Startups Without Borders Podcast

From London, to Amman, to the Greek refugee camps, There is a growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs, incubators, supporters and investors building a movement made up of valiant migrant entrepreneurs. What does that transnational ecosystem look like today? 

Join us in this exciting panel from our last Startups Without Borders Summit, where key players in the refugee and migrant startup world share their insights. Meet Charlie Fraser: co-founder and Partnerships Director at TERN, from London; Laura di Santolo: Co-founder and Managing Director of Forward Incubator in Amsterdam, and Vasili Sofiadelils: Founder of Changemakers lab, in the island of Lesbos, Greece.



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If there is one word that dominated the media landscape this past year, it’s diversity. The Black Lives Matter movement brought to light a whopping disparity in startup funding: Black women have received only 0.06% of all Venture Funding since 2009.

In this power-packed fireside chat, we meet the powerhouse woman leading a movement to change that: Lauren Maillian, CEO of Digital Undivided.

Join us in this intimate conversation, to uncover the story of a woman who started a successful Winery when she was still not even old enough to drink, and went on to become the first Black woman to start an early-stage venture capital fund.

Listen to Lauren’s inspiring advice, as she invites us to challenge people’s expectations and to find that hidden voice inside.



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It’s a well known statistical fact that immigrants are over-represented among entrepreneurs; in fact, 55% of one-billion dollar startups were founded by at least one immigrant. How can the investment sector tap into this opportunity, as the number of refugees is projected to dramatically increase? Don’t miss this insightful debate.

In another Episode of our Talks Revisited, where we share the most thought-provoking panels held at the Startups Without Borders Summit, Yama Saraj, Afghan entrepreneur and founder of SensAI, sits down with 3 key investors in the refugee investment space: Apoorv Karmakar, Managing Director at Amplio Ventures, Nikita Thakrar, Co-founder & Director of Included VC, and Kristina Vayda, Executive Director at FAIRE.


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I’m super excited to present another panel from the Startups Without Borders Summit, with two entrepreneurs and media powerhouses from Egypt and England: Anthony Rose, and Amy Mowafi.

Anthony Rose, “the man who saved the BBC” sits down with Egyptian media mogul Amy Mowafi to crack the code behind making a company stand out. Anthony is a technical and product visionary who founded
SeedLegals, a legaltech platform that lets startups and investors complete the legals to build their business. Amy is the Co-Founder and CEO of MO4 Network, which is one of the leading creative and media agencies in Egypt.

Listen to these two powerhouses’ chat during the Startups Without Borders Summit, as Anthony and Amy dig into success formulas, from Pitch Decks to content marketing.


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How to get people to listen when the whole world is entering panic mode? As we dive into a Brave New World where everyone is constantly bombarded by messages online, getting your story across is one of the hardest challenges.

To answer this question, we’re bringing you one of the top panels at the Startups Without Borders Summit, with two powerhouse female entrepreneurs: Maha Abuelenein and Dina Mofty.

In this super fireside, Dina El Mofty, who is the founder of INJAZ Egypt, sits with Maha Abouelenein, Chief Value Officer for Gary Vaynerchuk, discusses PR strategies, effective communication, and how to get media attention in one of the most challenging times in recent history.



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How are top websites dominating the new normal? As we just concluded the Startups Without Borders Summit in Amsterdam, Cairo and San Francisco, I’m very happy to announce the first of our Talks Revisited.

In this episode, Selina Bieber, GoDaddy’s Senior Regional Director for Turkey, MENA and South Africa, digs into the behind the scenes of what makes a leading website.

This year, as the Covi19 pandemic shook the entire world and led and incredibly accelerated digital transformation, we teamed up with GoDaddy to uncover the rising trends dominating the net in this brand new world - or, as we like to call it, Brave New World.

Listen to this fireside chat and get all the tips and tricks to get your website on the map.

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This is a very special interview. Tey Al Rjula’s story is one for the movies. Having spent two years in a refugee camp in the Netherlands, Tey used that time to do an online masters in Blockchain, and then created Tykn, a startup that offers stateless people a virtual form of ID, using blockchain.

Brace yourselves for an intense interview, as Tey delves into his story in detail, narrating how he came up with a world-shaking startup in the most unlikely place, how he raised $1.5 million with his startup, and his new endeavour: writing the book: “The Invisible man” (now available for purchase!)

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Today, we speak to Alaa Alnuaimi, an Iraqi entrepreneur who moved to Turkey following the war and managed to build a massive design studio that garnered international giants as clients, such as Nike, Pizza Hut, and KFC.

In this episode, Alaa recalls his journey across Egypt, Syria and then Turkey, to find a place to call home, while striving to pursue his own passion for design. In this candid conversation, we speak about how to follow your dreams, doing whatever it takes, teaching yourself anything, and drawing inspiration from the unexpected.

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If you’ve been on our site, you’ve probably seen this figure, but it’s worth repeating over and over again: the lack of diversity is costing the tech industry a missed opportunity worth almost $400 billion dollars.

But what if we started looking at migration as an opportunity? What if we leveraged on this diversity to build more innovative startups, that can build different solutions to problems we’re not even seeing?

Today, we’re bringing yet another panel discussion from the Startups Without Borders Summit, where Egyptian power lady Yara El Braidy sits with two Egyptian entrepreneurs experiencing diverse ecosystems in Jordan and the UK: Mohamed Salah and Amr Shereen.

This panel is in English AND Arabic.

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You know I love storytelling. So when I heard about a project called ‘Telling the Real Story,’ I was immediately drawn. The project, which was facilitated by UNHCR, landed to the Startups Without Borders Summit last November 8 and 9, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be speaking to one of its members, Amal Jibril.

A Passionate about humanitarian issues and technology, Amal has been tirelessly working to provide refugees living in camps in Ethiopia, with opportunities for self-realization, using storytelling as a core tool.

In this episode, we discuss how the creative economy can offer incredible opportunities for refugees, and what it means to try to showcase the ‘real story’ not only about, but told BY refugees.

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Photo Credit: Ahmed Najeeb.
Song by: Funky Music, by Dj Quads.
Dj Quads:
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https://twitter.com/DjQuads
https://www.instagram.com/djquads
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF...

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