FOUNDER'S LETTER
Why I Started Taqseem
Meet Nouman Saeed, Founder & CEO of Taqseem
For twelve years I worked across retail, F&B and ecommerce in the UAE, and I kept meeting the same business. Good product. Real demand. A founder who was working harder than anyone should have to, and still losing ground.
The problem was almost never the product. It was that nobody had responsibility for the whole picture. Five suppliers, five opinions, five invoices, and a strategy that changed depending on who spoke last.
I started Taqseem in 2020 to remove that problem for good. The goal was to give a first-time founder the same operational structure and market intelligence that large retail groups take for granted, without the cost or the bureaucracy that usually comes attached.
- 2020 Founded in Dubai
- 75+ Retail, ecommerce and technology specialists
- 350+ Brands launched
- 80% Client retention
- 15+ Marketplace and platform integrations
- 2 Offices, in Dubai DIFC and Riyadh
That meant building something different from a consultancy. We had to be able to open a store, run a marketplace account, forecast inventory and deliver a parcel, not just advise on all four.
Retail is heading somewhere specific. Strategy, technology, operations and growth will stop living in separate departments and start working as one system. That is the company we are building.
— Nouman Saeed, Founder & CEO, Taqseem