Bayanat Podcast: Inside MENA Tech

Bayanat Podcast: Inside MENA Tech

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Building MaxAB From a WhatsApp Group to Africa's Largest B2B Platform

In this Founder's Hustle episode, Omar Elghazaly, Co-founder and CFO of MaxAB, shares how he helped build Africa’s largest B2B e-commerce and fintech platform. From starting with a simple WhatsApp group to transforming fragmented supply chains across the continent, Omar unpacks t ...  Show more

Inside Araya Ventures’ Vision for Expanding Into MENA

In this Industry Voices episode, Kamyaar Butt,, Investment Lead for GCC & US at Araya Ventures, shares Araya’s vision for expanding across MENA, what continues to attract the firm to the region, and why founder resilience, ambition, and local context are becoming defining advanta ...  Show more

Telecom, the Internet, AI, and the Future of Humanity

In this Industry Voices episode, Osman Sultan, founding CEO of du and Mobinil, takes us across a career at the forefront of telecom, the internet, and now AI. From betting early on mass mobile adoption to rethinking telecom as a layer that “adds life to life,” Osman unpacks the s ...  Show more

Venture Capital Through an Operator’s Lens

In this Industry Voices episode, ⁠Waleed Abdel Shafy, investor at RAED Ventures⁠, shares his journey from operator to venture capitalist. From leading a retail turnaround and building ventures across healthcare and e-commerce to scaling tech platforms across markets, Waleed unpac ...  Show more

Building the Intelligence System for Restaurants

In this Founder's Hustle episode, ⁠Dani El Zein⁠, Co-founder & CEO at ⁠Supy⁠, takes us inside the journey of building a restaurant intelligence platform from scratch. From his pivot out of investment banking to launching Supy from a real problem he faced as a restaurant owner, Da ...  Show more