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A look inside how Forward·Inc measures impact, starting with one metric: understanding of local business culture, and where the numbers hold up and where they don't.
A look inside how Forward·Inc measures impact, starting with one metric: understanding of local business culture, and where the numbers hold up and where they don't.
Anna Ponomarenko left Ukraine, rebuilt from scratch in Brussels, and turned brewery spent grain into BeerCrackers — Belgium's most culturally rooted new snack brand.
Yasmeen Jabri built a wellness brand that refuses to separate values from product. The story of Amphi Botanicals and the gap between clinical nutrition and traditional plant medicine.
Bashar Alshaibani moved to the Netherlands, kept forgetting Dutch words, and built the app that fixed it. The story of Vlug and its 20,000 users across 18 languages.
Mahmoud El Wakil lost a startup competition and built Homemade NL anyway — a platform turning home chefs across the Netherlands into food entrepreneurs.
Noor left a Gulf consulting career at 2am in a Doha office and opened Nabati, a Jordanian food restaurant in Rotterdam built on recipes from home.
Tasnim Jemli left data engineering to build Jemly's, a Tunisian olive oil brand rooted in family heritage. Her story of health, trust, and building in public from Amsterdam.
Mirwais Momand built BillSpace after years of watching newcomers lose money on subscriptions they'd forgotten or couldn't manage in Dutch. Here's how he turned that problem into a multilingual app serving individuals, entrepreneurs, and municipalities.
Mo Qaem is an entrepreneur in the Netherlands turning tap water into a premium botanical drink experience through oostaMo.
Meet Layth Massoud, co-founder of Fil—a Palestinian-founded food brand making a new wave of fermented chilli sauces inspired by Shatta; for Selfridges,Whole Foods UK, and more. A Forward·Inc alumni story.
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