Quiqup’s Bassel El Koussa on Raising $65M, Surviving Uber and Rebuilding in Dubai

Podcast: FWDstart · Jamie Lane

Opublikowano: 2026-09-07

Quiqup has one of the more remarkable founder stories in the region, although it didn’t start here. Bassel El Koussa and his co-founders launched the company in London in 2014 around a simple idea: use a mobile app to let people get almost anything delivered in under an hour. Over the years that followed, Quiqup raised tens of millions of dollars, worked with some of the world’s biggest retailers and found itself competing in one of the most aggressively funded corners of technology. Then Uber Eats arrived in London, and the environment arou...