors who are supportive of Tirana INC. initiative targeting aspiring student entrepreneurs, high-level invitees including ambassadors to Albania, ministers of state and the mayor of Tirana will join the event.
The program started in the first week of September. During 12 weeks, the teams were trained, coached, and mentored by more than 40 successful professionals in different aspects of the business, like Customer Development, Value Proposition, Customer Journey, Channels and Distributions, Revenue and Pricing, Partners, Activities, and Start-Up Finance.
Tirana Inc. has had since the beginning the great support of the EU for Innovation as the primary promoter as well as the support of the five founding universities.
Our Dutch partners, Preneurz. Amsterdam, the program's designers, have been very generous with their time, tailoring the program to the local specificities (teams, ideas). They have gone the extra mile to make sure that after the program, as much as possible, know-how is transferred to the local team.
We have also had several sponsors providing direct financial support mentioning here Albtelecom and Credits Bank providing respectively the 1st prize and the 2nd prize and a training session hosted in their headquarters, and Tirana Business Park offering the 3rd prize free working space.
Huawei also has provided for the teams an essential tool such as Idea Hub, which is a productivity tool for the intelligent office that provides smart writing, High Definition (HD) video conferencing, and wireless sharing that can effortlessly turn conference rooms, executive offices, and open areas into smart spaces.
A myriad of ecosystem partners, innovation actors, co-working places, incubation/acceleration programs, media partners, etc. have provided support and synergies where we can mention Business magazine and Albanian Tech offering exclusive interviews with 3 Startup Teams (Published in the Magazine Print & Online) and Marketing & PR Consultancy for 3 months ( 10 hours in total) for the startups.
Register in the link below or follow the Tirana Inc. Facebook page to attend the event.
Meet the teams:
DDA is a web app designed to help the Albanian diabetic community to have a healthier and happier lifestyle. The app includes: Informative sections of the treatments for the different stages and types of diabetes, cooking recipes and foods suitable for diabetic diets, and daily personified blood sugar measurements.
Click Home is a web-based platform that would enable students, as the primary target group, to take a deep dive and browse homes or apartments for rent and find what is right for them. ClickHome aims to improve students' life during their most exciting years by creating an app platform to ease their space-sharing experience. It aims to bring several facilities, including exchanging books, equipment, furniture, etc.
Mel offers tailored programs for anxiety, depression, stress, and other concerns, all prepared by professionals, which are available todo 24/7. The programs are suitable for individuals and companies to include as a mental health package offer for their employees.
RentNow manages and automates the work processes of car rental companies, from car advertising to making complete reservations and payments safely online. By offering constant updates, being accessible by any browser, and having a responsive design, RentNow makes renting a car easy, fast, and safe.
CityMD is a web platform where everyone can find information about the best health institutions in Albania. The user can schedule an appointment in the comfort of their home while receiving all the necessary information and details about the healthcare providers, offering the possibility to make the best choice based on the user's needs.
Artsopolis Academy & Dada app promotes creativity and gives every person interested in fine and scenic arts a chance to pursue their career regardless of cultural, financial, or age appropriations. Dada app is an app tracker that tracks the artistic learning process, theoretic, and practice of Artsopolis Academy students.
Bite in Bytes is a platform that will facilitate the communication between the staff and customers in bars and restaurants. Customers will place their orders through their phones by scanning a QR code. Bite in Bytes is looking to digitalize the entire ordering experience from start to finish while maintaining a very wholesome experience for the end-user.
Tiny Houses are a permanent and temporary innovation, utilizing a non-existent construction coefficient. The Tiny House Movement is an architectural and social movement that encourages living a simpler life in a smaller space.
ThreeSixty is an e-shopping platform that offers a 360-degree virtual tour that aims to boost the online selling of businesses, support their promotion and development, and educate them towards implementing an e-inventory.
"I-Move" application enables real-time information on buses schedules, nearest taxi, real-time connection taxi driver – passenger, travel tips, etc.
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