The Aviram Awards 2023: Five finalists - and Bill Clinton
The Aviram Awards 2023: Five finalists - and Bill Clinton
The final event of the Aviram Awards, a startup competition focused on changing the day-to-day reality initiated by the Aviram Foundation headed by businessman Ziv Aviram, will be held this Tuesday in Marrakesh, Morocco. The winner of the competition will receive a cash prize of half a million dollars and the keynote speaker at the event will be former American President Bill Clinton
Five ground-breaking entrepreneurs from across North Africa and the Middle East have been selected to take part in the grand finals of the Aviram Awards 2023 competition that will be held in Marrakesh, Morocco on Tuesday. The 42nd president of the USA, Bill Clinton, will take part in the event as a keynote speaker.
The climax of the event will be the announcement of the winning startup that will win a prize of half a million dollars, professional support from Ziv Aviram and media support from the international magazine Forbes. The second place winner will be awarded a prize of $100,000, and a prize of $50,000 will go to the third place winner. The winner will be chosen by an international team of judges from a variety of fields: the entrepreneur and businessman Ziv Aviram, founder and president of the Aviram Foundation; Randall Lane, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes International Magazine; Yassine Kaouane, Chief Entrepreneurship Director at Ben Guerir University UM6P, Lamiae Benmakhlouf, CEO of MITC, the leading Technopark chain in Morocco, and Melda Akin, founder and CEO of D14.AI.
Last December, the Aviram Foundation, established by the entrepreneur Ziv Aviram and his children, launched the Aviram Awards competition for the second time together with the international magazine Forbes. The purpose of the competition is to locate ventures changing the day-to-day reality in the Middle East and North Africa. As part of the competition, about 15 startups advanced to the semifinal stage, in which the entrepreneurs from around the Middle East met for the first time and had the opportunity to take part in a variety of training workshops, including a workshop on standing in front of an audience, storytelling, and a personal meeting with senior international mentors who prepared them for the finals of the competition and their next steps in the world of entrepreneurship.
The finalists are:
Youssef Bouyakhf, CEO and founder of Deepecho, from Morocco. The company uses artificial intelligence to assist minimally trained ultrasound technicians in advanced video ultrasound diagnostics. The purpose of its product is to prevent birth defects and to provide a response to premature birth, including low birth weight.
Dr. Hila Ben Fazi, CEO and co-founder of Avertto, from Israel. The company's goal is to save lives through innovative technologies that monitor blood flow to the brain, identify changes characteristic of large blood vessel blockages, and provide artificial intelligence-based alerts to enable rapid stroke treatment.
Dr. Noor Zaouri, CEO and co-founder of Polymeron, Saudi Arabia. The company develops and recycles environmentally friendly materials that are biodegradable and can be used as compost using organic waste from the poultry industry and the dates industry. The company offers use cases for plastic and biodegradable waste.
Dan Deviri, CEO of Carbon Blue, from Israel. The company is developing a solution for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) that includes a unique approach to removing CO2 from the world's oceans instead of from the atmosphere. The removal process is a compact and energy-efficient process with minimal maintenance.
Sharon Fima, CEO of QD-SOL, from Israel. The company fights climate change by developing green quantum hydrogen production technology. The technology utilizes solar energy to directly produce green hydrogen from water without the need for electricity, making it a sustainable solution for industry and the environment .
The Aviram foundation is an engine for improving reality, and combining innovation and business with doing good. This is evident in Aviram's activities over the years, starting with the Mobileye company, which brought about a life-saving revolution in the field of road safety, and ending with the OrCam company, which provides life-changing solutions to people suffering from visual impairments. The foundation seeks to promote people, ventures and solutions that have the power to positively change the lives of the citizens of Israel and the region in the fields of technology, education, medicine and more.
