Partners

• www.intaj.net

The Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan (int@j), founded in 2000, is a membership based ICT and IT Enabled Services (ITES) industry advocacy, support and networking association.
int@j serves as the collective voice of the industry, advocating on behalf of its stakeholders and seeks to maximize the contribution of the ICT sector towards the national economy. int@j aim to provide the ICT sector in Jordan with the tools required to ensure continued growth and expansion.
Providing the highest value to ICT Sector, int@j works in the following areas:
• Business Enabling Environment: “Working with policy decision makers and various stakeholder to improve and reform the ICT ecosystem”
• Digital Economy & ICT Demand: “Leveraging the culture of digital economy as an engine of growth in Jordan”
• Human Capital: Improving the skills of professionals working in the ICT sector and bridging the gap between academia outcome and the industry
• Access to Markets: “Increasing Jordan’s ICT products and services penetration in Local, Regional and International markets”
• Access to Finance: “Advocating and working with financial institutions to develop financial products tailored to ICT companies”
• Entrepreneurship & Start-ups: “Enabling entrepreneurship and innovation as well as empowering the startup and SMEs to grow their contribution to the economy”

• https://www.wamda.com/

Wamda accelerates entrepreneurship ecosystems throughout the MENA region by joining Wamda Capital, the most active, multi-stage, sector agnostic venture capital fund investing in high growth technology or technology-enabled startups across the MENA, and the leading knowledge platform offering integrated programs including media, community development, research, Wamda’s fellowship program Wamda X, as well as corporate and government advisory services to the various stakeholders of the MENA startup ecosystem.

• Rabee Securities

• http://www.rs.iq/

• Al Tamimi & Co.

• https://www.tamimi.com/

• https://fiveonelabs.org/

Five One Labs is a startup incubator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Operating in both Erbil and Sulaimani, we provide entrepreneurs with training in the processes, business skills and leadership abilities to launch a startup; are linked with world-class entrepreneurs as mentors; and are welcomed into a community of creative changemakers and innovators to share their experiences over the course of our three-month program.

Since launching in 2017, we have supported nearly 50 startups to launch their businesses; worked with 1800 entrepreneurs through our ecosystem events; and have awarded more than $60,000 in seed funding. We are currently running a tech incubator program in Sulaimani, where we also operate the coworking space The Lab:Suli, and are launching our Arabic incubator program this fall. Our programs are generously supported by GIZ.

• https://thinkbankiraq.com/

thinkbank designs and conducts customised research in Iraq through a wide range of methodologies, providing advanced analytics and helping international and local clients understand the Iraqi consumer. We provide our clients with accurate data and high-quality insights that support and fuel strategic business decisions.
Our clients range from major global brands to leading local brands, including Careem, Viber, Qaiwan Group. We work across a diverse range of sectors, including media, telecoms, FMCG, retail, construction and stakeholder research. We provide both qualitative and quantitative research solutions via Face-to-face, CATI and online. Our services include brand health, consumer tracking, concept testing, advertisement and campaign evaluation, market entry consultancy, market sizing, and feasibility studies.

Founded in 2018, thinkbank is a British-Iraqi full-service research company drawing on 20 years of research experience and combines the best of local experience with international expertise, operating to ESOMAR standards. We’re based in Erbil and have teams of researchers on the ground across Iraq, as well as a network of consultants across the Middle East and UK. We’re fluent in Arabic, Kurdish and English. Our local expertise and network of connections means we can operate across the whole country, including hard-to-reach locations such as Mosul, Kirkuk and disputed territories.

We understand brands, and we understand Iraq.