Anna Ponomarenko Turned Brewery Waste Into Belgium’s Most Unexpected Snack
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 Stay Quiet
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 Kept Forgetting Dutch Words. So He Built the App That Fixed It.
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 the Competition That Gave Him His Idea. Then He Built the Company Anyway.
Mahmoud El Wakil lost a startup competition and built Homemade NL anyway — a platform turning home chefs across the Netherlands into food entrepreneurs.
She quit consulting to Sell Falafel. How Noor Built Nabati, Rotterdam’s Jordanian Restaurant
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.
How Data Engineer, Tasnim Jemli, Is Bringing Tunisian Heritage to Dutch Tables
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.
How Mirwais Momand Built BillSpace to Help Newcomers Take Control of Their Subscriptions
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.
How an Agtech Founder Turned a Dutch Market Gap Into a Botanical Hydration Brand
Mo Qaem is an entrepreneur in the Netherlands turning tap water into a premium botanical drink experience through oostaMo.
How Two brothers and their childhood friend Turned a traditional Palestinian Recipe Into a modern Retail Brand
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.
Spotlight on Orange Corners Alumni Accelerator: 5 QUESTIONS TO MUNA AL HAJ EID
Meet Muna, founder of Mom Wellness, a maternal health clinic reshaping the way mothers receive care.
