Feb 26, 2018 | B2B, Customer Service, Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship, Exits, Investing, MENA, Technology, UAE, Venture Capital
By Amir Farha … Potential investors in our funds always ask this question. They struggle to see the light that we all believe in and know is coming at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. It’s one of the hardest things to answer, since it’s a numbers game,...
Jan 23, 2018 | Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Investing, MENA, Press Release, Technology, UAE, Venture Capital
Wahed: The Robo-Advisor for Shariah-compliant Investing Wahed is the world’s first automated investment service designed for Shariah-compliant, ethical investing. The Wahed approach to ethical investing in the digital age utilizes a human review panel to screen...
Dec 18, 2017 | Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship, MENA, Technology, UAE
By Dany Farha … I went to the Bay Area recently and immersed myself in the technology ecosystem to soak up the special sauce and try to better understand it from a structural perspective, in the hope of deriving inspiration and creating actionable lessons for...
Mar 30, 2017 | Exits, Insights, MENA, show all
By Amir Farha … Remember 2015. Talabat gets acquired by Rocket Internet. At the time, this was the largest exit in the region at $170m. Run by one of the region’s brightest entrepreneurs, Mohammed Jaffar, Talabat was growing at > 100% year on year, and today...
Mar 29, 2017 | Ecosystem, Exits, MENA, show all
By Dany Farha … Amazon buys Souq; what an accomplishment for the MENA tech ecosystem. Why? It validates the MENA demographic opportunity Emerging market, local and regional investors underestimate MENA as an economic block. Our MENA definition is the 6 GCC...
