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Bakr Elsherif
Bakr Elsherif is a Saudi technology entrepreneur known as a founder of Nana, the Riyadh grocery and quick-commerce delivery platform launched in 2016, where he led data and platform.
Belal El-Megharbel
Belal El-Megharbel, also written Belal El Megharbel, is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of MaxAB, a Cairo B2B e-commerce platform that merged with Kenya's Wasoko in 2024.
Boaz Dolev
Boaz Dolev (בועז דולב) is an Israeli cybersecurity executive who co-founded ClearSky Cyber Security in 2011 and leads it as CEO, known for Iranian hacking attribution research.
Boaz Golan
Boaz Golan (בועז גולן) is an Israeli journalist who founded the news site and app 0404 News in 2012, serving as its editor-in-chief and chief executive.
Boaz Gorodissky
Boaz Gorodissky is an Israeli technology executive and co-founder and CTO of XM Cyber, a cloud security company founded in 2016 with former Mossad director Tamir Pardo and sold to Germany's Schwarz Group in 2021.
Cafe Bazaar
Cafe Bazaar (کافه بازار) is Iran's largest Android app store, founded in January 2011 by Iranian university students and serving tens of millions of Persian-speaking users.
Cato Networks
Cato Networks is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz that delivers SASE, combining network security and networking in one cloud platform.
Classera
Classera is a San Francisco-based education technology company founded by Mohammad Almadani and Mohammad Alashmawi, which raised $40 million led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in 2022.
Dani Molina Carmona
Dani Molina Carmona is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Postpay, a leading Gulf buy-now-pay-later fintech founded in Dubai in 2019, and served as its chief technology officer.
Daniil Barkalov
Daniil Barkalov is a Russian-born fintech executive, co-founder and chief operating officer of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later company launched in Dubai in 2019 and valued at $6.5 billion in 2026.
David Horovitz
David Horovitz is a UK-born Israeli journalist, author, and media founder who launched The Times of Israel in 2012 after editing The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report.
Digikala
Digikala (دیجیکالا) is an Iranian e-commerce company founded in Tehran in 2006 by brothers Hamid and Saeid Mohammadi, which has grown into Iran's largest online marketplace.
Doron Myersdorf
Doron Myersdorf is an Israeli entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of StoreDot, a battery company founded in 2012 in Herzliya that develops extreme fast charging cells for electric vehicles.
Dotomi
Dotomi was an internet advertising technology company co-founded by ICQ co-founder Yair Goldfinger, building personalized display advertising for retailers before ValueClick bought it in 2011 for $295 million.
DriveNets
DriveNets is an Israeli networking software company founded in 2015 by Ido Susan and headquartered in Ra'anana, whose Network Cloud software runs core routing on white-box hardware.
Ebrahim Al-Jassim
Ebrahim Aljassim is a Saudi entrepreneur who founded HungerStation in 2012, led it until his 2019 termination by Delivery Hero, and later founded the quick-commerce company Ninja.
Eddy Maroun
Eddy Maroun (إيدي مارون) is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded Anghami, the first music-streaming platform in the Middle East and North Africa, in 2012, and was its chief executive until 2024.
Ehud Shabtai
Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer who founded the community mapping project FreeMap Israel in 2006 and co-founded Waze, the crowdsourced traffic and navigation app Google bought in 2013.
Ejari
Ejari is a Riyadh-based financial technology company founded in 2022 that offers rent-now-pay-later for residential rentals in Saudi Arabia, paying landlords up front and collecting monthly installments.
ekar
ekar is a Dubai-based car-sharing company founded in 2016 by Vilhelm Hedberg and Ravi Bhusari, pioneering free-floating, pay-per-minute car rental in the Gulf before expanding to Saudi Arabia in 2019.
Eldad Farkash
Eldad Farkash is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Sisense and then Firebolt in 2019, a Tel Aviv cloud data warehouse company he led as chief executive.
Eran Zinman
Eran Zinman is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded monday.com with Roy Mann in Tel Aviv in 2012, serving as CTO until 2020 and Co-CEO since.
Esam Al-Nahdi
Esam Alnahdi is a Saudi fintech entrepreneur who co-founded HALA, a Riyadh-based financial platform for small businesses that raised a $157 million Series B in 2025.
Esther Snyder
Esther Snyder was an American businesswoman who co-founded the In-N-Out Burger chain with her husband Harry Snyder in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948, and led the company as president until her death in 2006.
Etisalat Group
Etisalat Group, formally Emirates Telecommunications Group Company, is a telecommunications group founded in Abu Dhabi in 1976 and operating across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Eyal Desheh
Eyal Desheh is an Israeli financial executive who served as CFO of Check Point Software (2000-2008) and Teva Pharmaceuticals (2008-2017), briefly acting as Teva's CEO, and chaired Isracard from 2017.
Eyal Shani
Eyal Shani, born in Jerusalem in 1959, is an Israeli chef and restaurateur known as the godfather of Israeli cuisine and founder of the Miznon pita chain.
Fahad Albedah
Fahad Albedah (فهد البداح) is a Saudi technology executive who co-founded Ejari, a Riyadh-based proptech offering Rent Now, Pay Later for residential rentals, and serves as its chief technology officer.
Fatma El Shenawy
Fatma El Shenawy is an Egyptian fintech executive who co-founded Khazna, a Cairo financial super app for underbanked workers, in 2019, and served as its chief strategy officer.
Floward
Floward is an online flower and gifting e-commerce company founded in Kuwait in 2017 by Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani and Mohammed Al Arifi, now based in Saudi Arabia.