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Jordan Participants and Partners Women's Entrepreneurship

Beyond Bootcamp: Women Founders Achieve Startup Success

Last October, we helped amplify the impact of 20 young female entrepreneurs from Jordan and the U.S. through our Fellowship for Young Women Entrepreneurs. The program encompassed entrepreneurial training, mentoring, and a pitch competition with more than $150,000 in prizes. Six months later, our fellows have gone on to scale their businesses, launch or iterate new […]

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Jordan Participants and Partners Women's Entrepreneurship

Congratulations to the Winners of Demo Day!

On October 24th in Amman, Jordan, our 20 young women entrepreneurs who participated in the Fellowship pitched to a panel of judges at Zain’s Innovation Campus at the King Hussein Business Park. From that group of startup founders, just a handful would be chosen to win cash prizes to help grow their businesses. Later that […]

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Jordan Women's Entrepreneurship

Pitching at Zinc during Demo Day for Young Women Entrepreneurs

Open Hands Initiative is proud of all the women entrepreneurs who pitched their ideas at a Demo Day hosted by Zain at their Zinc Innovation Campus on October 24. The day featured concise pitches from outstanding American and Jordanian women entrepreneurs who had just undergone a week-long bootcamp course on entrepreneurship. After hearing from experts on […]