Impact Investments: Entrepreneur Middle East Launches #EntMEStartups

When was launched two years ago, one of the foundational principles that we laid out for ourselves as a publication was that we needed to be more than a mere spectator of what’s happening in the region’s business arena- our mandate was to be active participants of the here, cheering, supporting and enabling the men and women trying to make a definite impact in the MENA region through their professional endeavors.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that having such a directive hanging over our heads has been a daunting affair for those of us working under this banner. Our desire to be different from the status quo meant that we had to be inventive in how we went about doing things- we became purposely choosey about what we feature as content; we made it a point to be at as many ecosystem events as we can (this is why you often see us working over weekends, so as to catch up with time we lost over the week!), and we were keen on using our platform to throw the spotlight on not just the business people who had “made it,” but also the fledgling new enterprises that showed the potential to actually in the region.
It is thus this particular foundational value that is governing our newest initiative at Entrepreneur Middle East: a contest that will see us give away US$25,000 each to two deserving startups operating in the Middle East. Keep an eye out for #EntMEStartups on that’s the hashtag we will be using to refer to this contest over all our platforms.