Careers: Interviews
A Chat with Valentina Primo: Entrepreneur; Journalist; Changemaker; Founder of Startups Without Borders; about empowering startups and helping entrepreneurs make longlasting impact on the world

This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Valentina Primo.

Valentina Primo is an entrepreneur and a journalist with a Masters in peace studies, Human Rights, and EU policies.

She is the founder of Startups Without Borders, a platform that connects refugee and migrant entrepreneurs to resources, while providing investors with an entry point to under-the-radar startups with disruptive potential. Their annual Startups Without Borders Summit was featured amongst the Top 60 startup events to follow in 2021, and hosted entrepreneurs from 84 different countries.

Valentina has been involved in the Middle East's entrepreneurial landscape since 2013, having launched Egypt's largest platform on entrepreneurship, Startup Scene Middle East, in 2017. She has given speeches at conferences in Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Russia, Norway, France, and Italy, including Lean Startup Nights Cairo, Egypt's RiseUp Summit, and Techfugees.

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