Why attend

The major allocators from the region

Co-hosted with e& - the biggest telco and corporate partner in UAE (just acquired Careem/Uber)

A special invitation only event curated by Webit and e&

The top growth stage founders from the MENA region

Special participation from the government

Gathering the most active LPs/VCs from MENA

With special participaton of

Georg Kell

Founder & Chairman, United Nations Global Compact

Sharan Burrow

General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation

Marco Lambertini

Director General, WWF International

Preliminary Agenda

11:00

Official opening

11:30

Keynote

12:00

Founders Games Davos 2023 finalist presentation - 1

12:30

Scaleup from MENA pitch - 1

13:00

Lunch Break

14:30

Keynote

15:00

Founders Games Davos 2023 finalist presentation - 2

15:30

Scaleup from MENA pitch - 2

16:00

Keynote

16:30

Founders Games Davos 2023 finalist presentation - 3

17:00

Scaleup from MENA pitch - 3

18:00

Announcing Founders Games MENA Champions and cocktail reception

Topics include:

Aligning ESG mandates with financial return.
1 Funding the energy transition to net zero and Alpha returns.
Leaning in to the next market cycle and why now is the perfect time to invest.

* The agenda and the speakers may change and the organizers may not be held responsible for any changes

Global Outreach and Impact

Founders Games Awards Ceremony!

During the past 12 years, Founders Games has been established as the premier scaleup (high growth) innovation competition with the world’s biggest funding award of $6.000.000 (six million US Dollars) provided by over 750 investors in the publicly listed company - Webit Investment Network - WIN.

Every season of the competition 3000+ companies from 140+ countries apply:

Summer - the finals take place as part of our annual Webit editions (application window November - May)
Winter - in 2023 the finals took place during the WEF week in Davos (application window June - October)

Join the competition - apply online here!

Founders Games MENA
is part of

Webit Global Events

250,000+
in-person attendees

1,500,000+
virtual attendees

$6,000,000
Startup Awards

73%
C-level attendance

190+
countries

500
speakers

100
accredited media

300
exhibitors

We create technology that empowers every person and organisation to stride into a great wide open future.

Since 1976, we have pioneered new technologies and brought these to new people and new places. First as the Emirates’ telephone company, today as the technology and investment group, e&.

Why attend