Who we are
Glow Innovations is a business development, training and consultancy firm established in 2013. We are specialized in providing business development, training, mentoring, consultancy and acceleration services to start-ups and small enterprises with a focus on youth and women entrepreneurs. The training programs cover all aspects related to starting and running a new business or expanding of an existing one. Examples on the subjects we are covering during our training boot-camps are: Ideation, developing of a business plan and its components (business model, financials, marketing...), legal and IPR as well as pitching, presentation skills and business evaluation. Furthermore, Glow supports serious entrepreneurs in their "access to finance" journey and developing of partnerships with added-value investors utilizing our huge local and international network including Palestinian diaspora and our network of mentors. Our team is a group of consultants, experts and trainers in West Bank and Gaza. We are qualified with accumulative experience of more than one hundred years.
Why?
High unemployment rates is a serious dilemma and economic pain not only in Palestine but the whole region. Translation of innovations to products and services through the professional business and acceleration services we are providing is the solution we believe in toward prosperity and better economy for the MENA region. Palestine is not an exception, and we are fully aware of the local context and obstacles which are taken into consideration such as:
- socio-economic and geo-political restrictions,
- connected, dependent and weak economy,
- small and limited market,
- high unemployment rates among youth with
- a huge pool of talents and graduates including females
How?
Having said so, we are providing effective tools which will contribute in solving some of the challenges our entrepreneurs and the community at large are facing:
- Capacity Building and Training: design, develop and delivery of SED training kits and materials.
- Virtual acceleration services is an enabler and supporter for youth and talents during their journey in establishing their own businesses and start-up companies. High quality business services and creative solutions including the business planning and modelling, networking, marketing and access to finance.
- The “One-Stop-Shop” helps entrepreneurs in assessing, recognizing and identifying the right path to follow.
- Education is the core of our social responsibility. The right education, entrepreneurship and innovation eco-system is the way toward innovation-based economy and lower unemployment rate. Strengthening University-Industry interaction and joint activities and projects is one of our effective and examined tools.
- We do believe in the Public Private Dialogue (PPD) and National Policies which is the right way and tool to support youth, SMEs and business clusters.
What?
Supporting the "doing-business" environment in Palestine as well as entrepreneurs in establishing and developing their business ideas and start-up companies (MSMEs) will create more jobs. It is not only our mission, but “passion”. We believe in supporting small enterprise development (SED) through consulting, mentoring and training as a tool to succeed and achieve our goals.
We aim at generating value for our clients -our clients are both private sector and NGOs- and entrepreneurs with a focus on youth and women by leveraging the multidisciplinary knowledge of our experts, mentors, consultants, trainers, local and international networks and partners. We are completely committed to meeting the needs of our clients. We believe in integrity, transparency and social responsibility, trust and customer satisfaction has always been our highest priority
Expertise
- Employability, Self-Employment: Business Planning, Business Development, Business Incubation, Business Acceleration and TVET.
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.
- Mentoring, coaching, B2B and recruitment services.
- Capacity building, management training and development.
- Technology transfer & commercialization.
- Internationalization, market analysis and research / marketing.
- Public Private Dialogue (PPD), Strategies and Policies.
