According to Mehr news agency, Seyyed Mehdi Sadat Hayatshahi, secretary of the investme eve of the National Festival of Creative and Cultural Industries of Iran, announced this news and said: In the investme section of this festival, 130 teams from all over the coury se their pitch decks to the secretariat. The environme was active.
Explaining the process of holding this eve and attracting funds for the companies, technology units and start-ups prese, he added: After the announceme of the initial results, the meoring process was held online for the successful teams, and with the start of the festival in Chabahar, iensive courses of training and face-to-face meoring coinued with the aim of improving the quality of preseations and preparation for negotiations with investors and judges.
The secretary of the investme eve of this festival coinued: In this eve, 20 investme companies including Creative Industries Non-Governmeal Research and Technology Fund, Barkat Foundation, Arvand Corporate Veure Research and Technology Fund, Gilan Province Research and Technology Fund, Crimea Non-Governmeal Research and Technology Fund, Imam Reza Iernational Foundation, Islamic Propaganda Organization Omid Holding, Culture and Art Developme Assistance Institute, Chabahar Free Zone Organization, Iranian Erepreneurship and Innovation Developme and Bad Saba Group were prese. A total of 84 specialized B2B meetings were held between the prese teams and investors, which laid the groundwork for the formation of serious negotiations to attract capital and develop future cooperation.
He said: During this eve, Daneshbanian Barkat Company finalized the investme and definitive facilities of 175 billion Rials. Also, the Ministry of Sports and Youth also provided a support package worth 1,000 billion Rials (with a ceiling of 10 billion Rials for each team) in the form of facilities, and a total of more than 1,500 billion Rials were allocated by domestic investors to support companies, technology units, and cultural and artistic startups.
Sadat emphasized: Creative Industries Research and Technology Fund, as the host of the investme eve of the National Festival of Creative and Cultural Industries, will iensively follow the exchange of information and negotiations uil the agreeme between the investors and the selected teams is reached, and the investors are holding final meetings to conclude coracts.
The CEO of Creative Industries Research and Technology Fund described the creative and cultural industries festival of Iran, which was held with the aim of strengthening the ecosystem of creative industries, facilitating the capitalization process and creating an effective link between innovative ideas and investors with the participation of Creative Industries Research and Technology Fund, as very effective in the developme of the coury’s creative industries ecosystem and added: the investme section, as one of the most importa elemes of the festival, was the basis for practical ieraction between creative teams and financial players in this field.
Winners of the capitalization section of the National Festival of Creative and Cultural Industries of Iran
Sadat Shahi further said: In the closing ceremony of the creative and cultural industries festival, with the presence of officials, artistic and cultural activists, technologists, creative companies, investors and studes of cultural ceers of universities across the coury, it was held in the iernational conference and exhibition ceer of Chabahar Free Zone, the winners of the capitalization section of this festival were iroduced and honored:
He added: Based on indicators such as the degree of innovation of the idea compared to existing examples, active and effective presence during the eve, being a learner, the ability to attract investors, commitme and motivation of the team, the technical and operational feasibility of the idea, the scalability of the business model and the market developme capacity, three teams were nominated as “chosen” and one team as “chosen” as follows:
“Kasab” application (Samansazan Kasab) represeed by Mrs. Pegah Hashemi was iroduced as the selected team.
“Fauction Games” studio with its platform game and Monopoly product represeed by Ms. Satishnejad Mohammad, “Anati” craft team represeed by Ms. Maryam Merati and “Taste of My Design” design group represeed by Ms. Hasna Lotfi were honored as the selected teams of this section.
