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Investor & Board Member
Sep 2023
An Arabic audiobook company founded in 2022, headquartered in the United States. It collaborates with community members, authors, and publishing houses to achieve the mission of spreading knowledge in the Arabic language.
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2021
emonovo.com is an Ed-Tech platform that supports MENA youth to pursue their educational journey around the world.
Co-Founder & Investor
Jan 2019
We curate and deliver organic, luxury, handmade products, by scouring the globe, in search of master craftsman from countries at war or forced displacement. Our artisan partners expand from Syria, Lebanon and Tunisia. We honor and nurture the sustainability of these products by preserving a heritage, while redefining them in a contemporary voice. We connect you to the artisan and their work, by telling their story, so you know where your product is coming from and how it was crafted.
Partner & Investor
May 2018
AYA Animations creates value-driven edutainment through animated series and educational kits that aim to help children build identities based on positive human ethics while inspiring them to take care of their environment and community. Content is available on the AYA Animations platform and distributed across global VOD channels and TV networks.
Our first project is the 2-D animated series "Aya and Yusuf" for young children aged 2-6, available in English and Arabic and soon to be released in other languages.
Visit our website to watch the first series of Aya and Yusuf!
www.ayayusuf.com
Founder & Investor
Oct 2016
edSeed is a crowdfunding social network connecting students with donors and mentors who support their higher education and journey to economic independence.
Founder & Investor
Jan 2012
BarakaBits is a fast-growing, digitally-native media outlet, reporting the best of “Good News from the Middle East”. It launched in February 2014, and since June traffic has doubled every month. The English and Arabic articles are known as “Bits” and are published on language-specific sites. BarakaBits’ content builds bridges between MENA and the international community, as well as inspires and empowers MENA-region youth. For live streams of content, follow www.facebook.com/barakabits and Twitter (@BarakaBits).
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2025
President
Jun 2025
Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation, is a global hub for deep tech with impact—with a vision to create a future where technology and science positively impact humanity and the natural world. Through our programs, partners, campus, and impact reach, we convene founders, operators, and investors to grow disruptive science and technology companies, and nurture these companies to achieve outlier impact and financial returns.
For more information, please visit the QSTP website at www.qstp.qa.
2023
Investor & Board Member
Sep 2023
An Arabic audiobook company founded in 2022, headquartered in the United States. It collaborates with community members, authors, and publishing houses to achieve the mission of spreading knowledge in the Arabic language.
2021
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2021
emonovo.com is an Ed-Tech platform that supports MENA youth to pursue their educational journey around the world.
2020
General Partner
Oct 2020
A minority owned venture studio, advisory and VC investment firm. We are based in San Francisco, and identify early, overlooked or dismissed talent from outside Silicon Valley, with special attention to Black, female and Middle Eastern founders and help them crack Silicon Valley in weeks instead of months or years on their own.
We like to back resilient, ambitious driven founders who are building technology startups that are truly defensible, which we define as having deep technology moats with strong network effects. The ingredients for building truly transformative companies that can impact billions!
Founders are welcome to reach out to us anytime here https://transform.vc/founders/
2019
Co-Founder & Investor
Jan 2019
We curate and deliver organic, luxury, handmade products, by scouring the globe, in search of master craftsman from countries at war or forced displacement. Our artisan partners expand from Syria, Lebanon and Tunisia. We honor and nurture the sustainability of these products by preserving a heritage, while redefining them in a contemporary voice. We connect you to the artisan and their work, by telling their story, so you know where your product is coming from and how it was crafted.
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