Join us for an engaging conversation with Robert Kupstas, co-founder of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, one of the Middle East’s pioneering agritech startups having raised $300M and is redefining sustainable food production. Robert breaks down the realities of scaling asset-heavy ventures, offering rare insights into fundraising, building in emerging markets, and navigating investor expectations in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. We also explore the MENA startup landscape, the region’s shift beyond ...
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Join us for an engaging conversation with Robert Kupstas, co-founder of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, one of the Middle East’s pioneering agritech startups having raised $300M and is redefining sustainable food production. Robert breaks down the realities of scaling asset-heavy ventures, offering rare insights into fundraising, building in emerging markets, and navigating investor expectations in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. We also explore the MENA startup landscape, the region’s shift beyond ...
In this squeaky clean episode we sit down with Jad Halaoui, the co-founder of Washmen, a digital laundry and dry-cleaning service in the UAE. We talk about Jad's journey from working in Canada one day for an Oil & Gas giant to take the leap of faith to fly to UAE and work with his co-founder Rami on Washmen. He talks about the highs of receiving multiple rounds of funding and being mentored by the co-founder of Careem to the lows of coping with the struggles and anxiety of his startup Was...
Sandpit Startups
Join us for an engaging conversation with Robert Kupstas, co-founder of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, one of the Middle East’s pioneering agritech startups having raised $300M and is redefining sustainable food production. Robert breaks down the realities of scaling asset-heavy ventures, offering rare insights into fundraising, building in emerging markets, and navigating investor expectations in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. We also explore the MENA startup landscape, the region’s shift beyond ...
