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Foodics

Foodics is a Saudi Arabian restaurant technology and fintech company founded in Riyadh in 2014 by Ahmad AlZaini and Mosab AlOthmani, serving over 40,000 restaurant branches.

Gaurav Biswas

Gaurav Biswas is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive of TruKKer, a digital freight platform often described as an "Uber for trucks," founded in 2016.

Ghassab Al-Mandeel

Ghassab Al-Mandeel (غصاب المنديل) is a Saudi technology founder and co-founder and CEO of Jahez, a Riyadh-based food-delivery group that listed on Nomu in 2022 at a $2.4 billion valuation.

Gideon Tadmor

Gideon Tadmor is an Israeli oil and gas entrepreneur, founder and executive chairman of Navitas Petroleum, and a leader of Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas discoveries.

Gil Shwed

Gil Shwed (גיל שווד) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Check Point Software in 1993, invented stateful inspection, and led the company as CEO until 2024.

Gilad Japhet

Gilad Japhet is an Israeli software entrepreneur who founded the genealogy company MyHeritage in 2003 and has led it as CEO, growing it to over 104 million users.

Giora Kaplan

Giora Kaplan is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded Wix.com in Tel Aviv in 2006 with Avishai and Nadav Abrahami, serving as co-CEO and later CTO.

GITEX Global

GITEX Global is an annual technology and AI trade exhibition in Dubai, first held in 1981 as the Gulf Computer Exhibition and described as the world's largest tech and AI event.

Glowork

Glowork is a Riyadh-based Saudi recruitment organization founded in 2011 to place Saudi women in jobs, co-founded by Khalid Alkhudair and valued at US$32 million in 2013.

Golan Telecom

Golan Telecom is an Israeli low-cost mobile operator founded in 2012 by Michael Golan, whose flat-rate pricing triggered a price war; it has been part of Cellcom since 2020.

Gur Shatz

Gur Shatz is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cato Networks in Tel Aviv in 2015 with Shlomo Kramer, after co-founding the cloud web security service Incapsula.

Hala

Hala, formerly known as HalalaH, is a Riyadh-based financial technology company founded by Esam Alnahdi and Maher Loubieh that provides banking, payments, and financing services to Saudi SMEs.

Hamid Mohammadi

Hamid Mohammadi (حمید محمدی) is an Iranian entrepreneur who co-founded Digikala in Tehran in 2006 with his twin brother Saeid, serving as its chief executive until November 2023.

Hande Cilingir

Hande Çilingir is a Turkish technology executive who co-founded the customer engagement software company Insider, now Insider One, in 2012 and has served as its chief executive officer since.

Hassan Hamdan (Saudi entrepreneur)

Hassan Hamdan is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Unifonic, a Riyadh-based customer engagement platform, in 2006 with his brother Ahmed, serving as its chief technology officer.

Hessam Armandehi

Hessam Armandehi (حسام آرمندهی) is an Iranian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cafe Bazaar, the Tehran-based Android app store, with Reza Mohammadi, and originated the Divar classifieds platform.

Hillel Kobrinsky

Hillel Kobrinsky is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who founded web-conferencing company Interwise, sold to AT&T in 2007, and co-founded DriveNets, a networking software company, in 2015.

Hosam Arab

Hosam Arab is a technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later fintech he launched in Dubai in 2019 that became the Middle East's most valuable fintech, after co-founding Namshi.

HungerStation

HungerStation is a Saudi online food-ordering and delivery platform founded in 2012 by Ebrahim Al-Jassim, based in Riyadh, owned by Delivery Hero, and transferring to Uber.

HungerStation.com

HungerStation (هنقرستيشن) is a Saudi Arabian food, grocery, and pharmacy delivery platform founded in 2012 in Dammam by Ebrahim Al-Jassim, wholly owned by Delivery Hero since 2023 and operating in about 100 cities.

Huspy

Huspy is a Dubai-based property technology company, founded in 2020 by Jad Antoun and Khalid Ashmawy, that helps people buy homes and arrange mortgages in the UAE and Spain.

iMile Delivery

iMile Delivery is a Dubai-based logistics company founded in 2017 by Rita Huang Zhen that delivers parcels from Chinese sellers to the Middle East and beyond.

Insider

Insider, since 2024 also branded Insider One, is a customer-engagement and marketing-technology company founded in Istanbul in 2012 by Hande Cilingir and five co-founders, now based in Singapore.

InstaDeep

InstaDeep is an artificial intelligence company founded in Tunis in 2014 by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim, later headquartered in London and acquired by BioNTech in 2023.

ironSource

ironSource was an Israeli business platform for the app economy, founded in Tel Aviv in 2010, which helped mobile app developers distribute, monetize, and analyze their apps.

Islam Shawky

Islam Shawky is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Paymob, a Cairo-based payments company serving over 350,000 merchants across five Middle East countries, in 2015.

Jad Antoun

Jad Antoun is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded the Dubai property technology company Huspy in 2020 and serves as its chief executive officer, expanding it into Spain.

Jad Sayegh

Jad Sayegh is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded the investment platform Sarwa in 2017 with Mark Chahwan and Nadine Mezher, and serves as its chief technology officer in Abu Dhabi.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Joel C. Rosenberg is an American-Israeli novelist and journalist who founded the Jerusalem-based news outlets All Israel News and All Arab News on September 1, 2020, and edits both.

Joseph Magen

Joseph Magen is an Israeli high-tech and venture-capital professional who co-founded the Christian news outlet All Israel News in 2020, serving as chief operating officer until 2025.