Communications for investment firms & technology founders

Communications built for the firms shaping MENA's next decade.

A communications partner for investment firms and technology founders across the Middle East. Deep sector knowledge, senior execution, and the infrastructure to make your narrative systematic — not sporadic.

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17+
Years in communications
$1B+
In capital announcements led
MENA
Regional focus, global reach
Two audiences, one standard

We work across the table from each other every day.

For investment firms

Fund narrative and media relationships that build LP confidence.

Fund positioning. Portfolio announcements managed end to end. LP communications and quarterly updates. Partner thought leadership in regional and global press.

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For tech founders

From seed announcement to the narrative your Series B investors need to hear.

Fundraise communications and investor narrative. Market entry in English and Arabic. Product launch and milestone coverage. Category positioning that builds credibility before the next round.

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The cost of silence

Most firms in this region are significantly underpowered in how they communicate.

LPs hear nothing between quarterly reports

Your fund is doing real work. Your investors only hear about it twice a year, in a PDF. The narrative compounds in the gaps — and most firms cede it.

Portfolio milestones land flat

A Series A announcement that should have moved the market becomes a single tweet. The story is there. The infrastructure to tell it well is not.

Founders raise without a narrative

Series B investors want to know what category you define and why you win it. Most decks answer the first question. Almost none answer the second.

Why us

The difference between an agency that knows media and a partner who knows your business.

Strategy
Templated playbooks applied to every client regardless of sector. Strategy written by juniors who have never worked inside an investment firm or sat across from a founder raising a round.
Bespoke strategy benchmarked against 40+ global investment firms and technology companies. We study their narrative architecture, cadence, and positioning — then feed those benchmarks into your execution plan every week.
Account management
A junior account executive juggling 8–12 other clients, reporting to a director who only reviews your account once a quarter. The person writing your strategy has never been inside an investment firm.
A former Chief Communications Officer who has built teams, managed boards, and run communications inside a multi-strategy investment firm. You speak to the same person every week.
Media relationships
A media list bought from a database and blasted out blindly. No real relationships. No understanding of who actually covers your sector, region, or fund type.
Direct, personal relationships with Bloomberg, FT, Forbes Middle East, Arabian Business, TechCrunch and a network of 150+ journalists in MENA and globally. Built over 15+ years.
Understanding of capital
Treats a fund close like a product launch. No grasp of how LPs evaluate you, how GPs communicate returns, or why a portfolio company’s next round depends on its narrative before the term sheet.
Built inside investment firms — knows how LPs read, what GPs need, how deals get covered, and why the story you tell today shapes the valuation you get tomorrow.
Bilingual capability
English release, translated by an intern who does not understand financial terminology. The Arabic version reads like a machine translation — and journalists notice.
Press releases drafted in English and Arabic to the standard of a senior financial journalist. Native-level fluency in both languages, with sector-specific terminology that holds up under scrutiny.
Infrastructure
Spreadsheets, email threads, and monthly PDF reports that no one reads. No real-time visibility. No systematic tracking. No way to measure what is actually working.
Narrative Alpha — a dedicated workspace for every client. Real-time tracking, systematic reporting, and a single source of truth for your entire communications program. Built because the work deserved better.
Capabilities

The full communications stack — built for how your firm actually operates.

Strategy & Narrative

The story before the press release.

Fund and founder narrative. Category positioning. Messaging architecture. Investor-grade narrative built to hold across an entire fund cycle.

Media & Press

Relationships, not databases.

Bloomberg, FT, Forbes Middle East, Arabian Business, TechCrunch. Bilingual press releases drafted to the standard of a senior financial journalist.

Speaking Opportunities

The right stage, the right room.

Conference placements, panel positioning, and keynote opportunities at the forums where LPs, founders, and reporters actually show up.

Social Media Management

A voice that compounds.

Founder and firm channels run with the same editorial standard as your press. Calendars, drafting, and engagement — not scheduling tools dressed up as strategy.

Website Management

The first place every journalist looks.

Messaging, copy, and ongoing updates to the page your LPs, reporters, and recruits open before any call. Treated as a live communications asset.

Crises Communications

Prepared before you need it.

Holding statements, reporter triage, and stakeholder messaging when the story is moving faster than you are. Built quietly in advance, ready on the day.

Portfolio Monitoring

Coverage tracked the way capital reads it.

Live tracking of every portfolio mention across regional and global press. Filed, summarised, and surfaced to GPs and LPs in a format they actually use.

Community Event Production

The room is the message.

Closed-door dinners, founder salons, and LP gatherings produced end to end. The convening becomes the proof point — and the press follows.

The foundation

Infrastructure

Narrative Alpha, for every client.

Journalist database, press release drafting, outreach tracking, portfolio monitoring. Built because the work deserved better than spreadsheets and email threads. Every capability above sits on top of it.

By the numbers

A practice measured in outcomes, not output.

17+
Years in investing and comms
$1B+
In capital announcements led
$50M+
Value of Earned Placed Media
200+
Portfolio milestones managed
Who built this

Built by someone who has done this from the inside.

Tarek Fouad, Founder of Narrative One
Tarek Fouad
Founder, Narrative One
Mubadala Investment Company

VP Operations, venture capital team — managed 3x accelerators and investment deployment across Techstars, Gotham's defense accelerator, Plug and Play and founded Hub71's community engagement offering and corporate partnerships.

Shorooq

Chief Communications Officer. Built the communications program for one of MENA's most active multi-strategy investment firms from the ground up — media, LP communications, category positioning, and the infrastructure to make it all repeatable.

Narrative One

Founded to give investment firms and technology founders the communications partner the region has not had — and the infrastructure to make it systematic, measurable, and repeatable.

Ready to own your narrative?

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