270+ placements from one $45M Series B announcement
Reuters put the regional investor in the headline, making the round evidence of the firm’s cross-border position.
Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Riyadh · Doha · Cairo · Amman
The communications partner of choice for investment firms and tech companies.
Senior strategy and execution for the funds shaping capital and the founders building what comes next.
COMMUNICATIONS AND PR MANAGED
$2Bn+in AUM represented across current partner mandates
270+average media placements per partner per quarter
$50M+in earned media placed
Recognized by Forbes Middle East and PRCAMost Influential CMO 2026 · Best In-House Comms Team 2025
Built around the mandate
Two sides of the same capital story.
Investment firms need a position founders and LPs understand. Founders need a story that grows with scrutiny. We work across both.
01 · Investment firms
Be the fund founders name before the first meeting.
Fund positioning, LP-facing visibility, partner thought leadership, bilingual media relations, and portfolio communications.
Explore investment firm programmes →02 · Technology foundersBuild the category before the funding headline.
Funding, product, market entry, founder voice, and reputation from seed through institutional scale.
Explore founder programmes →Recent work
Proof belongs near the promise.
coverage for a first close
The announcement framed a fund milestone inside a broader multi-strategy alternative investment platform.
connected to the AI infrastructure story
The narrative moved geothermal cooling from technical solution to a regional data-centre constraint.
Women of Influence 2026 recognition
Positioned Partner Soumaya Ben Beya Dridje among the region’s defining venture capital figures, with her cross-border investment thesis at the centre.
Arabic broadcast interview on growth deployment
Framed the Shorooq and Emirates Growth Fund investment through a live broadcast discussion on institutional capital scaling regional infrastructure.
milestone across dual Ijarah issuances
An EGP 633M second issuance produced 230+ placements and earned EnterpriseAM reporting, moving Nawy from marketplace to financial infrastructure.
Global AI Award win and a four-page Inc. Arabia feature
Established the “Point of Intelligence” category for AI in hospitality across 230+ placements, with tier-one feature coverage behind it.
feature on Gulf family-business succession
Positioned the ADGM-regulated private equity platform as an authority on mid-market dealmaking and generational wealth transition.
bylines shaping regional capital debates
Recurring partner commentary, including Shane Shin on the India–Gulf fintech corridor and Bilal Baloch on Qatar’s fund of funds.
Coverage placed in
Enterprise ME
Caterer Middle East
A different operating model
Built for continuity, not hand-offs.
DimensionGeneralist retainer modelNarrative One
Strategy
A broad playbook adapted across sectors and account teams.
A bespoke position benchmarked against 40+ global investment firms and technology companies, then fed into weekly execution.
Who runs the account
Responsibilities move between strategy, account, content, and media teams.
The same senior adviser holds the business context from strategy through execution.
Media intelligence
Coverage targets are often organised around broad outlet lists.
150+ direct journalist relationships, mapped by beat, geography, and relevance to each story.
Capital context
A fund close and a product launch can enter the same delivery process.
17 years across investing and communications informs how LPs, GPs, founders, and institutions read each moment.
Languages
Arabic is commonly produced after English approval.
English and Arabic are written natively in parallel, against one factual and strategic brief.
Infrastructure
Planning, approvals, outreach, and reports live across separate files.
Narrative Alpha joins the programme in one live workspace.
Capabilities
One strategy across every place the firm is read.
01
Communications strategy
Positioning benchmarked against 40+ global firms, translated into a weekly execution plan.
Explore →02Media relations
Direct, targeted English and Arabic outreach across MENA and international business press.
Explore →03Bilingual content
Native English and Arabic writing for releases, commentary, websites, and investor communications.
Explore →04GP thought leadership
Distinct territories for investment partners and founders across press, social, and speaking.
Explore →05Crisis and monitoring
Real-time listening, prepared escalation, and response language before the pressure arrives.
Explore →06Events and speaking
The right rooms, useful contributions, and follow-through that extends the moment.
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Tarek Fouad · Founder
Built from inside
The person setting the strategy stays in the work.
Before founding Narrative One, Tarek led communications inside Shorooq and worked in Mubadala’s venture capital team—across fund narratives, portfolio milestones, accelerators, investment deployment, community, and corporate partnerships.
17+years in investing and communications
150+direct relationships with journalists and chief editors
200+portfolio milestones managed
2026Forbes Middle East Most Influential CMO
Narrative Alpha
The operating system beneath the work.
One workspace for planning, journalist intelligence, approvals, outreach, portfolio monitoring, and reporting. Built to make every communications decision easier to find, measure, and improve.
- Live programme and approval view
- Partner and portfolio monitoring
- Journalist and outreach intelligence
- Reporting tied to the narrative
Latest resources
Ideas, guidance, and the signals behind them.
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Start with the narrative
Before your next close, raise, or announcement.
Thirty minutes with Tarek. We review how your firm reads today and give you three specific fixes, whether or not we work together.
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