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Senior Features Editor, Entrepreneur Middle East

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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 Verofax’s Traceability-As-A-Service Solution Is Helping Digitally Transform Brands In The UAE

In the time that has passed since its launch, Verofax has seen its operations extend to other areas of the world such as the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, Africa, and North America.

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Healthcare Stakeholders Come Together To Lay The Groundwork For The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention’s Innovation Strategy For 2023-26

The Shift brought together multiple stakeholders from across the UAE healthcare ecosystem to discuss how the country can cement its position as having one of the world's best healthcare sectors.

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Startup Spotlight: Canada-Based WeavAir’s Solution Can Measure Multiple Air Purity Metrics For Air Distribution Systems (And It’s Making Its Way To The UAE)

WeavAir's end-to-end business intelligence solutions -which are energy efficient and run on low carbon- help prevent the spread of air contamination and infection for air distribution systems.

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Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based 3D Printing Startup Sinterex Is Solving Supply Chain Mismanagement Issues For UAE Companies

Sinterex offers mission critical parts across a spectrum of sectors including dental, medical, as well as the oil and gas industries

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Startup Spotlight: Lebanon-Headquartered Mruna Is Bringing Its Urban Resilience Solutions To The UAE

Mruna's most significant offering is BiomWeb, a decentralized nature-based wastewater treatment system, that operates using the design philosophy that "there is no waste in nature."

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Behind The Scenes Of Saudi Fintech Startup Hala’s Acquisition Of UAE-Based Online Payment Platform Paymennt

Paymennt co-founder Tarek Ghobar believes his entreprise is well-positioned to contribute towards Hala's vision of becoming a one-stop-shop for SMEs.

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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Platform SkillPlay Offers Students A Gamified Approach To Find Jobs And Internships

In a bid to help students finetune their skills to match that of their preferred companies, the app enables users to engage with and research about different companies.

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The Power Of Pause: Youmna Khoury, Founder, Youmi Beauty

How a two-year-long hiatus allowed Youmna Khoury to reimagine her enterprise, Youmi Beauty- and make it a bigger success than it was before.

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A Template For Success: Sheikha Alanoud Bint Hamad Al-Thani, Deputy CEO And Chief Business Officer, Qatar Financial Centre

Through her endeavors at Qatar Financial Centre, Al-Thani is pushing for greater gender inclusivity and youth empowerment

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Saudi Arabia’s Wa’ed Ventures Invests In Paris-Based Pasqal And Tokyo-Based Terra Drone As Part Of Its New Global Agenda

Wa'ed Ventures leading a US$14 million bridge round for Japanese startup Terra Drone is part of its agenda to invest in global companies.

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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Healthcare Fintech Klaim Focuses On Maintaining The Human Touch As It Continues To Expand Across The GCC

By eradicating working capital woes for medical providers, Klaim works towards creating a more seamless healthcare ecosystem.

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US-Based Startup Spike Enters The UAE To Offer Healthcare Providers Better Access To Data From Wearable Tech

Built as an application program interface that can access all major wearable and internet of things providers, Spike's platform helps medical providers gain access to an exhaustive user information database based on biomarkers.

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Startup Spotlight: Tunis-Born Reedz’s Arabic Audiobook Platform Caters To A Growing Need For Condensed Content

Currently built as a freemium model that allows users to access some of the audiobooks, podcasts, and other content on the app, Reedz's premium version gives unlimited access to the entire library.

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UAE-Based Shapes Defined Is Redefining The Scope Of Visual Content For E-Commerce Businesses In The GCC

With product photography that leverage the best of contemporary photography software, and time-saving operational model, Shapes Defined is helping e-commerce businesses with their visual branding.

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Startup Spotlight: Saudi Arabia-Based Uvera Is Here To Rid You Of Your Food Spoilage Woes

Uvera's main product, Aurora, is a next-generation artificial intelligence of things device that can increase the shelf-life of fresh food up to 97% on average, within only 30 seconds and without using any chemicals.

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Startup Spotlight: TxPay Is On A Mission To Enable Easy Web3 Payments In The UAE (And The Rest Of The World)

txPay aims to be committed to developing fintech solutions that enable direct credit card and/or fiat money payment towards any kind of smart contract.

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Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Sav Is Helping UAE Residents Take Better Control Of Their Savings And Spendings

Sav is a hyper-personalized money management app that enables users to achieve goals-based savings.

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Entrepreneur Middle East’s Achieving Women 2022: Abbey Dean, Co-Founder, Bliss Flower Boutique

The New Zealand native has been running the homegrown UAE brand Bliss since 2008, when Dean's decision to become an entrepreneur was sparked by her love and passion for all things floral.

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Entrepreneur Middle East’s Achieving Women 2022: H.E. Alia Al Mazrouei, CEO, Khalifa Fund For Enterprise Development

A big part of Al Mazrouei's vision at KFED is also to align with the UAE's march towards gender equity, whose progress she has seen first-hand as an Emirati businesswoman.

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US-Based Celesta Capital Partners With Top Government Entities In Oman In A Bid To Grow The Nation’s Technology Ecosystem

As a global venture capital firm moving into Oman, Viswanathan believes Celesta Capital will be able to widen the reach of existing business opportunities within the Sultanate while also introducing new ones.

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Saleh Al-Afaliq’s Team-Centric Leadership Takes Saudi Arabia-Based Tamweel Aloula To Greater Heights

"We will continue in the digital path and develop more digital products and services as we aspire to be our customers first choice."

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Straight From The Source: Entrepreneurs, Here’s How Investors At LEAP 2023 Suggest You Should Pitch To Them

From ensuring that your conversation is to the point, to doing your homework on the investors you're interested in approaching, here's what five investors attending LEAP 2023 had to share.

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Weaving Sustainability Into Healthcare: Naam Jamshed, Head of Government Affairs and Policy EMEA – Emerging Markets, Johnson and Johnson

Jamshed believes the adoption of value-based healthcare services will benefit the sustainability of multiple healthcare ecosystem stakeholders.

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“We Got Funded!” UAE-Based Baraka’s US$20 Million Series A Round Marks Peter Thiel-Backed Valar Ventures’ First Middle East Investment

In addition to introducing features such as dividend reinvestment plans and extended hours trading, Baraka will also use the new capital to create access to local stock exchanges.

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With An Initial Investment of US$5 Million, Dubai-Based Knuru Capital Commits $30 Million In Funds For Dubai-Based Healthcare Fintech Startup Klaim

With hopes to scale its services across the UAE and introduce new features, Klaim is also looking to move into the B2C market.

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UAE-Based Tech Startup Alfii Launches With A Private Beta Program Aimed At Solving HR Issues For Small Businesses

By adopting a human approach to its operations, Alfii is on a mission to negate the many mundane and repetitive tasks that largely contribute to the inefficiencies of HR teams across the region.

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By Launching KitchenomiKs, Aankush Bhatia Is Using Over 25 Years Of Experience In F&B To Reimagine Oman’s Food Delivery Sector

The foodtech and cloud kitchen enterprise offers restaurants and food brands the opportunity to scale (without any capital investments) through turnkey delivery solutions that help with the preparation, distribution, and expansion of food concepts.

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Breaking Norms: How Joseph Achajian’s Lebanon-Based Menswear Brand Maison Du Mec Is Carving A Niche Of Its Own

"Our overriding compulsion at Maison du Mec is to exist as a comprehensive reference, rather than a mere fashion brand concerned with seasonal trends and ephemeral fads."

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UAE-Based Online Marketplace POPC Is Helping Independent Pop Culture Artists Showcase Their Work Year-Round

POPC provides artists with their own storefront and unique metalink that they can easily share across their online communities, giving them the opportunity to sell their work 365 days a year.

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Kuwait-Based KLC Virtual Restaurants Makes A Successful Entry Into Qatar Just As The Country Gets Set To Host FIFA World Cup 2022

With the opening of three virtual kitchens in 2022 already, and a fourth one slated for the first quarter of 2023, KLC Virtual Restaurants is on a mission to capitalize on an untapped online food delivery space in Qatar.

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Startup Spotlight: Abu Dhabi-Based Verofax’s Traceability-As-A-Service Solution Is Helping Digitally Transform Brands In The UAE

Healthcare Stakeholders Come Together To Lay The Groundwork For The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention’s Innovation Strategy For 2023-26

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Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based 3D Printing Startup Sinterex Is Solving Supply Chain Mismanagement Issues For UAE Companies

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The Power Of Pause: Youmna Khoury, Founder, Youmi Beauty

A Template For Success: Sheikha Alanoud Bint Hamad Al-Thani, Deputy CEO And Chief Business Officer, Qatar Financial Centre

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Startup Spotlight: TxPay Is On A Mission To Enable Easy Web3 Payments In The UAE (And The Rest Of The World)

Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Sav Is Helping UAE Residents Take Better Control Of Their Savings And Spendings

Entrepreneur Middle East’s Achieving Women 2022: Abbey Dean, Co-Founder, Bliss Flower Boutique

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US-Based Celesta Capital Partners With Top Government Entities In Oman In A Bid To Grow The Nation’s Technology Ecosystem

Saleh Al-Afaliq’s Team-Centric Leadership Takes Saudi Arabia-Based Tamweel Aloula To Greater Heights

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“We Got Funded!” UAE-Based Baraka’s US$20 Million Series A Round Marks Peter Thiel-Backed Valar Ventures’ First Middle East Investment

With An Initial Investment of US$5 Million, Dubai-Based Knuru Capital Commits $30 Million In Funds For Dubai-Based Healthcare Fintech Startup Klaim

UAE-Based Tech Startup Alfii Launches With A Private Beta Program Aimed At Solving HR Issues For Small Businesses

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