The Next Funding Frontier: Mobilizing Private Capital for Startup Innovation"

Egypt does not lack private capital. It lacks the pipes that carry it to founders. This panel brings together the four pools that matter — a listed corporate balance sheet, a multinational's venture and procurement budget, a private foundation's catalytic grants, and an institutionally-backed fund — to ask what it actually takes to move money from where it sits to where it is needed. With the IPO window shut and Egyptian funds now judged on cash returned rather than paper valuations, the conversation turns on the missing link in the chain: who buys these companies, and what has to be true before Egypt's banks, insurers, corporates and foundations write the next cheque.