Nour El-Shaeri

Nour El-Shaeri is the Founder and CEO of IA — Investment Analyst AI, an AI screening and evaluation layer built for venture funds and accelerators, and Chief Business Officer of GATEIT, where he leads the commercial side of enterprise AI deployments. He leads startup and venture capital coverage at Arab News, the Middle East's leading English-language daily, reporting on the founders, funding and policy shaping the technology economy across Saudi Arabia and the wider region, and serves as Strategic Communications Director at PACEHAUS. His work sits where capital, technology and narrative meet — turning information into intelligence, and intelligence into decisions that hold up under scrutiny.