[October 03, 2012]

18 High-Impact Entrepreneurs from Brazil, Chile, Greece, Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey Join the Endeavor Network

Endeavor selected 18 High-Impact Entrepreneurs from seven countries at its 45^th International Selection Panel. Endeavor now supports 726 High-Impact Entrepreneurs from 455 companies in 14 emerging and growth market countries. The entrepreneurs were chosen at a Panel held from October 1-3.

"We attracted entrepreneur candidates from four continents to Istanbul, representing the true breadth of Endeavor's efforts to identify and support high impact entrepreneurs throughout the world," said Endeavor co-founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg. "I'm especially thrilled to welcome our first Endeavor Entrepreneurs from new affiliates we launched this year in Indonesia and Greece."

The International Selection Panel is the culmination of a rigorous multi-step Search & Selection process where top local and international business leaders interview and then offer guidance to entrepreneur candidates. Endeavor's next scheduled International Selection Panel will be held in Miami in December. Post-selection, Endeavor provides entrepreneurs with customized services provided by local business mentors and volunteers from Fortune 500 consulting firms and top U.S. business schools. Endeavor Entrepreneurs have had a significant track record of creating thousands of jobs and building sustainable growth models in their home countries.

Entrepreneur(s)/Companies selected:

Brazil

Entrepreneurs: Caio Bonatto, Beto Justus and Lucas Maceno
Company: Tecverde (www.tecverde.com.br)
Description: Tecverde constructs eco-friendly homes with a guarantee of short construction time and low cost.

Chile

Entrepreneur: Roberto Cifuentes
Company: G-Process (www.gprocess.cl)
Description: G-Process develops additives for use during copper refining processes that increase the metal's value. The company's DXG-F7 additive can add $100 to the value of each ton of copper on average by improving the purity and appearance of copper produced. DXG-F7 also vastly reduces the amount of water needed to complete the refining process.

Egypt:

Entrepreneur: Yasmine Shihata
Company: Enigma (www.enigma-mag.com)
Description: Enigma is an Egyptian English-language magazine and e-commerce business focusing on fashion, culture, travel, and key personalities in business, politics and entertainment for a globally oriented reader.Enigma magazine is available both in print and online in Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, and the UK.

Entrepreneurs: Mohamed Wahid, Ahmed El Kordy
Company: Mashaweer (www.mashaweeronline.com)
Description: Mashaweer is the first personal assistance service company in Egypt, and is dedicated to saving its clients' time and effort by acting as a full-time personal assistant at a part-time cost. Mashaweer operates in Alexandria and Cairo, and is beginning operations in Beirut this month.

Greece

Entrepreneurs: Nikos Kakavoulis & Phaedra Chrousos
Company: Daily Secret (www.dailysecret.com)
Description: Daily Secret is a digital media company that sends a daily curated email newsletter featuring city "secrets" related to categories such as dining, entertainment, and shopping. The company is in 16 cities across the world, each with its own edition, often in the native language as well as English. Daily Secret is focused on expanding to large cities in emerging markets to serve their young and increasingly affluent populations.

Indonesia

Entrepreneur: Vincent Henry Iswaratioso
Company: Indomog (www.indomog.com)
Description: Indomog is Indonesia's first comprehensive payment service provider (PSP) for online transactions. Indomog has secured partnerships with the majority of Indonesia's game distributors and several international tech companies including Google (News - Alert) and Facebook.

Entrepreneur: Niki Luhur
Company: Kartuku (www.kartuku.co.id)
Description: Kartuku provides payment processing solutions through secure and reliable hardware, software, and service offerings. Kartuku manages and services everything from data servers to point-of-sale payment devices. This model provides banks, retail merchants, and payment agents with a convenient "one-stop" solution for all their payment processing needs along with built-in risk reduction mechanisms.

Entrepreneur: Aldi Haryopratomo
Company: Ruma (www.ruma.co.id)
Description: Ruma has created a platform through which Indonesia's small, traditional shops can buy and sell prepaid minutes via SMS. Ruma is now implementing tools for market intelligence, bill payment, and mobile banking to fully leverage their large network of over 4,000 active shops.

Mexico

Entrepreneur: René W. Lankenau & Luis Garza
Company: Advenio (www.advenio.mx)
Description: Advenio is a newly launched and quickly growing company that provides professional daycare services to the employees of large corporations.

Entrepreneur: Roger Viera
Company: Pounce Consulting (www.pounceconsulting.com)
Description: Pounce Consulting is a full-service IT consulting, product design, and manufacturing option for companies with complicated technical challenges. The company operates a full service manufacturing and assembly facility, specializing in printed circuit boards.

Turkey

Entrepreneur: Atlug Acar
Company: Hediyemo
Description: Hediyemo is Turkey's first and leading mobile and social gifting platform. Customers can login through the Hediyomo website, mobile or a Facebook (News - Alert) app and choose from 500 unique products and 300 gift cards in varying prices ranges from 34 merchants.

Entrepreneurs: Göktug Oguz, Haldun Uraz
Company: Unnado (www.unnado.com)
Description: Unnado is an e-commerce website that conducts flash sales for baby and children's products for children up to the age of 14. Working with suppliers to offer products at a significant discount for the customer, Unnado sells clothing, supplies, toys, and other products in three day sales on its website.

About Endeavor

Hailed by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as "the best anti-poverty program of all," Endeavor is leading the global movement to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. To date, Endeavor has screened more than 30,000 entrepreneurs and selected 726 individuals leading 455 high-impact companies.

With support from Endeavor's worldwide mentor network, these high-impact entrepreneurs:

-Have created over 200,000 jobs
-Generated over $5 billion in revenues in 2011
-Inspire future generations to innovate and take risks

Headquartered in New York City, Endeavor currently operates in 16 countries throughout Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia. As the high-impact movement expands globally, Endeavor will continue to prove that anyone with a big idea can succeed, from Silicon Valley to Latin America, the Middle East, and beyond.

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