Regional What's your share of the company? [Opinion] The Souq.com deal was great for the news media cycle, but was it so great for the investors? In tech, these types of events are fraught... Tammer Qaddumi • 08 May, 2017 Souq.com investments VCs
Lebanon What I know about bad investments: Walid Mansour [Know your VC] In a debate in 2016 Walid Mansour was keen to shed the image of VCs as “cigar smoking fat cats”. “We have investors... Lucy Knight • 03 April, 2017 MEVP Know your VC What I Know
U.A.E Adventure2Venture kickstarts investor-entrepreneur retreats [Know your VC] “I am not very happy about how some investors treat startups and are somehow unfair to entrepreneurs.” This is how Rami AlKarmi... Mai Ali • 02 February, 2017 Angel Investment Adventure2Venture Dubai
Regional Learn before you sign: the 3 parts of a term sheet [Opinion] This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait Perhaps the most important tool in the VC’s arsenal, especially when it comes... Mussaad M. Al-Razouki • 05 January, 2017 Know your VC Contract liquidation
U.A.E Jisr Venture Partners like to look outside MENA [Know your VC] Jisr Venture Partners founder and chairman Waleed Albanawi is making another investment into the food and beverage (F&B) space by... Elias Jabbe • 28 December, 2016 Investment jisr venture partners ReserveOut
Egypt Who's investing in Egypt now anyway? [Know your VC] Egypt’s economy is in bad shape, so who would want to invest in startups and SMEs in this current gloomy atmosphere? Tarek Fahim,... Radwa Rashad • 05 December, 2016 Know your VC Endure Capital JuiceLabs
Regional Series A investment: when, how, who? [Know your VC] In the growth cycle of a startup the Series A round can be a critical hurdle, but investors say there is a lot startups can do to... Eduard Cousin • 21 November, 2016 Series A Investment Venture Capital
Regional Fintech is the spur MENA startups need [Know your VC] Fintech is cool. It must be cool if Hollywood celebrities such as Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto, between attending an exclusive pool party and... Edoardo Giorgetti • 23 November, 2016 Fintech liwwa Madfoo3atcom