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Angel and Venture Capital Investing in MENA vs. Developed Countries

Angel and Venture Capital Investing in MENA vs. Developed Countries, a report by TresVista Financial Services, reveals the gap in funding...

Industry Trends in the Middle East and North Africa: An Abraaj Capital Report

Abraaj Capital's Report on Emerging With Confidence: Reassessing the Investment Case for MENASA provides an overview of the growing...

Abraaj Capital: Unlocking Opportunities in MENASA

Farrukh Abbas, CEO of Abraaj Capital Pakistan, reveals investment opportunities in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, in this...

The PEI Middle East Handbook 2009

Read about the landscape of private equity investment in the Middle East and general private equity trends from 2007-2009 in the Private...

Trends in Private Equity Fundraising and Investment through 2009

The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA)'s report on private equity trends globally provides insight into fundraising,...

An Overview of Private Equity Trends in MENA 2009

EMPEA's assessment of Private Equity Trends in the Middle East and North Africa in 2009, heading into 2010, provides an overview of...

PE and VC Investing in Emerging Markets

The Emerging Markets Private Equity Assocation (EMPEA)'s fact sheet on PE and VC Investing in Emerging Markets reveals the benefits of...

Abraaj Capital on Investment Opportunities in MENASA

A presentation by Mustafa Abdel-Wadood, Managing Director of Abraaj Capital, on Unlocking investment opportunities in MENASA.

Tom Speechley of Abraaj Capital on Investment Opportunities in Jordan

A presentation by Tom Speechley of Abraaj Capital on Key investment Opportunities in Jordan.

Abraaj Capital on Reassessing the Investment Case for MENASA

A presentation by Abraaj Capital on Emerging with Confidence: Reassessing the Investment Case for MENASA

EM PE Quarterly Review VolumeVI 1 March 2010

The EMPEA's Emerging Markets Private Equity Quarterly Review Volume VI from March 1, 2010 offers an overview of the opportunities and risks...

Is the Middle East the new land of opportunity?

Before the uprising in Tahrir Square, young entrepreneurs had been creating their own opportunities throughout the Middle East and...

VCs Enter the Fray in Lebanon

Article via Seeqnce, a Beirut-based catalyst created to accelerate technology startups in the Arab World. The emergence of a local venture...

MEVP Invests in Three Companies

Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) invests in three companiesPin-Pay, iLevel, and Multilane are set to benefit from financial boostBeirut,...

The Right Amount of Equity to Give Investors

Investors will often seek a share of your company in return for crucial start-up funds. But what is a fair percentage? This article by Paul...

How To Deal with Venture Capitalists

Steve Sammut, a senior fellow and lecturer at Wharton School of Business, talks to Arabic Knowleldge@Wharton about how entrepreneurs can...

How to Negotiate with a VC over Stock Options

Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, PLLC, a law firm specializing in the representation of...

VCs and option pools: Swimming in the deep end

Understanding the "option pool" will help entrepreneurs get to grips with early-stage employee rewards and incentives. Scott Edward ...

The Investment Environment in Jordan

Challenges and Opportunities Challenges are opportunities in disguise. The solutions to these challenges create the opportunities. For...

BOOK REVIEW: Mastering the VC Game

Business ideas are a dime-a-dozen. But as every entrepreneur knows, it’s getting hold of the dime that is the challenging part. Funding is t...

Why Less is More: Omar Onsi of Splendor Telecom Explains How a Focused Product Can Garner Investment [Wamda TV]

Omar Onsi, the Chairman and CEO of Splendor Telecom, a London-based Voice-over-IP (VOIP) company, explains how he differentiates his...

What the MENA Investment Ecosystem Needs to Succeed [Wamda TV]

Peter Kellner, the Founder & Managing Partner of Endeavor Global, discusses why the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Middle East needs...

The Biggest Mistake that Entrepreneurs Make

Ahmed El Alfi, the Chairman of Cairo-based venture capital firm Sawari Ventures, discusses the mistakes that entrepreneurs make when they...

Sean Park: Funding Innovation in Financial Services

Sean Park, the Founder of Anthemis Group, discusses Anthemis's goal to fund digitally native financial services companies, in order to...

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