Sonia Weymuller describes herself as an accidental outlier who built VentureSouq from an informal group of friends into one of the GCC's largest early-stage platforms with 180-200+ companies, giving her rare experience spanning both grassroots angel investing and institutional VC in MENA. She leads the VSQ Conscious Collective, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the region that brings together mission-driven investors to back technology companies solving social and environmental challenges, and pioneered a pan-regional Conscious Investor Fellowship to close the gap between traditional philanthropy and impact investing. Sonia Weymuller describes herself as an accidental outlier who built VentureSouq from an informal group of friends into one of the GCC's largest early-stage platforms with 180-200+ companies, giving her rare experience spanning both grassroots angel investing and institutional VC in MENA. She leads the VSQ Conscious Collective, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the region that brings together mission-driven investors to back technology companies solving social and environmental challenges, and pioneered a pan-regional Conscious Investor Fellowship to close the gap between traditional philanthropy and impact investing.