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No. 018 · Alaan
The McKinsey Consultant Who Built the Card the Gulf Never Had
After spending his weekends reconciling expense reports because American Express barely worked in Dubai, Parthi Duraisamy quit McKinsey and built the corporate card infrastructure that every global fintech had decided was too complex to solve.
No. 016 · estaie
The Six-Time Founder Who Claimed the Gap Between Hotels and Leases
After years in enterprise telecommunications and three startup exits, Osama Shawky identified the stay that sat between hotels and leases and built estaie to own it.
No. 015 · Comfi
The Delivery Founder Who Sold to Souq and Set Out to Fix the Invoice
After co-building Wing.ae and selling it to Amazon's Souq in 2017, Sanjar Samiev had one unresolved question: why did every supplier in that network spend months waiting to collect what they were already owed.
No. 013 · Property Finder
The Swiss Outsider Who Built the Gulf's Real Estate Operating System
Michael Lahyani left a consulting career in Geneva because he saw something nobody in Dubai's property market wanted to admit: the entire industry was flying blind.
No. 012 · Huspy
The Man Who Became Dubai's Mortgage
Jad Antoun didn't set out to fix real estate. He set out to fix the moment everyone almost walks away from it. The mortgage.
No. 011 · Utexo
The Founder Who Put the Digital Dollar on Bitcoin's Rails
Utexo raised $7.5M to put USDT on Bitcoin. Instantly, privately, for near-zero cost. Tether led the round. That's the whole signal.
No. 010 · Revibe
The Founder Betting $17 Million That Refurbished Beats New
Revibe closed a $17M round in November 2025, backed by Partech, to become one of the most trusted refurbished electronics marketplaces in MENA and Africa. Because the real barrier was never price. It was trust.
No. 009 · Qureos
Alexander Epure Is Replacing the Hiring Stack With a Single AI
Dubai-based Qureos just raised $5 million to prove that AI can compress enterprise hiring from months to six days. Alexander Epure built the platform that 1,000+ organizations are already using to find talent faster.
No. 008 · Careem
Mudassir Sheikha Sold Careem to Uber for $3.1 Billion in a Region the World Forgot to Map
Careem started as a corporate car service in Dubai. It ended in one of the most important technology acquisitions in MENA history. Because Sheikha refused to stop at the obvious answer.
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