Hamza Iraqui Bet $17 Million That You Don't Need a New Phone
Hamza Iraqui and Abdessamad Ben Zakour built Revibe in Dubai to fix a broken market: a region that kept buying new devices when millions of refurbished ones were already good enough. With every phone passing a 50-point quality check and a 12-month warranty, Revibe has served hundreds of thousands of customers. Now $17 million from Partech and a group of regional investors is funding expansion into every major consumer electronics category.
Abdallah Abu-Sheikh: The $230M Bet on 2 Billion Underbanked Muslims
Serial entrepreneur Abdallah Abu-Sheikh closed the largest seed round in Middle Eastern history for Mal, an AI-native Islamic digital bank betting big on a market traditional fintech ignores.
Rita Huang: Building the Last-Mile Logistics Layer for 2 Billion Emerging Market Shoppers
Rita Huang solved the last-mile delivery problem that defeated the world's largest logistics networks: she built iMile to connect 2 billion emerging market buyers and sellers.
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Rita Huang: Building the Last-Mile Logistics Layer for 2 Billion Emerging Market Shoppers
Rita Huang solved the last-mile delivery problem that defeated the world's largest logistics networks: she built iMile to connect 2 billion emerging market buyers and sellers.
Jeremy Crane: Building the Solar Revolution in Emerging Markets
Jeremy Crane founded Yellow Door Energy in Dubai to deliver affordable, reliable solar energy to emerging markets. His company has become the leading distributed solar developer in MENA, generating 1 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy while solving real business problems around energy costs.
Jalil Allabadi Built The Healthtech Platform MENA Didn't Know It Needed
Jalil Allabadi transformed his father's medical dictionary into Altibbi, MENA's largest digital health platform serving 20M users across the Arab world.
Hosam Arab: The Merchant Who Learned to Build Fintech
Hosam Arab built Namshi into the Middle East's largest fashion retailer, then started Tabby. The fintech startup became the region's only independent unicorn by solving a problem traditional banks ignored: giving young Muslims access to interest-free installment payments.
Slava Solonitsyn: The Founder Replacing Construction with Robots
A former $100M 3D printing founder quit his successful exit to build robots that will fundamentally change construction. Buildroid's simulation-first approach and partnership model signal a paradigm shift in automation.
