1:52

This class leads you through the Playbook of Amal Dokhan as she explores investor mindset. Amal is a passionate professional in designing experiences, guiding corporates and startups to innovation and customer centric design, providing creative solutions, achieving mastery in service industry, manipulating the tools of marketing to evoke customers emotions. Throughout her career Amal gained a diversified range of experience in management and marketing related roles particularly in education and consultancy. Currently, Amal is part of the Entrepreneurship Center in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in a number of roles including the New Ventures Acceleration and Corporate Innovation program. In this class, she will zoom in on the investment process from understanding the different types of investors, building your career, understanding the ecosystem and documentations so you can map your investment strategy and attract the right investors for your business

13:10

Join us as we trace the phenomenal journey of Amal Dokhan from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Amal started out as a High School Principal and made her way into the roles of a Professor, Director, Consultant, CEO, Board Member and now Partner at 500 Global, a venture capital firm with more than $2.3 billion in assets under management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies.

18:37

With growing momentum, the startup ecosystem in the MENA region is fast-emerging to be of high interest to investors regionally and globally. Commercially viable solutions to resolve a diverse range of problems in the region is leading to high interest in startups as they have the potential to reap high returns. Amal unpacks the world of startup investing in this lesson as we get started on our investment journey.

24:18

Today there’s different ways to invest in Startups and different types of investors. Amal discusses the different ways in which you can invest in startups and draws your attention to Angel Investors in this lesson.

6:39

VC Firm 500 Global’s portfolio includes 41 companies valued at $1B+ and 125 companies valued at more than $100 million. As Partner at 500 Global, Amal explains what Venture Capital Investing is.

10:14

Amal Dokhan as Partner at 500 Global, overseeing MENA, shares what it takes to be Partner and the need for women partners in the MENA VC ecosystem.

8:42

Understanding how to make money investing in startups requires determining the right investment strategy that would serve you. It also enables you to add value to startups that are aligned with your goals, vision, and values. In this lesson, Amal unpacks the facets of identifying, defining, and diversifying your investment strategy.

16:10

In this lesson, Amal gets you into the mindset of evaluating the many startups that you may be approached by to identify the right one for you. Learn more about the process of researching, conversing with referrals in the ecosystem, getting to know the founders and conducting the necessary due diligence.

8:21

2.3% of Global VC Funding goes to women. Amal Dokhan discusses how VCs like 500 Global are focused on investing in more Female Founders and the importance of doing so as female investors.

11:24

Amal guides you through the steps involved in the investment process so that you can be prepared with all the right documentation and resources. In this class, She explains the ownership rights when investing in a startups and the shares transferred to the investor and zooms in on cap tables, valuation, priced rounds and dilution.

5:00

As an investor it is important to take note of the information, you’d need your startup founders to keep track of to measure their growth and therefore the growth of your investment. Amal goes a step further to also discuss how you as an investor can and must add value especially as a VC firm.

5:37

There are many strategic ways to plan your exit from a startup, as an investor. Amal shares insights on these exit strategies as you reap the returns on the investment you’ve made in the growing startup.