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The check-in, the QR scanning, the WhatsApp invitations and the judging tool were all built in-house by our own team in the days before the doors opened, and kept improving while the hall was full
183 builders, more than 50 working prototypes in two days, and four winning teams — held under the patronage of H.E. Eng. Sami Smeirat, Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship
Fikr Ventures spent two days in Azerbaijan for Baku ID 2026 at SABAH.city, sitting on the judging panel for the Nexus Awards and meeting the founders behind the work
Ahmad S Abdo and Abed Alhameed Alhabahbeh are in Baku on 17–18 September for the region’s largest startup festival, held this year at SABAH.city as the innovation district opens
Fikr Ventures attended Classera's gala dinner inside the LEAP evenings programme, and met a number of the region's emerging EdTech companies. It was the one place at LEAP where the category convened
LEAP 2026 opened in Riyadh with multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure deals from AMD, AWS and Applied Intuition. The only human-capital number on the day came from a cloud vendor
Four of the Fikr Ventures team are at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh from 31 August to 3 September, meeting EdTech founders building for this region
