AMMAN — The first edition of the
Jordan Startup Expo, for Jordan’s most innovative and emerging start-ups, started on
Wednesday, bringing together entrepreneurs, top investors, and more than 100
Jordanian start-ups.
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The exhibition, organized by The Future Event,
connects innovative start-ups with the region’s leading cutting-edge solution
providers, venture capital firms, angel investors, accelerators, and incubators
in order to uncover technological solutions and software offered by start-ups
through technologies of human resources, finance, commerce, and others.
The two-day expo is centered on four major fields:
business development and performance, information and data technology,
trademarks, and financing.
During the opening ceremony, Director of Investment
and Entrepreneurship at the
Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship Ministry Lisa
Habashneh said Jordanian startups have been able to prove themselves regionally
and globally through innovative work in fields such as mobile phone
applications, e-trade, education technology, financial technology, health
technology, media and design, and artificial intelligence, among others.
According to a ministry statement, she stated that
the first investment fund was established in 1988, creating many successful
partnerships.
A government decision issued in 2016 gave the
information technology sectors exemptions and incentives, she noted, adding
that the ministry had put in place the
National Entrepreneurship Policy and
strategic plan for 2021–2025 to support entrepreneurs in the Kingdom.
Enterprises in Jordan can
today benefit from support programs offered by the Youth, Technology, and
Employment Project, which facilitates business people’s reach to markets and
digital skills, she added.
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