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Rima Al-Sheikh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

I had to close it down because I needed to change country.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Also a marketplace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Freelance marketplace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So Nabush.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So this was in MENA, so Middle East and North Africa.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So that is a, you know, it's a very large and complex region to, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

from a population density perspective and, you know, geopolitical scenarios.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

And the issue there is like, you have a lot of talented people who don't have access to opportunities or the other way around, like employers who can't find a talent because of lack of infrastructure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So we wanted to build like the first infrastructure that enables that talent access.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

We did really well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

We became really famous at the time with our work, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So not bash, uh, I would say like last year, uh, before Ellie was, was reaching its, uh, highest, you know, revenue, but I would say, I think we were like getting to like 200,000, uh, users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

If I remember well, um, what was revenue?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

I don't, I'm sorry, but it wasn't, uh, I wouldn't say it was more than like, uh, 50, 60 K. Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

MRR, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Let me share with you where my ability to raise funding comes from.