What’s your fav marketplace?
It’s time we dust off our marketplace analysis. Also because we’ve recently invested in one (Retailo) and the startup news of the past days didn’t talk about anything else (almost). So this month we reviewed 200 of them. The next stop of our Seed_2021 program...
We need a drone emoji for logistics
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. Good crazy. You probably heard the buzz around our new investments in Zid and Citron (few more to come very soon). We also finished our #AMMAN_Seed_01 last week and we’re onto… Kuwait (May 4-5) and Bahrain (May 9-10). So, how...
61 exits
This month we reviewed 61 MENA startup exits that happened from 01/2018 till now. The results of our analysis show that e-commerce and fintech witnessed the biggest activity and so did the UAE. Strategic acquisitions were the dominant exit type. More below. ...
One bounced cheque, one big crash. 39 years ago and now?
The Magnificent Nine,The Cavaliers... ever heard of them? Well, they didn't star in a Western film. Rather a Gulf reality show of early 1980s. I’ll give you a hint: one bounced cheque would lead to a collapse of the third largest capital market in the world at...
WANTED: startup IPOs in the Middle East
Hope you stepped into 2021 with the right foot. January is nearly over, so we will go directly to the heart of the matter: why are there no IPOs in our region? And what should be done so we have more of them? We got a lot of startups with a small market...
Popping bubbles in 2021
At last, 2020 is at its close (sigh). There are many ways to describe the last 12 months but let’s stay diplomatic—they were very eventful. On the bright side, all that happens to us—good or bad—is an opportunity to learn and grow. We just have to grasp it. And...
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