SUCCESS STORIES
Meet our entrepreneurs and their amazing work!
Saeed Hilani, Ghayth Nashed and Ismaeil Najjar
Bab al-Jinan
Bab al-Jinan is a Halabi-Syrian cuisine street food and catering service. Saeed, Gayth and Ismaeil offer very traditional, unique and homemade products. You can test their food in the street markets, festivals and in many different events in Berlin. Their goal is to present Syrian culture through food and hospitality..
Monica
Roots Radicals
Roots Radicals is an authentic, handcrafted and Zero Waste food project that aims to reconnect people with food. She believes in circular economy and through culinary innovation create new products and processes to help design the so-called “waste” out of the food system. Monica aims to bring the idea of the ‘production kitchen’ back to our community, by creating a hub in Berlin: an open kitchen food store, educational space and Café..
Mariana Ramirez
Authentic Learning Berlin
Mariana wants to help people build their language confidence and use their voice in a foreign language. With Authentic Learning Berlin, she offers a new concept in language instruction: learning and practicing a new language in a real-life, authentic settings.
Aalaa Zayat
Alaa’s vegan tales
Did you know that there are more than 1000 vegan recipes in Syrian gastronomy? Aalaa knows them all and takes up the challenge of authentic syrian vegan cuisine with her restaurant Aalaa’s Vegan Tales in the heart of Berlin. Her project responds to the increasing demand for the variety of tasty vegan options.
Abdulhadi Soufan
Reviving Home
Reviving Home is an online crowdfunding platform that assists people with rebuilding and reviving their crisis-torn cities. Abdulhadi’s goal? Helping to revive destroyed neighborhood and reconstruct private property by connecting property owners with reconstruction experts, workers & volunteers and micro funders. Today Reviving Home employs 6 experts who are connected in their desire to bring hope to others.
José Villatoro, Facundo Gutierrez and Juan Opitz-Silva
Motorskins
MotorSkins is an active soft exoskeleton that helps people to walk. A fully autonomous system that uses fluid actuation for assisting the mobility needs of the world’s ageing population. The team consists of Dr José Villatoro, Facundo Gutierrez and Juan Opitz-Silva.
Fadi AlShalabi
Niuversity
Niuversity is an innovative online educational institution that uses live interactive teaching through the use of virtual classrooms. With his company, Fadi wants to teach professional skills that help Arab youth integrate and find jobs in the contemporary labor market using Arabic as the language of instruction.