The UK-based Everest Business School, which specialises in education and training, has announced that it has closed a financing round, without disclosing its value, with the participation of a group of angel investors, and led by a strategic investor from Kuwait.
According to a statement on Saturday, Everest Business School aims to use the funding to expand its operations in a number of emerging markets in the Middle East and North Africa region, and attract the largest category of academic and professional qualifications.
Everest is the first hybrid business school of its kind in the Middle East. It grants academic micro master’s degree, through three specializations, Business administration, Financial Management, and Medical Business programs. Also Everest offers professional services covering management consulting, corporate training programs, and innovative solutions for corporate, SMEs, and start-ups.
Everest develops a strategy focused on emerging markets. The main strategic focus currently is the Egyptian and the Saudi markets covering various business management studies. Everest flagship is the Micro Masters programmes.
“Our Aim is to build the experts and entrepreneurs of the future and as technology is dominating all our sides of life and creating new jobs a new way of learning must of be developed to cope with the incredible fast track that career path of the future is undertaking,” said Nada Elshazly, Co-Founder and CEO of Everest.
