Rama Kayyali, Building a mission-driven company, adopting cutting-edge technology to improve Arabic language literacy and pivoting several times - Ep.5, Season 2

Rama Kayyali is CEO and co-founder of Little Thinking Minds, an award-winning edtech company with a mission to close Arabic language literacy gaps, creating digital learning platforms to improve targeting over 100 million children in MENA and over 100 million globally. Currently Little Thinking Minds platforms are used by half a million students in 800 schools in 10 countries in the MENA region in private and public schools as well as schools that cater to refugee communities.

Little Thinking Minds is a multiple globally recognized and award winning company:

2023 winner of the Innovation Award from the Saudi eLearning Center

2022 MIT SOLVE global competition

2021 Innovation Award of Abdel Hamid Shoman Foundation

2020 and 2021 Elite 200 (GSVCup Competition) representing the top “Pre-K to Gray” EdTech startups across the globe with a mission to ensure that children have access to a better future through education

2019 Selected as one of the top 100 start-ups shaping the fourth industrial revolution

2019 Queen Rania Award for Education in Entrepreneurship

Rama is an Eisenhower Fellow, an Endeavor Entrepreneur and winner of the Arab Women's Award.

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Rama’s LinkedIn account: @Rama Kayyali

Little Thinking Minds’ Website: https://www.littlethinkingminds.com/en/