Khaled Talhouni is a managing partner at Nuwa Capital. He has a long history of investing in the MENA region with stops at Accelerator Technology Holdings, TwoFour54, and Wamda Capital before starting Nuwa Capital. He also worked with ABAN, an angel group in Dubai. Khaled has worked in almost all stages, angel, seed, early and growth. He has seen it all, he's been actively investing in MENA since 2007. Khaled is also a musician. If you follow him on social media, you will see him once in a while playing his guitar.

• Khaled on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaledtalhouni/
• Khaled on Twitter: https://twitter.com/khaledtalhouni
• Nuwa Capital website: https://www.nuwacapital.io/
• Nuwa Capital podcast: https://www.nuwacapital.io/podcast

In today's episode with Khaled:

1. A comprehensive history of VC in MENA, starting from the very early attempts in early 2000s and covering four market cycles, and ending with the current VC boom in Saudi.

2. Are we there yet? Is the VC market in MENA big enough compared to other emerging markets?

3. Is the global big VC crunch coming to Saudi soon? When will the dry power run out this year?

4. What kind of startups works best in MENA? And Why?

5. Saudi stock market growth, and its potential to be the most probable exit scenario to regional unicorns.

6. Disrupting the VC model with more liquidity, and how the lockbox venture funds model is not be able to compete with other asset classes.

7. Why it's important for a VC firm to have an active blog and a podcast?

VC Evolve Podcast is hosted by VCpreneur: Ahmad Takatkah.