Mina Kerols

🚀 Empowering Startups & Shaping the Entrepreneurial Landscape 🚀
I’m Mina Kerols, I’m Mina Kerols, Incubator and Accelerator Manager at Estithmarcom – KSA
Former Incubation Programs Manager at Cultiv LLC and Founder & CEO of TalkStartUp. With over a decade of hands-on experience in entrepreneurship and training, I’ve dedicated my career to fostering startup growth across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

🔍 Navigating the Startup Journey
My professional journey began as a startup founder, where I learned the realities of entrepreneurship through early challenges and failures. Since 2010, I’ve witnessed and contributed to the evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem in Egypt and MENA, helping countless startups validate their ideas, secure investments, and scale their businesses.

🌟 Areas of Expertise
With over 10 years in the field, my expertise extends across:
• Startup Mentorship: Guiding founders with data-driven insights and growth strategies.
• Training & Development: Over 2,800 trainees equipped with entrepreneurship skills.
• Investment Readiness: Assisting startups in pitch deck preparation and business planning.
• Ecosystem Building: Collaborating with programs and entities to strengthen the startup ecosystem.

🏆 Accomplishments & Contributions
Recognized as one of the most influential entrepreneurs in the Middle East by the One Young World Summit in the UK.
Certified Incubator Manager (CIM) by EEIC, Missouri State University.
Actively mentoring under Creativa programs, the Ministry of Communications, and other key entities.
Visiting lecturer and trainer at top universities, including Cairo University, Qassim University, and the National Planning Institute.

🎓 Educational Background
MBA, Smart Island University.
Master’s in Intellectual Property Rights & Creativity Management, Helwan University.
Entrepreneurship & Digital Innovation Fellowship, Queen’s University, Canada.

My goal to spread concepts of entrepreneurship in poor areas in Egypt. focus is helping students and refugees understand how to apply entrepreneurship based on the SDG’s within their graduation projects and local projects for refugees so that they can obtain a financial resource that will ensure their livelihood.

I seek to leave impact. Currently, I have a virtual community includes +10,000 entrepreneurs from Middle east. Through these community, we work to exchange experiences, meetups, partnerships while also providing support to these students and refugees in securing the funding and investment necessary to realize their innovative ideas.

So, I want to give back to the startup ecosystem and entrepreneurs coming up, I have faced many challenges and difficulties in my journey, and had it not been for the help of my advisors, I would not have succeeded. My first startup company failed, and after that I worked in my advisor’s company to gain experience that allowed me to build my company again.