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Journey with us across the Muslim world as we sit down with founders, creatives, and changemakers shaping the future of business and culture.
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Episode 45 | How Hamza Mughal's Running Paper Is Fixing Teacher Burnout With AI (opens the original)
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Six hours of marking, done in 20 minutes — that's the promise that won Hamza Mughal £30,000 and the top prize at Muslim Tech Fest Pitch. Hamza is the founder of Running Paper, an AI tool built to grade exams, and in this conversation he walks us through the hard problem: how do you teach a machine to mark like a thoughtful teacher? We get into the business model, who's actually paying for it, and the bigger question looming over the whole industry — are we heading toward a world where AI grades
Episode 44 | Redwood Founders' Salman Bari: Zero Fees, Zero Equity, and the 99% Everyone Ignores (opens the original)
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Salman Bari, a leading member of the Redwood Founders team, joins the Caravan Podcast to break down how a Warwick University Islamic Society meetup turned into one of London's fastest-growing young builder communities — one that charges zero fees, takes zero equity, and is fully funded by founders who just want to give back. We talk about the failed first attempt (Summer Launchpad), the pivot that actually worked (After Hours), why 99% of UK businesses are SMEs nobody talks about, how they secur
Episode 43: How Saqhib Ali Is Reinventing Finance with 0 Interest Loans (opens the original)
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At Muslim Tech Fest in London, the Caravan Podcast interviews Saqhib Ali, founder of Zeropa, about building an interest-free microfinance alternative for essentials. Saqhib shares how hearing distressed customers while working in Lloyds’ financial distress unit inspired Zeropa’s model, why he chose not to operate as a charity to enable scale, and how the platform lends only when repayments are affordable using income/expenditure analysis, open banking, and behavioral checks. Zeropa provides 0% f
Episode 42 | Hani Chihabi Taking On Big AI with Thawra's Ethical AI (opens the original)
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On the Caravan Podcast in London during Muslim Tech Fest, host interviews Hani Chihabi, 24-year-old co-founder of Thaura AI, an ethical alternative to big tech AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Hani explains Thaura’s mission to counter “surveillance capitalism,” protect users through encrypted data stored in Europe, and avoid reliance on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Launched with Tech for Palestine, Thaura reached 100,000 users in two months without funding or ads, driven by community support and a D
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