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2017
a marketplace to buy/sell/rent books. It’s a solution innovated for the needs of the people searching for any sort of books and for the people who desire to offer books they have for selling or renting.
The marketplace allows university/school students and book lovers to search and discover books that are nearby them. Bookthatbook offers an mobile apps on android and iphone and a website as well.
Angel Investor
2014
PickTaxi is an automated location-based taxi booking service that can be access from smartphones or web. PickTaxi will use several algorithms to optimize the matching between the rider and the taxi.
PickTaxi’s goal is to modernize and improve the taxi industry worldwide. We understand the challenges in this market and how each city is different from its neighbors. We develop our products on mobile and web to allow easy access for both users and drivers can communicate, negotiate and discover each other easily.
PickTaxi has already developed several solutions for the taxi industry, notably one for direct user to driver relation (Packtaxi Mobile, Packtaxi Web) and the other one is for taxi fleet management Picktaxi Fleet. Both solutions can be accessed from mobile, tablet or web. There are already a mobile version for android and iPhone. Other mobiles can access HTML5 version which will get location and has the same features.
Our PickTaxi Fleet solution enables taxi companies to manage its fleets, quickly respond to requests, monitor gas level in each car and know their location at any point in time. PickTaxi Fleet will record all movements and log them in its database for further analysis later.
Private Investor
2014
A smart system that provides users with relevant suggestion based on the articles and news that they have liked or rated earlier. Also the users can share important articles with colleagues and friends to groups or individuals.
News analyzers will get considerable help from NewsAnalyse since they can get the news.
Investor
2014
Zurich North America is one of the largest providers of insurance solutions and services to businesses and individuals. Our customers represent industries ranging from agriculture to construction and include more than 90% of the Fortune 500. We’ve backed the building of some of the most recognizable structures in North America — from the Hoover Dam to Madison Square Garden to the Confederation Bridge. Our North American, LEED Platinum® headquarters is located in the Chicago area. We employ approximately 9,000 people in North America and have offices throughout the U.S. and Canada. Further information is available at www.zurichna.com.
Zurich North America is part of Zurich Insurance Group, a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With approximately 55,000 employees, Zurich provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. The Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872. The holding company, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN), is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX. Further information is available at www.zurich.com.
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Investor
2014
PinProfile is a people search engine. We crawl the worldwide web and extract information about people, their profiles on many different social networks and present them to our clients for search. PinProfile enable users to pin out interesting profiles, share them with friends and colleagues and categorize them into categories. PinProfile will become the ultimate tool for any recruitment company, any company looking for sales/marketing people and for all startups where founders are trying to find a match for them.
Investor
2013
PutTag is an online service that helps you and your friends tag by text, audio or video any place on the map.
PutTag will be offering several mobile and web applications that allow users to easily tag places, add their audio/video comments and share those comments with friends. PutTag has already developed its core functionality that is used on its website and it can be used as a standalone product.
Private Investor
2013
BeamGift will change the digitized gifting/couponing industry by offering many new approaches in B2B, B2C and C2C markets.
BeamGift allows customers to create gifts/coupons on the fly and send them to family and friends. The solution is offered through web or as a native application on mobile (android and iphone). It allows users to group gifts, resend them and use social networks to discover and share offers. BeamGift will build profiles about each user and allow merchant, brand owners and advertising company use this information to target offers to specific users depending on multiple parameters such as their interest, location, spending power and many more. All of this is presented in a clever dashboard with many different metrics to enable merchant to reach the right segments for their products. brand owners, merchant and advertising companies in a new way by offering a gifting/coupon solution that is B2B, B2C and C2C. BeamGift will disrupt markets of gifting, digitized coupons and targeted marketing by offering several solutions.
Angel Investor
2012
MobAdv Engine:
The core of MobAdv where advertisers can add advertising campaign, their priority, period and their bidding prices. Mobadv will balance the ads served depending on those criterias maximizing profits for publishers and relevancy for advertisers.
MobAdv AdWrapper:
will process binaries of games/apps on Java or Android and produce new binaries with our ads wrapped. There are two types of ads, either those that will appear on the main screen at the beginning of the application (SponsorAd) or Ads that will display at the bottom/top of the application during the game. A developer doesn’t need to do read any SDK or go back to their sourcecode to change. The change is totally automatic and always produce an identical working game/app.
Investor
2007
Nakkeb (verb) نقب: in Arabic means to Mine.
Nakkeb is an innovative software company working in areas such as: Data-mining, Enterprise search, Vertical search, Search Algorithms, Data Discovery, Internet search, Intranet search, Federated Search, Big Data, Automatic data extraction from Website, Deep Web Discovery, Deep Web Search, Search algorithms, data analysis, SEO, SEM, Lead generation and classification.
Through our five years in our business, we created many different products in the search area especially vertical search and enterprise search. We also did several products in Web mining and extraction of data from web such as NakkebWeb. We have also many search solutions for enterprises, and businesses. Solutions such as ESearch, VSearch, DSearch.
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2017
Investor
2017
a marketplace to buy/sell/rent books. It’s a solution innovated for the needs of the people searching for any sort of books and for the people who desire to offer books they have for selling or renting.
The marketplace allows university/school students and book lovers to search and discover books that are nearby them. Bookthatbook offers an mobile apps on android and iphone and a website as well.
2014
Angel Investor
2014
PickTaxi is an automated location-based taxi booking service that can be access from smartphones or web. PickTaxi will use several algorithms to optimize the matching between the rider and the taxi.
PickTaxi’s goal is to modernize and improve the taxi industry worldwide. We understand the challenges in this market and how each city is different from its neighbors. We develop our products on mobile and web to allow easy access for both users and drivers can communicate, negotiate and discover each other easily.
PickTaxi has already developed several solutions for the taxi industry, notably one for direct user to driver relation (Packtaxi Mobile, Packtaxi Web) and the other one is for taxi fleet management Picktaxi Fleet. Both solutions can be accessed from mobile, tablet or web. There are already a mobile version for android and iPhone. Other mobiles can access HTML5 version which will get location and has the same features.
Our PickTaxi Fleet solution enables taxi companies to manage its fleets, quickly respond to requests, monitor gas level in each car and know their location at any point in time. PickTaxi Fleet will record all movements and log them in its database for further analysis later.
Private Investor
2014
A smart system that provides users with relevant suggestion based on the articles and news that they have liked or rated earlier. Also the users can share important articles with colleagues and friends to groups or individuals.
News analyzers will get considerable help from NewsAnalyse since they can get the news.
Investor
2014
Zurich North America is one of the largest providers of insurance solutions and services to businesses and individuals. Our customers represent industries ranging from agriculture to construction and include more than 90% of the Fortune 500. We’ve backed the building of some of the most recognizable structures in North America — from the Hoover Dam to Madison Square Garden to the Confederation Bridge. Our North American, LEED Platinum® headquarters is located in the Chicago area. We employ approximately 9,000 people in North America and have offices throughout the U.S. and Canada. Further information is available at www.zurichna.com.
Zurich North America is part of Zurich Insurance Group, a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With approximately 55,000 employees, Zurich provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. The Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872. The holding company, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN), is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX. Further information is available at www.zurich.com.
Follow Zurich North America on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com
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Zurich North Americas Rules of Conduct: https://bit.ly/3Qb9OaW
Investor
2014
PinProfile is a people search engine. We crawl the worldwide web and extract information about people, their profiles on many different social networks and present them to our clients for search. PinProfile enable users to pin out interesting profiles, share them with friends and colleagues and categorize them into categories. PinProfile will become the ultimate tool for any recruitment company, any company looking for sales/marketing people and for all startups where founders are trying to find a match for them.
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