Startup Grind with Coded

Startup Grind with Hashim Behbehani & Ahmad Marafi Sponsored by Tap Payments & Proper Sliders Startup Grind is back with a bang! This time the spotlight is on Hashim Behbehani & Ahmad Marafi, the founders of Coded. Coded is the first coding academy in the Middle East. Established in 2015, it has now run 6…

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Startup Grind with Haytham Al-Hawaj

Startup Grind with Haytham Al-Hawaj Sponsored by Tap Payments & Proper Sliders A serial entrepreneur, Haytham Al-Hawaj is the co-founder of a series of successful startups, including: niu – Collaborative Community: A business hub that offers office spaces, meeting rooms, co-working spaces and is, most importantly, the region’s first true collaborative community aimed at the entrepreneur,…

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Startup Grind with Shaheen Alkhudari

Startup Grind with Shaheen Alkhudari Sponsored by Humble Burgers and Tap Shaheen Al-Khudari is the co-founder and CEO of Ajar, a cloud-based service that enables tenants to pay their rent online and on time. The idea was born from his own personal difficulties in paying rent in cash and wanting to find a more effective solution…

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Startup Grind with Hamad Aljudai

Startup Grind with Hamad Aljudai Sponsored by NBK, Proper Sliders, and Tap Hamad Aljudai is the founder of yallawain, an app that tackles the classic and recurring question of what to eat. Prior to this role, he was the co-founder of Raqib50 and Monaqasat Insights, two data transparency initiatives in the legislative branch and government…

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Startup Grind with Abdulaziz Al-Loughani

Startup Grind with Abdulaziz Al-Loughani Sponsored by NBK, Humble Burgers, and Tap   Abdulaziz Al-Loughani is the Vice Chairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a 7-billion-dollar independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait.  Prior to this role, he was the Managing Partner of Talabat.com until late 2010 (which later exited…

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Startup Grind with Mona Al-Shaikh

Startup Grind with Mona Al-Shaikh Sponsored by the US Embassy, Asnan Tower, Tap Payments, NBK, and The Kitchen Mona Al-Shaikh is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of a series of innovative initiatives: Engineering for Kids: an after-school program which inspires and prepares kids for a science and tech dominated future Bespoke Automative: a company…

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Startup Grind with Ali Abulhasan

Sponsored by Asnan Tower, NBK, the US Embassy, and Junkyard Ali Abulhasan is the co-founder and CEO of Tap. He founded Tap Payments to solve online payment problems in Kuwait and the region back in 2012. His passion for payments started as soon as he went cashless during his college days in the US carrying…

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