Areas of Development
Entrepreneurs Advancement
We aim at Community Jameel Saudi to support and assist entrepreneurs, startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We invest in all efforts to enhance their growth and ensure their steady success by providing mechanisms and platforms which empower them with technical knowledge, business tools, and modern technologies essential for their businesses’ prosperity and expansion.
MIT Enterprise Forum in Saudi Arabia
The MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) in Saudi Arabia is part of a global network of chapters dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide. We inform, connect, and train Saudi entrepreneurs, enabling them to rapidly transform their ideas into companies that can reshape the world.
Established in 2015, with the goal of promoting and enriching the entrepreneurship ecosystem, the forum aims to celebrate and support all potential startups, entrepreneurs, and social enterprises in Saudi Arabia through the MITEF Saudi Startup Competition, across all fields and industries.
For more information visit startsmartsaudi.com
Impact
التأثير
Testimonials
شهادات المستفيدين
“After our experience with MITEF Saudi, we recommend entrepreneurs to participate, as they will learn a great deal about entrepreneurship.”
Tariq Abdeljalil
“For us, MITEF Saudi was the gateway to many investors. We also benefitted from consultations and learnt a lot about entrepreneurship. MITEF Saudi enlightened me and allowed me to serve and better build my community.”
Ibtissam Abdul Majeed
“I took part in the MITEF Saudi Startup Competition because of the level of mentoring and guidance they offered. Honestly, the initiative is wonderful. We learnt and benefitted a lot and got to meet others during the competition.”
Mohammed Khashoggi
MITEF Saudi in numbers since 2015
10,000+
1.16M
110
30
Bab Rizq Jameel Microfinance
In 2004, microfinance programmes were introduced for small businesses, which included financial support to productive families as well as individual startup businesses, Taxi and Truck ownership programmes which subsequently created job opportunities for young men and women based on their goals and capabilities.This allowed them to participate in the economic development of the community and reduce unemployment.
In 2018, Bab Rizq Jameel Microfinance was established, and it was the first company licensed by the Central Bank of Saudi Arabia to offer microloans. It aims to aid the developing entrepreneurial environment in Saudi Arabia as well as to achieve sustainable communities through creating job opportunities by investment in entrepreneurs and providing the necessary financing to support startup businesses, working from home businesses and productive families.
For more information visit Bab Rizq Jameel Microfinance
Impact
التأثير
Testimonials
شهادات المستفيدين
“Bab Rizq Jameel Microfinance provided me with everything I needed during the initial establishment period. They continue to follow up to this day, even though the project is successful.”
Musab al-Khalidi
Bab Rizq Jameel Microfinance in numbers since 2018
311M
17,894
17,224
670
Bab Rizq Jameel Services
Since 2003, Bab Rizq Jameel has supported more than 35,000 male and female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia to achieve their goals and continue their journeys to success. In 2020, Bab Rizq Jameel Services (BRJS) launched a range of advanced and user-friendly business digital applications that form a complete suite of tools in a one-stop digital solution, which assists entrepreneurs to start, develop, and improve their businesses.
For more information visit Bab Rizq Jameel Services
Impact
التأثير
Testimonials
شهادات المستفيدين
It was a great opportunity to meet inspiring entrepreneurs disrupting this vibrant and promising ecosystem. My only advice for the startups is to stay focused on not to be discouraged by rejection. Rejection is a starting point of your journey and will help you reshape and refine your “Why?”
Nawaf Al-Gain (a mentor at Mashora mobile application)
“It was a pleasure meeting inspiring entrepreneurs and helping them improve their business models and guiding them through the ecosystem.”
Hussein Attar (a mentor at Mashora mobile application)
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm until you find your winning card. Imagine with me that your life is a deck of cards, and you know for sure that every deck has aces, once you start flipping through those cards, you have no idea where all the ACES are, but you know they are coming your way and so is success!”
Wael M. al-TORABI (a mentor at Mashora mobile application)
Bab Rizq Jameel Service in numbers since 2003
35,000
