Global Fintechs face reckoning as easy money dries up By Imani Moise, Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan and Joshua Oliver As a wave of fintechs rode successive funding rounds to ever-higher... Financial Times • 29 June, 2022 Fintech
Regional A guide to good governance for startups Dr. Mussaad M. Al-Razouki is the chief investment and business development officer of Kuwait Life Sciences Company. He has over 15... Thought Leadership • 27 June, 2022 governance
Global From nappies to cricket: China’s Alibaba targets South Asia Benjamin Parkin and Farhan Bokhari in Karachi and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing In a vast warehouse on the arid outskirts of Pakistani... Financial Times • 23 June, 2022 Daraz Alibaba
Regional Why I launched the 2022 Female Angels Movement It was late 2021, and I had just come off a panel at GITEX where we had discussed, at length, the struggles women face when fundraising.... Thought Leadership • 22 June, 2022 Angel Investment 2022 Female Angels
Regional The importance of last mile in e-commerce Lee Shepherd is the director at Amazon Logistics, Middle East and North Africa Operations “Start with the customer and work... Thought Leadership • 20 June, 2022 Amazon E-commerce Logistics
Global How bad is Big Tech’s hiring freeze? By Dave Lee The end of the tech boom has sparked a flurry of job cuts as companies move swiftly to tighten their belts. Recruitment at... Financial Times • 16 June, 2022 big tech
Jordan Tamatem expands to China after securing investment from MSA Novo Jordan-based mobile games publisher Tamatem, is expanding to China after securing an investment and strategic partnership with MSA Novo,... News • 15 June, 2022 tamatem china MSA Novo
Egypt Egyptian marketplace for toys Tasala shuts down due to import restrictions The ongoing war in Ukraine and the ensuing economic fallout have sent shockwaves across the financial global markets amid rising... Dunya Hassanein • 13 June, 2022 E-ommerce inflation Tasala
Regional Mena startups raised $176 million in May, lowest amount so far in 2022 Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $176 million in May 2022 across 42 deals, a decline of 40 per cent... Wamda • 09 June, 2022 investments
Regional How to create a fintech startup that will thrive Kartik Taneja is the executive vice president, head of payments at Mashreq Bank Fintech startups are becoming increasingly... Thought Leadership • 08 June, 2022 Mashreq Fintech
Global Can buy now, pay later survive the cost of living crisis? By Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan When Julie first turned to buy now, pay later schemes in January, it seemed an obvious choice to... Financial Times • 06 June, 2022 Buy now pay later BNPL Klarna
Global What is a DAO, and why does it matter for 2022? Hannes Graah is the former VP of growth at Revolut, and founder of stablecoin yielding protocol, Gro. He also spent eight years at... Thought Leadership • 01 June, 2022 DAO crypto Blockchain
Global Digital delivery transforms trade for Africa’s stallholders By David Pilling Nancy Auma, a 35-year-old market trader, sits by a large mound of finger-sized silvery fish caught in Lake... Financial Times • 30 May, 2022 africa Logistics
Egypt The pain of selling furniture online in Egypt Furniture is one of the oldest and the largest industries in Egypt, employing over 13 per cent of the country's industrial workforce,... Dunya Hassanein • 26 May, 2022 Homzmart furniture marketplace
U.A.E In conversation with Alfred Chuang Wamda and the Dubai Future Foundation are excited to host Alfred Chuang, General Partner at Silicon Valley-based Race Capital in an... Wamda • 25 May, 2022 Dubai Future Foundation
Regional How to build national tech champions By Wissam Abdel Samad, Tarek El Zein, Ramzi Khoury, and Chady Smayra, partners with Strategy& Middle East, part of the PwC... Thought Leadership • 25 May, 2022 strategy
