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Oct 2021
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Accessible healthcare for everyone, with...

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About this episode
Today’s episode is with Karim Khashaba, the co-founder and CEO of Yodawy founded in Oct 2018. Yodawy is a digital healthcare infrastructure that upgrades the medication value chain and improves access to medication at the lowest cost.

Karim is an ex. engineer and Booz & Company consultant, having 10+ years management consulting and technology experience across Europe and the Middle East.

He started his career as an R&D engineer with NTT DOCOMO Eurolabs in Munich in 2008 and switched to Booz & Company in 2010, spending the next 9 years based out of Munich and later Dubai.

In 2016, Karim also founded MedexCloud; a clinic and hospital management platform currently serving 100+ public and private sector clients across Egypt.

On today’s show we talk about:

✅ Why he decided to create Yodawy, and specifically, why he wanted to focus on digital healthcare
✅ Why he decided to tackle this industry and market, and how his platform evolved
✅ Yodawy’s competitive advantage in the MENA ecosystem
✅ How the pandemic impacted his business

Stay tuned for upcoming episodes with startup founders in the Middle East and North Africa!

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