The Moghamra Podcast · 22 Apr 2025

أول ستارت أب عربي يستثمر فيه أتلاسيان فينتشرز - #058

أول ستارت أب عربي يستثمر فيه أتلاسيان فينتشرز - #058

About this episode

Abdullah Kamel, CEO & Co-Founder of Adam.ai, joins Moghamra to share his journey of building an all-in-one, AI-powered meeting management platform.Adam.ai received funding from Atlassian Ventures (investment arm of Atlassian), the company behind world-class tools like Confluence, Jira, and Trello. Abdullah shares key product learnings inspired by Atlassian’s approach to building great SaaS, as well as his own takeaways from leading product management at Adam.ai.He also dives into the evolution of their sales strategy, from selling to SMEs to targeting enterprise clients. He shares the challenges of long sales cycles and how they navigated the balance between product-led and sales-led growth.Abdullah Kamel founded Adam.ai in 2017 and was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Middle East 2023 honoree (Science & Technology) for his startup. Beyond product development, he's also an angel investor at FreshKit and a member of AI Link.

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