100 arab startups that are making the Fourth Industrial Revolution, chosen with the help of experienced entrepreneurs and experts, will be meeting at the World Economic Forum in Dead Sea, Jordan, on May 19-21. This meeting of start-ups from the MENA region is created by an alliance between the World Economic Forum and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an international financial institution.
The entrepreneurs that are joining the World Economic Forum on the MENA are coming from Jordan and all of the following countries:Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the UAE and Yemen.
Mirek Dusek, Head of Middle East and North Africa at the World Economic Forum said “You can see the impact and ingenuity of Arab start-ups everywhere in the Arab world. We see impressive momentum and – with sovereign wealth funds and traditional family businesses – the emergence of a whole new type of venture capitalist. For me, this is the biggest underreported story in the region.”
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