Beirut Digital District
Technology hub in Beirut's Bachoura area, launched in September 2012, offering offices, co-working and event space to startups and companies. It is developed by ZEAL Development (ZRE).
Industry: Technology hub and commercial real estate | Location: Beirut, Lebanon | Founded: 2012
About Beirut Digital District
Beirut Digital District, known as BDD, is a technology and business hub in the Bachoura area of Beirut. It offers private offices, co-working desks, meeting and event spaces, board rooms, virtual offices and a podcast studio, plus BDD Academy training. Its website describes a vision of supporting more than 10,000 people and a target of Silver LEED certification for its buildings.
BDD was launched in September 2012 as a government-facilitated project involving the real-estate company ZRE, the incubator Berytech and Lebanon's Ministry of Telecommunications, according to Wikipedia. The district's website presents it as a community by ZEAL Development. Wamda described ZRE as BDD's key investor and manager in 2015 and named Mouhamad Rabah as ZRE's general manager. Endeavor Lebanon's board page now lists Rabah as CEO of Beirut Digital District.
In 2015, Wamda reported that BDD added two buildings, created the UK Lebanon Tech Hub, hosted Uber, Arabnet, MIT and Diwanee, and welcomed more than ten startups including ScoopCity and Nymgo. By December 2016, Wamda said it hosted dozens of startups and most of the country's investors, incubators and accelerators, and that Wamda itself was based there. Rabah said the aim was a work, live and play neighbourhood. In December 2017 he said BDD had about 1,300 community members five years after its debut and expected the number to almost double by 2020.
Berytech runs an innovation park inside the district, known as BDD1294, on Bechara El Khoury Street. BDD's partner page lists organisations including the World Bank Group, Berytech, Endeavor, Wamda, ArabNet, AUB iPark and MIT.
BDD's 2026 posts record its role as a venue and community. It reported that the Lebanon AI Festival drew more than 1,000 attendees on 24 September 2026 and that AWS Community Day Lebanon drew more than 500 attendees on 1 October 2026. It lists the Lebanese Angel Investor Network's launch among its news and is a member of that network's advisory board. On 16 October 2026 it reported that Edgebot, a US fintech with an engineering hub in the district, received USD 100,000 from the network.
Leadership
- Mouhamad Rabah, Chief Executive Officer