McKinsey Mafia
402 people left McKinsey to start their own companies in the region, and together they have raised over $2.5 billion. Working with Crustdata, we traced them across 385 companies, led by Kitopi ($854M) and Careem ($771M), with SHIFT, Rewaa and Vezeeta close behind.
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