For the past few years, the Femme Francophone Entrepreneure Competition, organized by AUF Middle East and Berytech, in partnership with L’Orient-Le Jour, has become a cornerstone of the Lebanese startup ecosystem supporting and promoting female entrepreneurship in Lebanon.
The partners continue to believe in the potential of startups despite the specific difficulties of the Lebanese ecosystem, going through the worst economic crisis in the history of the country, and “Femme Francophone Entrepreneure” is still here to support them.

This year, for its 10th edition, the AUF increased the grant to 42,000 euros (more than double what was offered in previous years), distributed among the winning projects. The winners will also benefit from Berytech’s incubation program to receive the support needed to grow their startup.

On September 20, 2021, six candidates pitched in front of a jury panel to build their case around the relevance and viability of their projects. Three winners were chosen by the jury composed this year of Corine Kiame – Investment Manager at IM Ventures, Aline Kamakian – entrepreneur and founder of Armenian restaurants Mayrig and Batchig, and Samer Toutounji – entrepreneur and founder of Eshmoon.