Saudi Arabia Women's Fellowship (2018)
This all-female cohort came to Halcyon’s headquarters in Washington, DC for a two-week program that included mentorship and developing their pitches, among other training. These entrepreneurs created learning tools for future inventors, innovative approaches to treating autism, virtual reality experiences to explain historical sites, and more.
Exteer
Exteer is a matching platform for employers and workers in Saudi Arabia, focused on solving unemployment or underemployment issues. The program enables the individual user to develop his or her talents and increase opportunities for unemployed individuals to find and start their best career. Exteer solves the problem of obtaining professional experience for those who are newly graduated or not enrolled in higher education. Exteer hopes to remove the gap where fresh graduates and people with special needs are looking for employment solutions and the companies are in fact always looking for more experienced individuals. Thus, matching volunteers who are looking for experience with companies who are looking to cut down their employment costs and at the end inducing a 360-degree feedback mechanism to improvement employment opportunities.
Exteer is no longer active.
Wahedoon
Wahedoon is an electronic application that helps autistic children to improve their communication skills through games and educational activities. The application is primarily color-based since autistic children respond better to color than words or digits. The prototype has already been in the market and has been very successful. What makes Wahedoon special is that the app works in Arabic, so itβs easier for children in the country to grasp what is being asked of them and be able to interact easily.
Medvation
Medvation is an online interactive educational platform for children to learn everything new in innovation and artificial intelligence which can inspire the next generation of inventors and innovators. The platform also sells the learning tools that teachers and students need. Medvation helps these youngsters in embodying their ideas to create and implement innovation that inspires. Medvation hopes to turn the venture into a mobile truck for the kids to access on events, making it even easier for them to shop and be a part of workshops in person.
LabOnClick
LabOnClick is a digital platform that offers a better communication system between dentists and dental lab technicians, which enhances the quality and efficiency of dental services provided to patients. The venture suggests that by improving communication this way, it would bring about a generalized social change in their country, where individuals waste months waiting for their appointments, reports, care, and the attention they deserve from the facilities. The venture came into being when a huge gap between the dentists, the lab technicians, and the patients was felt. LabOnClick will ensure saving time and making communications between all stakeholders better, faster, and efficient.