GURally Qualifications 2025 – Startup Pitching Day

Fifty-three ideas. One stage. All momentum. Galala University wrapped the GURally Qualifications with a high-energy pitching marathon that filtered raw creativity into a focused pipeline for venture building. After back-to-back three-minute pitches and tight Q&A, 10 teams earned fast-track entry to GU’s pre-incubation program, the launchpad ahead of Rally Egypt.

How the day played out

• 53 student startups pitched across healthtech, agri-solutions, e-commerce, sustainability, and creative industries.

• Skill sprints between pitch blocks: lightning workshops on narrative arcs, GTM basics, and one-slide unit economics—delivered by the student-run GURally committee.

• Peer review zones where teams swapped decks, stress-tested assumptions, and left with two concrete next experiments.

Mentors & judges who raised the bar

• Spinneys Egypt sponsored the day; Ms. Sally Mohy served as judge and mentor, pressing teams on supply chains, pricing discipline, and paths to first distribution.

• Alumni founders Green Shield (Rally Egypt 2023 winners) and Chillin Guys EG brought frank stories from the market—what broke, what iterated, and what finally sold.

“Keep it small, test it fast, and measure what moves the needle,” one mentor told finalists in the closing huddle.

What the top 10 now get

• Entry to GU’s pre-incubation: weekly mentor clinics, customer interviews, and MVP timelines.

• Access to labs and data support for prototypes and analytics.

• A clear runway to Rally Egypt, with milestones tied to customer validation, not vanity metrics.

This milestone underlines GU’s approach to entrepreneurship—learning by building, not by slides. It strengthens the university’s bridge to Egypt’s startup ecosystem and reflects a campus culture where students convert coursework into pilots, and pilots into ventures with traction.