AmCham-Jordan and Startup Grind Amman sign an MoU

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham-Jordan) and Start-up Grind Amman, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aimed at carrying out common initiatives to come together to expand Jordan-U.S. business ties in the Start-up, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship sector.

Start-up Grind Amman is affiliated with the U.S. Start-up Grind based in California, United States. Grind is considered to be the world’s largest community, bringing together start-ups, founders, innovators, and creators to actively educate, inspire, and connect more than 3.5M entrepreneurs in over 500 countries. AmCham-Jordan, affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington D.C., works towards economic development through the promotion of U.S.-Jordan trade and investment, policy advocacy, human resources development, and business community outreach.

Under the agreement, the two parties will cooperate to leverage the high potential opportunities resulting from the Jordan-U.S. FTA in supporting the entrepreneurship sector to grow its business in both countries. Furthermore, AmCham-Jordan and Start-up Grind will give the entrepreneur community access to diverse networking sessions involving people from different countries, and in particular, to connect Jordanian and U.S. entrepreneurs to exchange information, knowledge and technical advice.

AmCham-Jordan CEO Rose Alissi said “As part of AmCham-Jordan’s ongoing efforts towards building bridges between Jordan and Silicon Valley, started five years ago, we will continue to offer the Jordanian startups the opportunity to have access to the U.S. market, finance, capacity building and, knowledge transfer from experts in the U.S. ecosystem.”

During the virtual signing ceremony, Mohammed Salah, Jordan’s County Manager at Startup Grind commented “We are super excited to team up with AmCham-Jordan to grow the engagement between both the U.S. and Jordan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem; our partnership will give startups in Jordan access to investment and mentorship opportunities, in addition to open the door for startups to expand operations to the U.S.”