Emerging technologies, fintech & entrepreneurial action across the ecosystem.
Knowledge sharing partnerships & startup engagement has been in full swing as the summer break approaches.
As an ecosystem partner with the DIFC Fintech Hive, the ventures team supported ‘Sprint A’ of the fintech accelerator, AccelerateHER and Standard Charter Sustainability accelerators in a series of workshops over the course of two weeks.
Scale Lead Patricia Keating chaired a session on startup growth and partnerships. Exploring strategic partnerships, how startups can collaborate with corporates, different kinds of partnerships to pursue as well as, what to look for in a partner.
Meanwhile, PwC Middle East fintech practice Santosh Tripathy gave an overview of the payments industry in the Middle East, looking at the challenges and opportunities around revenue leakage & revenue optimization and how to help payment companies improve their profitability.
The technical session explored concepts of dispute management, the chargebacks challenge for the merchants and acquirers and the specific CBUAE regulations relevant for payments fintech.
Growth X Startups had the full emerging tech experience through the ongoing PwC partnership with Microsoft for Startups accelerator. The Emtech team at PwC Middle East innovation lab delivered a hands-on product and human centred design session.
Led by Nadia Mansour on how emerging technologies can supercharge UX, including an expert session from Diego Calix, experiential VR and Metaverse with Ali Mahouk and data with Sean Kickham . This was a unique chance to experience deep tech and resources normally beyond the reach of early stage businesses. Check out the video highlights of their visit here.
Thought leadership from our fintech and scale up leaders was prevalent across the region during June. EuroMoney featured fintech director Serena Sebastiani and her commentary on driving digitalization in the Gulf
“Today, growth strategies are generally focused on initiatives at ecosystem level to foster innovation and development of fintechs, whether that be regulatory sandboxes or innovation hubs and accelerators,”
Sifted the leading media platform for and about the European tech startup ecosystem, backed by the Financial Times featured Marko Korkiakoski, PwC partner & PwC EMEA Startup/Scaleup Network leader.
discussing how Some of the most important parts of a startup’s journey are some of the least exciting - audit, corporate governance, legal environments and more..