Meet & Greet with Nada Helmy

Nada Helmy is a professional with more than 9 years of experience in entrepreneurship. She graduated from the American University in Cairo (AUC) with a major in Integrated Marketing Communications and a minor in Business Administration. She is a business content creator, mainly known on TikTok, a business mentor and entrepreneurship expert. She won the award of Business Advisor of the Year (2023) by Africa Startup Ecosystem Builders. She is the host of the business podcast The Real Preneur. She is currently the Value Creation Manager at HALA Ventures, a Saudi-Based VC, creating projects and initiatives that bring value to the company, portfolio startups and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Before that, she was the Incubation & Acceleration Program Manager at EdVentures, an edtech VC. Nada worked at the Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), a joint venture between the Egyptian Ministry of IT & Communications and The United Nations. Nada has also worked as a Project Manager at Vflock Co. where she supported the launch of Athar Accelerator and was a co-founder of an educational startup called Journey of Entrepreneurship (JOE) which has succeeded in growing internationally. She has first-hand experience in building and scaling businesses and has served as a mentor and trainer for startups in diverse industries.