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MOHAMED HAJ HASAN Jordan Akhtaboot Founded in 2007 Akhtaboot-Arabic for "octopus"- is an online career network that is committed to providing a user-friendly way of linking the right person to the right career opportunity. Akhtaboot serves as a career network for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Since the website launched, Akhtaboot has dramatically grown its user base of daily visitors and registered employers including international players like Google, FedEx and LG Electronics. MELIH KOCA Turkey Havooz Havooz ICT Services Ltd. provides large-scale data processing and storage solutions in an economical way for various sectors. We provide technical support during the setup and management of private and public clouds based on open-source distributed frameworks including Hadoop and Hive. In addition to the performance gains and cost-savings, Havooz has effective solutions for fast development of sector-specific applications and reduced time-to-market of Value Added Services. The same solution infrastructure can be used for both structured and unstructured data analysis. HILAL KOÇ Turkey Anne Lütfen Annelutfen.com is an online baby, kid & mom e-retailer founded in August of 2011 and based in Istanbul, Turkey. With 12,000+ SKUs, Annelutfen is a one-stop shop for Turkish families and addresses three key needs in the market: 1. lack of access to international brands for increasingly brand-aware rural parents, 2. significant time constraints for working and urban families given work, increasing traffic and busy lifestyles and 3. lack of website usability and vertical depth/selection in the online market. With very limited competition in the vertical overall and none in the online retail sector in Turkey, Annelutfen plans to aggressively pursue market leadership and capture the market estimated at $90M by year-end. MURAT LOSTAR Turkey eBrandValue eBrandValue is a completely automated solution that offers a brand's market value in dollar terms real time using web/ social media presence to identify the most efficient and effective customer acquisition strategies, ideal product features, and competitive intelligence techniques that are focused on weak signals. The approach is unique in the world in the sense that i) it uses a mindshare based approach, ii) sector specific focus that provides a context and iii) a customer behavior approach that provides a lifetime value framework. The algorithm uses advanced techniques and big data for accuracy and reliability. Further, the social network based analysis allows for identifying weak signals and important trends in advance. 20