AMMAN — The Jordan Startup Expo, the
largest technology exhibition for empowering the startup ecosystem, will open
in Amman’s St. Regis Hotel on October 19.
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The two-day expo is the “number one gathering and
only large-scale B2B conference and exhibition in The Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan,” said the organizer, the Future Event. It said the gathering is backed
by the ministries of investment and digital economy and entrepreneurship.
It said the event will bring together the “country’s
most innovative and emerging start-ups to meet and connect with the region’s
leading cutting-edge solution providers, Venture Capital firms, Angel
Investors, Accelerators, Incubators the start-up ecosystem in Jordan is ranked
third in the Middle East & 64th Globally.”
The Jordanian StartUp development has both regional
and international recognition, according to the statement. It said the
“ecosystem is mostly shaped by young entrepreneurs in the ICT sector with
prominent accelerators, Incubators, Angel Investors & Venture Capitals,
Mentors, Coaches, and Government entities in Jordan.”
“There is a
perceptible change in the way the Jordanian society views entrepreneurship and
innovation in the Middle East,” the statement said. “Jordan Startup Expo is
conceptualized to fuel this existing growth and help Startups Bridge the gap
between idea to funding to discovering essential solutions and Infrastructure
to scale and progress.”
The Jordan
Startup Expo “brings together the most innovative and disruptive startups,
along with C-Level executives from some of the top corporations, government
agencies, incubators, investors, HNIs, VC funds, banks, and technology
companies across the Middle East and Globally”.
The Jordan Startup Expo provided some key facts and
figures on Jordan, such as the Kingdom “is one of the key players in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) region’s Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) forum”.
It said 98 percent of recently registered companies
in Jordan are SMEs and startups, which generate more than 50 percent of
private-sector GDP, and 60 percent of new employment opportunities.
It said 27 of World Economic Forum’s top 100 Arabian
Startups are Jordan based.
As for startups environment, it said, more than 70
percent of the Jordanian population is under the age of 30.
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