Online Event
Get Investor Ready: How to Attract Money in MENA
Learn about entrepreneurship
Date
Sep 28, 2021
Time
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Address
Online Event
Do you have a startup that needs funding? Do you want to learn how startup funding works, what you need to do before trying to raise funding? Then join us for this interactive, online session, with a panel of serial entrepreneur from Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, founding fast growing companies in MENA. our speakers will share their tips & tricks on how to become a fundable company, and how to make your startup more attractive to local and regional investors, and more... come ready with questions!
About the speakers:
Zeid Husban
Zeid founded ifood.jo in 2012, an online food ordering platform. Despite being a self-funded venture, ifood.jo managed to eliminate all four competitors in the Jordanian market after few months of operations, with an annual growth of 200 percent, ifood.jo attracted the eyes of investors from abroad and in 2013, the company sold a majority stake to the Turkish food ordering company Yemeksipeti. Zeid sold the rest of his shares in ifood.jo in 2016 after a successful acquisition by the global giants "Delivery Hero".
Since then, Zeid started another venture with the vision to revolutionize the point of sale systems in the region with a cloud-based product called “POSRocket”.
Rudy Bekerejian
Founder & CEO - Ecomz | E-commerce advocate in the MENA | Guru in e-commerce payments, order fulfillment, marketing, management & growth | Partnership and Ecosystem Promoter A serial entrepreneur, an innovator , and most importantly, an e-commerce expert with more than 20 years of experience in the North American and MENA markets, contributing over 100+ million dollars in online sales revenue through the creation and enhancement of multicultural and end-to-end e-commerce management platforms.
Ahmed Al Kiremli
Accomplished Tech-Savvy Entrepreneur, Digital Growth Hacker with a canny for business & marketing strategy. 15 years of successful experience providing strategic, transformational, and transactional leadership to business owners and entrepreneurs in uniquely challenging situations.
Who Should Attend?
Zeid Husban
Zeid founded ifood.jo in 2012, an online food ordering platform. Despite being a self-funded venture, ifood.jo managed to eliminate all four competitors in the Jordanian market after few months of operations, with an annual growth of 200 percent, ifood.jo attracted the eyes of investors from abroad and in 2013, the company sold a majority stake to the Turkish food ordering company Yemeksipeti. Zeid sold the rest of his shares in ifood.jo in 2016 after a successful acquisition by the global giants "Delivery Hero".
Since then, Zeid started another venture with the vision to revolutionize the point of sale systems in the region with a cloud-based product called “POSRocket”.
Rudy Bekerejian
Founder & CEO - Ecomz | E-commerce advocate in the MENA | Guru in e-commerce payments, order fulfillment, marketing, management & growth | Partnership and Ecosystem Promoter A serial entrepreneur, an innovator , and most importantly, an e-commerce expert with more than 20 years of experience in the North American and MENA markets, contributing over 100+ million dollars in online sales revenue through the creation and enhancement of multicultural and end-to-end e-commerce management platforms.
Ahmed Al Kiremli
Accomplished Tech-Savvy Entrepreneur, Digital Growth Hacker with a canny for business & marketing strategy. 15 years of successful experience providing strategic, transformational, and transactional leadership to business owners and entrepreneurs in uniquely challenging situations.
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone who is thinking about raising money for their startup
- Anyone that wants an understanding of fundraising for early stage businesses and products
What are some of the Topics?
- The key metrics and pre-requisites for raising funding, and the anatomy of a "fundable" company
- How to make yourself more attractive to investors
- How to utilize online fundraising networks and platforms, like AngelList, Gust, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo.
- How to meet and work with different sources of capital, such as friends and family, angel investors, venture capitalists, government grants and loans, and more.
- and more...
See more Online Startup Events, or for more information about the investors, incubators, and accelerators in Levant, see our list of Startup Resources.
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