The young tunisian startup "Historio" represented by its co-founder and CEO "Youssef Boufaied" was named "The most creative Tunisian Startup" at the National Final of the Creative Business Cup. Historio will be representing Tunisia in the international final of the competition which will take place during July in Copenhagen.
This global year-round initiative, organized in its 7th edition by The Arab Institute of Business Leaders (IACE), empowers entrepreneurs in the creative industries, helping them grow their business ideas, connecting them to investors and global markets, and strengthening their innovative capabilities to the benefit of industry and society.
The competing startups in the final show were :
- KHALTA : a studio of Creative Design that offers to people who are looking for unusual furniture and decorative objects, items made from a special recipe of cement.
- SCIENCIA : A center with scientific leisure activities and products for kids and youth. They develop contents for workshops around sciences and technologies (robotics, physics...)
- HISTORIO Legends is a Free-to-Play Online Collectable Card Game with Augmented Reality based on true Historical Content. The player uses the Collected Cards to compete with other players in a 1VS1 duel.
- SGHARTOON is a learning application that uses cartoons in an innovative way to teach dyslexic kids the languages. It gives them the choices to change scenarios and play with the characters while being supervised by their parents
The evaluation of the business concept was based on :
- Creativity : « Think different, think International »
- Market Potential : Scalability and large market potential
- Disruptive Innovation : Powerful way of thinking about innovation-driven growth
- Business Execution : Having the right staff which is able to support company’s strategy and achieve its strategic goals by increasing long term profitability.
The event was moderated by Mr. Anouar Romdhani, Account Manager from Microsoft. The Panel of the Jury was composed from :
- Mr. Ibrahim Debache, CEO - Ennakl Automobile
- Mr. Alexander Rieper, Country Manager - Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Tunisia & Libya)
- Mrs. Ouafa Belgacem, CEO - Culture Funding Watch
- Mrs. Sonia Barbaria, Communications and Partnership Specialist - AfDB
- Mr. Maher Kallel, President - Carthage Business Angels and Serial Entrepreneur