The entrepreneur has a great passion for e-sports. With GBarena, he is pursuing his goal of creating a comprehensive gaming and e-sports hub that connects gamers from around the world through daily tournaments, events, and activities.

Samer Wagdy (photo) is an Egyptian entrepreneur and gamer. He is also the founder and CEO of the online gaming platform and community GBarena.

GBarena, founded in 2015, connects gamers through global tournaments and challenges, providing tournament organizers with a tool to help them create and manage their tournaments from start to finish. It also helps businesses reach their target audience through gaming.

A few days ago, the start-up acquired the Tunisian e-sports and gaming start-up Galactech which had 200,000 active users. With that acquisition,  GBarena continued its MENA expansion by leveraging its new acquisition's presence and capabilities in Riyadh, Dubai, and Tunis.

"Our goal has always been to provide our users with an unparalleled esports experience, no matter where they’re located in the world. With our acquisition of Galactech, we can now ensure that our users from North Africa will have access to identical features and content they have come to expect from us while providing them with extensive opportunities for growth and development within the esports community," said Samer Wagdy.

In 2014, the latter co-founded an IT firm Rackisland and developed a mobile app GEEXPAD (in 2013), which allows users to play PC games using their smartphone as a game controller and joystick. About three years earlier, he founded the IT agency Double Bridge.

Thanks to GBarena, Samer Wagdy was admitted to the French government incubation program at La Belle de Mai in 2017. In 2015, he was selected to be one of the finalists in the University Startup World Cup competition in Copenhagen, Denmark. With Rackisland, he won the Orange Social Venture Prize in 2014.

Melchior Koba