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Innovators

By combining its online platform with on-the-ground partners, GIST creates education and training opportunities for young innovators in more than 130 countries around the world by providing access to U.S. experts and through in-country entrepreneurship networks and support systems.

Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builders aim to bolster networking and entrepreneurial skills to build durable, long-term, supportive networks. The ultimate goal is to stimulate local entrepreneurial activity and ensure participants can grow their skills and scale their businesses together – both in their home country and through the GIST Network’s global connections.

Investors

GIST partners with in-country stakeholders in entrepreneurial ecosystems to bolster local financial support for startups. GIST is able to bring American investment experts to different regions around the world and provides an opportunity for in-country investors to learn how to create and sustain investor networks for entrepreneurs.

Partners

Since 2011, GIST has partnered with the private sector to reach over 27 million innovation community members globally and has provided training for over 15,000 startups who have gone on to generate over $250 million in revenue. This is done through competitions, startup trainings, and interactive online programs, implemented by AAAS and VentureWell. If you would like to explore partnership opportunities please contact Hillary LeBail.

General Pitch Competition

GIST runs a variety of Pitch Competitions that do not fall into the same category as Tech-I or Catalyst. These are usually associated with specific conferences or themes.

Business Incubation

The U.S. Department of State’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology, or GIST, Initiative launched this new program in the fall of 2019 for entrepreneurs in emerging economies.

The GIST Network is a public-private partnership created by the U.S. Department of State to give science and technology entrepreneurs access to needed resources and advice.

In order to create sustainable investment networks, the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Initiative has created the Investor Mobilization Training program (GIST Investors).

GIST Startup Trainings

GIST Startup Trainings empower young science and technology innovators and entrepreneurs through on-the-ground training and mentoring delivered by top U.S. mentors and in-country partners.

GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition

The GIST Tech-I Competition is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from emerging economies worldwide.

GIST Catalyst Pitch Competition

Applications open 2 August for the 2021 GIST Virtual Pitch Competition!

The GIST Innovates program is a multi-component training program to provide innovators with the training, mentoring, and resources they need to bring their ideas out of the university lab and into the market.

Resources

GIST TechConnect

GIST TechConnects provides entrepreneurs around the world with direct access to leading U.S. experts from business and academia, but without the travel and other related costs.

GIST Innovation Hubs

Innovation Hubs, or IHubs, are designed to build strong and vibrant networks of young science and technology entrepreneurs around the world.

GIST Masterclass Series

Through partnerships with U.S. Embassies and in-country startup incubators, the GIST Masterclass Series brings U.S. experts in entrepreneurship to a specific country for face-to-face interactions with stakeholders.

News

Programmers for hire: Scorify links talent with jobs

Every industry has its own myths, and one often-heard claim in the tech sector is that there's a shortage of programmers and workers with STEM skills.

Putting Tunisian honey on the map

wamda.com - Busy bees are honey bees.

In July 2014 Khaled Bouchoucha quit his job as a fleet engineer manager at aeronautic company Sabena Technics to start his own business working with… bees!

Rachid Harrando Call to apply to GIST Startup Trainings

youtube.com - Rachid is a GIST Entrepreneur, Finalist at the 2012 GIST Tech-I Competition and participant of the 2012 GIST Morocco Startup Trainings.

Rakuten Backs Spanish And Latin American Taxi App Cabify

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Ramadan advice and exercise tips: how this women's Arabic platform is attracting viewers

wamda.com - With more than 13 million total views on its YouTube channel, Loolia, a digital platform that connects Arab women with lifestyle experts in the region is off to an interesting start.

Rdio Teams Up With Caribbean Operator Digicel To Expand Into 24 New Countries

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Redefining Africa

thisdaylive.com - From the Ugandan who wants to change how we communicate with loved ones, to the Kenyan who simply wants to feed his community, the recently-concluded Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme’s boot-camp, which brought together 1,

Report: How young Arabs are fueling the MENA media market

Revealed: 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2015

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For the fifth year in a row CEO Middle East is proud to present the 100 most powerful Arab women.

Revenue Gap Between iOS And Android Apps Grows, Thanks To China

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Rise Up Summit meets expectations, beats them

Cairo’s third Rise Up Summit proved the pulling power of Egypt’s almost-gravitational force in the region, sucking in investors and entrepreneurs from around the world for the two-day event.

Rolling Up Their Sleeves: Online, Arab Women Master Their Own Fate

huffingtonpost.com - "My dream is to have a source of income to cover my basic needs without the need to rely on my family or others but by relying on only myself," Fatma Alqarra, a 25-year-old from Khan Younis in the Gaza strip, told me.