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Rima Al-Sheikh

Founder & CEO, Begin.ai · 1 appearance on the record.

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Rima Al-Sheikh is a Syrian-born software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Nabbesh.com and GTL.io before founding Begin.ai. After relocating to Canada, she raised seed funding for Begin.ai and has developed AI solutions for enterprise clients.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Rima argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Al-Sheikh: Begin AI has multiple patents pending
“And that technology is, is really hard to build. And like I said, it was an accidental discovery for me and having like multiple patents pending.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 14:02 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

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Disclosure
Al-Sheikh: Begin AI raised $1M at a $10M pre-money valuation
“No, it was 10 pre.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 5:49 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Al-Sheikh: Local on-device processing cuts ML production timelines by a year
“We're really taking it to a whole new, you know, level by doing all the processing on devices. And that basically eliminates a year from the timeline of production for companies.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 6:00 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Al-Sheikh: Mocus.io generated about $1M in first-year revenue
“Actually, we made about a million dollars in revenue in the first year of operation.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 8:23 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
Disclosure
Al-Sheikh bootstrapped Mocus.io but closed it to flee the Syrian war
“Lucky for me, MOCUS, I built it when you know, without venture backing, so I built it all by myself. So I didn't have to you know, deal with complexities of closing down shop. I had to close it down because I needed to change country.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 9:32 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
Assertion Supported
Al-Sheikh: Begin AI has multiple patents pending
“And that technology is, is really hard to build. And like I said, it was an accidental discovery for me and having like multiple patents pending.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 14:02 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Al-Sheikh: Begin AI pilot tested 1.5M users and 200M interactions
“About the last test we ran this morning was about a million and a million and a half users with twenty million interact, two hundred million interactions. Sorry.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 15:38 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
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Al-Sheikh: Mocus.io built a 300-engineer network and automated team-matching algorithm
“So we had, we built like a 300 engineers network. And when we built an algorithm that can build teams for the task at hand for releases.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 8:09 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Al-Sheikh: Nabbesh reached approximately 200,000 users
“I think we were like getting to like 200,000 users, if I remember well.”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 12:27 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Al-Sheikh: Nabbesh peaked at $50k to $60k in MRR
“I don't, I'm sorry, but it wasn't, I wouldn't say it was more than like 50, 60 K .”
Rima Al-Sheikh Apr 19, 2022 ▶ 12:40 She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m Apr 19, 2022 10m
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