Highlighting their stories
Berytech has partnered with the Lebanese League for Women in Business – LLWB, to create a series of articles titled ‘Women on Top’ to be published on the Berytech blog.
“The purpose is to highlight women entrepreneurs and executives by writing a series of motivational interviews about their stories, overcoming their own challenges and their entrepreneurial endeavors,” explains Reina Dib Angoujard – Head of Communication and Outreach at Berytech. The articles will then be promoted online and on social media to inspire others.
Women Empowerment
This new series comes part of a track of activities Berytech has dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs in overcoming the constraints they face to thrive in entrepreneurship and in maximizing their potential contributions to the digital sector.
Within this track, Berytech aims to motivate women to launch, grow and succeed in their own ventures by creating customized programs, competitions and tracks and identifying successful role models; and influencing policies towards the support of women entrepreneurs.
Activities have included the co-founding and management of the Femme Francophone Entrepreneurs competition for the past 8 years, participating in WeHubs, an EU project whose objective was to provide support to women entrepreneurs with the aim of increasing their participation in web enterprises, and the launching of the Lebanese Women Angel Fund by one of Berytech’s funding arms – IM Capital, in partnership with LLWB to empower women to become seed investors.
Inspiring Others
For the series, Berytech has solicited over 15 women, including the President of the Lebanese League for Women in Business, Asma El Zein, who comments, “We all know that women represent 50% of the population… 51% of our university graduates are women. Imagine the impact on the Lebanese economy, if we have at least 30% of our women university graduates as entrepreneurs! It is not only the role of our Academia but that of the entire ecosystem to make sure this dream comes true.”
