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Egypt Ventures doubles capital of 1st private Egyptian research center to hit $ 2m
Nawah, the first private Egyptian multidisciplinary research center for natural and medical sciences, gets a boost of $ 1 million funds from Egypt Ventures, upping the emerging company’s capital to $2 million.
Chairman and Managing Director of Egypt Ventures Ahmed Gomaa said that Egypt Ventures led a financing round for the emerging company within the framework of its efforts to support and promote entrepreneurship in tech companies and technology-backed companies at the local and regional level.
Gomaa added that they were one of the first institutions supporting Nawah in enabling its scientific research in the Middle East and Africa. The new financing round will enable the company to expand its business and enter new markets.
He added that the new financing round succeeded in attracting private sector investors, namely, Alexandria Fund, Cairo Angels, Alex Angels, Hult Alumni Angels, and a number of international investors.
Founder and CEO of Nawah, Dr. Omar Sakr explained that his company has, since 2015, contributed to empowering the scientific community in Egypt; helping researchers and pharmaceutical companies by facilitating their work through various services. The company aims to help the MENA region have a future of distinguished scholars in scientific research.
Nawah is the first private Egyptian multi-disciplinary research center for natural and medical sciences that aims to empower the scientific community and provide various facilities for researchers and scientists to carry out their own research and experiments by doing five basic tasks.
This includes analyzing samples by providing the latest devices and sending results to researchers, instead of analyzing samples abroad to save time and research resources.
The company also trains researchers on how to use devices, provides an opportunity for them to analyze their samples directly, conducts basic and advanced practical courses taught by Egyptian and foreign experts, and provides courses for companies and research groups – with the participation of universities and companies in scientific projects inside and outside Egypt.
There is also a focus on projects that have an added value to Egypt, as well as securing research in partnership with major incubators to move scientific discoveries into production and marketing phases.
Egypt Ventures secured direct and indirect investments with a total value of EGP 103.8 million during 2020 to develop the entrepreneurial environment and push forward emerging companies in Egypt. This includes EGP 72.4 million direct investments in six companies and EGP 31. 4 million indirect investments in a business accelerator. This brings the total investments, since the company was established in 2017, to about EGP 306.2 million in 150 companies, of which EGP 139.9 million is direct investments and EGP 166.3 million are indirect investments.
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