Rama Kayyali, Building a mission-driven company, adopting cutting-edge technology to improve Arabic language literacy and pivoting several times - Ep.5, Season 2
Rama Kayyali is CEO and co-founder of Little Thinking Minds, an award-winning edtech company with a mission to close Arabic language literacy gaps, creating digital learning platforms to improve targe...
11 Feb 20241h 7min
Wael Nafee, Transitioning from operator to investor, YC’s secret sauce and building Careem in its growth phase - Ep.4, Season 2
Wael is a Computer Engineer, serial entrepreneur, and YC alumnus who has co-founded various startups in the Silicon Valley and the Middle East. He was one of the early employees of Careem and held rol...
28 Jan 20241h 21min
Waleed Kadous, Decoding LLM-based approaches and startup versus big tech culture - Ep.3, Season 2
Dr. Waleed Kadous is Chief Scientist at Anyscale, the company behind the popular open source distributed computing platform Ray. He leads the company’s LLM efforts. Prior to Anyscale, Waleed worked at...
8 Jan 20241h 36min
Asher Siddiqui, VC fundraising, GP/LP dynamics, and advising Robert Downey Jr's fund - Ep.2 Part 2, Season 2
Asher Siddiqui is a tech investor with a global career spanning 25+ years, having made 100+ investments valued at $15bn+.Asher is a General Partner at Sukna Ventures, a MENA focused early-stage VC Fun...
24 Des 20231h 43min
Asher Siddiqui, Thriving through boom and bust, picking the right startups and architecting billion-dollar mega-deals - Ep.2 Part 1, Season 2
Asher Siddiqui is a tech investor with a global career spanning 25+ years, having made 100+ investments valued at $15bn+.Asher is a General Partner at Sukna Ventures, a MENA focused early-stage VC Fun...
10 Des 20231h 42min
Ismael Belkhayat, Startup as an Extreme Sport and Business in French-speaking Africa - Ep.1, Season 2
Ismael Belkhayat is the CEO and cofounder of Chari. He’s a serial founder who is a notable figure in the Moroccan tech ecosystem. After his time in consulting at the Boston Consulting Group, Ismael fo...
5 Nov 20231h 16min
Concluding the first season of the Startups Arabia podcast
With that we conclude the first season of the Startups Arabia Podcast. Your host, Ali Zewail, takes a moment to reflect on the podcast’s first season and the journey thus far.Thank you for joining us ...
27 Jun 202310min
Eman Hylooz, The power of listening to your customers: evolving from a community to the biggest Arabic digital reading platform - Ep.12, Season 1
Eman Hylooz is the Founder and CEO of Abjjad, the first and biggest Arabic digital reading platform. Her passion for reading and solid experience in technology inspired her to create Abjjad and embark...
4 Jun 20231h 48min
