Endeavor Scale Up Program
Endeavor Scale Up Program was designed by Endeavor Lebanon for high-impact and fast growth companies founded by Lebanese entrepreneurs from all over the world. This program connects founders with the Lebanese international entrepreneurial ecosystem and supports selected companies in their growth to become the next success stories that will have a significant impact on the Lebanese local ecosystem.
Scale Up Program – Cohort II
Big Little Robots
Founders: Elias Wehbe & David El Achkar
Location: United States
Year Founded: 2020
Team Size: 9
Stage: Bootstrapping
Description:
BigLittleRobots (BLR) is a data services and products company that has BIG ideas about how companies should access, analyze, and view data. The company builds innovative data products for Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies in the USA to help them unearth insights and make decisions that impact their employees, customers, and communities.
Goodvest
Founder: Joseph Choueifaty
Location: France
Year Founded: 2019
Team Size: 20
Stage: Seed
Description:
Goodvest seeks to offer sustainable and climate-friendly investment solutions for individuals, all while ensuring transparency and avoiding greenwashing. The company’s objective is to facilitate lucrative investments that also respect sustainable practices. Goodvest’s product offering is 100% aligned with the Paris climate agreement.
Matbakhi
Founder: Joe Frem
Location: Saudi Arabia
Year Founded: 2022
Team Size: 60
Stage: Pre-Seed
Description:
Matbakhi is an innovative food tech startup with a unique hotel-based cloud kitchen model that helps hotels transform their underutilized kitchens into profit-generating spaces, while invigorating their culinary offering with soulful brands, incubated with young and up-and-coming local chefs in KSA.
Presentail
Founder: Adnan Ammache
Location: Lebanon
Year Founded: 2019
Team Size: 22
Stage: Seed
Description:
Presentail is an online e-commerce platform that was founded in 2019 in order to enable members of the Lebanese diaspora to send gifts to their loved ones in Lebanon. The company currently targets the 1st generation of expats who have close family and friends living in Lebanon. With low supply of digital solutions, Presentail fills a crucial gap by providing an online platform facilitating the process for Lebanese expats of sending gifts to their loved ones residing in Lebanon.
Siira
Founder: Sandra Salame
Location: Lebanon
Year Founded: 2020
Team Size: 13
Stage: Self-Funded
Description:
Siira is an online mental wellbeing platform that teaches individuals how to build healthy relationships with themselves and with others through educational content and community support.
Wakilni
Founder: Yusr Sabra
Location: Lebanon & Jordan
Year Founded: 2019
Team Size: 204
Stage: Pre-Series A
Description:
Wakilni is dedicated to being the trusted logistics partner that empowers SMES to reach their full potential in the dynamic world of e-commerce. Wakilni covers the entire logistical value chain, from warehousing to last mile delivery giving companies the space to focus on their brand and grow their business.
Scale Up Program – Cohort I
FabricAid
Founder: Omar Itani
Location: Lebanon, Jordan & Egypt
Year Founded: 2017
Team Size: 115
Stage: Seed
Description:
FabricAID is a social enterprise working to establish a socially and environmentally conscious value chain for the apparel industry through the creation of sustainable brands. FabricAid’s circular model gives a new purpose to unwanted products and offers decent clothing at extremely affordable prices to marginalized communities through a dignified shopping experience.
Feels
Founder: Daniel Cheaib
Location: France
Year Founded: 2019
Team Size: 12
Stage: Seed
Description:
Feels is an app to meet people. Most dating apps have become somewhat carbon copies of each other and the swiping model has become almost universal, yet 80% of Gen-Z answers “no” to the question “are you satisfied with existing dating apps?”. This is why Feels aims to create natural, healthy and pressure free connections through leveraging content creation and shared experiences.
Oreyeon
Founders: Ziad Jreijiri, Roni Demerjian & John Baalbaky
Location: Lebanon & Portugal
Year Founded: 2019
Team Size: 40
Stage: Pre-Seed
Description:
Oreyeon has developed a modern and mobile, low-impact to operations and cost-effective solution to building data-driven and automated awareness of an airfield’s condition by leveraging AI. With its product, Oreyeon is disrupting the primitive methods currently used for risk aversion and maintenance of runways. The company currently operates in various airports located in the USA & Europe.
Ostaz
Founder: Audrey Nakad
Location: Lebanon & UAE
Year Founded: 2017
Team Size: 10
Stage: Seed
Description:
Ostaz is an online platform that offers personalized learning journeys to students around the world. The company is an intermediary between students with learning difficulties and individuals seeking tutoring jobs.
Podeo
Founder: Stefano Fallaha
Location: Lebanon & UAE
Year Founded: 2020
Team Size: 40
Stage: Seed
Description:
Podeo is a podcasting platform that aims to help creators, listeners and advertisers get the most out of their content. Podeo offers an all encompassing product ranging from production studios and applications, to distribution channels, as well as dashboards for insights and performance related analytics.
Salma Loves Beauty
Founder: Rosemary Romanos
Location: Lebanon
Year Founded: 2019
Team Size: 8
Stage: Self-Funded
Description:
Salma Loves Beauty is a clean beauty company and leverages the power of communities, innovative content and sustainable supply chain to democratize and make premium cosmetic products affordable for everyone.
Shelvz
Founder: Emile Harb
Location: Lebanon & Cyprus
Year Founded: 2015
Team Size: 22
Stage: Pre-Series A
Description:
Shelvz is a cloud-based SaaS Field Force Management solution aimed at automating the data collection process of field representatives with the goal of providing valuable real-time visibility and analytics to the consumer packaged goods industry.
Studio Fankoosh
Founder: Majd Alaily
Location: Lebanon
Year Founded:
Team Size: 19
Stage: Angel Round
Description:
Studio al Fankoosh is a multi-channel network that produces great “Arabic” content that entertains, inspires and uplifts audiences in the MENA region. A digital first content studio that leverages technology to create great experiences and build communities.
