VC React MENA E60: The Rise of Secondaries, What Happened to the Dubizzle lPO, and Egyptian Deeptech

VC React Podcast - MENA:

Every week, we bring you insights and reactions from top VCs, LPs, and Angel Investors, reacting to the latest news on MENA startups, funds, and investment rounds.

Hosts:

• Ahmad Takatkah, VCpreneur.
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• Jamie Lane, FWDstart.
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Available on:

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Guests:

1. Basil Moftah, Managing Partner @ Key Capital
- LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basilmoftah/
- Company Website: https://www.key.capital/

2. Nada Shaheen, Managing Director @ GB Ventures
- LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadashahen/
- Company Website: https://gb-corporation.com/

This Week On The VC React Podcast:

News of the week brought to you by FWDstart:

• First up: Goldman Sachs, Charles Schwab, and Morgan Stanley are on a private-markets shopping spree, buying Industry Ventures, Forge Global, and EquityZen to own the pipes for late-stage venture and secondaries.

• Are we watching the true mainstreaming of secondaries and pre-IPO access?

• Next, Dubizzle has pulled its planned IPO in the UAE, adding to a growing list of Gulf tech listings that never happened, or traded badly once they did.

• Is this just a timing blip, or a clear signal that we’re not ready for Tech IPOs yet? 

• Should founders and investors look more seriously at secondaries and private liquidity instead of IPOs now?

• Then we’ve got an Egypt-to-global deeptech story: GlobalFoundries snapping up Cairo-based InfiniLink just months after its $10 million seed round.

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