FastForward
AMC Building, 3rd Floor Parliament Square, Al Masyoun, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestinian Territory
Overview
FastForward is the first accelerator in Palestine. Established in 2013 with the support of the Welfare Association and is under the administration of Leaders organization. In the early stage of a startup, the idea might be there, but not the team, the idea and team might be there but not the seed capital, the team, the idea, the seed capital might be there, but the teams at this very specific stage are stuck. Based on their findings, the Palestinian entrepreneurial community needs an entity that would work closely with the startups starting from the idea level and up. they need guidance, connections, follow up …. and many other resource. And for this stage that no one is addressing, FFWD comes in play as the first accelerator in Palestine.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Schoold
Participated · Seed · Apr 2016
Schoold provides a mobile college and career planning app that helps students and families plan their educational futures. Led by CEO Sourabh Ahuja and President & COO Joe E. Ross, the app launched in late February on Google Play and is also available for iOS. The company has recorded more than 500,000 downloads. Schoold plans to use new funding to extend and introduce core functionality to the app and to expand its engineering and marketing teams. The product centers on tools and features to support college and career decision-making for users. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.
Team
No current team members are available.