Naguib Sawiris, an Egyptian billionaire entrepreneur has launched Moniify, a new digital business and finance news platform in Dubai.
According to its executives, the company has been recruiting aggressively for journalists and social media content creators across emerging markets and has five years’ backing from Sawiris.
He is on the board as the Chairman of Moniify and Michael Peters is the CEO. Peters was the former CEO of Euronews, in which Sawiris previously held a majority stake.
The platform is designed to cover emerging markets from an emerging markets viewpoint, rather than from a western or Wall Street market perspective.
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Revenue will be generated from paywalled premium content as well as events and sub-brands, Bishr said.
Coverage is starting from the GCC and Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and moving on to Africa and Latin America in the future.
The executives declined to comment on the budget involved, but Tribe Techie understands that hundreds of millions of dollars have been made available to the project with Sawiris as its sole backer.
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