Founderconnects Podcast
Founderconnects Podcast features honest, in-depth conversations with founders, investors, and operators from the MENA region who have raised funding or built companies past $2 million. The show focuses on the unglamorous side of entrepreneurship — funding near-misses, difficult cofounder talks, payroll crises — and the hard-won lessons that come from those moments. Each episode aims to compress years of experience into about an hour, offering practical guidance for other founders facing similar challenges. It's a podcast about the journey behind the 'overnight success' story.
Episodes
VC Masterclass: Fundraising Secrets From the UAE's #1 Most Active VC Fund | Elliott Denham
This is the VC masterclass nobody gives founders. Until now. Elliott Denham is Head of Programs at Oraseya Capital a $150 million VC fund based in Dubai, and the UAE's #1 most active investor for the past two and a half years. With over 70 startups in their portfolio and a mandate spanning pre-Seed all the way to Series B, Elliott has sat across the table from hundreds of tech founders. He kn
How Surviving Two Global Crises Built a 75,000+ Member Platform | Hamza Khan
Hamza Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Letswork, a co-working marketplace with over 75,000 members globally. From surviving Covid when revenue disappeared overnight, to rebuilding from scratch, twice, his story is one of the most honest accounts of what the founder journey actually looks like when the plan falls apart and the tough decisions have to be made anyway.In this episode we go back to bo
Serial Founder: Raising $19M Taught Me What Money Can't Fix | Ayham Gorani
Most founders think growth comes from raising more, hiring more, and building more. Our guest today has done all of that, across five startups and he'll tell you that's money isn't the problem.Ayham Gorani is a serial entrepreneur who has built and exited four companies across fintech, SaaS, and platform businesses. Now as the co-founder of PEMO, he’s on a mission to support SMEs ac
