Gaelle Yammine

Rain is a cryptocurrency brokerage and custodian servicing the Middle East, Turkey, and North Africa.

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative technology companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East Region with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With offices in Dubai, Beirut, Cairo, Bahrain, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and more than USD 300 million in Assets Under Management, MEVP is one of the largest and most established VC firm in this region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

The Founder Institute is the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator. We help you get to traction and funding with a support network of startup experts that are invested in your success, and through a structured business-building process that has helped our alumni raise over $800M. Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing companies have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 180+ cities and 65+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to empower talented and motivated people to build impactful technology-enabled companies worldwide. Learn more at http://fi.co.

Rain is a cryptocurrency brokerage and custodian servicing the Middle East, Turkey, and North Africa.

Village Capital is reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Known for its groundbreaking approaches to supporting founders who are building solutions to emergent social, economic, and environmental challenges, VilCap unlocks critical social and financial capital for early-stage companies to maximize business and impact growth. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported over 1,400 startups that have raised over $5 billion in investment capital. It has made more than 150 investments through its various affiliated funds, including Vilcap Investments, which has invested in 110 peer-selected companies. Over 20,000 entrepreneurs have improved their investment readiness through its network of entrepreneur support organizations and its platform, Abaca.

The Olayan Group is a global enterprise with its origins in Saudi Arabia. As a private concern with single-family ownership, we have a multigenerational outlook and enduring partnerships. Our actively managed multinational business invests across listed equities, private equity, debt, and real estate. While our international parent company is based in Vaduz, the Group also has offices in New York, London, Luxembourg, Athens, and Singapore. The parent company for the business and investments in the broader Middle East is based in Riyadh.