Tabby Started With a Button at Checkout. Now It’s a $6.5 Billion Bet on the Future of Gulf Banking.

  ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 In 2019, Tabby’s proposition was remarkably simple. A customer wanted to buy something online but didn’t necessarily want to pay the entire amount immediately. Tabby placed itself at checkout and allowed that purchase to be divided into instalments. No bank branch. No traditional credit-card application. No complicated financial…

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She Trained to Become a Doctor. Then Iman Abuzeid Decided Healthcare Hiring Was Broken — and Built a Company to Fix It

SATURDAY ABE FOUNDERS | September 12, 2026 Iman Abuzeid had already completed the kind of education that usually determines the rest of a person’s career. She had trained as a doctor in London. Medicine ran through her family. Becoming a physician offered prestige, stability and a clear professional path. After years of medical school, the…

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Europe Just Got a New Route to Space — German Startup Isar Aerospace Reaches Orbit in Historic Launch

  ABE NEWS | September 6, 2026 Europe’s effort to rebuild its independent access to space reached an important milestone this weekend after German startup Isar Aerospace successfully sent its Spectrum rocket into orbit from northern Norway, becoming the first commercial European company to place satellites into orbit with its own launch vehicle. The rocket…

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Saturday ABE Founders: Inside Sirdab — The Entrepreneurs Building the Logistics Infrastructure Behind a Growing Gulf Economy

  SATURDAY ABE FOUNDERS | September 5, 2026 Warehouses are rarely glamorous. Neither are trucks. Inventory management doesn’t dominate dinner-table conversations. And few children grow up telling their parents they dream of optimizing warehouse capacity. But Naif Alzahri and Abdulrahman Alnamlah saw something different. They saw infrastructure. More specifically, they saw businesses across Saudi Arabia…

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ABE FOUNDERS | Elana Laichena Is Building Flowt to Solve One of Africa’s Biggest Business Problems: Getting the Money to Grow

 ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 For many small businesses, growth begins with a frustrating contradiction. The customers are there. The product is selling. The entrepreneur knows that buying more inventory, adding equipment or expanding production could generate more revenue. But the money needed to make that next move isn’t there. For thousands of small…

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He Thinks Robots Are 16 Months From Their “ChatGPT Moment” — Wang Xiaogang Is Building the Brain to Make It Happen

  ABE FOUNDERS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 The humanoid-robot industry has become very good at producing moments that look like science fiction. Robots can dance. They can box. They can work through obstacle courses. And, as we reported earlier today, one Chinese humanoid has now completed a 100-metre test run in 9.32 seconds. But…

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