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Khabib Smashes UAE Real Estate
Khabib Smashes UAE Real Estate
Hi Habibtis & Habibis, Let me tell you about the most MENA week in MENA tech news. GluCare just pivoted.
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44% of your music is AI
44% of your music is AI
Hi Habibtis & Habibis, I'm scrolling through MENA tech news, and it's giving me the same energy as watching paint dry…
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Why Are Some Investors Assholes?
Why Are Some Investors Assholes?
Hi Habibtis & Habibis, I am thinking tirelessly about what to write in this newsletter. I'll echo anything related to…
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$0 Funding in March
$0 Funding in March
Hi Habibis & Habibtis, I don't know why this is a weekly newsletter when I do it every other week. But as long as I do…
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Mansions Win, Farms Die, Greed Prevails
Mansions Win, Farms Die, Greed Prevails
Hi Habibis & Habibtis, For this newsletter, I’ll be speaking about two topics, one of which I love so much! And the…
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The Worst Pitch Deck in The World
The Worst Pitch Deck in The World
Hi Habibtis & Habibis, Since I was in Alexandria and didn't publish a newsletter that week, I am posting another one…
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Why 996 is Good?
Why 996 is Good?
Hi Habibtis & Habibis, I have been travelling this past week in Alexandria. Not the one in Turkey, no, and no not the…
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The "We're Not Leaving Egypt" Lie Explained
The "We're Not Leaving Egypt" Lie Explained
Hi Habibtis & Habibis, FINALLY!! Guys!! FINALLY! I have found an article in MENA's tech publications that isn't a…
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Your pitch deck raised my blood pressure
Your pitch deck raised my blood pressure
Hi Habibis & Habibtis, I've probably seen more than 1,000 pitch decks. Maybe more than 2,000? I am not sure.
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted this✦ Dealfuze, founded by Mustafa Zaghloul and Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie, has officially launched MEA’s first AI-powered investor-founder matchmaking platform, aiming to solve one of the region’s biggest startup challenges: access to the right investors. ✦ The platform uses AI to match founders and VCs based on sector, stage, geography, and investment thesis, replacing fragmented fundraising networks with a more data-driven approach. ✦ Its first Online Demo Day will bring together startups and investors deploying ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $1M+ across MENA and Africa. https://lnkd.in/dep5bwWp
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisLondon-based startup Dealfuze, co-founded by Egyptians Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie and Mustafa Zaghloul, is launching an algorithmic matchmaking platform pairing MEA founders with international and GCC investors based on sector, stage, geography, and traction metrics. The problem it is solving is real. Over 82% of African VC flows into just four countries, pre-seed funding accounts for only 1.5% of total African venture investment, and private pre-seed capacity has shrunk by more than 60% after international accelerators withdrew from the continent. Female founders across Africa secure only 10% of equity funding despite representing over a third of all applicants. Rather than warm introductions, Dealfuze matches founders and investors through industry data. Founders upload a pitch deck, which the platform parses into a standardized match card. Once both parties express mutual interest, a direct communication channel opens to schedule a call. The platform's first algorithmically curated demo day, co-hosted with Builders Tribe, is on 20 May, featuring startups pitching to institutional funds including Shorooq Partners, Blossom Capital, and Launch Africa Ventures. Ticket sizes range from USD 50k to over USD 1 mn. Tap the link to read more. https://lnkd.in/dfFDMNEC
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisDealfuze Debuts MEA AI Matchmaking Platform Backed by Investors Writing $50K–$1M+ Checks Details || https://lnkd.in/d6FZHVeE Dealfuze | Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie | Mustafa Zaghloul #fintech_gate #Dealfuze_Debuts #MEA
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted this🔟 founders! Handpicked by an algorithm! Pitching in 3 days! Khaled Elabd, CEO & Co-Founder, Ground77 Khaled spent 8 years at IBM before pivoting fully into entrepreneurship, co-founding multiple ventures, including Shiphaly, along the way. His career has been built around growth, business development, and spotting the gaps in markets that everyone else overlooks. A decade in the startup trenches has sharpened his instincts considerably. Ground77 is his sharpest bet yet. Ground77 is a cloud-based real estate brokerage platform built for Egypt's 300,000+ independent agents, giving them the tools to launch their own digital brokerages with automated operations, a high-commission split model, and a Brokerage-as-a-Service infrastructure underneath it all. Ground77 graduated from the AUC Venture Lab Accelerator and has represented Egyptian proptech on the international stage in Dubai three times. Egypt's real estate market processes over $30 billion in annual transactions. Most of it still runs on WhatsApp and phone calls. Ground77 is building the technology layer that the market has always needed. Khaled will be pitching on May 20th at the Dealfuze Online Demo Day. 👉 The beta waitlist is closing soon. Join before it does, swipe and match with investors: www.dealfuze.io Join us live: https://luma.com/qy556k3r
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted this🔟 founders! Handpicked by an algorithm! Pitching in 3 days! Hanin M. Alsubaie, Ph.D, Founder & CEO, Darent Dr. Hanin holds a PhD, graduated with first honours twice, was named a Forbes Top 100 Travel & Tourism Leader, and pitched at the Human Capability Initiative alongside the Vice Minister of Tourism in Saudi Arabia. She built Darent from the ground up while simultaneously consulting for Monshaat and running a real estate operation in Jeddah, at the intersection of hospitality, real estate, and tech. The kind of founder who does not wait for permission to build. Darent is a Saudi proptech platform connecting travellers with authentic, locally-rooted short-term accommodations across the Kingdom. Licensed by the Ministry of Tourism and deeply aligned with Vision 2030, it has hit over 90% occupancy rates during peak seasons since launching in 2021. Darent closed a Seed round led by Al Tawuniya Insurance, with participation from Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab, one of the Lab's first investments in MENA. Saudi Arabia is one of the fastest-growing tourism markets in the world. Darent is building the infrastructure for how people stay in it. Dr. Hanin will be pitching on May 20th at the Dealfuze Online Demo Day. 👉 The beta waitlist is closing soon. Join before it does, swipe and match with investors: www.dealfuze.io
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie shared thisHe spent 7 years learning how capital thinks at Goldman Sachs. He's spending the next chapter putting it to work in Africa. Catch him live before the room fills up. Natnael Asmerom didn't leave Goldman because he had to. He left because he saw something most people are still sleeping on. A continent with the youngest population on earth. Founders building category-defining companies on a fraction of the resources their Western counterparts get. A venture ecosystem still early enough that the right people can actually shape it. So he made the move. Today, he's Investment Manager at Launch Africa Ventures, one of the most active early-stage funds on the continent, running IR and anchoring the firm's MEA presence from Dubai. Included VC Class of '24. Executive Leadership Council at African Diaspora Network. Goldman gave him the blueprint for how money works. Africa is where he's putting it to work. And now he's coming to swipe and pitch, live, in person, with founders and investors in the same room. If you're building in Africa or backing those who do, this is the room you want to be in. 👉 Grab your spot: luma.com/qy556k3r And if you haven't joined Dealfuze yet, the closed beta won't be open much longer. 👉 Get in early: dealfuze.io
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted this3 days left to be in the room where it happens!! Get your link: https://luma.com/qy556k3r Join the beta before it closes down: dealfuze.io
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted this🔟 founders! Handpicked by an algorithm! Pitching in 4 days! Harvey Gamal & Abdelrahman Moussa 🇵🇸, Co-Founders, CARD-Y Harvey built PayLi, a freelancer payments platform, before merging it into Card-Y. He has closed deals across MENA and EMEA, scaled teams, and generated revenue across verticals from BPO to EoR software at Rivermate. He is currently enrolled in Harvard Business School Online's CLIMB programme and has a track record of building revenue pipelines ahead of product maturity. Abdelrahman spent years building backend infrastructure at Jumia, one of Africa's largest e-commerce platforms, and before that at fintech startup Cashcall, where he led projects from design to deployment. A serial founder with a previous co-founding stint at OaaaPay, he brings deep fintech infrastructure experience from inside some of the region's most complex systems. Card-Y is a fintech and HR compliance platform built for the 14 million freelancers and cross-border workers in emerging markets. It gives freelancers access to global payroll, corporate-grade perks including health benefits, financial products, and legal compliance, while giving the businesses that hire them the infrastructure to do it cleanly and compliantly. The operating system for freelance life in a region where banks treat irregular income as a red flag. Egypt has 14 million gig workers. Most cannot get a bank loan, health insurance, or a corporate card. Card-Y is building the infrastructure they have always been owed. Abdelrahman and Harvey will be pitching on May 20th at the Dealfuze Online Demo Day. 👉 The beta waitlist is closing soon. Join before it does, swipe and match with investors: www.dealfuze.io
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reposted this🔟 10 founders! Handpicked by an algorithm! Pitching in 4 days! Raafat El-Saeed, CEO & Founder, Blaze Raafat double-majored in Computer Engineering and Business at AUC, won the CFA Research Challenge across MENA against teams from 11 countries, and became the first Egyptian ever selected for the START Fellowship at the University of St. Gallen, one of only 30 founders chosen worldwide. Four startup competition wins before the age of 25 round out a profile that is frankly difficult to argue with. He approaches Blaze with both the technical depth to build it and the financial rigour to know why it needs to exist. Blaze is an AI-powered investment platform built for the generation that grew up on Spotify but never opened a brokerage account. Its core mechanic, Investment Playlists, translates complex investment strategies into something personalised, visual, and actually understandable, complete with what-if simulators, historical performance tracking, and bite-sized learning modules. No charts. No jargon. Just investing that finally makes sense. Already backed by AUC Venture Lab, showcased at START Summit 2025 in Switzerland, and presented at the Banking & Fintech Summit 2025 Investor Room. Raafat will be pitching on May 20th at the Dealfuze Online Demo Day. 👉 The beta waitlist is closing soon. Join before it does, swipe and match with investors: www.dealfuze.io
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reacted on thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reacted on thisVenture capital across the Middle East and Africa is on the rise, yet access remains uneven. While MENA funding climbed 74% to $3.8bn in 2025 and Africa recorded $4.1bn, early-stage founders outside a handful of hubs continue to face structural barriers. Against this backdrop, London-headquartered Dealfuze, founded by Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie and Mustafa Zaghloul, with Mahmoud Al Anany as CTO, has launched a closed beta and announced what it describes as the region’s first algorithmically curated Online Demo Day, scheduled for 20 May 2026. The platform aims to match startups and investors based on data rather than personal networks. ✅ MENA venture funding reached $3.8bn in 2025, while Africa secured $4.1bn, its strongest year since 2022. ✅ Pre-seed funding in Africa remains limited, accounting for just 1.5% of total VC investment, with over 82% concentrated in four countries. ✅ Dealfuze’s AI-driven model matches startups and investors by sector, stage, geography and thesis, aiming to reduce reliance on warm introductions. ✅ Investors from firms including A-Typical Ventures, Blossom Capital, Emtech VC, Launch Africa Ventures, Pennington Promise Capital and Shorooq Partners are expected to attend the Online Demo Day. ✅ Research shows 65% of VC deals involve a mutual connection, reinforcing network-driven patterns that may exclude underrepresented founders. With venture capital rising but connectivity gaps persisting, the question is whether data-led infrastructure can broaden access without losing the trust that underpins early-stage investing. #VentureCapital #Startups #MENA #Africa #Innovation
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie liked thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie liked this✦ Dealfuze, founded by Mustafa Zaghloul and Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie, has officially launched MEA’s first AI-powered investor-founder matchmaking platform, aiming to solve one of the region’s biggest startup challenges: access to the right investors. ✦ The platform uses AI to match founders and VCs based on sector, stage, geography, and investment thesis, replacing fragmented fundraising networks with a more data-driven approach. ✦ Its first Online Demo Day will bring together startups and investors deploying ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $1M+ across MENA and Africa. https://lnkd.in/dep5bwWp
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Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reacted on thisMohamed Hassan Al Sheraie reacted on thisLondon-based startup Dealfuze, co-founded by Egyptians Mohamed Hassan Al Sheraie and Mustafa Zaghloul, is launching an algorithmic matchmaking platform pairing MEA founders with international and GCC investors based on sector, stage, geography, and traction metrics. The problem it is solving is real. Over 82% of African VC flows into just four countries, pre-seed funding accounts for only 1.5% of total African venture investment, and private pre-seed capacity has shrunk by more than 60% after international accelerators withdrew from the continent. Female founders across Africa secure only 10% of equity funding despite representing over a third of all applicants. Rather than warm introductions, Dealfuze matches founders and investors through industry data. Founders upload a pitch deck, which the platform parses into a standardized match card. Once both parties express mutual interest, a direct communication channel opens to schedule a call. The platform's first algorithmically curated demo day, co-hosted with Builders Tribe, is on 20 May, featuring startups pitching to institutional funds including Shorooq Partners, Blossom Capital, and Launch Africa Ventures. Ticket sizes range from USD 50k to over USD 1 mn. Tap the link to read more. https://lnkd.in/dfFDMNEC
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Bournemouth University
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Started my PhD diving into how LPs deploy venture capital in emerging markets. Dropped out when I realised my true calling: building something that helps founders get rejected, not just by their dates, but by their investors too.
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