In the fall of 2019, Honghao Deng and his co-founder Jiani Zeng joined 500 Global’s accelerator program, as part of Batch 26. Their company Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spin-out, had developed sensors that anonymously track through body heat how people move indoors, to help businesses manage the use of commercial space. Applications include monitoring foot traffic, maintaining clean bathrooms, or activating air conditioning when needed. Butlr was set on deploying its sensors in commercial building...
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In the fall of 2019, Honghao Deng and his co-founder Jiani Zeng joined 500 Global’s accelerator program, as part of Batch 26. Their company Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spin-out, had developed sensors that anonymously track through body heat how people move indoors, to help businesses manage the use of commercial space. Applications include monitoring foot traffic, maintaining clean bathrooms, or activating air conditioning when needed. Butlr was set on deploying its sensors in commercial building...
Amal Dokhan Sees MENA’s Startup Ecosystem Evolving at Breakneck Speed
Rise of the Next
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3 years ago
Amal Dokhan Sees MENA’s Startup Ecosystem Evolving at Breakneck Speed
Amal Dokhan is a Partner at 500 Global MENA, and one of a handful of female venture capitalists in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. Amal joined 500 Global more than a year ago to lead the Sanabil 500 MENA seed Accelerator fund and accelerator, a 12-week program based in Riyadh that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to that, she was heavily involved in Saudi Arabia’s startup ecosystem overseeing entrepreneurship programs, and as an a...
Rise of the Next
In the fall of 2019, Honghao Deng and his co-founder Jiani Zeng joined 500 Global’s accelerator program, as part of Batch 26. Their company Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spin-out, had developed sensors that anonymously track through body heat how people move indoors, to help businesses manage the use of commercial space. Applications include monitoring foot traffic, maintaining clean bathrooms, or activating air conditioning when needed. Butlr was set on deploying its sensors in commercial building...
