A YouGov survey found 52% of UAE and KSA consumers try to buy from socially and environmentally responsible companies. These female founders are leading that space. 

Mariska Nell, Founder of Tails and Tones

Jennifer Sault, Founder and MD of Thrift for Good

Simona Sotirovska, Co-Founder of The Botanist

and Sahar Karoubi, Founder of Bambuyu

A YouGov survey found 52% of UAE and KSA consumers try to buy from socially and environmentally responsible companies. These female founders are leading that space.&nbsp;
Mariska Nell, Founder of Tails and Tones
Jennifer Sault, Founder and MD of Thrift for Good
Simona Sotirovska, Co-Founder of The Botanist
and Sahar Karoubi, Founder of Bambuyu

The Agenda’s Tom Urquhart and our partners at Virtuzone discuss the big issues affecting startups and SME’s in the region. Hear everything you need to know about starting your own business from getting a license to growing your company. Highlights include interviews with entrepreneurs and experts, covering topics including e-commerce, leadership and how to get investors for your business.

The Agenda’s Tom Urquhart and our partners at Virtuzone discuss the big issues affecting startups and SME’s in the region. Hear everything you need to know about starting your own business from getting a license to growing your company. Highlights include interviews with entrepreneurs and experts, covering topics including e-commerce, leadership and how to get investors for your business.

Starting Up with Virtuzone Podcast

Starting Up with Virtuzone

Sustainable businesses dominating the UAE 

Esat Canli of Echo Twin AI tells us how to work with the public sector to improve our cities. 

Got an idea but don't know how to take it further? Here's Simon Lewis - founder and CEO of 3D Actio and Zhupar Teleubayeva, Managing Director of Avela Middle East, formed IDEAS MADE REAL - a programme that gives young GCC nationals a structured pathway to take an early idea, test it, build around it, and turn it into something more commercially viable.

Esat Canli of Echo Twin AI tells us how to work with the public sector to improve our cities.&nbsp;
Got an idea but don't know how to take it further? Here's Simon Lewis - founder and CEO of 3D Actio and Zhupar Teleubayeva, Managing Director of Avela Middle East, formed IDEAS MADE REAL - a programme that gives young GCC nationals a structured pathway to take an early idea, test it, build around it, and turn it into something more commercially viable.

How startups work with government 

When products are late, prices rise and stock suddenly disappears, supply chains stop being an invisible business function - and start being front and centre of the business conversation. 


This week on Starting Up with Virtuzone, Tom Urquhart and Neil Petch look at how UAE businesses are adapting, from national track-and-trace technology and smarter forecasting to the real-life pressures facing importers, retailers and founders. With insights from EVOTEQ, Desert Forge, SHOEQ and Silk Souq, this episode asks what resilience really looks like when your business depends on goods arriving on time.

When products are late, prices rise and stock suddenly disappears, supply chains stop being an invisible business function - and start being front and centre of the business conversation.&nbsp;
 This week on Starting Up with Virtuzone, Tom Urquhart and Neil Petch look at how UAE businesses are adapting, from national track-and-trace technology and smarter forecasting to the real-life pressures facing importers, retailers and founders. With insights from EVOTEQ, Desert Forge, SHOEQ and Silk Souq, this episode asks what resilience really looks like when your business depends on goods arriving on time.

The Supply Chain Wake-Up Call

But as crypto companies set up and more people put more money into crypto, we need to know who's regulating these crypto companies.

There is a company that works with authorities to ensure your crypto wallet is safe and crypto companies here are all operating above board. 

That's ACX Compliance. Joining us  is Toms Pauders, its CEO and Co-Founder.

What does it take to build an AI platform? Rechitta founders Aryaman Maheshwari and Atiksh Mittal tell us all.

But as crypto companies set up and more people put more money into crypto, we need to know who's regulating these crypto companies.
There is a company that works with authorities to ensure your crypto wallet is safe and crypto companies here are all operating above board.&nbsp;
That's ACX Compliance. Joining us &nbsp;is Toms Pauders, its CEO and Co-Founder.
What does it take to build an AI platform? Rechitta founders Aryaman Maheshwari and Atiksh Mittal tell us all.

Sustainable businesses dominating the UAE

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