What INJAZ Egypt does

INJAZ Egypt is a Cairo-based nonprofit organization founded in 2003 and a member nation of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide and the INJAZ Al-Arab regional network covering 14 MENA countries. The organization delivers experiential learning programs to Egyptian youth across four pillars — Financial Literacy, Work Readiness, Entrepreneurship, and STEM & Technology — operating through three core program tiers: School Programs (modules such as Starting Right, More than Money, Be a Leader, Personal Economics delivered in 300+ public schools), University Programs (Innovation Camp, Achieve Your Dream, Your Journey to Success delivered at 38+ universities), and a suite of post-graduation offerings including The Company Program (a 30-hour company simulation running in Egypt for 12 consecutive years), the Start-Up Egypt entrepreneurship pipeline, Meet Silicon Valley (a US Embassy–backed 10-day acceleration exchange with TechWadi), the Women's Entrepreneurship Program, San3ety Graduates (for technical college graduates), and the 7erfety women-handcrafters program.

The organization's technology stack is centered on a curriculum-and-classroom delivery model rather than a software platform. Its only digital product is the INJAZ Campus online learning portal (injazcampus.org), which appears to be a standard Moodle-based LMS with no published API or SDK. AI is positioned as a curriculum topic within the STEM & Technology pillar rather than as a built organizational capability. Delivery is volunteer-driven: 6,600+ corporate and individual volunteers act as in-classroom mentors and facilitators, and the organization reaches 1M cumulative students since founding (per the 19th Youth Entrepreneurship Celebration in October 2025). The co-founders, Dina ElMofty and Dahlia Helaly, remain active on the board, alongside senior representatives from HSBC Egypt, VISA, and Nahdet Misr Publishing.

INJAZ Egypt's business model is that of a registered nonprofit rather than a revenue-generating enterprise. It does not charge students for participation and discloses no revenue figures. Funding is implied to come from corporate CSR/sponsorship (HSBC, VISA, Nahdet Misr), bilateral/institutional partnerships (US Embassy in Cairo), and the JA Worldwide / INJAZ Al-Arab network. Go-to-market is channel-partner-led: schools and universities request INJAZ programs via a dedicated form, corporate partners staff classroom delivery with volunteer mentors, and the organization supplements with flagship events (the annual Youth Entrepreneurship Celebration, now in its 19th edition) and an alumni network. The cumulative-student figure (1M since 2003) implies average annual throughput of roughly 45,000 students, against a 101–250 employee headcount.

Name

INJAZ Egypt

Legal name

INJAZ Egypt

Website

https://injaz-egypt.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

INJAZ Egypt is a Cairo-based nonprofit and Junior Achievement member that delivers experiential learning in financial literacy, work readiness, entrepreneurship, and STEM to Egyptian youth in 300+ schools and 38+ universities via corporate volunteer mentors, reaching one million students since 2003.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Workforce Development and Entrepreneurship Education

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Business Schools and Computer and Management Training (6114)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Experiential & Field-Based Study Abroad (Research, Field Schools, Practicums) (EDAIAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Field Schools & Experiential Academic Programs (Archaeology, Ecology, etc.) (EDAIAIAG), Hybrid, Multi-Location & Multi-Country Study Abroad Programs (EDAIAAAE)

Keywords

• Youth entrepreneurship education
• Workforce readiness training
• Financial literacy programs
• Experiential learning curriculum
• Nonprofit education programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Cairo

HQ country

Egypt

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Go-to-market motion4 records

Core offering

INJAZ Egypt delivers experiential learning programs to Egyptian youth across four pillars: financial literacy, work readiness, entrepreneurship, and STEM & technology. Offerings include in-school curricula, university workshops, a 30-hour company simulation, an entrepreneurship pipeline (Start-Up Egypt), a US Embassy-backed Silicon Valley exchange, a women's handcrafters program (7erfety), and a technical-college job-readiness track (San3ety Graduates), all supported by the INJAZ Campus online learning portal.

Product overview

INJAZ Egypt is a non-profit, single-organization program portfolio (not a multi-product SaaS platform) that delivers experiential learning to Egyptian youth, structured around four pillars: Financial Literacy, Work Readiness, Entrepreneurship, and STEM & Technology. Its offering spans tiered audiences — School Programs (Starting Right, Discover Yourself, Me & My Community, More than Money, It's My Business, Be a Leader, Entrepreneurship Master Class, Personal Economics), University Programs (Innovation Camp, Achieve Your Dream, Your Journey to Success), The Company Program (for both private schools and universities), Start-Up Egypt (the entrepreneurship pipeline), Meet Silicon Valley (US Embassy–backed acceleration exchange), the Women's Entrepreneurship Program, San3ety Graduates (technical colleges), and the 7erfety women-handcrafters program — all delivered alongside the INJAZ Campus online learning portal. INJAZ Egypt is a member nation of Junior Achievement Worldwide and part of the INJAZ Al-Arab regional network covering 14 MENA countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Start-Up Egypt: One of the largest entrepreneurship pipelines in Egypt; transforms graduates with minimal business experience into successful entrepreneurs through milestones leading to registered enterprises, equity-free seed funding, and mentor/investor network exposure.
• Meet Silicon Valley
• 7ERFETY
• SAN3ETY Graduates

Products and services

• School Programs
• University Programs University-level programs that prepare students for the job market as entrepreneurs and employees of choice, covering four pillars (Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Work Readiness, STEM & Technology) through Innovation Camp (1-day), Achieve Your Dream (3-day), and Your Journey to Success (5-day) workshops.
• The Company Program 30-hour hands-on company simulation providing comprehensive entrepreneurial education using Junior Achievement's prominent curriculum. Delivered both for private schools (by facilitators or business teachers) and for universities (by trainers and private-sector mentors); implemented in Egypt for 12 consecutive years.
• Start-Up Egypt One of the largest entrepreneurship pipelines in Egypt, taking a long-term approach that enrolls enthusiastic graduates from any field and transforms them into successful entrepreneurs, with successful graduates having built and registered enterprises, received equity-free seed funding, and gained exposure to a network of mentors and investors.
• Meet Silicon Valley 10-day intensive acceleration exchange in partnership with the US Embassy in Cairo that takes high-impact Egyptian entrepreneurs to the Silicon Valley ecosystem for networking with tech executives and investors, visits to co-working spaces and leading tech companies, and mentorship from TechWadi, with a give-back mentorship-hours obligation.
• Women's Entrepreneurship Program Intensive business-enabling program in which participants learn from professionals the skills needed to plan a business, market, finance, and prepare the necessary legalities and accounting processes, finishing the cycle with the mindset and know-how to start and grow their own business.
• San3ety Graduates Program that prepares technical college graduates in Cairo for the job market by providing soft and technical skills required by potential employers, with three training phases to become qualified technical employees.
• 7erfety Program 6-8 month program empowering Egyptian women handcrafters to grow their ventures into sustainable businesses through entrepreneurship training, technical training and mentorship, and an incubation phase with seed funding, culminating in the 7erfety Fair where participants showcase and sell products.
• INJAZ Campus Online learning/campus portal at injazcampus.org referenced in INJAZ Egypt's main navigation, used alongside in-school and in-person program delivery to host course content.

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Enactus Egypt: Enactus runs university-based entrepreneurship and leadership programs in Egypt, competing for the same university student demographic, corporate mentorship hours, and student-competition sponsorships that INJAZ Egypt's University Programs and Start-Up Egypt target.
• INJAZ Al-Arab: INJAZ Egypt's regional parent network spanning 14 MENA countries; delivers the same Junior Achievement-aligned youth entrepreneurship curriculum in sister markets (e.g., INJAZ UAE, INJAZ Jordan, INJAZ Lebanon), making it the closest operating-model peer.
• Junior Achievement Worldwide: INJAZ Egypt's global parent network; JA Worldwide is the world's largest organization specializing in economic education for young people, operating the same four-pillar curriculum model (financial literacy, work readiness, entrepreneurship, STEM) that INJAZ Egypt delivers in Egypt.
• Education for Employment (EFE): MENA-focused nonprofit that trains and places young people into jobs, with programs in Egypt targeting work readiness and employability — directly overlapping INJAZ Egypt's work readiness pillar and youth-employment mission.
• Nahdet El Mahrousa: Leading Egyptian social-enterprise development organization that supports entrepreneurs and youth-led ventures; competes for the same corporate ESG/CSR funding pool and operates complementary entrepreneurship-pipeline programs in Egypt.

Broad incumbents

• Plan International Egypt: INGO running youth skills, education, and economic-empowerment programs across Egypt (with a strong focus on adolescent girls); shares the same school-network delivery model and bilateral-donor funding base as INJAZ Egypt but with a broader child-rights mandate.
• UNICEF Egypt: UN agency operating large-scale adolescent skills, education, and youth-empowerment programs in Egypt; shares the youth-development mission and competes for the same bilateral/multilateral funding streams, but with a far broader portfolio beyond entrepreneurship.

Emerging players

• AIESEC Egypt: Global youth-led organization with a local Egypt presence that runs leadership and cross-border internship/exchange programs for university students; overlaps with INJAZ Egypt's university work-readiness and Meet Silicon Valley-style international exposure offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/injazegypt
• Facebookfacebook.com/injazegypt
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/2513807
• Instagraminstagram.com/injazegypt

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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