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Top 50 Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United Arab Emirates startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Arab Emirates startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bashar Hamood
Angel
9 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $5k–$5M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
9 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $32k–$5M
Musaab Hakami
Angel
6 United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $50k–$7.4M
Asif Keshodia
Angel
4 Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $700k–$7.9M
Kareem Anabtawi
Angel
4 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Sports, Information Technology, Software $1.2M–$10M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
3 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $450k–$40M
Terry Crospy
Angel
3 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Mobile, Apps, Software $250k–$8M
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$35M
Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel
3 United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $120k–$42M
Paul Taylor
Angel
3 United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1M–$10M
Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel
3 United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $800k–$1M
Omar Darwazah
Angel
3 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $360k–$125M
Hosam Arab
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Series A, Debt Financing FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Paul Graham
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $70k–$27M
Samih Toukan
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$7.1M
Walid Hanna
Angel
2 Lebanon, United Arab Emirates Seed Search Engine, Billing, Internet
Prajit Nanu
Angel
2 India, United Arab Emirates Seed Advice, Payments, Financial Services $3.5M–$3.5M
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
Angel
2 Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland Seed, Series A FinTech, Blockchain, Apps $30k–$11M
Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
2 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, Software, FinTech $15k–$3M
Jitendra Gupta
Angel
2 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $100k–$29M
Brian D. Evans
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) $1.8M–$1.9M
Oskar Hartmann
Angel
2 Germany, India, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive $300k–$52M
Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD FRCPC
Angel
2 United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Amjad Masad
Angel
2 United States, France, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $500k–$28M
Zeneca ..
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed Web3 $1M–$1.8M
Srinivas Rao M
Angel
2 India, United Arab Emirates Grant, Seed Advice, Payments, Financial Services $12k–$3.5M
Kunal Shah
Angel
2 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $350k–$16M
Mark Ransford
Angel
2 United Kingdom, France, Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $419k–$30M
Salman Butt
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Series A Web3, Retail, Blockchain
Eldar Tolesh
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed
Mudassir Sheikha
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, EdTech, Mobile $1.5M–$20M
Anuscha Iqbal
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Beauty, Cosmetics
Raza Beig
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Art, Apps, Blockchain
Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
2 Germany, Mexico, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Retail, InsurTech, Insurance
Peter Thiel
Angel
2 United States, Germany, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $900k–$105M
Dingaling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1M–$15M
Amrish Rau
Angel
2 India, Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $381k–$25M
Jonathan Doerr
Angel
2 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Credit, Retail, FinTech
Karl Olsson
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Apps $500k–$6.4M
Ivan on Tech
Angel
2 Portugal, United Arab Emirates Seed Web3, Gaming, Web Apps $1.8M–$2M
Philipp Zentner
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands Seed, Angel, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $3.5M–$8M
Fahad Hafiz
Angel
2 India, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Water $14k–$5M
Mishaal Alireza
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Seed iOS, Apps, Video $1M–$2M
Yusuf Al Hasan
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Database, Software
Prashant Malik
Angel
2 India, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Apps, Mobile $500k–$18M
Dany Farha
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology $4M–$42M
Anton Bukov
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Australia Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet $1.4M–$5M
Sid Dhamija
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Database, Software
Yan Hascoët
Angel
1 France, United Arab Emirates Angel, Seed, Series A Banking, Finance, Cannabis
Ashneer seth Grover
Angel
1 India, France, Singapore Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 9 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 326
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$780k; Pre-Seed $5k–$500k; Series A $15k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
  • G Super Races — G Super Races aims to revolutionize the global horse racing scene with its premier league.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 9 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 577
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $32k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Junotrax — Junotrax is a company dedicated to addressing the critical supply gaps in Southern Africa’s construction, mining, and agricultural sectors.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
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Musaab Hakami
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lisan — Lisan is an AI writing platform offering state-of-the-art proofreading and grammar checking to help individuals who write in Arabic to maximize their productivity, create exceptional content using cutting-edge generative AI models, and automate tasks with AI accelerators.
  • Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
  • Groundfloor — Groundfloor Club: The neighborhood workspace where productivity, connection & community come together.
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Asif Keshodia
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Asif Keshodia is an Angel Investor based in Dubai, UAE and the co-founder of Storfox.com. He is most notable for his work as the Group CFO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in a milestone deal for the Middle East tech sector. He joined Souq in 2011 as an early stage investor and raised over $400m to help it become the leading onlineretailer in the region. After its acquisition by Amazon in 2017, he took the role of MENA Regional Finance Director at Amazon. Asif has over 20 years of experience with some of the world’s biggest names, such as PwC, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon, in countries around the world, including the UK, South Africa, Russia, and Pakistan. He is now using his decades of multinational corporate experience to help usher small startups to big success. He is dedicated to aiding young entrepreneurs launch their projects, with sights currently set on bolstering the e-commerce ecosystem in the MENA region and South Asia’s burgeoning market.In the recent past Asif has served on the Boards of Souq, Payfort.com, and Instashop.com, recently acquired by the Delivery Hero. He has also invested in a number of fledgling startups including Shipox, Clicky.pk, EzHire and Cartlow.comAsif is a graduate of the University of Karachi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Economics and a Chartered Accountant (FCA). In 2016, he was named Best Retail CFO of the MENA Region by renowned Middle Eastern publication, The CFO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.1M; Series A $5M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamel Pay — Kamel Pay is a fintech and digital financial solutions provider. Kamel Pay offers end-to-end digital payment services to the 20 million underbanked expat population in GCC and to their families abroad through a fully integrated platform.
  • CLICKY.PK — Clicky.pk offers the largest collection of trendy and affordable fashion and lifestyle products online. Clicky has the best online brand stores in Pakistan. Huge Collection of Jewellery, Handbags, Clutches, Sunglasses, Clothing, Nightwear & More!
  • PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.
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Kareem Anabtawi
Angel · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Kareem Anabtawi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Holo — Find your dream home with Holo, the digital home-buying platform in the UAE. Get expert help, compare mortgages, and simplify your journey to ownership!
  • Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
  • Epic Padel — EPIC is a premier padel sports management and investment company based in Arlington, VA, focused on becoming the leading operator of padel clubs across North America.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 179
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$5M; Series A $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amasa — Amasa puts a new world of income streaming in the palm of your hand. Combine, stabilise and amplify micro income streams of cryptocurrencies. We want to help people improve their financial position, and be producers and participants, not products.
  • Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
  • Domination Finance — The world's first DEX for dominance trading
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Terry Crospy
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Terry Crospy is a full time investor in private and public technology companies, with interest in advisory work and board positions with tech startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2M; Series A $3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1-mo — 1-mo is an a site that can connect movies together. It gets information from multiple sources, sorts it out, finds the relation between comments and analyze the comments about each movie.1-mo would like to innovate on how to connect movies in a new innovative way and become an important place for cinephile and movie lovers. 1-mo will get the infoneeded from multiple sources, sort them out, finds the relation between comments and analyzes the comments about each movie.
  • Meody — Meody is a company specialized in messaging solutions. We offer the solution fully as server/client solution. The messaging solutions that we have can be used either by users, mobile network operators or by companies. The messaging solution allow for exchange of files such as images, voice messages, video messages and other files. The solution allow also for group chat, chat rooms, security control (encryption level and permission of chats). The solution includes both a server software (Linux/Windows) and a client program. The client program is cross platform covering different platforms such as iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Java...etc.
  • Fixiest — Fixiest is working on building a solution that is accessible on mobile and web to allow people to report on the home problems that they have and find the closest repairman to help with it.
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$14M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.7M; Series A $8.8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
  • Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
  • Vega — The AI-native operating system for alternative asset managers, purpose-built to scale and automate the end-to-end investor lifecycle across every asset class.
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Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$42M; Series A $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
  • AppliedAI — Opus by AppliedAI automates complex business workflows with human-supervised AI, boosting productivity and transforming enterprise processes.
  • Shipster — Shipster is the fastest way to send anything anywhere.
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Paul Taylor
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OP_NET
  • VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
  • Satscreener — Satscreener is a developer of a data aggregation platform that provides extensive analytical tools for Bitcoin-native assets.
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Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Chantalle Dumonceaux is the Venture Partner of Accelerator Ventures. She previously worked at Shoppies as a Co-Founder. Chantalle Dumonceaux attended Columbia University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
  • Souqalmal — Compare more quote features than ever from top UAE brands at souqalmal.com
  • OfficeRock — Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.
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Omar Darwazah
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$14M; Pre-Seed $360k–$3M; Series B $24M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
  • Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
  • Exponential DeFi — Exponential is now powering the YO Risk Engine. The risk graph that powers YO will soon be published.
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Hosam Arab
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Hosam Arab is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the CEO and Co-founder of Tabby. Hosam previously worked at Namshi.com as a CEO. Hosam Arab attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
  • Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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Paul Graham
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Angel $70k–$700k; Series A $3.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autosana — AI-powered E2E testing for mobile and web apps. Ship faster with self-healing tests, no code required.
  • AgentMail — AgentMail provides an API-first email platform that enables AI agents to send, receive, and manage emails with automation and analytics.
  • Maritime Fusion — Maritime Fusion specializes in the development and construction of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) fusion reactors.
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Samih Toukan
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
  • Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
  • Jusoor Labs — Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions.
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Walid Hanna
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Walid Hanna is Founder and CEO at Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Search Engine, Billing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Lebanon, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ARAMOZ — Optimized for the Arab world, Aramoz ® is a powerful job search engine that provides exceptionally extensive, accurate and relevant results. Using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Aramoz provides users with unmatched effectiveness. But don’t take our word for it. Just try and compare for yourself…
  • OX Factory — OX Factory ® is a global modeling agency headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. It represents male and female models from the Middle East.
  • INFOGRAPHIQS — Infographiqs ® is a powerful infographic search engine that provides an exceptional degree of extensiveness, accuracy and relevance. Optimized for infographics only using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Infographiqs provides unmatched effectiveness. Try it and compare for yourself…
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Prajit Nanu
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Prajit serves as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors. Based in Mumbai, Prajit is responsible for executing the business strategy and directing the overall performance and growth of our organization. He is also in charge of driving innovation across processes and create value add for customers. Prior to co-foundingInstarem Prajit, held several leadership positions in global companies, including Global Sales Director, TMF Group and Vice President, Sales and Account Management at WNS (NYSE:WNS). He is a graduate from Mumbai University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advice, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
  • CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
  • CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
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Deniz Devrim Cengiz
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$4M; Series A $88k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Bhavik Bajaj

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
  • ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
  • THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
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Jitendra Gupta
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Angel $100k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
  • CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
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Brian D. Evans
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Brian D. Evans is the Founding Partner at ReBlock Ventures. Brian D. Evans attended Swiss School of Business and Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eesee — Company based in British Virgin Islands.
  • Kaskade Finance — Kaskade finance solves the cold start liquidity problem.
  • Hedgehog Protocol — Don't scroll. Predict.
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Oskar Hartmann
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$52M; Series A $7.4M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
  • Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
  • June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
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Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD FRCPC
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD ABIM FRCPC is an Iraqi-Canadian physician-entrepreneur who specializes in endocrinology, hypertension and genetics. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, and an early-stage investor and advisor with over 10 years of clinical and business experience. He has conducted extensive researchin the field of hormones and genetics at America’s research hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and co-founded and financed several startup companies in the fintech, blockchain and healthcare sectors. Business:Fady is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of FHS Capital (fhscapital.io), a privately held early-stage investment fund focusing on real estate, express car wash services, wellness and digital assets. He serves as a strategic advisor and consultant on several healthTech and blockchain companies, focusing on strategic planning, operational skills, business support, and financing. He led several seed financing rounds, including; Ovenue Inc. (ovenue.com), a no-code AI and blockchain Platform-as-a-Service for real-world asset valuation and tokenization; Flyby (flyby.global), a technology platform connecting last mile delivery with digital out of home advertising; and Fluus (fluus.com), a web3 ramping solution. Medicine:Fady completed clinical training in internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine; adult endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the National Institutes of Health; and clinical biochemical genetics at the University of Toronto. He is board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada; and in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. He is an active staff physician and adjunct professor at Vancouver General Hospital (UBC), and Trillium Health Partners (UofT), and a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Research: Fady served the NIH (2015-2021) as a physician-scientist in endocrinology/genetics, Head of Graduate Medical Education and Associate Program Director of endocrinology fellowship program. His research interests remain on adrenal disorders including primary aldosteronism, a common cause of hypertension that is potentially reversible with early detection and treatment. He has authored over 100 original articles, book chapters and reviews on endocrine-genetic conditions (h-index 20, i10-index 42), and was the founding member and first Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Endocrine and Metabolic Science (Elsevier).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FLUUS — FLUUS is an aggregator of fiat to crypto gateways with a crypto ramping network covering emerging. FLUUS allows users to buy, sell, or swap cryptocurrencies and tokens. They aggregate cryptographic services into a single software development kit, connect ramping, exchanging, transactions, and payments, and create a money experience.
  • Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
  • Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
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Amjad Masad
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Amjad Masad is the Founder at Repl.it.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$20M; Pre-Seed $500k–$20M; Series A $15M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Granola — Granola helps you keep momentum on what matters. You stay present, Granola turns your conversations into a rich, searchable memory.
  • Wabi — Create, discover, and remix any mini-app in minutes. The era of personal software is here.
  • Raindrop — Monitor your AI Agent the right way. Get alerted when your agent fails in production, trace exactly what went wrong, and prove your fix worked.
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Zeneca ..
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Zeneca is a founder of @ZenAcademy and @The333Club.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eesee — Company based in British Virgin Islands.
  • /Reach — Turn your social media into a side income. Average earnings: $8-15/hour.
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Srinivas Rao M
Angel · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Srinivas Rao M is a CEO at T-Hub.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advice, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: India, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$3.5M; Grant $12k–$119k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
  • CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
  • CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
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Kunal Shah
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Kunal Shah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 251
  • Round size: Seed $893k–$5M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoggy — Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially.
  • Helium — Helium is a proptech/residential rental startup focused on gated society apartments in India.
  • HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
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Mark Ransford
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $630k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $419k–$4.3M; Series A $8.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
  • Briefcase — Automate your accounting workflows with AI
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Salman Butt
Angel · Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Salman Butt - Co-Founder & Chief Expansion Officer @ Salla

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Retail, Blockchain
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
  • Byzanlink — Byzanlink: Access Institutional Grade Yield On-chain Bridging TradFi and DeFi with RWA Tokenization for stable, institutional-grade yields
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Eldar Tolesh
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Eldar Tolesh

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JobEscape — A learning platform to increase a freelancer's productivity by utilizing AI tools in their work
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Mudassir Sheikha
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Mudassir Sheikha is based out of Dubai and is the Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director of Careem. Mudassir previously worked at McKinsey and Company as an Associate Partner. Mudassir Sheikha attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, EdTech, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$20M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
  • Manara — We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our websiteto learn more.
  • Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.
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Anuscha Iqbal
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Anuscha Iqbal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Secret Skin — Buy non-toxic skincare & beauty products online from Secret Skin. Shop 100% natural and organic Skin Care, Hair Care, Bath & Body Care, Beard Grooming and Beauty products for Women & Men online at the Secret Skin store.
  • Savii — Banking for HER. A women-centric neobank and investing platform, focusing on financial empowerment, education, and community.
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Raza Beig
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Raza Beig is the CEO of Splash and Iconic and Director at Landmark Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artfi — Decentralised Infrastructure for Global Art Market!
  • Nuqi Wealth — Nuqi Wealth provides ethical investment advisory App for stocks, mutual Funds and ETFs.
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Mexico, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
  • Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
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Peter Thiel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 214
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$32M; Series B $16M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hebbia — Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately. Transform your productivity today.
  • Mercor — Find top-tier, remote, AI roles for your expertise. Available only on Mercor.
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
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Dingaling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎
Angel · Delaware City, Delaware, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Dingaling is an individual investor and crypto twitter celebrity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $5.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pixelverse — Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game.
  • BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
  • Particle Network — Particle Network offers a full-stack Web3 infrastructure, allowing developers to execute their projects from concept to deployment in a unified workflow for high-performance dApps. Its mobile app data and development platform for Web 3.0 provides developers with scalable, decentralized backends and data infrastructure.
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Amrish Rau
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $381k–$8.5M; Series A $3.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CashFlo — CashFlo is India's only integrated AP automation and Supply Chain Financing Platform. Made for large Indian businesses, CashFlo is used by some of the biggest companies in India.
  • OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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Jonathan Doerr
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Jonathan Doerr is the CEO of Daraz. Prior to this, Jonathan served as the managing director of Jumia Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Karl Olsson
Angel · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Magnus Olsson is the Founder and Managing Director at Careem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
  • Getbee — Use live video calls to create in-person interactions with your clients from product recommendations to completing a purchase.
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
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Ivan on Tech
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Ivan on Tech CEO @moralisweb3 @moralismoney.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Gaming, Web Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Portugal, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eesee — Company based in British Virgin Islands.
  • GAMES.GG — Discover 1,500+ games with honest reviews, expert guides, and daily gaming news across PC, console, and mobile. Find your next favorite game on Steam, Epic Games, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo.
  • EclipseFi — EclipseFi is a Cosmos modular multi-chain token issuance platform that seeks to tackle Launchpad's cross-chain user experience and sustainability challenges with features like smart accounts and cross-chain design.
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Philipp Zentner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Founder & CEO of LI.FI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
  • OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
  • RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
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Fahad Hafiz
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Fahad Hafiz is a prominent serial entrepreneur. Hafiz has a wealth of expertise in a wide range of industries, including finance, oil and gas, travel, automotive, cryptocurrencies, and fintech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Water
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $60k–$5M; Pre-Seed $14k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BC29 — Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz
  • Al Dana — Al Dana is an Algo Trading Firm.
  • The Syndicate Investment Group (SIG) — Syndicate Investments is an investment company that invests in companies and provides them with the equity capital and support necessary to scale up from early-stage startups to successful businesses. With a presence in more than 16 locations globally and with $500M assets under management, Syndicate Investments is a recognized top-rankinginvestment company. It has a proven track record of finding the next big thing in a variety of industries and sectors.
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hang w/ — We leverage our 13 years of experience and innovative design practices to help our top-tier clients achieve success.
  • Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
  • Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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Yusuf Al Hasan
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Yusuf Al Hasan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Database, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.
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Prashant Malik
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Prashant Malik is a Co-Founder and Co-Creator of Apache Cassandra and an Investor at Shadowfax, UrbanClap, Innov8 Coworking, and OfBusiness. He is a dynamic technologist, who focuses on building, leading and incubating teams. Prashant attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.6M; Series A $5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Marrfa — Invest in premium off-plan properties in Dubai with guaranteed high yields. Access exclusive developments, secure financing, and expert investment guidance. Start your investment journey today.
  • FanTV AI — FanTV, the leading AI Agent platform for next-gen Content Creation and backed by Multicoin Capital, is where AI meets Crypto on Sui, leading with over 8 million On-chain Users (80k Creators) and 27 million transactions, processing more than 1.2 million hours of AI-powered content monthly. As the largest platform for content creation across allchains, FanTV contributes to more than 22% of active wallets on Sui.
  • FanTiger — OMI builds a holistic spiritual wellness platform that using the values of astrology, yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. It is an astrology app that provides overall holistic wellness using age-old Indian traditions and modern-day scientific methods to solve various problems.
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Dany Farha
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Dany is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, with many exits from ventures in a variety of industries. Dany co-founded and exited Bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest job site; Butlers, the UAE’s largest commercial laundry company and Intercat, one of the largest catering companies in the UAE. Dany was a seed investor in Gonabit, a MiddleEast focused daily deal website that was acquired by Living Social in 2011. He currently sits on the boards of 3 portfolio companies.Dany is the first to acknowledge that he wouldn’t have accomplished all these things without the support of the investors and mentors that gave him his start. It is this belief that serves as the impetus behind BECO. Like those that boosted him when he needed it, Dany aspires to serve the next wave of entrepreneurs, so that they too can fulfil their potential and pass along the same spirit of generosity to those that follow in their footsteps.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$9.5M; Series A $4M–$40M; Series B $30M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
  • GoNabit — Group-buying platforms emerged as a game-changer by offering consumers a chance to access bulk discounts through collective purchasing power.
  • JadoPado — JadoPado is a marketplace where people around the world come together to buy and sell great stuff!JadoPado lets you sell new, used and refurbished products directly to buyers. Sellers handle their own stores including products, offers, orders and fulfilment, while making sure everything looks great!JadoPado gives buyers incredible choiceacross a wide range of categories and an easy to use, secure experience. JadoPado handles payments on behalf of sellers and pays them out after you’ve received your purchase.
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Anton Bukov
Angel · Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
  • CrossCurve Metelayer — Your Unfair Advantage for Building in DeFi. Any token. Any chain. Any operation. One MetaLayer.
  • Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
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Sid Dhamija
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Sid Dhamija

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Database, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.
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Yan Hascoët
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Yan Hascoët

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, Finance, Cannabis
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
  • Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
  • Roof — Roof provides private co-living studios for students with common areas.
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Ashneer seth Grover
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates startups

Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. He previously worked at PC Jeweller Ltd as a Head Of New Business. Ashneer Grover attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • earKART — earKART is a group of professionals and industry stalwarts who work towards increasing awareness about hearing loss and making the hearing aid selection process transparent, consistent and fair every time.
  • TigerPay — TigerPay allows card payments instantly from your smartphone and is reshaping payment solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises.
  • Zippee — ZFW Dark Stores enables 30 Min, 2 Hour, & Same-Day deliveries for E-commerce brands through next-gen fulfillment, network of dark stores, & last-mile infrastructure across India. This capital-light approach is helping brands like Epigamia, Unilever, Rage Coffee, NOTO, and Baskin Robbins expand without upfront capital, overheads, &headaches.Our platform integrates seamlessly with all industry platforms to provide brands with complete visibility into supply-chain ops & customers: significantly improving customer loyalty, RTOs, & costs.E-commerce is becoming increasingly competitive with shifting brand loyalties. Stay ahead of the curve & be closer to your customers by offering them super-fast deliveries.If you're a D2C brand in India that wants to boost profitability & customer experiences- reach out & say hi!
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Angel investor funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance

Stats across 239 deals from 344 investors.

344
investors
in United Arab Emirates startups
239
deals
in United Arab Emirates startups
$1.2M
median round
in United Arab Emirates startups
16%
lead investors
lead at least one round
52%
Seed
most common funding stage

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