Ahmed Darwish

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Founder & CEO at Harbor Care | ex-KPMG

Harbor Care
Manama, Bahrain · AST (UTC+3)
11+ years experience
INSEAD Abu Dhabi
English, Arabic
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Overview

Building Harbor Care in Manama - consumer finance. Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company. Signed 164 paying customers, 18 of them enterprises.

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Skills
lendingeducationcomplianceconsumer fintechgrowth
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closes in 3 months

Raising a $8M Series A for expense management for property managers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$8M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$304k MRR after 22 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$304k MRR after 22 months. Looking for investors who know edtech and can help with enterprise sales.

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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Harbor Care · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Signed 269 paying customers, 18 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
  2. Controller
    Mar 2022 - Sep 2024
    KPMG · 2 yr 6 mo · Contract · Manama, Bahrain
    • Saved $2 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  3. Finance Director
    Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
    Amazon · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Saved $4 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. Financial Analyst
    Feb 2017 - Dec 2020
    Microsoft · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Manama, Bahrain
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $281 million raise.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 6 straight quarters.
  5. Finance Manager
    Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
    STC · 1 yr 4 mo · Contract · Manama, Bahrain
    • Saved $9 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Ran diligence on 12 acquisitions.

Projects

Consumer finance benchmark
2025

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Education

  1. INSEAD Abu Dhabi
    MBA, Business Administration
    2006 - 2008
  2. King Saud University
    BSc, Business Administration
    2000 - 2004

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