{"id":219901,"date":"2026-01-10T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-business-for-teens-raises-pre-seed-to-expand-across-egypt-and-gcc\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:48:31","slug":"egypt-business-for-teens-raises-pre-seed-to-expand-across-egypt-and-gcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-business-for-teens-raises-pre-seed-to-expand-across-egypt-and-gcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Business for Teens Raises Pre-Seed to Expand Across Egypt and GCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Egypt-based edtech startup Business For Teens has closed a six-figure pre-seed funding round led by a group of angel investors, as interest grows in early-stage education platforms focused on entrepreneurship and financial literacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Founded in 2024 by Nadeem Barakat, Business For Teens teaches business fundamentals to teenagers aged 10-16, using project-based learning and practical simulations. The startup works directly with schools to deliver structured programmes that introduce students to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090193.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt-based edtech startup Business For Teens has closed a six-figure pre-seed funding round led by a group of angel investors, as interest grows in early-stage education platforms focused on entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Founded in 2024 by Nadeem Barakat, Business For Teens teaches business fundamentals to teenagers aged 10-16, using project-based learning and practical simulations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[4338,258,256,4697,415,9873,52564,257,38458,5234,254,15129],"class_list":["post-219901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-expand","tag-gcc","tag-news","tag-preseed","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}