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Syrian Startup Shiffer Champions the Startup Roadshow Finals at Amsterdam's Ignite Conference

Erbil-based Shiffer took home the $8.000 prize. HealthTech startup Fadfed, based in Amman, took home the second prize, while Sharqi Shop won the Young Advisory Group Audience Award. SWB Team  In a conference filled with energy, Syrian-led startup Shiffer, a peer-to-peer shipping platform, won the first prize of the Startup Roadshow. Led by Azhar Al Madani and based in Erbil, Iraq, the startup…
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She Fled the Scars of War. Now, She’s The Force Behind of One of America’s Top 5.000 Tech Companies

She arrived to the US at 18, with only 1.000 in Her Pocket. How did this power woman build a tech empire, listed as one of Inc’s 5000 companies? By Valentina Primo Like a tornado, like a force of nature unravelling from East to West, Rania Hoteit has been leaving an indelible imprint in the American tech space. A tech entrepreneur, a public speaker, and the founder of a company that was just…
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Saleem Najjar, The Syrian Entrepreneur Building the Artisans' Gateway to Global Markets

Yasmeen Smadi meets the Syrian entrepreneur giving artisans in Jordan access to market with Sharqi Shop. By Yasmeen Smadi Brought by: Jusoor and Spark It’s Monday evening and I’m driving through the streets of Amman, the windows rolled down to enjoy the spring breeze, as I head off to the city’s Business Park to meet Saleem Najjar, the co-founder of Sharqi Shop. Sharqi Shop is a marketplace…
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Inside TEDx Roma Salon: Innovation By and For Migrants Takes the Stage at Porous Borders

By Valentina Primo Inside a packed auditorium in Rome’s MAXXi Museum, we get to meet the changemakers behind Arian Teleheal, Mygrants, and Re-future Project. It was a packed room at Rome’s MAXXi museum last September at TEDx Roma Salon as “Porous Borders,” a relay series of talks held in five cities geared up to begin. Outside, right at the entrance of the majestic white building, a…
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