Before you take off for your annual leave, scan through our vacation & workcation tips for useful apps and gadgets and great reads and listens. Don’t worry, you’ll fit within the 30kg limit🧳    Did you pack the books you won't read anyway?  ...

June has kept us all over the place just like May 🤹. We announced an investment in Khazenly, a Cairo-based on-demand digital warehousing and fulfillment platform… and our 7th startup from Egypt (lucky 7? :P). Khazenly team, welcome again to our big Arzan VC...

I’ve waited to release the May issue until we conclude our very intense and fun team-building session in Cairo. We welcomed back on-board Mohanad Elhartany – our Senior Investment Associate, and freshly welcomed our new CFO: Adeel Shahid 😎. (Special thanks to...

We’ve had a swim in the local talent pool with Maha Al Zeir, our Talent Acquisition Manager, a seasoned HR consultant and the founder of WizHRD, a HR consultancy firm for tech startups in the Middle East.   Plenty of insights and advice below.    On...

I recently spoke with a founder of a startup based in the UAE.   It’s an e-commerce business established in 2017 and its presence covers 24 countries…   Here’s what we talked about:    #FounderSpotlight 🛋️   Hasan: You are a...

Our LinkedIn and Twitter have been exploding since NYE.   This issue is all about 40 ‘cause we reached 40. Not years. Startups in our portfolio. 😎   And to celebrate that in our ArzanVC way, Laith & I cooked for you…    Takeaway lessons on...