AMMAN — As part of its Incubator and Accelerator Development Program (IADP), the Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (ISSF) — the largest investment fund of its kind in Jordan — has granted a $250,000 fund to the iPARK@Aqaba Entrepreneurship Program, emphasizing efforts to support early-stage startups and SMEs throughout the Kingdom.
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iPARK@Aqaba is the first business incubator in the city and seeks to empower aspiring entrepreneurs within the tourism, logistics, entertainment, and services sectors.
Under its multiple tracks — which encompass structured awareness and capacity building programs, incubation services, and networking opportunities — the iPARK@Aqaba Entrepreneurship Program is expected to support 98 ideas and startups, as well as generate 250 jobs, subsequently capitalizing on the entrepreneurial potential of Aqaba, advancing the local ecosystem, and driving economic growth.
“At the ISSF, we seek to develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem through funding high quality investment readiness programs, incubators and accelerators targeting youth and women entrepreneurs across all governorates .
By funding the iPARK@Aqaba Entrepreneurship Program, we are providing young female and male entrepreneurs with a valuable opportunity to establish and nurture their innovative and commercially viable startups. This promising program contributes to fostering innovation, developing a robust entrepreneurial landscape, creating jobs and eventually furthering economic advancement,” stated Shadi Al-Khamayseh, ISSF programs manager.
In turn, iPARK Incubation Director Serene Duwayri added that the “iPARK@Aqaba Entrepreneurship Program was designed to target the specific requirements of the local community, create value-added jobs for youth and enhance the growth prospect and integration of the national economy.
We aim to develop a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem in Aqaba that establishes a sustainable culture of entrepreneurship and startups with clear market demands and potential partnerships. We firmly believe that the dynamic resulting from this program will continue to flourish, attract support organizations from other cities and hence become commercially viable beyond the timeline of the program.”
The ISSF is registered as a Jordanian private shareholding company. The objective of the ISSF is to support and elevate Jordan’s entrepreneurial and innovation landscape by facilitating the establishment of new investment funds that serve the ecosystem, making direct investments in innovative, export-oriented and scalable local startups, as well as implementing initiatives that improve the capabilities of Jordanian entrepreneurs and startup teams through training, capacity building, and targeted incubation and acceleration programs.
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