The Global Startup Movement - Startup Ecosystem Leaders, Global Entrepreneurship, and Emerging Market Innovation

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Reversing the MENA brain drain

02.09.2021

Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 6 of 6 - In the sixth and final episode of our 6 week community activation, host Andrew Berkowitz dives into how ecosystem builders in the region can better engage their diaspora and incentivize talented expats ...

The Global Startup Movement - Startup Ecosystem Leaders, Global Entrepreneurship, and Emerging Market Innovation episodes:

02.09.2021 Reversing the MENA brain drain Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 6 of 6 - In the sixth and final episode of our 6 week community activation, host Andrew Berkowitz dives into how ecosystem builders in the region can better engage their diaspora and incentivize talented expats ...
02.02.2021 Increasing access to capital for MENA startups Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 5 of 6 - In the fifth episode of our 6 week community activation, host Andrew Berkowitz dives into the different types of capital available to entrepreneurs in the MENA region. This community activation is an ...
01.26.2021 Startups as a force for Israeli economic normalization Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 4 of 6 - In the fourth episode of our 6 week community activation, host Andrew Berkowitz dives into the Israel and UAE economic normalization, what it means for the country's startup ecosystems, and how tech ...
01.19.2021 Female leadership in the Middle Eastern and African tech industries Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 3 of 6 - In the third episode of our 6 week community activation, host Andrew Berkowitz hands the mic over to Joy Ajlouny, the Cofounder of Fetchr in Dubai and Viola Llewelyn, the Cofounder of ...
01.12.2021 Building the infrastructure of the MENA digital economy Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 2 of 6 - In the second episode of our 6 week community activation, we tell the inside stories of the entrepreneurs laying down the foundation for the payments, logistics, and artificial intelligence industries in the ...
01.05.2021 Laying the foundation of the MENA startup ecosystem Ecosystem Arabia - Episode 1 of 6 - In the first episode of our 6 week community activation, we tell the inside stories of Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob.com, Amazon's acquisition of Souq, and dive into how technology inspired the Arab ...
12.15.2020 The Ecosystem Arabia Mini-Series - Launching 01/05/2021 The Global Startup Movement is launching the Ecosystem Arabia mini-series on January 5th, 2021. With this mini-series, we will dive into key themes and topics relevant in the Middle East and North Africa startup ecosystems through key industry stakeholders in ...
12.08.2020 Is mutual credit the answer for emerging market SME financing? David Casey catalyzes ecosystems to engineer systemic change and has co-founded four companies and helped scale another to 8 digits revenue. His work has centered around movement-building, and leveraging blockchain technology for socioeconomic transformation. His current focus is redirecting flows ...
11.30.2020 Connecting Africa's SMEs to the Digital Economy Kago Kagichiri is the Global Head of Innovation for Sokowatch a tech company that revolutionizes access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. It enables informal retailers to order products at any time via ...
11.17.2020 Unpacking opportunities and barriers to adoption in the Solar industry Aviv Shalgi is the CEO of energy tech startup, Solar Simplified, a platform that matches renters and homeowners who care about the environment and want to save money on the electricity bill with local solar farms. For 6+ years he's ...
11.10.2020 The EU innovation ecosystem public procurement dilemma Nicolas Brien is the CEO of France Digitale, the largest startup lobbying organization in Europe, with 1,500 startups and 100 VCs as its members, as well as the newly appointed President of the European Startup Network, a common voice for ...
11.03.2020 The secret behind Israel's thriving startup ecosystem Inbal Arieli is a founder of Synthesis, a global leadership assessment rm, and author of Chutzpah: Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Born in Israel and raised on hummus and chutzpah, Arieli fostered her entrepreneurial skills during ...
10.27.2020 The 5 Caribbean digital nomad visas Host Andrew Berkowitz highlights the 5 digital nomad visas that are available from Caribbean countries as we head into Winter.
10.20.2020 Decentralized commerce and the non-fungible token (NFT) boom Justin Bannon, CEO and Co-founder of Boson Protocol, a decentralized infrastructure connecting smart contracts to real world commerce and its data. Boson Protocol aims to change the world of commerce by enabling enterprises, organizations, and customers to bridge the divide ...
10.13.2020 New Format Launch and Revisiting the Startup Ecosystem Series In 2021, The GSM will transition away from our weekly flagship episode to a recurring mini-series format. Our first mini-series, Ecosystem Arabia, will launch in January 2021 and feature stories, candid insights, and conversation with some of the MENA region's ...
09.29.2020 Unpacking the Mongolian Startup Ecosystem Tsolmondorj Natsagdorj is the Cofounder and CEO of YungBet is a blockchain decentralized social gaming platform that provides a secure, reliable, borderless ecosystem. He was born in Mongolian. and grew up in the US, while a student at George Mason ...
09.22.2020 Diving into the Belgium and Benelux Startup Region Jeroen Corthout is the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, a simply powerful CRM that automates data to build better relationships and make more sales. It's a fast, visual and easy-to-use sales machine. Salesflare is the most popular CRM ever on ...
09.15.2020 4 global opportunities COVID-19 tailwinds have accelerated Host Andrew Berkowitz covers 4 key macro trends that have been greatly accelerated by COVID-19 in 2020 and are opening up new and exciting opportunities in the global startup ecosystem.
09.08.2020 The state of Esports in Africa Douglas Ogeto is the coFounder and CEO at LudiqueWorks and has built the largest community of game developers on the continent. He is an entrepreneur with 8+ years of experience in Technology, Branding and Community Building. He has co-founded 4 ...
09.01.2020 The Future of Infrastructure in Emerging Economies - Part 2 Part 2 of a 2 part miniseries on the topic of innovation in infrastructure in emerging economies. As a result of the twin crises in public health and the global economy, inequities in the current economic paradigm have been laid ...
08.25.2020 The Future of Infrastructure in Emerging Economies - Part 1 Part 1 of a 2 part miniseries on the topic of innovation in infrastructure in emerging economies. As a result of the twin crises in public health and the global economy, inequities in the current economic paradigm have been laid ...
08.18.2020 CRISPR technology in response to COVID-19 and beyond Franco Goytia is a serial entrepreneur; currently the CEO of Caspr Biotech, a startup he co-founded at the age of 23. Caspr is using Crispr technology to make better and more accessible molecular diagnostics solutions. Prior to this, at the ...
08.11.2020 Unpacking the emerging DeFi vertical within cryptocurrency with Akin Sawyerr Akin Sawyerr is the Strategy lead for Decred, where he leads strategy and governance functions, and supports the proliferation of Decred across Africa. Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with an system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain. ...
07.28.2020 The Startup Community Way with Ian Hathaway Ian Hathaway is co-author of the new book The Startup Community Way, on entrepreneurial ecosystems published in July 2020 and has published for prominent research institutions, universities, businesses, and periodicals. He is a frequent contributor for outlets such as the ...
07.21.2020 Google's $10B investment into India and the global data privacy war Bill Ottman is an American Internet entrepreneur and freedom of information activist based in New York City best known as the CEO and co-founder of Minds. Minds is a free and open source distributed social networking service that uses the ...
07.14.2020 Rise and fall of Luckin Coffee and Asia's next coffee unicorn Host Andrew Berkowitz breaks down the recent drama surrounding the rapid rise and fall of Chinese coffee startup Luckin Coffee from it's founding 3.5 years ago through it's widely successful IPO and eventual collapse on April 2, 2020 when Luckin ...
07.07.2020 Unpacking India's cryptocurrency regulatory drama with Ashish Singhal Ashish Singal is the Founder and CEO at CoinSwitch.co and Sequoia-backed CRUXPay, an open protocol simplifying the way people use crypto. It enables users to create a human readable CRUX ID which can be used to send and receive payment ...
07.01.2020 Global Tech Pulse Check: Who's growing and who's successfully raising - Part 2 In part 2 of our podcast mini-series we look at the investor perspective of the current state of the global seed and growth stage investing environment. Our 2 guests today include Sean O'Sullivan the Managing General Partner at SOSV, a ...
06.23.2020 Global Tech Pulse Check- Who's growing and who's successfully raising - Part 1 In part 1 of our 2 part mini-series we dive into 3 different sectors ranging from delivery startups to CRISPR-based diagnostics as well as 3 geographies including Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Argentina. Our 3 guests today include Syed Sair Ali, ...
06.23.2020 Global Tech Pulse Check: Who's growing and who's successfully raising - Part 1 In part 1 of our 2 part mini-series we dive into 3 different sectors ranging from delivery startups to CRISPR-based diagnostics as well as 3 geographies including Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Argentina. Our 3 guests today include Syed Sair Ali, ...
06.16.2020 Diving into Kuwait's Startup Ecosystem Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani is co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the GCC. He is also co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts e-commerce platform. Previously, Abdulaziz was ...
06.09.2020 Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and the Gulf Region's Startup Ecosystems Omar Christidis is the founder of CEO of ArabNet, a digital media venture with the goal of spearheading the Arab Web and Mobile movement, and encouraging its expansion worldwide, was founded by Omar Christidis in 2010. Born in Lebanon, Omar ...
06.02.2020 Building the Middle East's number 1 startup with Joy Ajlouny Joy Ajlouny co-founded Fetchr in 2015 , a Silicon Valley-backed tech company that was created to tackle the Middle East’s “no address” issue, which has been long been a hindrance to growth in emerging markets. She facilitated $52 million in ...
05.26.2020 A conversation with Chris Schroeder on emerging market innovation Christopher M. Schroeder is a Washington D.C. and New York City based entrepreneur and venture investor. He co-founded HealthCentral.com, one of the nation's largest social and content platforms in health and wellness, backed by Sequoia Capital, Polaris Ventures, The Carlyle ...
05.19.2020 A quick dive into the Egypt startup ecosystem Mr. Ahmed El Alfi is the Founder and Chairman of Sawari Ventures a Cairo-based venture capital firm. Established in 2010, the goal of Sawari is to help transform Egyptian and MENA region economies through the creation of high impact businesses. ...
05.12.2020 Bitcoin halving and a pulse check of the global blockchain ecosystem Erick Pinos is Americas Ecosystem Lead at Ontology, a high-performance public blockchain and distributed collaboration platform. In addition to his role at Ontology, Erick is President of the Blockchain Education Network (BEN) and a graduate of MIT, where he was ...
05.05.2020 Ecosystem Arabia - Navigating the MENA region's tech and innovation landscape Amir Hegazi is a lifelong entrepreneur, with over 20 years of startup, tech, e-commerce, and digital media experience. He is the Managing Partner of intoMENA Group, a consulting firm that helps international companies do business into the MENA region. Amir ...
04.28.2020 Call to Action: New Models and Ideas needed to create digital economy jobs in frontier markets Host Andrew Berkowitz shares his thoughts that changes need to be made in how we approach building startup and innovation industries in frontier markets. Some ideas to move us forward include Focus capacity building efforts on selling in-demand skills on ...
04.21.2020 Investing in Southeast Asia in times of Coronavirus with KK Fund's Koichi Saito Koichi Saito is the Founder and General Partner of KK Fund, leveraging his experience in the internet sector, finance expertise and investment experience at PE and VC fund. He previously worked at IMJ Investment Partners as Director and responsible for ...
04.14.2020 How building a Nigerian startup got Marek Zmyslowski on Interpol's Most Wanted List Marek Zmysłowski is a Polish-born entrepreneur and executive, focused on online businesses in Frontier and Emerging Markets. He co-founded Jumia Travel - Africa's Biggest Hotel Booking Portal listed on NYSE as part of Jumia Group and HotelOnline.co - a Travel ...
04.07.2020 COVID-19 Innovation Diaries: How Startup Ecosystems are mobilizing against the coronavirus CK Japheth is building The Innovation Village; Uganda’s launchpad for leading Innovators and entrepreneurs co-creating the future through the smart application of technology to unravel challenges and create unique solutions. He works with mission-oriented entrepreneurs to capture new value from ...
03.31.2020 The state of emerging market VC ecosystems with Alex Lazarow Alexandre (Alex) Lazarow has spent his career working at the intersection of investing, innovation, and economic development in the private, public, and social sectors. He is a venture capitalist with Cathay Innovation, a global firm that invests across Africa, Asia, ...
03.24.2020 How we can increase cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets with Yellowcard's Chris Maurice Chris Maurice is the CEO and co-founder of Yellow Card Financial. Chris started his freelance writing and SEO consulting career in high school, writing for more than 200 publications (including the former EOG.com and MovieTVTechGeeks.com) and optimizing over 140 websites ...
03.17.2020 Part 2 - State of the Ecosystem - North Africa, Middle East, & Sub-Saharan Africa with Andile Masuku Andile Masuku is a Zimbabwean broadcaster and entrepreneur based in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the executive producer of African Tech Roundup, much of his time is spent covering Africa’s emerging tech and innovation ecosystem. Andile speaks widely and advises high ...
03.10.2020 Part 1 of 2 - State of the Ecosystem - North Africa, Middle East, & Sub-Saharan Africa with Andile Masuku Andile Masuku is a Zimbabwean broadcaster and entrepreneur based in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the executive producer of African Tech Roundup, much of his time is spent covering Africa’s emerging tech and innovation ecosystem. Andile speaks widely and advises high ...
03.03.2020 Top 5 Asia-Pacific Startup Ecosystem Insights On this episode we dive into our top 5 episode that we've ever done with leaders in the Asia-Pacific startup ecosystems. Featured guests include William Bao Bean, Sajith Pai, Justin Hall, Rivers Corbett, Alicia Garabedian and Simon Cant.
02.25.2020 Creating a digital policy framework to cultivate frontier market startup economies Samia Melhem is a Lead Policy Officer in the World Bank's Transport and ICT Global Practice. She chairs the Digital Development Community of Practice and leads Global ICT's Transformation practice, as well as its Knowledge, Learning and Solutions functions. Her ...
02.18.2020 China's growing influence in the global startup ecosystem with Eric Olander Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Africa Project (CAP), an independent, non-partisan media initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China’s engagement in Africa. Eric is also the co-host of the weekly China in Africa podcast that is ...
02.11.2020 "Is 2020 the year of M&A for Nigerian Fintech?" with Odun Eweniyi Odunayo Eweniyi is Cofounder and COO of PiggyVest. She previously cofounded pushcv.com, one of the largest job sites in Africa with the largest database of prescreened candidates. In 2019 she was named one of Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Technology ...
02.04.2020 The Africa-India Digital Transformation Parallels Aubrey Hruby is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Africa Center. She is also co-founder of Insider and the Africa Expert Network (AXN), Co-host of the NewThink Podcast and an active investor in African start-ups. In her role at ...

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The Global Startup Movement - Startup Ecosystem Leaders, Global Entrepreneurship, and Emerging Market Innovation episodes:

Reversing the MENA brain drain

Increasing access to capital for MENA startups

Startups as a force for Israeli economic normalization

Female leadership in the Middle Eastern and African tech industries

Building the infrastructure of the MENA digital economy

Laying the foundation of the MENA startup ecosystem

The Ecosystem Arabia Mini-Series - Launching 01/05/2021

Is mutual credit the answer for emerging market SME financing?

Connecting Africa's SMEs to the Digital Economy

Unpacking opportunities and barriers to adoption in the Solar industry

The EU innovation ecosystem public procurement dilemma

The secret behind Israel's thriving startup ecosystem

The 5 Caribbean digital nomad visas

Decentralized commerce and the non-fungible token (NFT) boom

New Format Launch and Revisiting the Startup Ecosystem Series

Unpacking the Mongolian Startup Ecosystem

Diving into the Belgium and Benelux Startup Region

4 global opportunities COVID-19 tailwinds have accelerated

The state of Esports in Africa

The Future of Infrastructure in Emerging Economies - Part 2

The Future of Infrastructure in Emerging Economies - Part 1

CRISPR technology in response to COVID-19 and beyond

Unpacking the emerging DeFi vertical within cryptocurrency with Akin Sawyerr

The Startup Community Way with Ian Hathaway

Google's $10B investment into India and the global data privacy war

Rise and fall of Luckin Coffee and Asia's next coffee unicorn

Unpacking India's cryptocurrency regulatory drama with Ashish Singhal

Global Tech Pulse Check: Who's growing and who's successfully raising - Part 2

Global Tech Pulse Check- Who's growing and who's successfully raising - Part 1

Global Tech Pulse Check: Who's growing and who's successfully raising - Part 1

Diving into Kuwait's Startup Ecosystem

Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and the Gulf Region's Startup Ecosystems

Building the Middle East's number 1 startup with Joy Ajlouny

A conversation with Chris Schroeder on emerging market innovation

A quick dive into the Egypt startup ecosystem

Bitcoin halving and a pulse check of the global blockchain ecosystem

Ecosystem Arabia - Navigating the MENA region's tech and innovation landscape

Call to Action: New Models and Ideas needed to create digital economy jobs in frontier markets

Investing in Southeast Asia in times of Coronavirus with KK Fund's Koichi Saito

How building a Nigerian startup got Marek Zmyslowski on Interpol's Most Wanted List

COVID-19 Innovation Diaries: How Startup Ecosystems are mobilizing against the coronavirus

The state of emerging market VC ecosystems with Alex Lazarow

How we can increase cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets with Yellowcard's Chris Maurice

Part 2 - State of the Ecosystem - North Africa, Middle East, & Sub-Saharan Africa with Andile Masuku

Part 1 of 2 - State of the Ecosystem - North Africa, Middle East, & Sub-Saharan Africa with Andile Masuku

Top 5 Asia-Pacific Startup Ecosystem Insights

Creating a digital policy framework to cultivate frontier market startup economies

China's growing influence in the global startup ecosystem with Eric Olander

"Is 2020 the year of M&A for Nigerian Fintech?" with Odun Eweniyi

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