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How to pitch so investors will listen

More and more founders are seeking investment to grow their startups – and as a 2023 recession looms around the globe, investors are preparing to reign in their spending. Hamad Al Fahad (Managing Partner at Tajawoz) joined us on the LEAP:IN podcast to explain what many founders get wrong when

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Investing in sports tech? Choose your people wisely

Unsurprisingly, tech investments (and tech startups seeking investment) often focus on…well, tech. A founder will talk endlessly about their innovation, assuming that investors will get excited about its world-changing possibilities; and investors will seek out the tech with the most potential to disrupt the status quo of established markets.

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Food from thin air

#LEAP22 left us inspired to change the world – and we want you to feel the same. Here’s our weekly pick of keynote quotes: dive in and discover innovations to get excited about. subscribe   This week we’re quoting… Mohammed Ashour (Founder and CEO at Aspire) What Ashour said: “If

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Entrepreneur inspiration: Identify your emotional runway

If you’re an entrepreneur, you can’t neglect your emotions. How much energy do you have for your idea or startup? Do you have the drive to push your idea from fledgling flight to scalable business?  Laurie Fuller (Venture Partner at Raiven Capital) is one of four renowned experts

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From measuring energy to managing energy

“Technology makes it possible, for the first time in history, for companies to be more profitable through becoming more sustainable. For countries to thrive through the same technologies that will decarbonise our planet.” This was how Will Thompson (Chief Strategy Officer at Forbes Ignite) opened a panel discussion at #LEAP22,

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Resist or embrace?

Knowledge, insights, and predictions for the future. Discover our weekly pick of quotes from speakers at #LEAP22 – you’ll click out of this email feeling just a little wiser.  subscribe   This week we’re quoting… Ziad Al Yousef (Deputy Governor for Development and Technology at Saudi Central Bank) What Al

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Creators, brands, and tech: the evolution of content and advertising

Advertising has always changed with the times. But never has it existed in as complex a landscape as today. Instead of mainstream media channels that provide brands with a clear, professional strategy for getting their message in front of consumers, we’re now living in a far more fragmented world.

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Internet for all: is accessibility in conflict with business sense?

Making connectivity accessible for everyone was an important theme at #LEAP22. Keynote speakers discussed how to make the internet accessible in geographical regions that have typically been left behind by tech; how to change the gender imbalance in the tech industry, and what that will mean for equality in the