Archive | Dhow Dispatch

⛵Dhow Dispatch | Dr. Aadeel Akhtar Spent a Decade Building Hands for Humans. Then the Robots Came.

Oct 8, 2026

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15 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch | Dr. Aadeel Akhtar Spent a Decade Building Hands for Humans. Then the Robots Came.

Issue 36 · Focus: How Dr. Aadeel Akhtar built PSYONIC from a prosthetics research project into a company at the intersection of bionic hands, dexterous robotics, and physical AI.

Ali Abidi, Zain Abidi, Raza Abidi

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The Circular AI Economy

Sep 24, 2026

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13 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The Circular AI Economy

Issue 35 · Focus: How the same dollar is supporting revenue, financing, and valuations across the AI stack

Ali Abidi, Zain Abidi, Raza Abidi

Market

Sep 10, 2026

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13 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The Parallel Internet: What Happens When a Country Builds Its Own Digital Economy

Issue 34 · Focus: Iran's Technology & Digital Infrastructure

Market

Aug 27, 2026

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8 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The AI Venture Boom Is Hiding a Massive Private-Market Reset

Issue 33 · Focus: Venture Capital / Private Markets

Aug 13, 2026

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8 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Our First Investment: Lore

Issue 32 · Focus: Dhow Horizon Fund I, Portfolio Company #1

Zehra Naqvi

Apr 9, 2026

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16 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Ali Partovi and the Talent Layer of Venture

Issue 23 · Focus: Neo's unique approach to venture

NEO

Raza Abidi, +2

Mar 26, 2026

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15 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The Hormuz Shock - What Breaks, What Reprices, and Where Capital Flows

Issue 22 · Focus: Impacts of Black Swan Events

Market

Raza Abidi, +2

Mar 12, 2026

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19 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ 4 Failed Startups - What You Can Learn from Them as an Investor

Issue 21 · Focus: Failure Patterns in Venture

Market

Raza Abidi, +2

Feb 26, 2026

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17 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Kareem Amin & Clay: The $5b Platform Making Sales Teams Faster, Smarter, and More Systematic

Issue 20 · Focus: Clay and Kareem Amin

Clay

Raza Abidi, +2

Feb 12, 2026

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19 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Adnan Esmail & Physical Intelligence - A Deeper Dive

Issue 19 · Focus: Embodied AI: Intelligence, Economics, and Durability - Adnan Esmail and Physical Intelligence

Adnan Esmail

Raza Abidi, +2

Jan 29, 2026

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10 min read

⛵ Dhow Dispatch │ UpScrolled and the Fracturing of the Attention Stack

Issue 18 · Focus: Platform Power, Censorship, and Trust - Issam Hijazi & UpScroll

UpScrolled

Raza Abidi, +2

Jan 15, 2026

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9 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ How SPVs Actually Work (And Where Investors Get It Wrong)

Issue 17 · Focus: SPV's

Raza Abidi, +2

Jan 1, 2026

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13 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Year in Review 2025

Issue 16 · Focus: Progress, Roadmap & Unicorn Signals

Dhow

Raza Abidi, +2

Dec 18, 2025

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12 min read

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Samir Kaji & Allocate

Issue 15 · Focus: Private Markets Infrastructure

Raza Abidi, +2

⛵Dhow Dispatch | Dr. Aadeel Akhtar Spent a Decade Building Hands for Humans. Then the Robots Came.

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The Circular AI Economy

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The Parallel Internet: What Happens When a Country Builds Its Own Digital Economy

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The AI Venture Boom Is Hiding a Massive Private-Market Reset

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Our First Investment: Lore

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Ali Partovi and the Talent Layer of Venture

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ The Hormuz Shock - What Breaks, What Reprices, and Where Capital Flows

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ 4 Failed Startups - What You Can Learn from Them as an Investor

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Kareem Amin & Clay: The $5b Platform Making Sales Teams Faster, Smarter, and More Systematic

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Adnan Esmail & Physical Intelligence - A Deeper Dive

⛵ Dhow Dispatch │ UpScrolled and the Fracturing of the Attention Stack

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ How SPVs Actually Work (And Where Investors Get It Wrong)

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Year in Review 2025

⛵Dhow Dispatch │ Samir Kaji & Allocate

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