MOET

Economic and Social Fund for Development

The Lebanon SoftShore (LSS) is a software cluster gathering experienced Lebanese software companies working together under the management of the Euro-Lebanese Centre for Industrial modernization (ELCIM) at the Industrial Research Institute (IRI).

Its main mission is to strengthen and promote the Lebanese software industry into the local and global scene.

+961-5-465609
www.lebanonsoftshore.com

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) provides business advice to small and medium-sized businesses in 25 countries in order to help those companies grow, succeed, and become genuine catalysts for their local economies, then their region. The program aims to connect SMEs with local consultants and international advisers.

A wide range of financial instruments and other services including:
Project finance.
Business advice.
Trade finance.
Procurement.
Capital markets.
Loan syndications.

Focus will be on financial institutions and the corporate sector, particularly SMEs.

Infrastructure, energy, private and public sectors.

http://www.ebrd.com/home

Mowgli

European Institute for Cooperation and Development

The Agenda Beirut

BuBleik

Entrepreneurs Lebanon

Servcorp

Regus

We Initiative

Tripoli Special Economic Zone

SoUK.LB

SoUK·LB – Social Enterprise Hub is an initiative of the British Embassy of Beirut that aspires to strengthen and promote the social enterprise sector by supporting scalable social enterprises that seek to create transformational social or environmental change for the benefit of society. The pilot of this initiative will be implemented by DAI, Alfanar and AltCity Impact.

Startups and SMEs at idea, early and growth-stages.

Lebanon Enterprise Development (LED) Project

LED is a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that aims to increase jobs for Lebanese citizens. LED offers customized technical assistance to local businesses to help them identify and solve the problems that are preventing them from increasing sales, and therefore from needing to hire more Lebanese. LED also works with stakeholders and partners to identify, analyse, and propose solutions to problems that are affecting the business enabling environment.

See LED's flyer and project profile.

LED uses a methodology known as the buyer-led approach to guide how it delivers support and achieves impact. LED aims to help client enterprises to make deals with new and/or existing customers in final markets, whether domestic or export. Categories of assistance include:

• Identify new buyers/markets
• Improve sales and marketing
• Improve transport, logistics and distribution
• Improve/upgrade product design, packaging and branding
• Upgrade production techniques
• Enhance quality control systems
• Identify/organize new suppliers
• Upgrade technological innovation
• Access credit/finance
• Improve management practices
• Improve human resource development
• Improve knowledge management
• Other services

 Ideal LED "clients" are businesses that:

(i) can show that with LED support they will be able to hire more Lebanese citizens;

(ii) know their customers or potential customers;

(iii) can be supported cost effectively; and

(iv) are willing and able to cost share.

Alfanar

Alfanar (meaning 'beacon” in Arabic) is the first venture philanthropy organisation in the Arab world that provides funding, management support, mentorship and training to social enterprises across all sectors with a particular focus on education, job creation and women's economic empowerment. Alfanar also supports eco-system players and the wider social entrepreneurship sector by providing tailored Advisory Services around social entrepreneurship as well as our ASSET program (Alfanar Sustainable Social Enterprise Training). Any revenue generated from these activities is used to subsidize grants to social enterprises.

Funding.
Mentorship and management support.
Training.
Advisory Services (Program Design for Social Enterprise Support, Outreach & Selection of Social Enterprises including competitions, Due Diligence, Monitoring & Evaluation, Data Assurance, Mentorship).

www.alfanar.org.uk

Neopreneur

Neopreneur is an Innovation and Startup hub for entrepreneurs, SMEs and MSMEs, based in the old souk of Byblos, and expanding all over the decentralized areas of Lebanon. We provide an environment for success and innovation to our target audience. Our areas of focus are Social entrepreneurship, Innovation, Fintech and decentralized economic development.

Education.
Trainings.
Consulting and business support.

Private Sector Development Program (PSD)

PSD is a 15 million euro program aiming to contribute in Lebanon’s economic development and job creation by enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of its private sector with a focus on vulnerable groups. It will achieve this by supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises by increasing their competitiveness and participation in the economy by fostering their development and integration into value chains.

€15 million volume of activity.
Three components covering: Tripoli, Bekaa and Akkar.
Thousands of beneficiaries.

contact@psdplebanon.com
+961-1-442449
www.psdplebanon.com

The UK Tech Hub is an accelerator of startups and innovations rising out of the intersection of industry, talent and venture capital. The Hub offers pre-seed funding, mentoring, back-to-back design and development iteration support to get startups invested. The UK Tech Hub works closely with industry to identify challenges, come up with and validate solutions, then design and develop them.

The Hub prides itself in the long-term partnerships that it builds with its portfolio companies before, throughout and after acceleration and deal execution.

It offers four programs in support of entrepreneurs:

• For those curious about entrepreneurship, discover what it takes to become an entrepreneur - Duration: 2 weeks;
• For those that have a clear project, find and create the right business model - Duration: 3 months;
• For established start-up in their 1st or 2nd year of operation, incubate and reduce the number of fatal mistakes start-ups do in their first years - Duration: 8 months;
• For start-ups with traction to grow internationally - Duration: 3 months.

• Early stage, MVP stage, or early traction.
• A-Class Team with full commitment to the business and one technical cofounder.
• Already have a minimal viable product (MVP).
• MVP has struck a positive cord with early user growth audience.
• Validated business but not investor ready yet.

BIAT, an EU funded project, is a not-for-profit organization that was created in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Trade. The Incubator/Business Development Center is managed by a motivated, professional, and caring team ready to assist entrepreneurs throughout their companies’ development path. The team can provide financial, technical, marketing, accounting, training, and networking services in Tripoli and Akkar branches or on the field.

Start  Ups, Existing SMEs, Graduates holding fresh ideas.

Tourism.
Agriculture.
IT.
Crafts.
Industry.

Commitment.
Entrepreneurial experience.
Financial viability.
Sustainability of the project.
Preferably from targeted sectors.

Existing operations or an available and feasible business idea.
Enterprises +40 employees and +$2 million turnover.

The Lebanon Science and Technology Park in Tripoli facilitates the creation of new businesses based on innovation via incubation and spin-off mechanisms, and accelerates the growth of small and medium size enterprises.

Incubation.
Accelerators.
Support programs for entrepreneurs.
Networking.

• Training Program: Mentorship, Workshops & B2B Matchmaking.
• Meetups.
• Leverage the Social Media of one of the strongest brands in Lebanon.
• Access to 2 million+ subscribers.
• Access to touch Lab working space.

• Minimum 1- maximum 4 years.
• Digital & Technology Businesses that is already launched.
• 3 to 50 employees.
• No minimum investment – up to $3/5M.
• Lebanese founders or businesses.

• The aim is to have a platform for supporting distinguished Lebanese academics and entrepreneurs to accelerate the development of their promising startups or to help them turn their brilliant ideas into startups.
• It's about a Lebanese-German project involving German expertise and knowhow to develop the ideas into startups in Lebanon and/or in Germany depending on the conditions and needs of the startup.
• The Maria Goeppert Mayer Incubator collaborates with the Innovation Center in Hamm - Germany, which is a very remarkable governmental institution in the NRW that is economically the most powerful federal state in Germany. And collaborates also with the Rafik Hariri-University in Mechref south of Beirut that has some of the most modern advanced hi-tech labs in the Middle East.

mgmi.info/mgmi/

Facilities:
Strategic and accessible location in Beirut, Mathaf area.
Fast & free Internet.
Hassle-free environment: 24/7 electricity, cleaning, printer, copier and security.
6h free access to meeting rooms per month.
Free Access to lounge and food court.
Business address for company registration.
Referral & loyalty program benefits.
Access to Berytech Fab Lab.

Benefits:
Become a member of the Berytech community spanning across 3 different sites with networking, collaboration and knowledge and resources sharing.
Opportunities to access Berytech’s mentoring and coaching programs, local and international networks, funding and VC programs, competitions, incubation and acceleration programs.
Support and follow up of Berytech’s dedicated team of professionals.

• We provide general promotion of the wood sector and Minjara as a local and trusted label.
• We organize networking events for members to stimulate innovative activities through exchange and transfer of knowledge and competences.
• We organization of conferences and thematic visits.
• We manage technical working groups around the themes of wood production, processing and use.
• We search and analyze innovative projects.
• We identify and manage strategic flagship projects.
• We offer technology watch at national and international level to facilitate new product development and material research in a state of the art facility based in Rachid Karami International Fair.
• We give support to wood sector SMEs and start-ups. Our interventions target small producers of traditional designs that can be resistant to change, and a smaller community of SMEs that are open to modernization and development.

Courses.
Training.
Certification.
Networking Platform.
Competitions.

+961-9-600822
http://www.usek.edu.lb/acie

ICT.
Youth.

Growth Wheel: the team of Business Advisors is certified in Growth-Wheel, a visual toolbox that is used by more than 2,000 business advisors around the world to help entrepreneurs make decisions and take action.
Business Advisory Services: Any individual, project holder, team or entrepreneur can benefit from some or all of the following services, whether hosted in Berytech or seeking its business advisory services:

Assistance in developing a business idea and value proposition.
Analysis of a business strengths and weaknesses.
Assistance in defining objectives, strategic positioning and marketing and developing a business plan
Networking with local stakeholders.
Matching with international, industrial, financial, or technical partners.

Investor participants meet Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) via pitching sessions every six to eight weeks and negotiate three or four investments per year. Investors will have the opportunity to:

Monitor an investment portfolio and track its performance.
Review exit and liquidity options and understand the most common methodologies used to evaluate the valuation of a startup.
Understand the terms and conditions of shareholder agreements and their impact on the deal.
Have a detailed guide to conducting due diligence from both an investor and an entrepreneur’s perspectives.
Learn about and review the fundamentals of financial reporting, analysis and tools relevant to angel investing.

Entreprenergy is an entrepreneurship podcast in Arabic, hosted by Andre Abi Awad, interviewing today’s most successful and inspiring Entrepreneurs.

Podcast news and education.

Entrepreneurs seeking advice.

Mainly technology.

The CRInn aims at fostering a community of innovative startups in Lebanon and the region with a mission to present AUB and Lebanon as a culture of research, innovation and entrepreneurship that spans and engages faculty, students and staff while forming a connection between industry and academia. CRInn organizes events and partners with other well-known international mentoring and training organizations, while bringing together experts from different parts of the world.

Training programs, mentoring/coaching sessions, specialized workshops/events, media exposure in addition to opportunities for networking and collaborative work to address critical contemporary challenges. The CRInn also works to connect startups with potential clients and investors. The center further assists startups by providing them with a business incubator and co-working space to use throughout their pre-launching stage.

Startups & entrepreneurs.

Technology and innovation.

The program invites entrepreneurs, experts and academics to aid women entrepreneurs in taking crucial decisions for their businesses, finding a support group and being more active in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

TORCH is a bootcamp and an enabling ecosystem for graduates of Computer Science and related disciplines and for knowledge experts, and entrepreneurs.

Coding bootcamps.
Education.
Trainings.

Technology and coding.

+961-1-745607/8/9

Age between 19 – 29. Have the Lebanese Nationality. Fluency in Arabic language. Have an innovative idea preferably a prototype solution. Both experienced and inexperienced participants are encouraged to apply. High motivation and interest in social work and social change.

Under the DAWRIC programme, ProAbled Academy department is launching an Entrepreneurship bootcamp for women (Lebanese women with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply) who are starting a new business or expanding an existing one. The entrepreneurship training programme will be delivered to 21 women entrepreneurs selected from 21 towns located in North, South, Bekaa, Beirut and Mount Lebanon.

Women entrepreneurs.

Launched in 2014, ITC’s E-learning Programme and its platform (the SME Trade Academy) offer practical offline and online courses, workshops and learning material to support skills development for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and trade advisors in both the public and private sectors. The programme is a major component of ITC’s trade-related technical assistance (TRTA) offering.

Covering a wide range of trade-related topics, the SME Trade Academy delivers e-learning courses of relevance to e-commerce and the digital economy, including:

• E-Commerce for SMEs: An Introduction for Policymakers (With DiploFoundation)
• Building Competitiveness in Trade in Services
• Financing Trade in Services
• Embarking on a Lean Digital Transformation for Organizations
• Cross-Border IT and ITES Outsourcing
• Standards and Certifications for IT and ITES Outsourcing
• Introduction to Supply Chain Management
• Introduction to International Transport and Logistics

SME managers and entrepreneurs.