‫مركز قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية، التابع لبنك قطر للتنمية، ينظم يوم عرض المشاريع الافتراضي الثالث لبرنامجيّ حاضنة ومُسرِّعة الأعمال

فرصة هامة  للمستثمرين والشركات والمؤسسات المالية في الشرق الأوسط

الدوحة، قطر, 9 فبراير / شباط 2022 /PRNewswire/ — أعلن مركز قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية، الذي قام بتأسيسه بنك قطر للتنمية لدعم نمو قطاع التكنولوجيا المالية في قطر، عن يوم عرض المشاريع الافتراضي الثالث من البرامج الرائدة لحاضنة ومسرعة قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية، والذي سيقام في الرابع عشر من فبراير 2022.

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ويعد يوم عرض المشاريع للفوج الثالث أحد أهم الفعاليات التي تشهدها المنطقة في مجال التكنولوجيا المالية، حيث سيقوم باستضافة شخصيات وجهات ريادية من المنظومة المالية المحلية والإقليمية، إلى جانب المستثمرين، والشركات الناشئة العالمية، ومراكز التكنولوجيا المالية الدولية، ورواد الأعمال الطموحين وجميع المهتمين بهذا المجال.

وقد تم تقديم أكثر من 500 طلبًا لرواد الأعمال المبتدئين و متخصصي مجال التكنولوجيا المالية، حيث أجتذبت برامج حاضنة ومسرعة قطر لتكنولوجيا الأعمال طلبات التحاق من أكثر من 50 دولة من جميع أنحاء العالم بما في ذلك الهند وماليزيا وإندونيسيا وهونغ كونغ ولوكسمبورغ وكندا وقطر، وذلك تحت شعار ” تضمين الخدمات المالية في شركات التكنولوجيا المالية . “

وتشمل الشركات المختارة لعرض حلولهم المبتكرة يوم عرض المشاريع الاقتراضي الثالث شركة تون تاغ، تأمين، جي إف آي فينتك، ريستوك آي دي،أوبن سي بي إس،إنفرا بيز، نيو إكس بي، نيت دولار، لووباي، فويس باي، س-تريجيري، الوصية، قطر كراود، تيب تيب توب، ويهرل، آي أي أون ثا فلاي.

وقد حضر المشاركون أكثر من 300 جلسة لتطوير الأعمال مع 15 مؤسسة مالية، واستكملوا سلسلة من الدورات التدريبية والتي قدمها شركاء مركز قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية ونخبة من المتحدثين والخبراء من جميع أنحاء العالم.

وتعليقاً على هذا الحدث، قال السيد عبدالرحمن هشام السويدي، الرئيس التنفيذي بالإنابة لبنك قطر للتنمية : “تتجه العديد من الشركات، وخاصة الشركات التقنية، نحو تقديم الخدمات المالية من خلال منصاتها كوسيلة لإبقاء عملائها ضمن منظومتها لأطول فترات زمنية. لذلك، تزايد العمل على إيجاد حلول تكاملية مبتكرة للخدمات والأنظمة الحالية. وهذا هو ما عمل عليه الفوج الثالث لتقديم ابتكارات لدعم الشركات في هذا المجال”.

واختتم السيد عبدالرحمن حديثه قائلًا: “أود أن أشكر جميع المشاركين والشركاء الذين يساهمون باستمرار في نمو برامجنا، ونتطلع إلى الترحيب بالجميع في يوم عرض المشاريع الافتراضي الثالث الذي طال انتظاره”.

و من الجدير بالذكر أنه تم فتح باب التقديم حالياً للفوج الرابع من برنامجيّ حاضنة ومسرعة قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية، والذي سيركز على ” الحلول المبتكرة في مجال الجيل القادم من الخدمات البنكية”. يمكن لشركات التكنولوجيا المالية ذات الحلول المبتكرة في هذا المجال زيارة موقع مركز قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية (fintech.qa) للحصول على مزيد من التفاصيل وللتسجيل حتى منتصف شهر فبراير 2022. تخضع الطلبات لعملية تقييم شاملة، وستتم دعوة المرشحين المختارين تقديم حلولهم أمام لجنة تحكيم تتألف من ممثلي الجهات المعنية بمنظومة الخدمات المالية في قطر.

وانطلاقًا من التزامه بتقديم تجارب وخبرات عالمية لشركات التكنولوجيا المالية المشاركة، يتعاون مركز قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية باستمرار مع الجهات المعنية الرئيسية في هذا القطاع، بما في ذلك المؤسسات المالية ومقدمي خدمات التكنولوجيا وشبكات حلول الدفع، ومراكز التكنولوجيا المالية العالمية والأوساط الأكاديمية والهيئات التنظيمية. كما تشارك مايكروسوفت بصفتها الشريك التكنولوجي للبرنامج. وتشمل الشراكات الحديثة الأخرى على سبيل المثال لا الحصر: أمازون، وبروجرس سوفت، وفودافون، وجي بي أس.

سيقام يوم عرض المشاريع الذي ينظمه مركز قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية يوم ١٤ فبراير الساعة ١١ صباحاً بتوقيت قطر.

لمزيد من المعلومات حول مركز قطر للتكنولوجيا المالية، يرجى زيارة: www.fintech.qa

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LUPA SYSTEMS AND UDAY SHANKAR ENTER INTO A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO FORM “BODHI TREE,” AN INVESTMENT PLATFORM THAT WILL BE FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY THE QATAR INVESTMENT AUTHORITY

Bodhi Tree to focus on media and consumer technology opportunities in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on India; QIA to commit up to $US1.5 billion to the venture and its opportunities.

MUMBAI, India and DOHA, Qatar, Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Lupa Systems Founder and CEO James Murdoch and Uday Shankar, the former Chairman and CEO of Star India and the former President of Walt Disney Asia Pacific, announced today they are forming a new venture, “Bodhi Tree,” an investment platform that will be financially supported by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). This new venture is designed to invest in media and consumer technology opportunities in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on India.

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Bodhi Tree will leverage technology to provide disruptive solutions that drive transformational outcomes in sectors with deep consumer engagement – including media, education and healthcare – to positively impact millions of consumers across the region. Bodhi Tree will be investing at scale to achieve these outcomes.

The newly formed venture will be run by Murdoch and Shankar as co-chairs, combining decades of experience influencing the region’s media landscape and emerging consumers. QIA will be committing up to $US1.5 billion in Bodhi Tree’s vision being pursued by Murdoch and Shankar.

Qatar Investment Authority“We are very pleased to announce Bodhi Tree,” Messrs Murdoch and Shankar said. “Opportunities abound to scale exciting businesses in India and the broader Southeast Asia region. Our continued focus on investing and building relationships in these regions comes from our deep conviction in the long-term growth of these economies and the incredible power of these consumers, as these sectors are transformed by technology.”

QIA CEO Mansoor bin Ebrahim Al-Mahmoud said: “QIA is proud to play a key role in bringing Bodhi Tree to reality. QIA is investing in the technology and media space and India is a key market for us. QIA looks forward to backing Bodhi Tree as they drive forward their growth plans in the future.”

About Bodhi Tree
Bodhi Tree is a strategic partnership designed to invest in consumer technology opportunities in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on India. The entity will be run by Murdoch and Shankar as co-chairs.

Bodhi TreeAbout Lupa
Lupa Systems is a private holding company founded in 2019 by James Murdoch, the former CEO of 21st Century Fox, Sky plc, and STAR. The company has offices in New York and Mumbai. Collectively, the Lupa team has extensive experience building and scaling businesses across the globe in multiple industries. Lupa focuses on companies within the technology and media industries, impact-driven companies focused on environmental sustainability, and emerging markets, particularly within the Indo-Pacific region.

About James R. Murdoch (Founder & CEO)
James Murdoch is an investor and philanthropist. After more than two decades of global leadership in the media and technology industries, James Murdoch founded Lupa Systems as a private holding company. Mr. Murdoch most recently served as CEO of 21st Century Fox from 2015 to 2019; previously he served as 21st Century Fox Co-COO, Chairman and CEO for Europe and Asia. Prior to his time at 21st Century Fox, Mr. Murdoch was the CEO and Chairman of Sky, and CEO of STAR TV. He is a Director of Tesla, the Dia Art Foundation, and Vice-Chair of the Center for New American Security. James and his wife, Kathryn Murdoch, are founders of Quadrivium, a foundation that invests in democracy reform, technology and society, scientific awareness, and climate and ocean health issues.

About Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar left Disney on December 31, 2020 and announced that he will be moving to an entrepreneurial career where, with funding from global investors, he would support founders to create transformational solutions.  A journalist by training, Uday led and transformed television: he took over as CEO of Star India in 2007 and transformed the company’s broadcast operations and made Star India one of the biggest media and entertainment companies in Asia.  He subsequently led 21st Century Fox’s operations throughout Asia.  Uday was appointed President of Walt Disney Asia Pacific when the Walt Disney Company acquired 21st Century Fox. Under his leadership, Star launched Hotstar – now Disney+ Hotstar –one of the most successful streaming services globally.  Uday currently serves as the President of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). 

About Qatar Investment Authority
Qatar Investment Authority (“QIA”) is the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar. QIA was founded in 2005 to invest and manage the state reserve funds. QIA is among the largest and most active sovereign wealth funds globally. QIA invests across a wide range of asset classes and regions as well as in partnership with leading institutions around the world to build a global and diversified investment portfolio with a long-term perspective that can deliver sustainable returns and contribute to the prosperity of the State of Qatar.

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Fresha, the world’s leading beauty and wellness platform acquires Australia’s Bookwell

LONDON, Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Fresha, the world’s top salon and spa marketplace and booking platform, announced today their acquisition of Bookwell, an Australian competitor. The deal follows a recent $150 million Series C investment in Fresha led by leading private equity firm General Atlantic.

Fresha was rated the top salon software in 2022. The booking system came out on top in all three rating categories for: Most popular salon software; free salon software and most user-friendly salon software.

The acquisition of Bookwell marks a new phase in London based Fresha’s continued successful growth story, adding to the platform’s extensive base of over 60,000 partner salons and spas primarily spanning the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Bookwell was founded in 2017 by EatNow founders Matt Dyer and Nathan Airey and have signed up over 5K salons in Australia. Following their first start-up success, Bookwell was set up as a matchmaking engine for Australian beauty and wellness service providers to fill empty appointment slots with customers in their area.

“From my first meeting with William, Fresha’s founder and CEO, I believed in his vision, energy and passion. By helping beauty and wellness businesses grow sales with tools to facilitate online payments, self-service bookings, and automated marketing, Fresha provides the perfect opportunity to enhance Bookwell’s offering,” says Matt Dyer, Founder and CEO of Bookwell. “We are thrilled to be joining forces with Fresha, the global leader in the beauty and wellness industry.”

The Fresha platform is used across 120 countries globally, with tens of millions of appointments booked each month, and nearly $15 billion in value of appointments bookings processed to date. Fresha’s focus on building easy-to-use, subscription-free software underpinned by a strong word-of-mouth effect has helped the company build a loyal customer base. Fresha’s partner businesses rely on the platform for its ease of use, time-saving benefits, and embedded features to grow their sales, with end users enjoying a premium booking and payment experience.

“Bookwell’s progress in Australia is commendable, the team have built a strong business model helping salons and therapists save thousands each year on marketing to fill empty appointments” says Founder and CEO William Zeqiri. “There is a natural synergy with Fresha’s own online marketplace and Bookwell’s partner base, who now have the opportunity to benefit from our market leading software including dedicated payments system and marketing tools, all accessed under one roof. Together we are helping our partners make more money, save time and get paid more easily.”

About Fresha

Fresha is a leading global salon and spa software. Each month, tens of millions of appointments are discovered, booked and paid with partner salons, spas and barbershops on Fresha. Approximately 60,000 partner venues in over 120 countries use the platform to manage their operations with Fresha’s intuitive, full-spectrum, subscription-free business software. Fresha transforms beauty and wellness business operations by enabling the acceptance of online appointment bookings, processing of card payments and managing customer records, along with automations for marketing, staffing, product inventory and accounting, all in one place. Launched in 2015 originally under the name Shedul, the company rebranded to Fresha in 2020. For more information, visit www.fresha.com, download Fresha on the App Store and Google Play or follow Fresha on Facebook and Instagram.

About Bookwell

Bookwell is an Australian platform for venues in the beauty, health, and wellness industry, enabling them to grow their business, save time and spend less money.  Bookwell provides salon software for venues to manage their business and an online marketplace where customers can book their appointments in an instant. 80,000+ Australians access the marketplace bookwell.com.au every week to book from over 700 venue partners.

Bookwell was founded by Matthew Dyer and Nathan Airey in 2017. Backed by Gabby and Hezi Leibovich, founders of catch.com.au and Adam Schwab and Jeremy Same founders of luxuryescapes.com.

About General Atlantic

General Atlantic is a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. Established in 1980, General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market-leading businesses worldwide. General Atlantic has more than 175 investment professionals based in New York, Amsterdam, Beijing, Greenwich, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, Munich, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore. For more information on General Atlantic, please visit the website: www.generalatlantic.com.

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6sense Named G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards for Marketing Software

Customers continue to claim tremendous ROI, ease of use, and outstanding support with 6sense

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — 6sense, the leading platform for B2B organizations generating predictable revenue, today announced it has been named to G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards. 6sense is the top-ranking ABM/ABX platform named to the Best Marketing Products list for 2022.

6sense | Predictive intelligence for B2B marketing and sales

This accolade follows 6sense’s December 2021 honor as a Leader across 11 categories in the G2 Winter 2022 Grid Report, including recognition as the number one Account-Based Advertising solution for the fifth consecutive reporting period.

These awards, based on feedback from thousands of B2B software buyers and users on G2, recognize the top software choices used by teams. Its annual Best Software List ranks the world’s best software companies and products based on authentic, timely reviews from real users.

“We’re honored to be recognized by customers using 6sense to transform their go-to-market strategy,” said Jason Zintak, CEO of 6sense. “Our mission is to transform the way organizations create, manage and convert pipeline to revenue and that requires a willingness to change. And change requires advocates, champions and evangelists. This recognition is for all the forward-thinking leaders achieving predictable revenue growth with 6sense in the RevTech Revolution.”

G2 releases their list of best software companies annually to recognize leaders in product performance and user satisfaction. Their annual best of software lists are based on data from more than one million authentic, verified customer reviews written and published between January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021.

Highlights from verified customer feedback on the G2 platform:

“Our annual Best Software List aims to guide buyers on their purchasing decisions, knowing they can trust in the credibility and objectivity of our scoring algorithms. We applaud those companies named to our  2022 list, as they’ve earned the satisfaction among their customers as well as an impressive market presence,” said Godard Abel, co-founder and CEO, G2.

6sense is transforming account based marketing and selling. This is what marketers and sellers have been waiting for. Accurate insights and predictions and all the actions you need to orchestrate your end-to-end revenue strategy.”

Fuel ABM and your tech stack with 6sense. 6sense has allowed our team to completely REVolutionize your marketing and sales team’s processes for B2B marketing. With 6sense your marketing team will be directly supporting the sales team by surfacing in-marketing accounts and helping qualify them and build new pipeline.”

6sense enables a modern way to rationalize and manage outreach. My job requires me to cover many different accounts that can be difficult to organize, but 6Sense allows me to prioritize certain accounts based on the intent that a company is exhibiting.”

Read more reviews from 6sense customers on G2 here.

About 6sense
The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team. 6sense uncovers anonymous buying behavior, prioritizes accounts for sales and marketing, and enables them to engage resistant buying teams with personalized, multi-channel, multi-touch campaigns. 6sense helps revenue teams know everything they need to know about their buyers so they can easily do anything needed to generate more opportunities, increase deal size, get into opportunities sooner, and compete and win more often. Visit 6sense.com for more information.

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Customertimes Announces New Consumer Health Projects Based on CT Software Products

NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Customertimes has recently undertaken projects with three global consumer health organizations in Western Europe to increase their existing OTC and prescription drug business segments and facilitate expansion into new, rapidly growing markets.

Customertimes will be implementing CRM solutions for multichannel pharmacy and HCP engagement. The new solutions will be based on CT Software’s award-winning suite of products, including CT Pharma, CT Mobile, and CT Presenter.

Additionally, all new customers will leverage CT’s proprietary multi-channel ordering solution, CT Orders, to increase efficiency for OTC and pharmacy rep visits. The timelines vary, but all three projects will reach go-live by Q3 of 2022.

“These projects further confirm our role as one of the industry leaders in CRM for Consumer Health, Pharma, and Medical Products,” says Alexey Patsko, CEO of CT Software. “We are committed to increasing the efficiency of our customers’ sales teams, and we know our products will significantly impact the value these companies are able to derive from their CRM.

“Customertimes offers a complete, industry-specific set of applications that extends Salesforce functionality and allows our customers to leverage the full power of the Salesforce ecosystem,” Patsko. “This is what gives us the edge over our competitors. Our applications make a significant impact on revenue growth and sales efficiency, allowing companies to scale quickly and expand into key markets.”

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About Customertimes

Customertimes Corp. is a global consulting and software firm dedicated to making the top IT technologies accessible to customers. With more than 4000 projects completed and 1600+ highly skilled experts, our solutions are engineered to help clients realize true business transformation and achieve maximum value from their technology investments. An early entrant into the Salesforce consulting and implementation space in Eastern Europe and an award-winning product development organization, Customertimes Corp. currently has headquarters in New York City, along with regional offices in London, Paris, Toronto, Kyiv, Minsk, Riga, and Moscow. For more information, visit www.customertimes.com.

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TigerGraph Launches Million-Dollar Challenge to Inspire Innovative Uses of Graph

Company Tests Global Community of Innovators; Awards $1M in Prizes to Solve Real World Problems with Graph Technology

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TigerGraph, provider of a leading graph analytics platform, today launched “Graph for All Million Dollar Challenge,” a global search for innovative ways to harness the power of graph technology and machine learning to solve real world problems. The challenge brings together brilliant minds to build innovative solutions to better our future with one question: How will you change the world with graph? Winners across four main categories will be announced this May at the 2022 Graph + AI Summit, the largest open industry event for graph and AI organized by TigerGraph.

“Every day, more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced — that’s 18 zeroes,” said Dr. Yu Xu, founder and CEO of TigerGraph. “Within this data are answers to critical health, climate, and business-related questions, and graph technology identifies those patterns across and within the data to find the answers. We’re giving one million dollars to innovators who push the boundaries of graph and AI technology to uncover new, transformational ways to solve real world issues. The challenge is officially on and we look forward to seeing thousands of registrants, hundreds of mind-blowing entries, and countless new ideas and concepts.”

Now considered a must-have technology for modern enterprises, graph is making a difference for companies under tremendous pressures brought on by the pandemic. Over the past 18 months alone, TigerGraph’s technology empowered medical providers to make real-time care recommendations to millions of patients, fueled countless COVID-tracking initiatives, and helped businesses save hundreds of millions of dollars by improving their supply chain decisions.

“TigerGraph’s challenge is structured to stretch the imagination of graph enthusiasts and test its limits,” said Usha Rengaraju, Graph for All Million Dollar Challenge Judge. “I’m excited to see teams coming together to create graph solutions that can impact society or shape the future for companies. There is so much data available in the world waiting to reveal patterns and relationships that will solve important global problems.”

Solving Real Problems
Entrepreneurs, academics, engineers, and scientists have the freedom to create and use their own problem statement focused on a topic they are dedicated to or passionate about. Additionally, domain experts from around the world have contributed problem statements that contestants can select. A few examples include:

  • Identify granular concepts that interlink multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals;
  • Model the progression of COVID waves to better predict future waves;
  • Understand patterns of diagnosis and treatment that point to potential off-label usage of drugs;
  • Generate a model for individuals to track their own online information and make better decisions on who has their data, and what is being done with it;
  • Add to the climate change knowledge by producing the time-series analysis for newly generated thermokarst lakes to help understand the impact in the polar regions.

Judging Committee
The judging committee includes the world’s brightest and most recognizable data scientists, professors, PhD’s, distinguished engineers, and founders of global companies focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, knowledge graph, and other industry experts with deep knowledge of graph technology, graph use cases, and graph deployments. Notable panelists include:

How to Register for the Million Dollar Challenge
The global virtual challenge is open to tech professionals, data scientists, engineers, university students, and researchers interested in discovering what is possible with graph and AI. Notable partners participating in the challenge include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Google Dev Library, data.world, GitHub, Kubrick Group, Microsoft Azure, Plotly, and Women Who Code.

Registration opens today and the final submission deadline is April 20, 2022. Winners will be announced the week of May 23 at the 2022 Graph + AI Summit, the industry’s only open conference devoted to democratizing and accelerating analytics, AI, and machine learning with graph algorithms, organized by TigerGraph.

How to Win
Contestants will be part of a worldwide competition to solve crucial problems and have an opportunity to share in $1,000,000 in cash prizes.

Entries will be judged based on the project’s impact, creativity, boldness, and adaptability:

  • Most Impactful: The project’s level of impact on social good and the community at large
  • Most Innovative: The project’s level of ingenuity and the ability to identify new, never-imagined uses of graph
  • Most Ambitious: The project’s overall ability to push the boundary of a graph to drive data insights
  • Most Applicable: The project’s relevancy to a wide range of organizations

For complete rules and resources, and to register, click here: https://graphforall.devpost.com/

Helpful Links

· Graph for All Million Dollar Challenge
· Graph for All
· Graph + AI Summit
· Get TigerGraph
· TigerGraph Cloud
· TigerGraph Website
· TigerGraph Blog
· TigerGraph on Twitter
· TigerGraph on LinkedIn

About TigerGraph
TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360, recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.

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