founders in focus - Finance Middle East

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: After burning out and starting over, Vikas Goel made EsportsXO investor-ready in Abu Dhabi

by Nivetha DayanandJune 13, 2025June 13, 2025

Daria Stepanova

Start Up and Entrepreneurship, Features

Founders in focus: How AIRMO is using space tech to fight climate change

by Nivetha DayanandJune 10, 2025June 10, 2025

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: BIRD Collaborative’s Maitha Almatrooshi on building a business that cleans the ocean, one straw at a time

by Nivetha DayanandJune 5, 2025June 2, 2025

Monther

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: Monther Fadel saw the dust problem no one was solving and built DARBCO to fix it

by Nivetha DayanandMay 22, 2025May 22, 2025

Leonty Mukhortov

Start Up and Entrepreneurship, AI

Founders in focus: Leonty Mukhortov’s Simpleem turns feelings into business intelligence

by Nivetha DayanandMay 20, 2025May 20, 2025

Founders in focus

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: Startup duo target Middle East’s $250 billion SME credit gap with embedded finance play

by Nivetha DayanandMay 15, 2025May 22, 2025

Jay Sadiq

Start Up and Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurs to watch

Founders in Focus: FortyGuard’s Jay Sadiq on turning temperature into infrastructure and why the Middle East is the ultimate testbed

by Nivetha DayanandMarch 17, 2025March 17, 2025

Hasan Algarhy

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: Duverse’s Algarhy is on a mission to redefine how cities are designed and developed

by Nivetha DayanandFebruary 7, 2025February 7, 2025

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: BaseTracK’s Klyuev is on a mission to transform the Middle East’s logistics sector

by Nivetha DayanandJanuary 30, 2025January 30, 2025

Nadeera's Rabih El Chaar

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: Nadeera’s Rabih El Chaar is on a mission to drive circular economy innovation

by Nivetha DayanandJanuary 14, 2025January 14, 2025

Start Up and Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurs to watch

Founders in focus: Tanpure aims to position CrossVal as a global financial solutions leader by 2030

by Nivetha DayanandDecember 16, 2024January 24, 2025

Mahesh Prajapati

Start Up and Entrepreneurship

Founders in focus: Mahesh Prajapati aims to turn BigDot into a unicorn within five years

by Nivetha DayanandDecember 10, 2024December 10, 2024

Start Up and Entrepreneurship, Crypto, Fintech, News, Success stories, TECHNOLOGY

Founders in focus: Fuze’s Mo Ali Yusuf on fundraising during the ‘Crypto Winter’ and the UAE’s digital assets market

by Beatriz Valero de UrquiaOctober 29, 2024January 24, 2025

Start Up and Entrepreneurship, Fintech, Success stories

Founders in focus: How Justin Newton went from bankruptcy to building four unicorns

by Beatriz Valero de UrquiaOctober 1, 2024January 24, 2025

Start Up and Entrepreneurship, AI, Fintech, Success stories, TECHNOLOGY

Founders in focus: Han Jin hopes to take Bluwhale public by 2030

by Staff ReportSeptember 17, 2024January 24, 2025

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