25 Entrepreneurs from 11 Countries Join Endeavor Network at the 75th International Selection Panel in Sofia, Bulgaria

SOFIA, BULGARIA  – October 25, 2017 – Endeavor selected 25 entrepreneurs leading 16 companies from 11 countries at the 75th International Selection Panel (ISP) held October 23-25, 2017, in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Endeavor now supports 1,563 entrepreneurs leading 978 companies in 30 growth markets around the world. Panelists at the event included top business leaders and investors who were drawn from Endeavor’s extensive network of board members, mentors, and supporters.

The ISP is the culmination of a rigorous multi-step selection process to identify innovative and driven entrepreneurs who are committed to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship.

“The ISP is a testament to the fact that, despite economic challenges around the world, entrepreneurs continue to innovate, create new jobs, build high-growth companies, and bolster their local ecosystems,” said Endeavor co-founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg. “With over 20 countries represented in Sofia this week, it was thrilling to see the Endeavor energy, passion, growth mindset and magic translate around the world.”

At the Sofia ISP, hosted by Endeavor Bulgaria, panelists from around the world interviewed entrepreneur candidates about their businesses, evaluating them on their potential for high-impact growth, and then deliberated on which candidates should be selected to become Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Once selected, Endeavor Entrepreneurs gain access to comprehensive customized services, including introductions to local and international business mentors and volunteers from Fortune 500 consulting firms who will help them address key needs.

Endeavor Entrepreneurs have had a significant track record of creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, generating billions of dollars in revenues, and building sustainable growth models in their home countries.

Endeavor will host the year’s next and final ISP in Miami (December 11-13). Learn more about the companies and entrepreneurs selected below.

BULGARIA

Company: EnduroSat
Entrepreneur: Raycho Raychev
Description: EnduroSat designs, builds, and deploys a new generation of nano-satellites called CubeSats. On EnduroSat’s website, customers can order their own CubeSat for use in a wide range of missions from low Earth orbit to solar system exploration.

Company: HelloHungry
Entrepreneurs: Zornitsa Chugreeva & Vladmir Davchev
Description: HelloHungry is the leading food delivery company in Bulgaria and Romania and provides customers the fastest and easiest way to order food wherever they are. With the tap of a finger, customers can order from over 1,500 restaurants and 30 cuisine types across Bulgaria and Romania.

CHILE

Company: Wholemeaning
Entrepreneurs: Alejandro Feuereisen & Juan José Besa
Description: Many companies struggle to keep up with the massive inflow of daily customer feedback and thus miss out on uncovering valuable business insights. Manual review of textual feedback is time-consuming, while existing customer analytics software is expensive, clunky, and designed for data experts rather than everyday decision-makers. Wholemeaning provides business users, such as sales associates, product managers or C-level executives, with solutions that help them to perform better by improving customer communication efficiency and understanding. This is made possible by its proprietary, user-friendly natural language processing software, which analyzes feedback across a company’s text-based platforms in order to deliver actionable, real-time insights.

Company: Experticia Ingenieros
Entrepreneurs: Gonzalo Nuñez, Osiel Nuñez & Javier Suazo
Description: In northern Chile, mining is both a highly lucrative and dusty business, accounting for nearly half of the region’s exports and a third of its air pollution. On top of it, Chile’s Atacama Desert is the most arid place on earth, so mining companies must spend 120 liters of water per square meter each month (~70% of the region’s water consumption) to meet state dust concentration limits. Pioneering a more effective method of dust control, Experticia Ingenieros has engineered specialized products and services to contain dust emissions in mining operations, thereby ensuring workers’ health, equipment integrity and regulatory compliance.

GREECE

Company: Raymetrics
Entrepreneur: Nikos Kontos
Description: Raymetrics has been manufacturing high technology solutions for studying the atmosphere for more than a decade. The company designs and builds a range of laser-based remote sensing instruments (LIDARs) which are suitable for a variety of purposes, including academic uses (such as scientific studies of the atmosphere), commercial uses (such as dust trackers for use in open pit mines), and operational uses (such as our Raman depolarization LIDAR optimized for volcanic ash detection). Raymetrics sells its products all across the world, including in the US, and throughout Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and Europe. The company has built up an extensive client list, which includes such prestigious organizations as the European Space Agency, the UK Met Office, Meteo France, and the German Aerospace Centre.

ITALY

Company: OneTray
Entrepreneurs: Federico Kluzer, Andrea Guffanti & Alessandro Pedote
Description: OneTray designs and produces fully customizable airport security trays based on both airport needs and brand partnerships. With sleek trays and secure technology, OneTray seeks to improve the passenger experience at security checkpoints across the globe. At the same time, brands benefit from an innovative communication platform in exclusive airports to reach hundreds of thousands of travelers, on a one-to-one based relationship.

JORDAN

Company: Mawdoo3
Entrepreneurs: Mohammad Jaber & Rami Al-Qawasmi
Description: Arabic speakers are the fastest growing linguistic group on the internet, yet less than 1% of internet content is available in Arabic. Mawdoo3.com is helping fill this void by writing and publishing credible, informative articles on almost every topic imaginable. From art and medicine, to sports, history and recipes, Mawdoo3 is the Arabic-speaking world’s destination for digital content.

KENYA

Company: Eclectics International
Entrepreneur: Paul Mbugua
Description: Operating across 25 countries in Africa, Eclectics International designs, develops, and deploys affordable, tailor-made software solutions for the banking and financial sector. Its solutions include a suite of five core products and services developed primarily to push innovation within banks and enable them to bring financially inclusive services to market.

MIAMI

Company: Chargello
Entrepreneur: Johnny Bosche & Freddy Sidi
Description: Sometimes running out of battery is just not an option. Carrying power banks can be annoying, and finding an outlet in public places is nearly impossible. Frustrated by this, two young entrepreneurs created Chargello, a company focused on solving the low-battery problem in public places (restaurants, hotels, airports, etc.) via their proprietary portable batteries. These batteries not only charge phones but also serve as an innovative advertising platform. With print advertising on the surface of the batteries and embedded technology, Chargello delivers targeted content and redirects users to ads and apps, while tracking interaction data (views, clicks, conversions). Through various partnerships, users can call a car, leave a review for the venue, claim instant offers, or even pay the check right from the battery.

PHILIPPINES

Company: Coins.ph
Entrepreneur: Ron Hose
Description: Through its blockchain-enabled mobile app and web platform, Coins allows users, including those without bank accounts, to easily access financial services directly from their phone. Coins provides a mobile wallet and services such as remittances, air-time, bill payments, and online shopping. Operating in the Philippines and Thailand, Coins aims to increase financial inclusion in Southeast Asia.

Company: Flyspaces
Entrepreneur: Mario Berta
Description: FlySpaces’ online platform connects entrepreneurs, SMEs and corporations looking for short-term rentals with property owners interested in monetizing their idle office and event space. Coworking, short-term, conference, meeting and virtual office space can all be booked through FlySpaces’ website or mobile app in hourly, daily and monthly increments. By vetting and aggregating short-term rental inventory, FlySpaces offers customers a transparent and streamlined search process and eliminates the need for property brokers. On the supply side, FlySpaces enables property owners to monetize their idle office space through high-margin, short-term rental deals. FlySpaces features over 500,000 square meters of office and event space in seven Asian cities by partnering with 800 offices, coworking spaces, and top companies such as Regus and The Ascott.

SAUDI ARABIA

Company: Saferoad
Entrepreneur: Mohannad AlHaj
Description: In Saudi Arabia, someone dies in a road accident every 40 minutes. Fighting this deadly statistic, Saferoad helps companies improve driver and vehicle safety, reduce operation expenses, and minimize the chances of vehicle disruption through its connected car platform. Using internet-of-things (IoT) devices in vehicles, Saferoad enables corporate clients to locate, monitor, and communicate with their fleets in real time. Saferoad is now operating in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, and China, and is ready to tap into international markets to capture the estimated $7 billion global fleet management opportunity with its suite of customizable products and services.

SOUTH AFRICA

Company: SweepSouth
Entrepreneurs: Aisha Pandor & Alen Ribic
Description: SweepSouth, South Africa’s first online platform for subscription-based and on-demand home cleaning services, is changing the game through its proprietary homeowner-cleaner matching algorithm and rigorous recruiting and vetting process, guaranteeing customers a great service and peace of mind. Through its app and site, SweepSouth allows homeowners to book, manage, and pay for services in real-time from any connected device. Likewise, the cleaners (SweepStars) are given the flexibility to choose their jobs based on their schedule and location. Since its launch, SweepSouth has expanded to four cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, and Durban, and has provided job opportunities to over 4,000 cleaners.

Company: ITSI
Entrepreneur: Jacobus (Lieb) Liebenberg
Description: ITSI is an e-learning platform that connects publishers with schools to sell their textbooks digitally. Schools use this platform to not only deliver content to students in a centralized digital space, but also help teachers customize and integrate their teaching agenda into tech-based learning. With its digital content delivery system, ITSI removes fragmentation between learners, resources and teachers with its one-stop shop eLearning platform for schools to purchase textbooks and offer a fully digitized curriculum to students. What distinguishes ITSI is a pending patent which enables teachers to customize the textbooks to their learning plans. Instead of just utilizing digital textbooks, teachers can drag and drop any content, including files, videos, and documents, to any section of a textbook to seamlessly integrate their own lesson plans into the schoolbooks. ITSI currently delivers content to 74,000 students and 4,500 teachers across 180 schools.

TURKEY

Company: ODC Business Solutions
Entrepreneur: Oguz Kucukbarak
Description: To reach modern consumers, brands must be savvier than ever before, delivering their message on smartphones and tablets, on social media and inside apps, via push notifications and through e-mail. ODC Business Solutions’ digital marketing software lets businesses schedule, launch, and analyze omnichannel marketing campaigns from a single centralized platform.

Company: ProAsist
Entrepreneur: Öner Çelebi
Description: Proasist is a national provider of 24/7 high-quality technical facility management services, including equipment maintenance and repair. Specializing in multi-chain stores and industrial facilities, Proasist services 220 clients at 7,500 service sites, delivering the same high-quality service to customers in even the most hard-to-access regions of Turkey.