Google Backed The Only Startup Accelerator in The Gaza Strip

August 17, 2015November 9th, 2020

The Gaza Strip has a single tech startup accelerator. Thanks to a one-time $900,000 (about £576,000) grant from Google, US charity Mercy Corps was able to set up Gaza Sky Geeksin 2011. It started out as a tech hub, offering a co-working space and running startup weekends where companies could meet investors, but developed into an accelerator in 2013…