Facts
Establishment Year:
2012
Number of staff:
Key Staff
Oasis500 is a leading early stage and seed investment company, the first of its kind in Jordan and the MENA region. The program at Oasis500 includes entrepreneurship and business trainings, mentorship guidance, business acceleration and additional follow-up investment and funding if required, turning new business ideas into startups and helping existing entrepreneurs grow their companies with the Oasis500 angel investor and mentor networks. Oasis500 has successfully secured investments for 69 technology companies.
Following are selected Oasis500 start-ups who participated in this special section:
Contacts
Tel: +962-6-5000999
Fax: +962-6-5000999
Zip code: 11118
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.oasis500.com
Facts
Establishment Year:
2005
Number of staff:
25
Service:
Services: Online wedding planning, venue booking, honeymoon booking, wedding planning checklist.
Key Staff
Arabia Weddings is the region’s number one bilingual wedding planning platform helping brides-to-be in the Middle East to plan a stress-free wedding.
Arabia Weddings provides valuable digital content on all aspects of the wedding including fashion, beauty, honeymoon and much more in addition to, online directories of wedding suppliers in 13 Arab countries, interactive wedding planning tools such as the wedding checklist, venue and honeymoon booking services and special deals.
Arabia Weddings also produces short DIY videos for brides- to-be. The main market segment served is females, mostly brides-to-be, between the ages of 20 and 35.
Contacts
Facts
Establishment Year:
2004
Number of staff:
5
Service:
Production of Arabic audio-visual content and Apps for children under 7.
Key Staff
Little Thinking Minds specializes in the production of engaging, edu-taining Arabic content for children providing content that attracts their attention, entertains them, and engages their ongoing interest and imagination; while educating and immersing them in their mother tongue and laying a foundation for strong literacy in the future.
The content includes video, songs, books, apps, online games and activities. The products are delivered on several platforms, physically (DVDs, CDs, books) as well as digitally.
Physical products are sold through major retail outlets, bookshops, play areas supermarkets and mega stores. Online sales include LTM’s e-commerce website and partner websites. Digital content is available through the Appstore, iTunes and Google Store and various aggregators.
Contacts
Facts
Establishment Year:
2011
Number of staff:
2
Service:
Services: Beauty & Style, Arts & Crafts, Home, Food, Health & Well-being and Parenting.
Key Staff
“Keif” means “How” in Arabic. Keif develops short and high-quality Arabic “How To” videos targeted online at viewers from the Middle East. The company’s focus today is on developing content for women, but will expand more broadly within the “How To” genre in the future.
Keif’s six categories are Beauty & Style, Arts & Crafts, Home, Food, Health & Well-Being and Parenting.
Keif videos are distributed online on its website and social media channels to be viewed for free. To increase the value of these instructional videos, Keif states a fact caption at the end of each video.
Contacts
Facts
Establishment Year:
2011
Number of staff:
Service:
Online, real-time bill presentment and payment service.
Key Staff
Madfoo3atCom is an online, real-time bill presentment and payment service, which enables customers to inquire about and pay their bills and payments anytime, anywhere in Jordan and the MENA region. The company recently won the tender of the Central Bank of Jordan to build, operate and administrate the JO-EBPPS service nation-wide.
Cash payments dominate the Middle East which wastes the time, money, and efforts of consumers and merchants. Accordingly, Madfoo3atCom provides customers with convenient and secure payment channels, available 24/7, via banks and payment providers through on-line banking, ATMs, mobile, POS .... etc. No queues, no time-wasting, no cash-handling and 24/7 online secure payment services in comparison with the traditional, physical cash or credit cards payments.
Contacts
Tel: +962-6-5548483
Fax: +962-6-5528057
Zip code: 11953
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.madfoo3at.com
Facts
Establishment Year:
2011
Number of staff:
10+
Service:
IT Outsourcing, Managed IT Services, Remote Monitoring & Management.
Key Staff
Experts 911 provides SMEs with an “Affordable Cloud-based IT Department” to enable SMEs to focus on their core business functions while IT engineers in Experts 911 support centers will reliably manage their IT infrastructure (software/hardware) and assist their employees.
Experts 911 Fixed-fee Unlimited Online IT Support subscription provides SMEs with superior technical support from anywhere at anytime simply by double-clicking the Experts 911 IT support icon on their desktop. Trained engineers will instantly start fixing problems (ex. email issues, printer connectivity) and assist in using common software (how-to questions). Experts 911 ProActive IT Support subscription goes a step further.
Instead of just reacting to problems after they cause costly downtime, Experts 911 continuously monitors the health of the IT systems (ex. computers, antivirus, backup) to predict, prevent and fix potential issues before they escalate into bigger problems.
Contacts
Tel: +962-6-5681911/2
Fax: +962-6-5688911
Zip code:
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.experts911.com
Facts
Establishment Year:
2012
Number of staff:
4
Service:
Collections of industry specific templates, presentations, white- papers, deliverables.
Key Staff
Hashdoc helps consultants and industry professionals deliver faster and more relevant work by giving them the means to find, discover and save useful work-related resources.
Hashdoc.com hosts a continually growing collection of professional resources that are contributed, rated and improved by like-minded communities. The company is building an open consultancy knowledge-base that is equipped with productivity tools, both of which are available to everyone. The product is similar in concept to the closed proprietary knowledge management systems found in global consulting firms.
Contacts
Facts
Establishment Year:
2013
Number of staff:
4
Service:
Educational Web Games, Educational Mobile Apps, Publishing interactive Arabic children’s books.
Key Staff
Maktabee is an educational gaming company for kids. Maktabee produces fun, entertaining and game-based learning applications in Arabic and in line with the ideals of Middle Eastern culture and values. Maktabee has developed a social gaming platform that uniquely gamifies reading of books. In 2014, Maktabee will be serving kids from first to sixth grade. Here they can explore and unlock a virtual world as they read and listen to books in the game’s library, learn new vocabulary, and apply comprehension and analytical skills while interacting with friends. The game is offered through subscription options for both schools and parents.
Contacts
Facts
Establishment Year:
2013
Number of staff:
9
Service:
Services: Social, Search engine, Blogging platform, E-commerce, Shopping.
Key Staff
Foodlve is a social discovery platform for food where users can search, bookmark, blog, share and buy food in one place. It is the first portal that is merges the features of social, search engine, blogging and shopping using one account.
In one place you can search for recipes, articles, products or users. You can bookmark (save) your findings, share findings with friends, create your own entries and share them, buy related tools and ingredients.