Hasan Haider

Founder & Managing Partner at Plus VC (+VC)

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Hasan Haider is the Founder and Managing Partner of +VC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in tech and tech-enabled startups in MENA and its diaspora. He has over 12 years of experience investing in MENA startups.

Hasan was previously Managing Partner, MENA at 500 Startups and led the firm’s growth in the MENA region, turning 500 Startups into the most active VC fund in the MENA region, raising and deploying the 500 Falcons fund, building partnerships and running programs in the region to help build the regional ecosystem. Hasan has invested in more than 220 startups in the region over the last 12 years.

Prior to 500, Hasan was the co-founder and CEO of Tenmou, the first business angel’s organization in Bahrain and one of the first in the MENA region. Hasan’s work in developing angel investment in emerging markets through Tenmou has been picked up as a Case Study by the World Bank and Harvard and was taught to Entrepreneurship Policy makers at Babson College. Hasan started off his career in finance and investment banking at Sico, before he moved to Tenmou.