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Cairo-based think tank · Est. 2023

Reshaping the entrepreneurialentrepreneurial
landscape.

Entlaq is a Cairo-based think tank dedicated to reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape across Egypt and the wider MENA region — through public policy, advisory, programs, venture growth, and government affairs.

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Cairo-based · MENA-active✦Public-Private Reports✦Egypt Vision 2030 aligned✦Trusted by ministries, donors & multilaterals✦Public Policy · Advisory · Programs · Venture Growth · Government Affairs✦Cairo-based · MENA-active✦Public-Private Reports✦Egypt Vision 2030 aligned✦Trusted by ministries, donors & multilaterals✦Public Policy · Advisory · Programs · Venture Growth · Government Affairs✦Cairo-based · MENA-active✦Public-Private Reports✦Egypt Vision 2030 aligned✦Trusted by ministries, donors & multilaterals✦Public Policy · Advisory · Programs · Venture Growth · Government Affairs✦
2023
Founded · Cairo
14
Service lines across 5 pillars
60+
Engagements delivered
300+
Stakeholders briefed
Entlaq team at a government press event in Cairo

Entlaq at a government press briefing, Cairo

In the room where it happens.

Entlaq works where decisions are made — with ministries, regulators, multilaterals, and the founders building around them. Policy notes become licensing pathways; research becomes programs running on the ground.

Two studios, one practice. Pick your lane.

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Public Policy & Research

Public-private reports, policy advisory, foresight modeling, and stakeholder engagement for governments, donors, and multilateral partners.

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Public-Private Reports
Customizable research collaborations on Egypt's entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem — primary or secondary data, publication-ready. Past coverage: FinTech, Cleantech, AgriTech, TourismTech.
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Strategy Advisory

Corporate, business, and market-expansion strategy for startups, SMEs, and international firms entering Egypt and the wider MENA region.

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Corporate Level Strategy
Long-term direction for executive teams — growth planning, stability strategies, change management. For startups and growing organizations sharpening their long-term vision.
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Government Affairs

Specialized support for companies and investors entering, operating, or scaling within the Egyptian market — full spectrum of regulatory engagement.

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Market Access & Company Establishment
Legal presence in Egypt — company registration, investor setup for foreign ownership, sector-specific licensing, market-access roadmaps.
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Program cohort in session, Cairo
Worker at an Egyptian textile factory
Field work — Egyptian manufacturing
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Venture support, day to day

The receipts. Reports, research, and the occasional headline.

Report · 2026
Diagnostic

The Innovation and Commercialization Gap Report: Why Egypt's Innovation System Produces Institutions Without Outcomes

Report · 2026
Mapping

Economic Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Egypt

Report · 2025
Sector Outlook

Egypt's Tourism Sector Performance Report 2025

Report · 2025
Diagnostic

The Egyptian Entrepreneurship Sector Diagnostics Report 2025

News · 2025
Press release

Entlaq named delivery partner on a national entrepreneurship initiative

News · 2025
Forbes Middle East

FinTech Egypt 2025 outlook released — 96-page annual sector review

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Working with

14 partners
Ministry of International Cooperation
ITIDA
GIZ
EBRD
UNDP
AUC Venture Lab
Flat6Labs
World Bank
IFC
Ministry of Planning
USAID
African Development Bank
EU Delegation
Hassan Allam Foundation

From Cairo, for the region.

Policy, programs, and research delivered on the ground across Egypt and the wider MENA region.

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Tell us what you're building. We'll write the brief back to you in 48 hours.

No SDR follow-up. No generic decks. A senior partner reads every brief, scopes a real engagement, and replies with timeline + price range — not a meeting request.

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    You submit a brief
    5 minutes. Pick services, tell us context.
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    A partner reads it
    Within 24 hours. Senior, named, accountable.
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    You get a real scope back
    Approach, team, timeline, price band — in writing.
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