Endeavour Jordan selects 4 new members for global entrepreneur network

AMMAN - With the wrapping of the first Endeavour International Selection Panel (Endeavor ISP) of 2020, Endeavour Jordan has announced the selection of four new members to join its global network of high-impact entrepreneurs.

In a statement, Endeavour Jordan revealed the selection of entrepreneurs Qais Sabri and Yousef Nassar, founders of Eon Dental, a manufacturer of clear aligners (low-cost, plastic orthodontic devices used to adjust teeth) and Kais Hassan and Abdallah Faza, founders of Arabot, which offers an intelligent Arabic chatbot capable of accurately and efficiently analysing conversations across Arabic dialects.

The Endeavour ISP, which was held in Riyadh, resulted in the selection of 23 entrepreneurs leading 14 companies from 11 markets. The selected entrepreneurs are contributing to a global portfolio of 2,039 entrepreneurs across 35+ markets worldwide leading 1,272 companies, the statement said.

Reem Goussous, Endeavour Jordan managing director said: "We are very excited to welcome four new high-impact entrepreneurs into our portfolio. We look forward to leveraging all the resources we have at hand to help Abdallah, Kais, Yousef and Qais to scale their businesses 10 times and more."

Upon selection, Sabri commented: “We are over the moon to be accepted into the Endeavour fold, and look forward to unlocking the wealth of expertise and knowledge available through the amazing mentors and entrepreneurs."

"We also look forward to participating in the entrepreneurship ecosystem and passing forward our success and our failures,” the statement quoted him as saying.

"We learned so much from the journey, encountered great people, got inspired and humbled by all the great ideas in Endeavour," stated Faza of Arabot.

"Getting selected in the ISP gave us great joy and a sense of accomplishing an important milestone in our scale-up journey," he added.

The Endeavour ISP is the final phase of a multi-step rigorous selection process, where candidates pitch their companies to top international business leaders and investors from the Endeavour network, making those obtaining a unanimous vote officially Endeavour Entrepreneurs, according to the statement.

Once selected into the network, entrepreneurs gain access to a wide array of services enabling them to scale their businesses and multiply their impact.