
Months of runway left for pre-seed startups MENA 2020
In 2020, the share of pre-seed startups in the Middle East and Africa region that were profitable was about 43 percent. A startup runway refers to the survival period of a startup in the market if its income and expenses remain constant. Most startups in the Middle East and Africa region were based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt as they have established growing entrepreneurship ecosystems.