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Ambar Amleh

Ambar is the Chief Operating Officer for Palestine’s newest startup investment fund, Ibtikar, a fund that she championed and helped design, structure and fundraise. Ibtikar fills a critical funding gap faced by Palestinian entrepreneurs between seed and VC.. As the program manager for Palestine for a New Beginning (PNB), a Palestinian non-profit. company focused on entrepreneurial development, Ambar helped grow PNB from an idea to an established Palestinian institution. Through PNB, Ambar organizes the yearly Celebration of Innovation, a Palestine-wide competition of entrepreneurs, and the follow-up support to these entrepreneurs.. As PNB’s program manager, Ambar negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding with Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a yearly celebration of entrepreneurship, held simultaneously every November in over 140 countries throughout the world. For the first time, Palestine participated in this event in November 2013. This first campaign was awarded the GEW Hosts’ Award, an award given by the over 140 global hosts to the campaign that best embodies the GEW spirit.. Ambar also negotiated a Strategic Alliance between PNB and Leaders Organization to support their Digital Entrepreneurship Programs, including the FastForward accelerator (the first startup accelerator in Palestine) and the related Palestinian House in Silicon Valley program, as well as eZone, Palestine’s mini tech park. Under this alliance, Ambar was responsible for the strategy and growth of these programs.

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