Saudi Arabia is looking forward to a digitalized future, and many in the private sector are preparing the youth of the nation to get involved in the Kingdom’s fast-growing tech industry. In fact, Code for Girls is one such organization helping girls and women to take part in the nation’s economic transformation.
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announced the eight winners of its 2021 Women s Initiative Awards, with Basima Abdulrahman from Iraq scooping the top prize for the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), for her company Kesk.
Speaking with The National, Abdulrahman explained what this recognition means. Winning Cartier Women s Initiative award and being selected as a laureate in the MENA region makes me feel more hopeful and stronger. It sends a powerful message that our work is needed now more than ever. Women-led start-ups received only 2.3 per cent of venture capital funding in 2020 and even fewer became unicorns. The CWI initiative is important because it is challenging social norms and gender stereotypes to unlock women’s potential. It provides access to capital, human resources, and a leadership capacity development program. Its success lies
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Cartier has announced its annual list of fellows for the Women s Initiative, a programme that works to empower female entrepreneurs. In the 2021 list, there are three fellows from the Middle East and North Africa.
The international entrepreneurship programme was launched in 2006, and is open to women-run and women-owned businesses from any country and sector that aim to have a strong and sustainable social and/or environmental impact, says the luxury jewellery brand.
In 2021, Rana El Sakhawy, Manal Hakim and Basima Abdulrahman are all included on the list of fellows. El Sakhawy is the only fellow from the UAE, while Hakim hails from Lebanon and Abdulrahman from Iraq.
This India Quotient-backed startup is creating a Netflix-style hobby learning platform for kids
Gurugram-based startup Yellow Class wants to help millions of mothers with access to world-class hobby learning content for their kids aged 3-12.
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Serial entrepreneur Anshul Gupta has been in the startup ecosystem for more than a decade, having built and scaled three businesses, exited two of them via acquisitions, and launched his
fourth venture (goFlatmates) in 2019.
goFlatmates used AI and data to help people find flats and flatmates of their choice from curated listings by room providers. It was “going well” until early 2020, when COVID-19 happened and the market completely collapsed.