#5 - Startups in Lebanon with Maysaa Ajjan

Today’s episode is with Maysaa Ajjan, a journalist at Arab News. We have discussed the following topics:

• Her contributions to Al Annahar on the “Startup City” segment
• How Arabnet had the ability to track some startups in details
• Funding mechanism for startups from BDL (circular 331), bootcamps, competitions, and angel investing
• Lebanese startups conditions before the 2019 economic crisis (failed, operating, exited, migrated)
• Lebanese startups conditions after the 2019 economic crisis
• Fundings
• Migration of talents and startups
• The rising new economy of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin being used in current Lebanese startups

Audio version of the episode is available on: https://www.reconfigured.stream

Video version of the episode is available on: https://youtu.be/RNDs4ki0YtY