Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Skills
Lists including Ahmed
Work Experience
2021
Chief Growth Officer
2022
Board Advisor
2021 - 2022
2022
Advisor
2022
2020
Member, Board of Directors
2020
Realizing my passion for video gaming and esports while helping solve a business problem in a highly fragmented market.
2021 - 2022
VP, Product/Growth
2021 - 2022
Paymob is a Paypal-backed fintech scale-up with operations in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Kenya. Product: value creation. Growth: value distribution.
2018 - 2021
Founder, Member of EIC
2018 - 2021
AUC Angels is the first university-based angel network in the Middle East and Africa, partnership with the American University of Cairo School of Business. Built a network of over 70 investors and invested in 15 early-stage companies. I have passed the reigns of managing the network and currently serving as an advisor.
2019 - 2020
Founding Head of Product
2019 - 2020
Started Product at the intersection of revenue optimization, customer experience and technology management.
2019 - 2019
Head of Product
2019 - 2019
2017 - 2018
Product Leader
2017 - 2018
Built a new service line (Clients during my tenure: Amazon, Harvard University, and London Business School) to scale the enterprise's revenue ten times (a seven-digit figure in US dollar value) in 2018, and managed a cross-functional team of 20 employees and 100 freelancers.
2014 - 2015
Co-Founder, Product
2014 - 2015
As the 1st web application that introduces the online catalog service in Egypt, Homna.com, a subsidiary of Trustious.com, makes it easy for online users to know the best stores for furniture, kitchens, and accessories, based on people's reviews. I helped build a Content Management System (The core product) of Homna.com, producing business insights that generated $40K in revenue.
2011 - 2015
Co-Founder, Product
2011 - 2015
Trustious is a data-intensive web application created to ease the choice-making process by providing users’ trusted business and product reviews. Initial value created • Built Trustious.com to become (1) a $3MM business, attracting ~500K unique monthly visits, and (2) an established 30-employee company. People management • Supervised seven different teams to develop a smooth product experience and maintain teams’ operating efficiency. • Interviewed, recruited, and led a team of 2 information architects, 2 data engineers, a product manager, a software engineer, and 3 data management specialists. User acquisition • Acquired 37K users and 45K reviews, the highest number in Egypt in 2014. • Created (Rasha7ly Ketab), the 3rd largest Arabic online reading initiative with 230K+ members, contributing to Trustious.com content marketing strategy. Rsha7ly Ketab: https://goo.gl/MnFWP7 Technology and data engineering • Remodeled Trustious.com content management system leading to an increase in data management and visualization efficiency by 75%. Business development • Generated a contract-based revenue of $140K/year. • Developed business insights through analyzing one category’s content using Python, resulting in a 20% increase in revenue. Fundraising • Secured $830K in seed funding (less than 7% of startups make it to that stage in Egypt, according to MENABytes). Selling the business • Coordinated a sale of Trustious.com's recommender engine to Microsoft Azure through a government bid.