Lebanon

Winners of first Visa Everywhere Initiative Levant edition announced

Visa and the Central Bank of Jordan have announced the winners of the first Levant edition of the Visa Everywhere Initiative, a global open innovation program and competition for fintech startups to p...

Puck empowers Lebanon’s female entrepreneurs

Puck announced the launch of ‘Selfless Shelves’, an initiative aiming to empower five entrepreneurial women from five distinct villages in Lebanon by granting them shelf space in Carrefour stores to s...

24 startups join Flat6Labs’ StartMashreq Growth Track Program

Flat6Labs announced the selection of  24 startups for its StartMashreq Growth Track program from Jordan, Lebanon & Iraq. All these startups operate in diverse sectors such as fintech, healthtech, ...

The World Bank, Forward MENA and Simplilearn partner to equip youngsters in Lebanon

Under the Skilling-Up Lebanon program, the World Bank, Forward MENA, and Simplilearn have partnered to equip young men and women in Lebanon with crucial digital skills that will prepare them for the u...

Flat6Labs launches StartMashreq entrepreneurship program for Levant region

Flat6Labs has announced the launch of its StartMashreq entrepreneurship program. The regional program is being implemented over a two-year period in partnership with the International Finance Corporat...

10 Middle Eastern startups selected to pitch at Amsterdam’s Ignite Conference

Startups Without Borders and SPARK have just concluded the semi-finals of the Startups on the Move Incubation program, where 10 startups from Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq qualified to travel to Amsterd...

Winners for TFF 2022 MENA Agri-Food-Tech Challenge announced

A UAE based company offering a unique solution to water scarcity was announced as winner of the 2022 Thought For Food (TFF) MENA Agri-Food-Tech Challenge at the landmark Food for Future Summit.

Teams from Iraq and Lebanon among the top Huawei Tech4Good Global competition

Two teams from the Middle East are among ten finalists in Huawei’s inaugural Tech4Good Global competition 2022. Tech4Good is a key part of Huawei’s flagship CSR program, Seeds for the Futu...

Facebook unveils #LoveLocal Lebanon SMB Program

Facebook unveiled its new #LoveLocal Lebanon SMB Program to support small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The program was developed in recognition that SMBs in Lebanon have been among the hardest h...