Name: Closing the Round and Beyond: Learnings and Fundraising Strategies for Growth
Start: 2024-02-26T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-02-26T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Virtual

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Closing the Round and Beyond: Learnings and Fundraising Strategies for Growth

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How did founders go about fundraising, and what's next after closing the round? Find out in our upcoming webinar: Closing the Round and Beyond: Learnings and Fundraising Strategies for Growth.

Delve into the enriching insights of Nour Taher, CEO and Co-Founder at Intella, Mohamed Younes, CEO and Co-Founder at Khazenly, along with Amal Enan, Partner at 500 Global MENA.

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Discover why startups in emerging markets, especially in Egypt and the broader MENA region, are capturing investors’ attention and learn how investors evaluate these unique opportunities.

In this online session, you will be hearing from investors with diverse backgrounds, including:

Amal Enan, Partner at 500 Global MENA,
Monica Brand Engel, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Quona Capital
Allen Taylor, Managing Partner at Endeavor
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What you’ll learn:

- Strategies and tactics used by founders who have secured funding

- Practical tips for nurturing investor relationships throughout the fundraising journey
- Effective storytelling approaches and narrative structures for communicating your startup's vision to key stakeholders
- Key insights into post-fundraising execution strategies and how to adapt priorities for sustainable growth

Speakers

Nour Taher

CEO and Co-Founder at Intella

Nour Taher graduated with honors from Western University, double majoring in
Business Management and Psychology. She embarked on her career in the banking
sector, driving digital transformation initiatives before immersing herself in the dynamic
startup realm. As the former Director of Business Development and Revenue at MENA's largest health tech startup, she refined her skills in scaling innovative solutions. Today, as the CEO of Intella, Nour is passionately committed to bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI and the Arab world, making transformative technology accessible to all.

Mohamed Younes CEO and Co-Founder at Khazenly

Mohamed Younes, CO-founder and CEO of Khazenly comes With 15+ years of experience in Sales, Marketing and Commercial roles in different technologies including Cloud Solutions, Al and Infrastructure across multiple industries such as Telco and Banking at several Multinational companies such as IBM & Huawei. This is allowing him to lead with hands-on experience on how to build and grow Khazenly.

Amal Enan

Partner at 500 Global MENA

Amal Enan is a Partner at 500 Global, a multi stage venture fund investing in the world’s potential. Amal advises the American University in Cairo as the Chief Investment Officer of the Endowment and was the former Senior Advisor on COP27 to the World Resources Institute. Amal founded The Lotus Collective, an organization supporting access to finance for women and climate solutions for sustainable & inclusive growth.

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Ezzeddin Zahzah

Program Director at 500 Global in Egypt

Former Management Consultant and Serial-Entrepreneur, skilled at "getting-it-done", obsessed with efficiency, but hung up on effectiveness-first! Ezzeddin’s 12+ years of corporate experience include tenures at the Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), Unilever, Schlumberger, and Strategy& (formerly known as Booz Allen Hamilton). His 8+ years entrepreneurial journey span across the Health & Fitness, Food & Beverage, and Legal-tech industries.

Program Overview

The 500 Global Seed Bootcamp in Egypt, offered in collaboration with the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), is a focus-driven 5-day immersive program designed to help pre-seed / seed-stage startups in Egypt uncover deeper insights, gain clarity and develop an effective action plan to address specific areas of your company by working directly with global mentors across different areas of expertise through hands-on workshops and 1:1 mentoring sessions.

Participating founders will have the opportunity to connect with 500’s local and global communities of founders, investors, and global mentors from all backgrounds who are committed to shaping the future through technology and entrepreneurship.

If you are an ambitious founder who is looking for effective ways to take your company to the next level, apply now to join this 5-day immersive program that’s inspiring, practical, and rewarding!

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Speakers

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500 Global Egypt

Amal Enan

Amal Enan is a Partner at 500 Global, a multi stage venture fund investing in the world’s potential. Amal advises the American University in Cairo as the Chief Investment Officer of the Endowment and was the former Senior Advisor on COP27 to the World Resources Institute. Amal founded The Lotus Collective, an organization supporting access to finance for women and climate solutions for sustainable & inclusive growth.

At 500 Global, Amal leads the firm’s early stage investments in Egypt in high growth sectors including healthtech, fintech and Saas in addition to managing the wider Egypt programs and building the team. Amal was the former Executive Director of the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund “EAEF”.

Co-founder and Managing Partner

Quona Capital

Monica Brand Engel

Monica Brand Engel is co-founder and Managing Partner at Quona Capital – a venture firm focused on fintech for inclusion in emerging markets.

Monica is an entrepreneur and investor, having launched various funds and products aimed at broadening financial inclusion. At Quona, she leads Africa, MENA and Cross-Border investment strategy. Backed by institutional investors, Quona manages over $750M of assets across a portfolio of pioneering venture funds focused on financial technology for impact.

Monica started in Silicon Valley, where she helped launch a $50 million multi-bank lending intermediary to finance small businesses. Monica also worked at Calvert Ventures and Anthuri Ventures – early stage equity vehicles based in Bethesda and Cape Town, respectively. While living in S Africa, Monica founded Anthuri Catalysts to prepare early stage companies for investment. Monica then was recruited by Accion to set up a product innovation group and worked in Mexico with Gentera (née Compartamos) Bank, the largest microfinance institution in Latin America – which went public in 2007 (NSDQ: GENTERA:MM). Using the IPO proceeds, Monica founded Accion’s Frontier Investments Group, the predecessor to Quona Capital.

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Monica Brand Engel, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Quona Capital, who has launched funds and products aimed at broadening financial inclusion globally. Engel (neé Brand) spent her formative years in Silicon Valley, launching and building alternative financing companies targeted at near-bankable businesses. Longing to apply lessons learned in emerging markets, she moved to S Africa after graduating Stanford business school, to work in venture capital (with Anthuri) in a nascent ecosystem. From Cape Town, Engel was recruited by Accion as Head of Product + Innovation, to launch new financial services to underserved businesses and consumers globally – including an extended stint in Mexico with Compartamos (re-branded Gentera Bank following its IPO in 2007). This IPO provided the funds and the mandate to launch Accion’s Frontier Investments – its first fintech for inclusion fund and the predecessor to the launch of Quona Capital.

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