A fantastic fireside chat with our Advisory Board Member Noor Sweid - Founder and Managing Partner at Global Ventures and a leading voice in the MENA region’s VC landscape.

 

Noor shared the story behind her new book Coming of Age: How Technology and Entrepreneurship Are Changing the Face of MENA. With a foreword by Reid Hoffman, Coming of Age is the story of the region’s entrepreneurial growth in the last 25 years that spans industries as diverse as fintech, healthtech and agritech - all of which have emerged out of the desert since the new millennium. Featuring interviews with 35 founders from the region, it charts the region’s remarkable entrepreneurial journey to the point where it is set to challenge the global order and fully realise its potential to provide for the youngest population in the world.

 

Prior to Global Ventures, Noor was Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation and scaled two companies: Depa, which she listed in a billion-dollar IPO in 2008, and ZenYoga, the region’s largest yoga chain, which she exited in 2014. Noor is frequently featured as an authoritative voice on venture capital in the region by Bloomberg, CNN, and Forbes. She has been listed among the ‘World’s Top 50 Women in Tech’ by Forbes.

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