Episode 6 of Beban Season 2 features businesses from the technology, F&B, and cosmetics sectors as they pitch for investment and business development opportunities

Episode 6 of Beban Season 2 features businesses from the technology, F&B, and cosmetics sectors as they pitch for investment and business development opportunities

Entrepreneurship-themed reality television show, Beban, produced by Hope Ventures, the investment arm of Hope Fund, airs the sixth episode of its ongoing second season on February 8th at 6 PM on Bahrain TV and the region’s biggest video-on-demand platform, Shahid, as well as 9:30 PM on AlRai TV.

Beban season 2 is the first television show in the MENA region to be 100% powered by renewable energy through Hope Ventures’ partnership with The Oil and Gas Holding Company B.S.C (closed) (“nogaholding”) and the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA). The show was filmed in Al Areen Palace and Spa by Accor and is built around the premises of entrepreneurs pitching their businesses in front of a panel of regional investors for immediate investment and business opportunities.

Episode 6 hosted five businesses from the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates: ‘Hekayati,’ children’s stories that can be customized with children’s names and interests, available in Arabic and English, co-founded by Asif Mugloo and Yazeed Erman, ‘I Hear You,’ a digitally inclusive mobile application that works to improve the lives of 466 million deaf people through translating sign language to text and audio and vice versa, founded by Mohamed Abo Elazm, ‘L7 Chocolate’, a