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Palestinian start-ups innovate way past obstacles

StartUp Terminal Bureau by StartUp Terminal Bureau
August 8, 2021
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At first glance, Mashvisor is just one of thousands of
websites specialising in US real estate.
But it
has a unique feature, undetectable to customers: its designers created it in
the West Bank and it is run from the Israel-occupied Palestinian territory.

“The
great thing about a start-up is you can work on it anywhere in the world. You
can be in Palestine, you can be in Cambodia, Vietnam, China. It doesn’t
matter,” explains Peter Abu al-Zolof, who founded Mashvisor more than a
year ago with a friend.

Last
week, Mashvisor became the first Palestinian company to get the support of the
influential American 500 Startups venture capital fund.


It is
one of a number of Palestinian start-ups in the occupied Palestinian
territories, long overshadowed by Israel’s so-called “Start-up
Nation”.

The
online platform automates and analyses US real estate data nationwide to find
investors the best property deals.

As in
Silicon Valley, the staff dress casually, drink coffee from state-of-the-art
machines in garish colours, and pad through the office wearing US-made
headphones around their necks.

But
working in the West Bank brings unique challenges.

In
October 2015, a wave of violence broke out across Israel and the Palestinian
territories.
Abu
al-Zolof’s friend and founding partner Mohamed Jebrini, who lives in Hebron,
found himself stranded in the city as roads were closed, 45 kilometres (30
miles) from their Ramallah offices.

“He
was stuck in Hebron and I was stuck in Ramallah and we were still working on
our company,” explains Abu al-Zolof.

And the
American-Palestinian says the online nature of what they do means they can
avoid many of the frustrations for other companies in the West Bank, where the
Israeli army checkpoints often present very physical challenges to commerce.

“There
are no walls, there are no challenges, there is nothing that can stop this kind
of thing,” he says.

“It’s
a virtual market, so there are no checkpoints where they tell you: ‘You can’t
sell this. You can’t take this out of the country.'” 

The
company benefited from the support of the Ramallah-based Leaders, an
organisation that helps nurture start-ups.
Shadi
Atshan, Leader’s director general, told AFP that in the start-up scene there
was “no unemployment — unlike almost all other industries and economic
sectors in Palestine which have high unemployment”.

“Those
with good skills can earn a very high income.” 

The
unemployment rate in the occupied Palestinian territories is 27 per cent,
according to figures from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

Courtesy: PTI
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