Over 60 Participants Registered for Startup Weekend Bahrain

Bahrain Startup Weekend, organised by Batelco in cooperation with Tenmou, is attracting much interest from Bahrain residents of all ages, with over 60 participants already signed up to participate in the event which is taking place at Batelco Staff Centre, Hamala, this weekend November 17, 18 and 19.
The weekend event will form part of Global Entrepreneurship Week with more than 40 StartUp Weekends taking place globally to mark the occasion. The focus of the event is to discover entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs and assist them on the road to establishing successful ICT and e-business enterprises. Participants with marketing, public relations, business development, web design or application design skills are also required, as a wide range of skills are needed to form teams to develop the variety of business ideas.
The teams will have the opportunity to win cash prizes, funding and technical support to put their business plans into action. The winning team will receive a cash prize of BD4000, second prize is BD2000 and third prize is BD1000. Additionally the first three teams will be given free enrollment into Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB’s) Entrepreneurship Development Programme. Furthermore, all teams will have the opportunity to benefit from funding from Tenmou of up BD20,000 and BDB will be evaluating the projects during the weekend to see if they qualify for the Pre-Seed Capital Support Scheme, that is jointly run with Tamkeen and which includes a grant of up to BD5000.