📋 Tender Overview
Held from December 6 to 10 GITEX Technology Week in Dubai serves as home to tech startups. Amid visa and COVID-19 restrictions the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication MoITT successfully pitched 3 startups from Ignites NIC Program. Among the participating startups WALEE Pakistans largest and fastest growing influencer and social commerce platform that enables businesses to discover contract collaborate and pay influencers who market and sell for them at scale. Today 50000 influencers and businesses across 250 cities are on Walee.pk. SE Drop Save Every Drop is another startup showcasing at the mega event offering two product lines - one wastewater recycling systems to deal with water scarcity and second natural alcohol and chemical-free disinfectants. While the third startup encore pay is a fintech which provides a digital payments platform to financial institutions including banks telecoms and payment networks. All three Ignite NIC Program startups have attracted interest from the public and private entities. Walee is in discussions with major global and regional brands PR social and digital agencies to implement scalable solutions for a 2021 rollout via www.walee.ae. SE Drop has attracted interest from Dubai Electricity and Water Authority DEWA Dubai Municipality Fujairah Municipality UAE and private investors from Bahrain and Turkey for the collaboration in wastewater recycling management systems. GITEX-veteran encore pay is reconnecting with clients and partners from Middle East and Africa and has also received positive traction for its product suite from leads in new locations as well as VC interest. Notwithstanding the pandemic GITEX 2020 is the only major in-person technology event to go live this year with more than 1200 innovative tech enterprises startups and government entities from 60 countries over 200 of the most active investors and VCs from 30 countries and over 350 speakers from 30 countries.
