
He left a finance career in London to build an AI company in Tunisia with Zohra Slim. Years later, Karim Beguir is still working on the same question: who gets to build the future?

He co-founded Redstart to help people build companies. With Lise, Arnaud Mournetas is working on the next obstacle: giving smaller businesses a stock market they can actually use.
In Tunis, The Dot brings founders, advisers and public institutions into the same building. Its next test is making that proximity useful to entrepreneurs far beyond the capital.
From Jordanian suppliers to Tunisian tourism, the nonprofit connects business support to buyers and jobs. Its projects show what that takes - and its accounts show the financial strain behind the work.
The Paris startup studio trades daily operating help for a minority stake. Its real subject is everything that happens between a promising idea and a business that can stand on its own.
Université Européenne de Tunis has built its pitch around a practical proposition: start locally, then continue through an international partner. Behind the globe-spanning brochure sits a campus with a mock courtroom, a trading lab and a hotel classroom that behaves like a hotel.
The Tunisian business magazine has spent three decades covering enterprise. Its women entrepreneurs’ programme takes that relationship beyond the page, into awards, mentoring and access to markets.
The mobile operator is making home broadband a bigger part of its business. Its 5G bet comes with a useful lesson: the network launch is only the beginning.