Mentorship

A government agency that encourages businesses and investments at supporting and enhancing the growth of micro and small business (MSEs). It works with local government officials in targeted areas to help them attract investment to their communities and facilitate growth. It fosters better access to finance, encourages better MSE access to finance by working with developmental and micro-finance institutions to improve their service offerings to firms and individuals, as well as helping more MSEs become more eligible to borrow. 

An Initiative that supports women entrepreneurs by scaling up access to financial products and services, building capacity, expanding networks, offering mentors, and providing opportunities to link with domestic and global markets.

A venture philanthropy organisation in the Arab world that provides funding, management support, mentorship and training to social enterprises across all sectors with a particular focus on education, job creation and women empowerment.

An investor network for women in the MENA region.  its goal is to build an informed ecosystem of women investors who support women entrepreneurs in the Arab world. It aims to create an active network of business women and democratise access to capital by providing investment opportunities to individuals and facilitating capital-raising for entrepreneurs.

An investment management company that supports its partners in the Egyptian industrial sector by creating effective partnerships which enables them to become high-performing entities. It offers private equity and consultation services by looking for promising investment opportunities, specifically companies that have just started operations or ones that are in the early stages of growth.

A corporate venturing subsidiary of Saudi Aramco that invests globally into early-stage and high growth companies with technologies of strategic importance to Aramco. It supports portfolio companies in accessing the Saudi Arabian and regional market, including facilitating business development, localization, and accessing of technical and operational expertise. It also provides portfolio companies with guidance and support, and access to a global network.

A fully owned government financial entity set up by an Emiri Decree to invest in and develop local industries by supporting  SMEs in Qatar. In addition to providing financial assistance, the banks’ other main focus is to provide advisory support and guidance to SME’s on how to start up, grow and expand their activities, with the aim of developing a sustainable economy. It recently launched an added service under TASDEER or Qatar Export Development Agency (QEDA) to provide export financing and business development and promotion support to Qatar based SME exporters. 

An alliance of leading angel investment network that promotes contact between entrepreneurs and investors across the region, trains, advocates and supports potential business angels and provide a platform for cooperation and investment promotion in SMEs as means to support positive economic and social impact across MENA. 

An alliance of the leading angel investment networks across the MENA region. It constitutes of over 400 individual angel investors who regularly invest financial and intellectual capital in some of the most promising early stage companies in the region. It aims to promote angel investing across the region, to facilitate the syndication and flow of deals between its members and to provide a platform for training and exchange of best practice.

An angle investment group that invests its personal money, in return for an equity stake in the business. It cooperates on a deal to share experience and due diligence workload. It cooperates with incubators, accelerators and universities from allover MENA with focus on Cairo, Jeddah and Beirut.