 
            Liquidity, Leadership and the New VC Reality
2025’s VC landscape demands sharper targeting, smarter liquidity, and stronger leadership. Discover how investors are adapting – and why LEAP 2026 is where the next moves will be made.
 
 
            2025’s VC landscape demands sharper targeting, smarter liquidity, and stronger leadership. Discover how investors are adapting – and why LEAP 2026 is where the next moves will be made.
 
            Find out why four days at LEAP can redefine your deal flow and your investor brand.
 
            Find out why leading with curiosity enables tech leaders to strengthen cybersecurity culture and build resilient teams.
 
            Critical industries are supported by an invisible architecture – energy, finance, and logistics now depend on AI systems that make decisions faster than humans can react. And building resilience into that architecture is becoming one of the tech industry’s most urgent challenges. The team over at Black Hat MEA recently
 
            Research shows moderate constraints boost creativity. See how cybersecurity can act as a design partner for tech innovation, offering the ideal conditions for growth.
 
            Breaches cost millions and destroy trust. Learn why building security into innovation from day one saves money, culture, and growth.
 
            People are everything in tech and security. Culture and communication are essential for developing tech that has a positive impact, and for building cybersecurity resilience.
 
            Curiosity drives change, growth, and resilience. Learn how adopting the hacker mindset can help you achieve your ambitions in tech.
 
            At LEAP 2024, Karnika (Senior Associate at Newtrace) battled it out in front of a live audience in the Rocket Fuel Pitch competition, and won the Shooting Star award; which included an equity-free investment of $150,000. Newtrace is developing next-generation membraneless electrolyzers to enable the adoption of green hydrogen
 
            We’ve been talking to some brilliant and influential leaders in the Saudi startup tech and ecosystems for #LEAP2025. This series gives us an unmatched insight into the impact LEAP has had in their success. This week we caught up with Omar Al-Shabaan, CPO at The Garage. The Garage and
 
            We’ve been talking to some brilliant and influential leaders in the Saudi startup tech and ecosystems for #LEAP2025. This series gives us an unmatched insight into the impact LEAP has had in its success. Recently we caught up with Ibrahim Abdulaziz Neyaz, CEO of the National Technology Development Programme
 
            In the Discover LEAP series here on the blog, we’re introducing you to the different stages and content tracks that you’ll experience at LEAP 2025. Dig deeper into the opportunities we’re lining up, and find out more about some of the expert speakers who are preparing to
 
            Globally, our ideas about what the creative economy is have changed over the last two decades. We started to describe a range of activities as ‘creative industries’ about twenty years ago; including theatre, film, music, dance, visual arts, and more. As digital technologies have advanced, creative industries expanded to include
 
            Kambis Kohansal Vajargah (Head of Startup-Services and Deputy Head of Founder-Services at Austrian Federal Economic Chamber) is the founding partner of a number of startups – including watchado, Saturo, ALVERI, and more. He’s an angel investor at Gateway Ventures and Founders of Europe, and he was chosen by the World
 
            Fusion power technology has attracted a growth in funding in recent years, and optimism about its potential to serve as a viable solution to the global climate crisis is growing. Total investment has grown from USD $4.8 billion in 2022, to $6.21 billion in 2023 – and up to
 
            “There wasn’t a single resource showing all the digital health tools around on the planet. We created that.” In a nutshell, that’s what Dr. Koen Kas (CEO at Healthskouts) has set out to do – but his influence on the healthcare sector runs deeper than a single current project.