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‘Stars aligned’ for Palestinian startups, Gulf investors say

Entrepreneurs from the West Bank and Gaza recently visited Dubai to attend a conference on funding for new businesses.
Tawazon founder Suna Zaobi from Palestine networks with others attending the 4th edition of the International Conference on Entrepreneurship in Palestine (ICEP), held in Dubai for the first time, on November 1, 2022.

About 20 Palestinian startups traveled to Dubai this week to the fourth edition of the International Conference on Entrepreneurship in Palestine (ICEP), to pitch their business ideas to investors.

ICEP attendee Christina Ganim is a co-founder of Kenz, a Ramallah-based e-commerce platform selling women’s intimate wear in the Gulf. “We’re actually raising an investment right now of $1.5 million in order to expand and dominate our current markets,” said Ganim, who has closed 15% of her company’s pre-series A round. 

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