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Startup Syria relaunches in a new Syria

4 min readJanuary 2025

After years of collective struggle for Syrian founders, Startup Syria is back with a renewed mission.

After years of collective struggle for Syrian founders in the country and abroad, Startup Syria is back.

For a decade, Syrian entrepreneurs have faced extraordinary challenges: displacement, decimated infrastructure, and scarce support.

Yet, against the odds, Syrian startup founders kept building.

Startup Syria is back to rebuild more than just businesses; we are back to build talent, hope and the belief that Syria's future will be written in no small part by its own entrepreneurs.

Startup Syria community gathering — Syrian entrepreneurs coming together to rebuild

Unlocking Syria's startup ecosystem

Startup Syria's mission is to equip a generation of Syrian innovators inside the country and across the diaspora.

A thriving startup nation

Throughout the year, Startup Syria will seek to establish startups as the engine of national recovery.

Syrian startup ecosystem — Building the future of Syria through innovation

A call to action

This is more than a comeback, it's a call to action.

We believe that the spark of entrepreneurship can be ignited again; stronger, smarter, and more connected than ever before.
— Startup Syria

Join us as we rebuild Syria's startup story, one founder, one idea, one innovation at a time.

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