Prime Time 2024 Wrap-up
The 2024 Prime Time global tournament has come to a thrilling conclusion.
This year we placed 22 founders in their respective Regional Finals after their qualifying runs from city competitions and the Prime Time Pitch Challenge.
Click any banner above to view their regional finals on YouTube.
The Regional Finalists
EUROPE
🏆 🇳🇱 Radmila Tsineman - SelfStartGlobal 🏆
🇬🇧 Robert Fotofili - Give Thanks
ASIA PACIFIC
🏆 🇵🇭 John Christopher Ilano - Kloudtech 🏆
🇰🇷 Brenda Lee - Realizer
🇵🇭 Charmaine Joy Pasion - Euphoria Ventures
🇵🇰 Sayed Muhammad Razi - BioSync Plants
NORTH AMERICA
🇺🇸 Ana Malhotra - Rome
🇺🇸 Annie Combs - ECPC Travel
🇺🇸 John Starke - MyMatR
🇺🇸 Salwa Mehreen - MisMatch
🇺🇸 Anastacia Yefimenko - Elcove
🏆 🇺🇸 Mubarak Idoko - Lena Africa 🏆
AFRICA
🇪🇬 Ahmed Ragaie - Cord Digital
🇪🇹 Kidus Yared - Ke-Massa Foods
🇪🇬 Abdallah Zidan - Re-Tec
🇪🇬 Maryam Atif Elgammal - Kawatsho
🇳🇬 Joshua Gbodi - G-New Laundry
Click any banner above to view their regional finals on YouTube.
Each day, from December 2-6, the audience chose a new regional winner to advance to the Global Finals:
🇵🇪 Lucía Rego - Quadra - Latin America Region Winner
🇳🇱 Radmila Tsineman - SelfStartGlobal - Europe Region Winner
🇵🇭 John Christopher Ilano - Kloudtech - Asia Pacific Region Winner
🇺🇸 Mubarak Idoko - Lena Africa - North America Region Winner
🇪🇹 Kidus Yared - Ke-Massa Foods - Africa Region Winner
The Global Finals livestream featured special guests, five founders, your hosts, Nick Hughes and Luis Antezana, and a TON of attendees blowing up the chat with messages of support!
Click the banner to view the Global Finals on YouTube
Finally, on December 11, the regional winners faced off in the Global Finals, and the audience voted for Mubarak Idoko, founder of Lena Africa, as this year’s Global Champion!
Mubarak wins the grand prize worth $10,000, including a trip for a team member to visit Seattle and Founders Live HQ!
Supporters
Much thanks to our Community Partner, Women in Cloud, for helping to make this event possible.
Check out the Women in Cloud Impact Report 2024 that was discussed during the Global FInals broadcast.
We’d also like to thank these key people for their support in making Prime Time 2024 another hit:
Weuler SIlva - City Leader, Founders Live Rio de Janeiro
Jaanika Umlas - City Leader, Founders Live Tallinn
Chaitra Vedullapalli - Founder, Women in Cloud
Sara Itucas - Partnerships, Casium
Priyanka Kulkarni - Founder, Casium
Peter Fosso - Founder, Prairi
See you soon
Prime Time will be back in 2025 with new, expanded, quarterly qualifier competitions, as well as a single, monster Prime Time Pitch Challenge in July (sign up to be notified when entries open)!
See you next year!
Socials
Some notable posts from the week that capture the spirit of the tournament.