PITCH Powered by Jusour is Web Summit Qatar’s startup pitching competition, bringing together the world’s leading early-stage startups to battle it out onstage. Founders have the chance to pitch to – and learn from – investors and leaders.
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A startup founder pitches her company to a panel of judges on stage at Web Summit Qatar

PITCH Powered by Jusour at Web Summit Qatar is open to exhibiting ALPHA and BETA startups that have received less than €5 million in funding to date and that have not had a discernible change in business model in the last three years.

What happens when I apply?

All applications are recorded and passed on to an independent panel of influential judges for assessment.

Assessment and selection

The top 40 startups will prepare their decks and delivery to battle it out onstage at Web Summit Qatar.

Prepare for battle

Present in front of a panel of investors, members of the media and global partners for the chance to be crowned the winner of PITCH Powered by Jusour.

Time to pitch

Meet the startups shortlisted for PITCH at Web Summit Qatar 2025

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Blinq Solutions

Celtro GmbH

Earlybean

FortyGuard

Geneina Green Systems

Metalchemy

Qardy

Qarint

Saher Flow Solutions

THDR Group

TYMY

WorldEd

aloo.ai

BIOGEN

Blue Circular Innovation

Cloudset

CyberTalents

Elepzia

Flow Master by Netta Software

Global Psytech MENA LLC

iCodejr.com

Intriq

Lebara Network  Nigeria

Orhun Teknoloji A.Ş.

RAIZ DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Re-skill

Share

SilTest Semiconductors

SuperCommerce

TradexLearn

Viewit

Wealth Karma

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US-based gaming company <a href="https://breshna.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Breshna</a> has won PITCH, powered by Jusour. The no-code game development platform impressed the judges, seeing off competition from Uzbekistan and the UK on the final day. 



PITCH, powered by Jusour, is Web Summit Qatar’s startup competition, bringing together the world’s leading early-stage startups for a live onstage battle. 40 of the 1,043 startups at this year’s event qualified for the three-day competition, which culminated in Breshna taking top prize.&nbsp;



Uzbekistan-based financial services company <a href="https://imaninvest.com/en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IMAN</a> and UK-based healthcare solutions business <a href="https://www.rhazes.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rhazes</a> finished as runners-up.



Breshna’s mission is to empower users to create, share and monetise their own video games without prior coding or game-design knowledge. The platform provides its network of 175,000 users with a game-maker editor, an AI-powered text-to-game engine, and a Web3-enabled metaverse.&nbsp;



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Hailing from Washington DC, Breshna founder and CEO Mariam Nusrat said moments like these are important in the long, hard journey of a founder: “This kind of visibility is really cool.”



Noting the quality of her opponents on stage, Mariam said that “even having the honour to share the stage with them, it&#8217;s just such a blast”.



“I don’t like to take the founder journey as a sort of Hunger Games approach. I think there’s more to it than that … Every single idea that I&#8217;ve heard [during the competition] has left me so deeply inspired.”



Founded two years ago, Breshna has raised “around US$2.5million from investors like Paris Hilton and Randi Zuckerberg”, according to Mariam.



The three finalists pitched to a judging panel consisting of Amin Matni of Jusour, Zach Coelius from Coelius Capital, Soumaya Ben Beya Dridje from Rasmal Ventures, and Rama Chakaki from Transform VC – all heavyweights in the investment and startup world.



The competition was open to ALPHA and BETA startups that had received less than €5 million in funding.



Earlier in the week, <a href="https://qatar.websummit.com/blog/news/web-summit-qatar-numbers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">we announced</a> that the inaugural Web Summit Qatar hosted 15,453 attendees from 118 countries, with 1,043 startups taking part in the startup programme.



The cohort of CEOs, startups, investors, journlalists, policymakers and creatives in attendance took part in three days of masterclasses, investor to startup meetings, competition rounds, evening events and Night Summit parties around the most exciting neighbourhoods of Doha.



<h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-want-to-take-part-in-next-year-s-startup-competition-apply-for-our-startup-programme-alpha-to-join-us-in-qatar">Want to take part in next year’s startup competition? <a href="https://qatar.websummit.com/startups/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apply for our startup programme, ALPHA</a>, to join us in Qatar.</h4>



<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/websummitqatar/53558451762/in/album-72177720315092655/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Main image</a> of (l-r) Breshna VP Joanna Kurylo, Breshna founder and CEO Mariam Nusrat, and Blockchain Founders Fund managing partner Aly Madhavji: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/websummitqatar/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephen McCarthy</a>/<a href="https://websummit.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Web Summit</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode.en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC BY 2.0</a>)

US-based Breshna wins PITCH, powered by Jusour

Meet our PITCH judges for Web Summit Qatar 2025

“Your Bridge to a New Future” 🇶🇦

Emad Hassan

Internal Audit 

Ghenna Kanawati

Managing Partner

Zach Finkelstein

Co-Founder

Bhawna Bhatnagar

Chief Executive Officer

Omar Shamiyeh

Partner

Soumaya Ben Beya Dridje

Investor

Harshal Patil

Principal

Sara Enan

Managing Director

Francisco Miguel Condeco Caetano De Sousa

Director of Private Equity

Muhammad Kandil

Dalia Ibrahim

Founder & General Partner

Rami Elkhatib

Meet some of our past winners

Watch the highlights from Web Summit Qatar

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– Alex Kendall, Co-founder &amp; CEO, Wayve | Web Summit 2018 PITCH winner

“The publicity of winning PITCH gave us a build in momentum as we approach our next fundraising.”

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– Maria Hahn, Founder &amp; CEO, Nutrix | Web Summit 2019 PITCH winner

“I’ve pitched to the public before, but the size of the PITCH audience is very impressive.”

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– Ana Robakidze, Founder &amp; CEO, Theneo | Web Summit 2022 PITCH winner

“I was watching as an attendee, and I said, ‘One day, I want to be there on the stage’. … It feels surreal.”

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