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History of BADER

2011

Launch of Networking 961, a national networking event.


2010

First investment of the LBA for a $100,000 in the Agro-Food Company OVIS.

Launch of the Deutsche Bank Creative Awards in Lebanon awarding two prizes of €10,000. It is the first time the Award is given outside the United Kingdom.

Partner in the fourth cycle of the MIT ABPC .

Launch of Bader’s Mentorship program.

Launch of Bader Workshop program in underprivileged areas with a grant from the US Embassy Small Grant Program.

Lebanon debuted 92 out of 139 in the WEF Global Competitiveness Ranking.

Launch of the Bader Entrepreneurs’ Clinic.

Bader Scholarship Program awarded $38,000.

Launch of Bader Entrepreneurship Clubs in Universities.

Partner of Wamda.


2009

Launch of the first Business Angel Network in Lebanon, The Lebanese Business Angels (LBA).

Partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Network to include Lebanon for the first time the WEF Global Competitiveness Ranking.

Bader Scholarship Program awarded $160,000.

Partner in the third cycle of the MIT ABPC.

Launch of Bader Speaker Series.

Partner of the “Institut de Prospective Economique du Monde Méditerranéen” (IPEMED).


2008

Launch of Bader Scholarship Program awarding $36,000.

Partner in the second cycle of the MIT ABPC.

Global Lebanese Business Leaders Conference.


2007

Raised $17m for the Building Block Equity Fund (BBF), the first Venture Capital Fund in Lebanon. The BBF is an independent entity from Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program.


2006

Partner of the MIT Enterprise Forum for the Pan-Arab Region for the first MIT Arab Business Plan Competition (MIT ABPC).