Omar Saif

Startup & VC Correspondent

Omar writes about fundraising, term sheets, and the economics of building companies in the Arab world. Before joining Blue Ocean Hub he spent four years on the investment team at a Cairo-based seed fund.

مقالات بقلم Omar Saif

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Startups

Raising Your First $250K in Egypt: A Founder's Field Guide

We sat down with five founders who closed pre-seed rounds in the last twelve months. Their advice on what worked, what wasted their time, and the one mistake nearly all of them made.

Omar Saif 8 دقائق قراءة أبريل 20, 2026 2,634 reads

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Startups

Five Egyptian Founders Worth Watching in 2026

We narrowed a list of 80 nominations down to five founders whose work feels both ambitious and quietly inevitable. None of them are household names yet. All of them probably will be.

Omar Saif 9 دقائق قراءة مارس 8, 2026 5,735 reads

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