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  • #029 - الاستثمار في مصر و أفريقيا

    This episode is proudly sponsored by:

    Nawy: https://www.nawy.com - The largest proptech in Africa

    يعمل تامر عازر شريكاً في شركة شروق بارتنرز.

    حصل تامر على البكالوريوس من جامعة تورنتو والماجستير من جامعة أكسفورد. بدأ تامر حياته المهنية في طليعة مصممي السياسات مع أحد أكثر مصممي الأعمال تأثيراً في العالم.

    ثم انتقل بعد ذلك وشارك في تأسيس عدة شركات ناشئة وعمل عن قرب مع رواد أعمال مختلفين لسنوات عديدة. انضم لاحقاً إلى شركة Fahrenheit 212 كمستشار للابتكار. وفي عام 2016، عاد إلى مصر لينضم إلى شركة A15، حيث قاد الاستثمارات وتطوير المشاريع. وفي عام 2019، انضم إلى شركة Sawari Ventures كprincipal للشركة.
    Tamer Azer is a Partner at Shorooq Partners. Tamer received his bachelor’s from the University of Toronto and a Masters from the University of Oxford. Tamer began his career at the forefront of policy making with one of the world’s most influential business designers.

    He then went on and co-founded several startups working closely with different entrepreneurs for many years. He later joined Fahrenheit 212 as a Senior Innovation Consultant. In 2016, he returned to Egypt to join A15, where he led investments and venture development. In 2019, he went on to join Sawari Ventures as Principal.

    1 hr 12 min
  • ما وراء بوسطة | بودكاست مغامرة

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    Nawy: https://www.nawy.com - The largest proptech in Africa.


    بدأ محمد عزت مسيرته المهنية بالعمل كمهندس اتصالات في العديد من شركات ليصبح في النهاية مدير مشروع في شركة نوكيا.


    ثم قرر محمد أن يترك عمله في نوكيا ليشارك في تأسيس شركة "لينكس"، وهي شركة تجارة إلكترونية عابرة للحدود. وكان له دور فعال في مساعدة لينكس على الانضمام إلى برنامج الشركات الناشئة Y Combinator.


    وبعد رحلة ناجحة مع شركة Lynks، انتقل محمد إلى أحلام أكبر من خلال تأسيس شركة Bosta، التي أصبحت الآن شركة رائدة في مجال التجارة الإلكترونية التي تخدم أكثر من 25,000 شركة في مصر والمملكة العربية السعودية والإمارات العربية المتحدة.


    Biography:

    Mohamed Ezzat began his career working as a communications engineer at several multinational corporations ultimately becoming Project manager in Nokia.
    Mohamed then decided to leave his corporate career to co-found “Lynks”; a cross border e-commerce provider, Mohamed helped bootstrap the company to reach $6mn GMV within 2 years and was instrumental in helping Lynks join Y combinator’s startup program.
    After a successful journey with Lynks, Mohamed moved on to bigger dreams by starting Bosta, which is now the leading logitech leader serving more than 25,000 e-commerce players across Egypt, KSA, and UAE.

    1 hr 7 min
  • #026 Timothy Motte: State of Emerging Startup Ecosystems

    Tim writes The Realistic Optimist, a paid newsletter covering the global startup scene. He’s covered the startup scene in place such as France, Iraq, Japan or Colombia, to name a few. Before The Realistic Optimist, Tim co-founded GrowHome, a platform connecting Palestinian startup

    founders to investors and mentors in the diaspora.


    1 hr 30 min
  • #025 Ahmed El-Sharkasy: From Software Engineer to Founder
    Ahmed El-Sharkasy is a software engineer and product manager with more than 15 years of experience working in world-class startups in the Middle East, US and Europe.
    He was the first engineer at Bkam, a leading price comparison website in the MENA and was also the first engineer at Onfido, the leading identify verification service in the UK and Europe (recently acquired by Entrust). After going through one of the top accelerator programs in Europe (Entrepreneur First), Ahmed was the CEO and Co-founder of Knowledge Officer, a London-based EdTech startup with a mission to build the shortest and most efficient path to employment and career progression.
    He has also been included in the list of top 100 influencers in Edtech by the EdTech Digest in 2019. After Knowledge Officer, Ahmed joined Yelp as a Group Product Manager leading a business critical division and a team of product managers. Ahmed is mission-oriented with a 3-yearLighthouse Goal: Make a positive impact on the lives of 1M+ people.
    1 hr 18 min
  • #024 Amr Awadallah: Advice From a Multi-billion Dollar Founder

    Dr. Amr Awadallah is the CEO and Cofounder of Vectara, a company that is enabling organizations to leverage GenAI in business applications by reducing risks from hallucinations, bias, copyright infringement, and model weight pollution.

    Amr previously served as VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and as Global CTO, he spent 11 years working closely with enterprises around the world on how to ingest and extract value from big data (he famously coined the concept of “schema-on-read vs schema-on-write”). Cloudera went public in 2017 on the NYSE, and was acquired by KKR + CD&R in 2021 for $5.3b.
    He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! from 2000-2008. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, Aptivia, in mid-2000 which was a search engine for online product information. Amr received his PhD in EE from Stanford University, and his Bachelor and Master Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.
    Amr is one of 10 luminary scientists and technologists that were granted honorary citizenship to Saudi Arabia in 2021.

    45 min
  • #001 Moghamra Exclusive - Hossam Taher: Orcas Exits

    Hossam Taher, a father, serial entrepreneur, and a doctor, leverages his expertise in product management and business strategy in venture building and business growth. As the former CEO of Orcas, which he successfully exited in 2023, he expanded the company's regional presence, built an international team, and secured over $4 million in funding.


    Hossam now offers consultancy and mentorship in venture building, digital transformation, product strategy, and business strategy, while exploring angel investing, with a preference for tech startups.

    1 hr 20 min
  • #022 Wael Fakharany: A Life of Reinvention

    Wael Fakharany currently serves as the CEO of Edenred, leveraging his extensive leadership background.

    Before joining Edenred, Wael served as CEO of Omnix International and held the position of Vice President and General Manager of EMEA at Incorta. He also worked at Careem as Managing Director for Egypt and held the position of Global Senior VP for Government Relations.
    At Google, Wael served as Regional Business Lead at Google X and Head of Agencies for the Middle East and North Africa. His career spans over 25 years in the technology sector, including previous roles at 3Com, Oracle, and IBM.
    Wael holds a B.Sc. in Computer & Communications Engineering with Distinction from Ain Shams University in Egypt.

    1 hr 39 min
  • #021 Aya ElGebeely: The Talents Guru

    Aya is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur who aims to bridge the gap between top tech talents and hiring companies.

    She is doing this through Talents Arena, the ultimate ‘talent marketplace’ for African job seekers and recruiters in tech.


    Talents Arena is re-inventing technical hiring by matching tech gurus with ideal hiring tech companies, thus cutting down time wasted in the hiring process.


    Aya has worked in the tech industry for over a decade, starting as a software engineer at IBM – Egypt. She later moved to lead many tech teams in regional startups, including 360 Imaging, Instabug, and others.

    1 hr 12 min
  • #020 Ammar Kandil - Special Episode: The Ultimate Moghamra Man
    Ammar Kandil is the Co-Founder of Yes Theory. Originally from Sadat City, Egypt, located two hours outside Cairo, Ammar's journey began with a profound fascination for people.
    Yes Theory began in the summer of 2015 when Ammar, Thomas, Derin and Matt were four strangers in their early 20s who bonded over the idea that life's greatest moments and deepest connections exist outside your comfort zone.
    Today Yes Theory is a community of millions of people who act on the belief that seeking discomfort is the gateway to a fulfilling life.
    1 hr 43 min

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