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Aalia Mehreen Ahmed is the Senior Features Editor at Entrepreneur Middle East.
She is an MBA (Finance) graduate with past experience in the corporate sector. Ahmed is particularly keen on writing stories about people-centric leadership, female-owned startups, and entrepreneurs who've beaten significant odds to realize their goals.
In her role as Features Editor, she has interviewed the likes of Dr. Jane Goodall, Sania Mirza, KL Rahul, and Najwa Zebian.
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Startup Spotlight: Abu Dhabi-Based MDBX Health Offers A One-Stop-Shop For Effective Chronic Disease Management
The two main components of MDBX Health are the MDBX Smart Pharmacy and the MDBX Digital Platform.
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Saudi Arabia-Based Thmanyah’s New Focus On Content Creators Strengthens Its Mission To Reimagine Arabic Media
Thmanyah's move comes at a time when content creation in the Middle East is not just receiving high consumer demands, but also regional government support.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Faceki Is On A Mission To Ensure Effective And Easier Online Customer Fraud Prevention
"The remarkable aspect of Faceki is that it doesn't burden users with any additional actions, such as smiling, blinking, or turning their heads during onboarding."
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Startup Spotlight: US-Headquartered MayaMD Is Introducing Pathways To Eradicate Inefficiencies Within The UAE’s Digital Healthcare
With the ability to process 8,000 clinical conditions in less than two minutes with more than 90% accuracy, the MayaMD platform aims to help healthcare providers better manage their patients with personalized care programs and engagement solutions.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Below Farm’s Locally Cultivated Mushrooms Aid The Country’s Circular Economy Goals
Produced with no pesticides or fertilizers, Below Farm uses fully automated controlled environment systems, adopting an indoor vertical farming technique that requires minimal space, and can be set up anywhere, effectively negating the need for arable land.
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Leveling The Playing Field: Aziz Gamil, Co-Founder And CEO, Santra
UAE-based online marketplace Santra is helping home-based businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive in an ever-growing food industry.
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“We Got Funded!” UAE-Based Silkhaus Raises Undisclosed Multi-Million-Dollar Pre-Series A Round As It Doubles Down On Expansion Plans
Silkhaus' tech-driven platform promises asset owners an income that is 20-40% more than what can be earned via traditional rental models.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Hekayati Is Introducing More Diversity In Children’s Stories With Its Personalized Books Platform
"Hekayati aims to solve the challenge of disengagement from traditional storytelling methods that are stereotypical."
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Startup Spotlight: Abu Dhabi-Based Hulexo Is Here To Reduce Operational Bottlenecks For Small Businesses
At its core, the startup aims to address the many shortcomings of traditional ERP systems.
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“We Got Funded!” KSA-Based Healthtech Startup Clinicy Raises An Undisclosed Seven-Figure Series A Round
By creating a more coherent ecosystem, the Clinicy team believes that their startup could create a more digitally agile medical industry within the Kingdom.
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DriveArabia Founder Mashfique Chowdhury On How An Unwavering Commitment to Integrity and Honesty Has Led To His Enterprise’s 20th Anniversary
"Earning a reputation in the automotive industry has certainly been the hardest part of this journey, but it eventually came once DriveArabia's audience numbers grew organically."
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based InvoiceMate Seeks To Ease SME Access To Financial Support
Through its e-invoicing option, InvoiceMate enables SMEs to send, receive, and manage invoices from mobile or desktop platforms, and it also offers a complete invoice management system with bookkeeping.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Unipreneur Is Empowering The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs And Innovators In The Country
Unipreneur was built using the triple helix model of innovation- a business concept that involves collaboration between universities, governments, and businesses.
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“We Got Funded!” KSA-Based Soum Raises US$18 Million In A Series A Round Led By Foodtech Unicorn Jahez
Soum has already achieved four million downloads within Saudi Arabia and is already seeing traction in the UAE.
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Entrepreneur Middle East’s Achieving Women 2023: Kate Wooyeon Park, Founder, Lamise Beauty
Park realized that there was an opportunity to bring Korean skincare to the UAE in a way that blends perfectly with Emirati culture, and it's a notion that she has stuck to as she set up and built Lamise Beauty.
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Entrepreneur Middle East’s Achieving Women 2023: Rita Huang, Founder And CEO, iMile
Over six years since founding iMile, Huang continues to place creating a sense of purpose and human impact as central to her vision for her business.
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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Pulse Is Aiding Early Detection Of Civil Infrastructure Deterioration Using Advanced Tech
Pulse's aim is therefore to deploy locally manufactured sensors that can optimize the maintenance of civil structures, as well as maximize their service life.
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Competitive Advantage: UAE-Based Nybl Wants To Democratize Access To Artificial Intelligence
nybl deploys, maintains, and manages systems that address data sovereignty, data residency, and technological sovereignty.
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Entrepreneur Middle East’s Achieving Women 2023: Enrichly Founder Margo Jordan
"Self-esteem is a muscle that needs to be worked out every single day, and Enrichly would be considered the gym for that muscle to be worked out."
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Startup Spotlight: HealthStay Aims To Tap Into The UAE’s Burgeoning Medical Tourism Industry
With medical tourism only set to grow in Dubai and the UAE, a new startup, HealthStay, is now hoping to become the link between medical tourists with healthcare providers here.
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Revamped And Ready: SANDBOX, Dubai’s Only Venture-Backed Startup Investment Program, Welcomes Applications For Its Fourth Cohort
As SANDBOX gets set to welcome its fourth cohort, the accelerator run by Dubai Integrated Economic Zones now has the support of Oraseya Capital, making it Dubai's only venture capital-backed startup investment program.
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Redefining Value: Mark Nutter, Founder And Chairman, Yomly
As Emirates HR officially rebrands itself to Yomly, founder and Chairman Mark Nutter is getting set for his UAE-based enterprise to take on global markets.
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Future Focused: Naveen Bhardwaj, Group CEO, Trescon
Bharadwaj is leading his enterprise into newer business realms by leveraging the opportunities offered by emerging technologies.
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Unlocking Success: Ayaz Afandi, Managing Partner, Novum Information Technologies
Ayaz Afandi, Managing Partner, Novum Information Technologies, discusses how his startup's move from Azerbaijan to Dubai has laid the groundwork for its international expansion.
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“We Got Funded!” Takadao’s US$1.6 Million Pre-Seed Round Marks Tim Draper’s First Investment In A Saudi-Based Startup
"Takadao is one of those companies that you don't know quite where it's going to go, but if it succeeds, it's going to be really impactful and make a big difference in the world and this is a world that I want to live in," Draper says.
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Abdulla Al Kamda Hopes To Revamp The Customer Rewards Model With The Launch Of His UAE-Based Cash Back Platform Homie
Set to be launched in the final quarter of 2023, Homie offers consumers the opportunity to earn cash back every time they pay a merchant affiliated with the brand.
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Beyond Boundaries: Ethiopia-Headquartered Gebeya Is Making Its Way To Dubai With A Renewed Sense Of Purpose
In a world where virtual hiring has become something of a norm, and online talent hiring options are plenty, Gebeya Dubai sets itself apart with the promise of solely offering African tech talents that are vetted for.
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KSA-Based HR Tech Platform Jisr Raises US$30 Million In The Middle East’s Largest Series A Round For A SaaS Firm
Launched in 2016, Jisr has ensured that over 3,000 clients have combined all their HR operations into its singular HR tech platform.
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PepsiCo Middle East CEO Aamer Sheikh Sounds Off On The Six Finalists Of The 2023 Greenhouse Accelerator Program: MENA Sustainability Edition
As part of its commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040 and net water positive by 2030, PepsiCo Middle East's Greenhouse Accelerator Program aims to drive tangible change at scale.
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