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Introduction In November 2025, we hosted a hands-on masterclass alongside Strategy Tools, designed to help founders across the region do one thing: scale with confidence. The two-day masterclass in Dubai brought together ambitious VC-backed growth-stage founders in teams of five, … Read More

Introduction In the first edition of DFDF’s Emerging Manager Series, we sit down with Amir Farha, the founding partner of COTU Ventures, one of the region’s most distinct early-stage funds. Based in the UAE and deeply embedded across the GCC, … Read More

Introduction It still amazes me that the global real estate sector, worth around $393 trillion as of early 2025, is the world’s largest asset class, bigger than all global equities, debt, and even all the gold ever mined. And yet, … Read More