Omar Abu Ghoush

Founders Network is a recurring student pitch forum and ecosystem connecting the next generation of founders with investors, operators, and an ambitious audience. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the company operates the Youth Entrepreneurship Forum — its flagship event format held every three months. Each edition features a curated lineup of selected student founders pitching live on stage, while investors attend discreetly and anonymously among the audience to remove performance bias and preserve authentic discovery. The first edition is scheduled for 2026 in Geneva at a UNIGE-associated venue, with capacity planned for ~550 attendees (overbooked at 900 to account for no-shows). The network is designed to scale internationally, expanding to London, Paris, and New York from 2027, with a long-term vision of becoming the leading student-founder discovery layer across Europe and the Middle East. Co-founded by Omar Abu Ghoush in April 2026, Founders Network combines a public-facing forum, a private investor network, and an editorial newsroom covering the founders it incubates.

Debate is a live debate platform inspired by Omegle's instant stranger matching, but rebuilt for safe, structured, AI-scored debates. Users pick a topic, choose a side (For or Against), and are instantly matched with a stranger who holds the opposing view. Live debates are evaluated by an AI judge across six scoring categories — evidence quality, relevance, logical consistency, civility, rebuttal quality, and claim clarity — producing a real-time scorecard at the end of each round. Founded in April 2026, the platform's mission is to convert meaningful disagreement into a structured, learnable skill, addressing the global decline in deliberative discourse and online civility. The product targets students, young professionals, and educational institutions integrating debate into curricula.

Eternity (operating at studyeternity.com) is the first AI-powered EdTech platform designed to handle a student's entire university journey in one unified platform. It addresses a global higher-education market where the average student-to-counselor ratio is approximately 408:1 and where over $3 billion in U.S. federal grants go unclaimed annually due to lack of guidance. The platform aggregates more than 20,000 verified universities worldwide and combines real-time scholarship matching, integrated student housing, visa support, and end-to-end relocation services. At its center is SAGE, a proprietary AI advisor that builds personalized application and study strategies based on each student's academic profile, budget, and long-term goals. Mohammed Al-Shami co-founded Eternity alongside Omar in November 2025 and serves as Chief Sales Officer (CSO). Together, Omar and Mohammed are recognized as the youngest Arabs to raise investment at a million-dollar valuation, a milestone achieved through Eternity's early funding round. Omar continues to lead product strategy and partnerships.

Tokenized was a blockchain-based product authentication platform founded by Omar Abu Ghoush in April 2024 at age 16, addressing the global counterfeit market estimated at over $1.7 trillion USD annually. Its proprietary TokenSync Technology assigned every real-world product a unique digital identity on the blockchain — an unforgeable on-chain record linking the physical and digital worlds. Tokenized partnered with Stones Luxury®, launching a beta of TokenSync that scaled to a Limited Edition collection deployed across 9 retail branches and a dedicated booth at Avenue Mall in Manama, Bahrain. The company operated within the Enjin business ecosystem — an enterprise blockchain network valued at approximately $900 million USD in 2024. Beyond authentication, TokenSync captured ownership transfer data, location patterns, and resale activity, with smart contracts automatically triggering creator royalties on every secondary sale. Tokenized concluded operations in February 2026.

Founded in July 2023 at age 15 (originally named CAI Lab and rebranded to ARKAN in 2024), the ARKAN Foundation became a blockchain research and consulting ecosystem built to replace speculation with verified intelligence. Within ARKAN, Abu Ghoush personally developed the Decentralized Research Framework at age 17 — a methodology for distributed, peer-validated blockchain research. The organization published 35 research articles, operated across three formal divisions — ARKAN Research, ARKAN Intelligence, and ARKAN Pay — grew to a team of 8 contributors across 6 countries, and reached an audience of more than 61,000 followers worldwide across social and research channels. ARKAN was acquired by VIBE Invest in January 2026.

AVAIA was a direct-to-model marketplace launched in May 2025 to eliminate the inefficient agency-mediated communication between models and brands. Models were verified and listed with complete attribute profiles — height, age, region, hair color, eye color, skin tone, and curated photo portfolios. Brands could filter, browse, and contact talent instantly, compressing traditional weeks-long casting cycles into minutes. AVAIA launched with 5 experimental Jordanian brand partners across fashion, beauty, and lifestyle, and operated until November 2025.

SwapEasy was built to solve one of Jordan's largest financial barriers: access to digital assets in a market with limited cryptocurrency on-ramps. Founded in November 2024, it enabled fast, low-fee fiat-to-crypto conversions with simplified KYC and processed hundreds of transactions in its first quarter of operation. The platform was conceived alongside the Anonymous Decentralized Crypto-to-Fiat Debt Card Framework Omar designed at age 16. SwapEasy closed in April 2025 following the introduction of new Jordanian Central Bank cryptocurrency exchange regulations — a formative lesson in regulatory foresight, market timing, and jurisdictional readiness.

Stones Luxury® is a family-owned multinational interior-art and décor brand founded in 2008 by his father Majd Abu Ghoush and uncle Rami Abu Ghoush, headquartered in Amman, Jordan. The company operates across 11+ countries with 62 team members and has served more than 2,734 customers. From 2023 to 2025, Omar served as Head of Blockchain Integration, leading the brand's transition into Web3 and developing the Tokenized authentication system that links every handcrafted piece to a verifiable on-chain record — bringing transparency to a market built on trust, guided by the family principle "Who has no past has no present" (من ليس له ماضٍ ليس له حاضر).

Bank Al-Etihad is one of Jordan's leading private banks, headquartered in Amman. During his internship in September 2025, Omar worked with the private wealth management team on cryptocurrency integration strategies for high-net-worth investment portfolios. He built internal analytical reports categorizing digital assets by risk profile, volatility, liquidity, and real-world use case beyond speculative hype, and contributed to a framework distinguishing utility tokens, store-of-value assets, and yield-bearing instruments. The internship marked his first formal exposure to institutional financial systems and the structural gap between traditional banking and emerging digital asset ecosystems.

NGMI Lab was a private blockchain research group focused on tokenomics, decentralized systems, and early-stage crypto project analysis. Over a four-month internship, Omar analyzed dozens of token economic models, studied value-creation and value-capture mechanisms in protocol design, and identified recurring design flaws — incentive misalignment, hyperinflationary issuance, and weak governance — that caused project failure. The role was foundational to his critical-thinking framework on Web3 systems and informed the later research agenda of ARKAN Foundation.

Love Monster was a blockchain-based gaming and NFT project building a play-and-collect ecosystem on Ethereum. Omar managed the online community across Discord and X (formerly Twitter) and coordinated strategic partnerships during a major growth phase, liaising between the creative team (artists, narrative designers) and the technical team (smart-contract engineers, mint infrastructure). The role developed his hands-on understanding of Web3 community dynamics, NFT launches, and creator-economy partnership structures.