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The seven-year-old startup quietly shut shop and founder Sharmin Ali stopped answering questions, leaving the investors high and dry.


The managing partner at Key Capital talks about his new—and the region’s first-ever—secondaries fund and why long investment cycles are not everyone’s cup of tea.
The Mideast tech giant is scaling back verticals in Saudi Arabia and possibly rethinking global operations.
The country’s top VC funds are flush with new fundraises. They must now find opportunities to invest, but that’s easier said than done.