How are you coping?   In a parallel world, I’d like to take a more holistic look at cap tables – their shape and health, because some cap tables out there could benefit from some tidying up     Fixing (un)investable cap tables   Your cap table (CT)...

We’re physically heading into winter (at last!), the VC world has been in a funding winter for some time now and instead of the predicted M&A wave one could assume it’s an M&A winter. Except that… in MENA, it's more like autumn.    Signs of life in MENA's...

Pardon my French but this one’s a good entrée:   "As an industry we’ve become experts at content marketing the shit out of our wins, the shiniest versions of what venture and startups can be." (Hunter Walk)   Content marketing remains a powerful weapon, but...

Some time ago Hasan Al Shami tagged Arzan VC in his post about the levels of SaaS founders’ equity at IPO – what’s the average ownership% and whether the founders share it equally – and Hasan was wondering if we got some data on MENA founders...   Thank you for...

2023 vintage may be the best one of the decade, but will it be clean enough?... friendly enough to our environment?   Although cleantech is already on the region’s radar and already helping counter & prevent environmental damages and climate change in the...

I believe that the 2023 vintage may be the best of this decade.   We are raising a $60M fund - our 3rd fund - and… are some of you are raising eyebrows now? It is a bold move given the times we are living in, but the timing is right. Other VCs are raising north...