Taaly at TNW 2023: Silicon Canals lists Taaly among Amsterdam's impact startups

Tech platform Silicon Canals rounded up twelve Amsterdam-based impact startups that joined the City of Amsterdam delegation at TNW Conference 2023. Taaly was one of them.

Tech for good from Amsterdam

The article describes founder Shadi Alhakimi's background: born in Sanaa, fled in 2014, arrived in the Netherlands in 2015 and went on to a master's degree at the University of Amsterdam. Taaly grew out of the question of how a newcomer can learn the language faster and build a network.

Rebuilding a network

For Shadi, TNW was more than a trade show. Leaving a country as a refugee also means losing your professional network. Every event, he says in the article, helps to rebuild it.

“What I hope to achieve in TNW is to rebuild part of my professional network that I lost when I left Yemen as a war refugee.”
Shadi Alhakimi in Silicon Canals

Taaly today

Taaly has since grown into the digital integration assistant for newcomers: language, participation and work in one app, with more than 30,000 learners, 4,200 taalcoaches and partnerships with 18 municipalities.

Read the full article

Tech for good: 12 Amsterdam impact startups at TNW 2023. Silicon Canals, by Vigneshwar Ravichandran (5 June 2023).

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