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! Please tag us and tell us what you learned. We’d greatly appreciate a review if you are enjoying these conversations.