I am a co-founder and managing director of AHOY, a cutting-edge orchestration tech-stack for all movement in the field. At AHOY, we are reinventing and reimagining movement and field ops like never before, serving a global and sector-agnostic client base with our innovative IaaS and PaaS solutions. With over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and multiple exits that exceeded 9 digits USD, I have a proven track record of creating value and impact in the tech industry.

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AHOY, a movement tech infrastructure company, is enabling a new future of movement and mobility digital networks through ground-breaking technology demonstrated in its inaugural Keynote event in February. It also revealed the details of the latest funding round of $20 million, which takes the total investment from inception to $27 million. The company also plans to do a bridge funding round in the following months to boost its scale-up globally prior to the Series A round.

This announcement was made during the event held on February 22, 2022 named “The Deployment” which attracted the concerned stakeholders that included global investors, companies, start-ups and developers to watch “The Deployment” keynote.

“The Deployment is a celebration of innovative tech infrastructure that is being deployed for the first time from MENA region to the world.” said co-founder and CEO – Jamil Shinawi.

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I am also a founding member of 24six9, a global initiative that invests in early-stage ventures that are deep tech or consume portfolio tech, builds corp/gov ventures, reforms the ecosystem, de-risks the portfolio, and helps founders remain bootstrapped longer. As a polymath, I have a diverse and multidisciplinary background in engineering, urban and regional planning, innovation, and education. I am passionate about investing in great ideas, building MENA’s first deep tech decacorn, and bridging the innovation gap from research to startups and market.