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An investment portfolio built on game-changing ideas

An early-stage tech investor with a keen eye for market opportunities, Salomon Aiach (Co-Founder at Origins Fund) invests mostly in B2C and B2B2C companies, so the end-user is the consumer.  From Facebook to Goldman Sachs, his career history is littered with high-profile (and high-pressure) roles, and when it comes to

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How do you find a co-founder?

Welcome to the 7,107 new techies who have joined us since #LEAP24. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Dr. Wyatt McDonnell (CEO and Founding Scientist

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No funding? No problem.

Welcome to the 252 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Prashant Pitti (Co-Founder at EasyMyTrip) What Pitti

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Could women help overcome crypto-scepticism?

Welcome to the 84 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Sharene Lee (Co-Founder of Takadao) What Lee

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Rocket Fuel Winner: Takadao gets eyeballs and credibility

Startups: if you want to know how you could benefit from LEAP 2024 and take your startup to new heights, this is one for you. Each year at LEAP we host the Rocket Fuel Pitch Competition. As well as a share of the $1 million prize fund, the competition will

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KSA Tech startups to look out for in 2023

LEAP loves startups. In fact, we’re going to spend a bit of time on the blog talking about the startups that won our Rocket Fuel Competition in 2022 and 2023 – so you can find out where they are now. But before we do that, we thought we’d look

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One VC shares her most exciting investments

Positive-impact start-ups and entrepreneurs are not alone. There’s increasing support out there from investors who want their money and mentorship to create a better way of life. And the collaborations that come from investors and ideas-people with a common vision are changing our world.

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One VC shares her most exciting investments

Positive-impact start-ups and entrepreneurs are not alone. There’s increasing support out there from investors who want their money and mentorship to create a better way of life. And the collaborations that come from investors and ideas-people with a common vision are changing our world.

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Interview: what makes a startup investible?

Startup founders and tech investors make up a significant slice of the LEAP audience, and we’re committed to supporting the growth of a robust investment ecosystem in tech – both in the MENA region and around the world. A big part of that is giving investors the knowledge and mentorship

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Is everyone (except you) raising VC funds?

Each week, we share a selection of our favourite quotes from the innovators that contribute to LEAP. Read, absorb, learn, share; and join us at #LEAP23 for first-hand insights into the future of tech. subscribe   This week we’re quoting… Hamad Al Fahad (Managing Partner at Tajawoz) Each week, we

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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