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Abdelhameed Sharara

Founder and CEO, RiseUp

📍 Egypt, Egypt🔄 Updated November 2026💼 5 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
Operator-angel🌍 Egypt
5
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2
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1
Mid stage
0
Late stage
12y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Apr 2024
Authentic living experiences crafted by the next generation community makers, People & Places.
Board Member
Dec 2016
Doodle Factory is an Egyptian design centric brand that inclusively empowers children in need by enabling them to take part in bettering their own lives. Through utilizing the children′s creativity, Doodle Factory designs products which fund for the medical, educational and shelter needs of the children.
Board Member
Jan 2016
The Digital Freedom Festival is a boutique, yet influential signature event. Around a thousand participants will gather in Riga, Latvia on November 27th and 28th to discuss the latest trends and discoveries in digital technologies, as well as their impact on startups and corporations, policymaking, and modern lifestyles. Our event is more than just a startup conference. It is a multi-event meeting platform, which takes a special interest in uniting the world of technology. We encourage debate on how technologies can truly “make the world a better place”, creating greater digital dividends for everyone. The Festival offers inspirational speeches, challenging discussions, workshops and networking opportunities for everyone: startups pitch their ideas and showcase their products; investors matchmake with startups and corporates; policymakers look for gains from digital transformations; corporates seek synergies and spinoffs with startups; students and teachers thrive on inspiration. Join the DFF to challenge the status quo, to co-create and to celebrate digital culture.
early stageThink Tanks
Member of the Board
Jul 2014
Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC). The Center’s mission is to adopt a holistic strategy framework for driving innovation and entrepreneurship through concrete steps. TIEC’s mandates are to drive innovation-based exports and product commercialization, and to grow the ICT sector through incubating entrepreneurship, combined with early stage and venture financing
Experience · 7 entries
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2024
Board Member
Apr 2024
Authentic living experiences crafted by the next generation community makers, People & Places.
2023
Board Member
Nov 2023
INJAZ Egypt delivers experiential learning in financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship, effectively enriching the ability of young Egyptians to both engage in their own economic development and contribute to the strength of their communities and economies. INJAZ has been working in Egypt for more than a decade to promote the skills of employability and entrepreneurship among Egypt’s unemployed youth. Partnering with business and educational institutions, INJAZ supplements public school curricula with programs designed to build the capacity and realize the potential of students and young graduates. INJAZ Egypt is a member nation of more than 100-country Junior Achievement (JA) network; the world’s largest and fastest growing organization specializing in economic education, powered by over 450,000 volunteers and mentors from all sectors of society, reaching more than 10 million young people around the world every year. INJAZ Egypt is also part of the regional network INJAZ Al-Arab, which harnesses the mentorship of Arab business leaders to help inspire a culture of entrepreneurialism and business innovation among Arab youth throughout 14 countries in the MENA region. عن مؤسسة انجاز مصر تقوم مؤسسة «إنجاز مصر» بتقديم فرص التعليم التشاركي في مجال الثقافة المالية والاستعدادية للعمل وريادة الأعمال، مما يؤثر بدوره تأثيراً إيجابياً فعالا في قدرة الشباب على الإنخراط في تحقيق نموهم الإقتصادي، والمساهمة في تعزيز مجتمعاتهم وإقتصادياتهم. ولقد قامت مؤسسة «إنجاز مصر» بممارسة نشاطها لفترة تجاوزت أكثر من عشرة أعوام، بهدف دعم مهارات التوظيف وريادة ا عمال بين شباب مصر الذين يعانون من مشكلة البطالة المزمنة، وذلك عن طريق الشراكة مع المؤسسات التعليمية ومؤسسات الأعمال في جميع أنحاء البلا د. كما تقوم «إنجاز مصر» بتزويد مناهج المدارس ببعض البرامج التي تم تصميمها خصيصاً لبناء القدرات وتحقيق إمكانيات الطلاب وشباب الخريجين. تمثل مؤسسة «إنجاز مصر» العضو الاكبر في الشبكة الإقليمية «إنجاز العرب» التي تقوم بإرشاد قادة رجال وسيدات أعمال العرب بشأن تحفيز ثقافة ريادة الأعمال والإبتكار لدى الشباب العربي في 14 دولة في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا، والتي تعتبر المركز الإقليمي لمؤسسة «جونيور أتشيفمنت العالمية » Junior Achievement Worldwide بصفتها أكبر مؤسسة متخصصة في التعليم الإقتصادي في العالم وأكثرها نمواً. كما يغطي العمل في شبكة «جونيور أتشيفمنت العالمية» اكثر من 100 دولة، مدعومة من اكثر من 450,000 متطوع ومستشار قادمين من مختلف قطاعات المجتمع، وتصل خدماتها إلى أكثر من 10 مليون طالب.
2016
Board Member
Dec 2016
Doodle Factory is an Egyptian design centric brand that inclusively empowers children in need by enabling them to take part in bettering their own lives. Through utilizing the children′s creativity, Doodle Factory designs products which fund for the medical, educational and shelter needs of the children.
Board Member
Jan 2016
The Digital Freedom Festival is a boutique, yet influential signature event. Around a thousand participants will gather in Riga, Latvia on November 27th and 28th to discuss the latest trends and discoveries in digital technologies, as well as their impact on startups and corporations, policymaking, and modern lifestyles. Our event is more than just a startup conference. It is a multi-event meeting platform, which takes a special interest in uniting the world of technology. We encourage debate on how technologies can truly “make the world a better place”, creating greater digital dividends for everyone. The Festival offers inspirational speeches, challenging discussions, workshops and networking opportunities for everyone: startups pitch their ideas and showcase their products; investors matchmake with startups and corporates; policymakers look for gains from digital transformations; corporates seek synergies and spinoffs with startups; students and teachers thrive on inspiration. Join the DFF to challenge the status quo, to co-create and to celebrate digital culture.
early stageThink Tanks
2014
Member of the Board
Jul 2014
Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC). The Center’s mission is to adopt a holistic strategy framework for driving innovation and entrepreneurship through concrete steps. TIEC’s mandates are to drive innovation-based exports and product commercialization, and to grow the ICT sector through incubating entrepreneurship, combined with early stage and venture financing
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