Online applications have opened for the World Economic Forum’s 100 Arab Start-ups programme, which seeks to identify the start-ups shaping the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ in 2019. The fourth industrial revolution is the name used to describe the current economic and social environment in which advancing technologies are changing the way we live and work.

The selection committee comprises some of the Middle East and North Africa’s most successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, including Khaled Talhouni, managing partner at Wamda Capital, Ahmed El Alfi, founder and chairman of Sawari Ventures, Abdulrahman Tarabzouni, chief executive and managing director at Saudi Technology Ventures, Hala Fadel, co-founder and managing partner at Leap Ventures, Amir Farha, co-founder of Beco Capital, and Areije Al Shakar, director and Fund Manager, Al Waha Venture Capital Fund, and senior vice-president of Bahrain Development Bank.

The deadline for applications is March 13 and the promising entrepreneurs will be invited to participate in the WEF conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan on 6-7 April. To be eligible, companies should have received at least one round of funding from outside investors, and, if early stage, be generating revenues with demonstrable early success or a working prototype that is ready to launch.

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