Category: Inside Stories
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Carzaty: The Wild Ride Here
I first met Hassan Lawati and Marwan Chaar in August of 2018. We had just launched Phaze Ventures a few months prior, and they were raising their Seed round for the first online auto-retailer in the country, Carzaty. Their company was just over 1-year post-launch and was already clocking in…
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Voyager: An Inside Look at Our Largest Investment to Date
It was late 2018 when I first came across Voyager. Phaze Ventures was on the hunt for technology startups looking to transform global industries largely operating in analog, data-less environments where the potential for disruption through digitization, automation and data-driven decision making was high. Sifting through the announcement of the 2018…
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Phaze Ventures: A Short Origin Story from Inside the Middle East’s Entrepreneurship Boom
Breakthroughs in science, revolutionary business models, the know-how of the future takes time to propagate over geographies and materialize into everyday life across the globe. Trying to understand where the world or the region is heading is thus the story of the propagation of information – and venture capital is…