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There

  • Dubai
  • New York
  • Abu Dhabi
  • Istanbul
  • Amman
  • Riyadh

Where the expertise went.

Here

  • Ramallah
  • Jerusalem
  • Gaza
  • Hebron

Where it's needed.

صِلةSila

Still home.

For the Palestinian tech diaspora

Two halves of one bond — the diaspora and Palestine — meeting at a single point.

The honest part

It was never that you didn't want to.

You have thought about it. Probably more than once. What stopped you was never willingness — it was friction.

  • No channel you trust

    Sending money, or time, into a place you love through people you have never met is a leap. Most people never take it, and they are not wrong to hesitate.

  • No vetted deal flow

    You cannot back what you cannot see. Finding the real companies from six thousand kilometres away is a full-time job, and you already have one.

  • No time

    You have a role, a team, a family. The version of contributing you pictured took months you do not have.

  • No proof it landed

    If you did give — an hour, an introduction, a cheque — you probably never found out what happened next. That is usually the point at which people stop.

Sila removes all four. Contributing here takes one hour, not one year, and you are told exactly where it went.

The map

The same map, pointing the other way.

Every diagram drawn about Palestinian tech points outward: the talent that left, the founders who could not stay, the capital that went elsewhere. Here is that map with the arrows reversed.

Hubs on the map

A diagram of diaspora hubs — New York, Toronto, Santiago, London, Berlin, Istanbul, Amman, Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and Sydney — with arcs flowing inward to Ramallah.

  • → Ramallah

Nothing about the geography changed. Only the direction of travel.

You

Where in the world are you?

Tell us and we will do the arithmetic. We do not ask your browser, and we do not keep the answer.

One question

Which door do you want to open?

No application, no committee, no minimum. Just one question.

Not sure what an hour is worth?

Set what you would give and see what it looks like on the ground. Whatever you pick gets ticked below — you can change it there.

Time, per month
Introductions
Capital

What that looks like

Choose anything above to see what it does.

These are illustrative examples of what a contribution looks like in practice — not statistics, and not a promise. The numbers we can prove are further down this page.

0 of 1 completed

Pick as many as apply — they are not exclusive.

Why you specifically

What you bring, money cannot.

Capital is the least rare thing you have. These are the rest.

  • Dual embeddedness

    You read two regulatory systems, two funding cultures and two ways of closing a deal at the same time. A founder in Ramallah selling to a US buyer needs exactly one person who has lived on both sides. It is a rare skill, and you may not have noticed you had it.

  • Doors, not cheques

    One warm introduction to the right buyer, recruiter or partner moves a company further than a small cheque ever will. Your contact list took twenty years to build and costs you nothing to open.

  • Credibility

    Foreign capital prices Palestine as risk. When someone with your track record puts their name next to a company, that risk gets priced differently — and not just for that company.

How it works

Al Wasl brokers every connection.

You never get a cold email. Nobody gets your number.

  1. You tell us what you have

    An hour a month, a door you can open, or capital to deploy. Two minutes, one form.

  2. We do the matching

    We already know the founders — they are in our chapters, we have reviewed their companies, and we know what each one is stuck on.

  3. We bring you one specific person

    Not a list and not a newsletter. A named founder, a stated problem, and a clear ask you can say yes or no to.

Every request that reaches you has come through us first. No cold outreach, no unvetted asks. If you say no, that is the end of it.

The receipts

We have done this before, under worse conditions.

Not a pitch. A record.

$2.4M
Raised for SAFE Palestine including commitment from Google
29
High-growth Palestinian startups funded through the bridge facility
365+
Jobs protected during Palestine's most difficult period
500+
Founders in the Al Wasl network across the UAE and MENA

Chapters on the ground

  • Hub71 — Abu Dhabi
  • Dubai Chambers — Dubai
  • Station J — Jerusalem
  • Ramallah — Palestine

Backed by Google, Paul Graham of Y Combinator, and Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit.

Deployed in the middle of a war. Every cent accounted for. Every startup still standing.

The bond was never broken. It just needed retying.

An hour, a door, or a cheque. Whichever one you have.