FWDstart
- Business · Entrepreneurship, Investing
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About
The FWDstart Podcast is a weekly show at the intersection of venture capital, startups, and strategic industries shaping the MENA region. Each episode features candid conversations with founders, investors, and operators behind the region’s most ambitious companies, from frontier AI and fintech infrastructure to climate tech, construction, energy, and space.
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Recent episodes
- Fixing the business of healthcare, with HealthStay’s Seán Conaty and Ruairí Tubrid
- How to raise a fund in the Gulf, with Stride’s Fariha Ansari Javed
- Shorooq’s Shane Shin on Why Gulf Startups Still Struggle to Exit, Picking Founders and Building the Blackstone of the Middle East
- SPICE's Zeid Husban on Shaking Up Saudi Dining and Building His Third Startup
- Stride Ventures’ Ishpreet Singh Gandhi on $1B in Credit, Equity Dilution and Expanding to the Gulf
- COLABS’ Omar Shah on Saudi, Coworking Economics and Building Across the GCC
- How to Raise a Seed Round in MENA: MilkStraw's Jawad Shreim and Orbii's Nauman Ali on FOMO, Term Sheets and Choosing VCs
- Quiqup’s Bassel El Koussa on Raising $65M, Surviving Uber and Rebuilding in Dubai
- Bayzat’s Talal Bayaa on Raising $55M, Running Out of Runway and the Pressure to Deliver an Exit
- Bayt’s Rabea Ataya on 26 Years of Building and Why the Old MENA Startup Playbook No Longer Works
