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The Perfect Pitch Podcast by Lucidity InsightsA Founder’s Ability to be Transparent and Communicate with Investors is Everything - with Basil Moftah | The Perfect Pitch Podcast Ep4Get ready for an intriguing conversation with Basil Moftah, General Parter at Nclude. Born and raised in the US and Trinidad and Tobago, but with roots in Egypt, Basil brings both his international perspective and years of Corporate VC experience to the investing table. He shares his pet peeves on things like celebrating successful fundraising efforts and having difficult conversations with founders.He reminds us about the responsibilities tied to capital investment, and provides insights on when to pivot or exit a venture from an investor's standpoint. Tune in for some enlightening insights in this episode!2024-05-2641 min
Global Innovators in BusinessTransforming Egypt into a Digital and Financially Inclusive Economy – Interview with Basil Moftah, the General Partner at NcludeBasil Moftah, the General Partner at Nclude, a venture capitalist fund and Fintech innovation engine with a core focus on the Middle East and North Africa. As an influential force in the venture capital space, Basil is at the forefront of the Fintech revolution in Egypt, a country experiencing a quantum leap forward in its Fintech ecosystem.
In this episode, you will learn:
📚From a student with an engineering degree in Cairo to a venture capitalist in San Fransisco, what led Basil to where he is today?
📈Differences in the business lifecycle of a startu...2024-04-0647 min
Disrupt PodcastDP #42: The month in VC - episode 5Co-hosted by Gabriella Mulligan and Tom Jackson, “The month in VC” is a regular deep-dive into the Africa’s investment space. Produced in partnership with Katapult Africa, Kalon Venture Partners, Hlayisani Capital, and ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator, each episode wraps up the latest news in African VC, profiles a leading investor, and digs into a key theme or trend in conversation with partner VCs.
Episode five sees the Disrupt Africa team talk to Basil Moftah from financial inclusion focused fund Nclude, and look at gender diversity within the investment space.2023-07-0232 min
Conversations with LoulouE51: Basil Moftah on navigating a down cycle as an Egyptian VCStartups across the globe are reckoning with a down cycle as a result of the overall macro economic environment and some practices that were long romanticized by Silicon Valley - such as growth at all cost - that have led to bloated startups with a high cash burn and a long path to profitability. I speak to Basil Moftah, General Partner at Nclude, a Venture Capital firm based in Egypt about the impact of the global environment on local startups. We also discuss the challenges that Egyptian startups are facing as they experience spiraling inflation in their own country...2023-04-2457 min
Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3Diving into the World of Venture Capital: Career Insight and Advice from Founder Member of the Reuters Venture Capital Group Basil MoftahIn this episode of our interview series, Ying Cao is joined by Basil Moftah, general partner of Global Ventures and founder member of Reuters Venture Capital group. At Reuters Venture Capital group, he invested in leading global companies such as Yahoo!, Verisign, and Webex. His strategic acquisitions and management of emerging markets for Reuters allowed him to seamlessly grow the $600 million business. He then went on as the President of Intellectual Property and Science business at Thomson Reuters where he contributed to the overall direction of the company, developed the strategic proposition of the $1 billion revenue business, and...2021-12-1730 min
K&S PerspectivesVC Sandbox: Episode 1: Dissecting the Venture Capital LandscapeWe find ourselves in unprecedented times, amid a pandemic that has seen the rapid spread of the coronavirus disease across the globe. In this episode, Macky O’Sullivan, a venture capital lawyer in our Dubai office, and Basil Moftah, General Partner of venture capital firm Global Ventures, discuss the venture capital landscape in the Middle East and Africa region in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.2021-03-0334 min
Spark! with ShereenGrow your ventures with a global mindsetIn our latest episode, we sit down with Basil Moftah to discuss the global mindset amongst entrepreneurs. Basil is an experienced venture builder and partner at Global Ventures, a growth-focused VC that invests in disruptive startups with an enterprise technology focus in the Middle East and North Africa region.Together we discuss:The importance for businesses to have a global mindsetKeeping guard of competitors from abroadThe difference between marketing a B2B vs. B2C businessExamples of two up-and-coming tech startups with a global mindsetWant to read the episode instead? Access the...2021-02-2132 min
IBS Intelligence PodcastsEp95: Basil Moftah, General Partner, Global VenturesGlobal Ventures is a Dubai-based, growth-stage venture capital firm. Within its investment portfolio, Global Ventures is looking for Middle East-based FinTechs capable of scaling up both inside and, more importantly, outside the region – one recent example being Cairo-based payments FinTech Paymob. Basil Moftah discussed the VC firm’s aims and ambitions with Robin Amlot.2020-09-0113 min