Sherif Nessim

Sherif spent the first two decades of his career in the telecom and tech fields, notably holding different management positions in the largest mobile VAS provider in Middle East, a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom where he joined as one of the early employees.

In 2021, he moved to the USA where he founded Jedar Capital, a VC firm focusing on backing early-stage technology startups across the Middle East & Africa, and other emerging digital markets. He ran the first syndicate in MENA region and built a portfolio of 18 startups with 2 exits so far including an acquisition by InDrive.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics, and Electrical Communications Engineering from Cairo University. He later formalized his investment methodologies through Venture Capital programs and fellowships in the USA.

Sherif is a board advisor at NAYA, a US based fintech and also serves as a part time Investor-readiness consultant at Sprintly Partners, a US advisory firm well-known for their “MENA to the Valley” initiative, which helps tech and AI startups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) bridge into the Silicon Valley ecosystem. He is also an LP in one of the top performing VCs in Middle East, A15 since 2015 where he was lucky to learn a lot on VC operations as an active LP.