In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history of the region.
Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.
Date | Company Name | Round | Money Raised | Industry | |
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Apr 19, 2020 | VUZ | Series A | $7.09M | Augmented Reality | Detail |
Jul 3, 2019 | Ola | Series J | $11.37M | Apps | Detail |
May 24, 2016 | BitOasis | Seed | — | Bitcoin | Detail |