Hossam Shafick is Principal & North Africa Lead at Silicon Badia, a global venture firm investing across the US and MENA. With a mission to connect the east and the west, Badia has led rounds in some of the most significant case studies of startups breaking outside the region, notably:

- Expensya (One of the largest B2B SaaS exits in the MENA),

- UserPilot (Biggest SaaS breakouts out of the Levant),

- Eon Aligners (One of the largest exits out of the Levant),

- Swvl (The only company out of Africa to list on the Nasdaq)

Before VC, Hossam was an investment banker, executing over $1Bn in M&A deals.

Ranked the #1 LinkedIn Voice in Africa for Venture Capital (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hossam-shafick/), Hossam has an obsession for people and numbers, believing that venture's worst decisions happen when one over-powers the other; especially since VC analysis has not been well documented or taught formally, but only practiced.

He launched #WTFtv (What They Failed to Teach in Venture) — a weekly newsletter (https://substack.com/@hossamshafick) that transforms complex VC analysis into practical insights, making the ecosystem more data-driven and more accessible to everyone.