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Top 50 Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates

Investor	United Arab Emirates investments
Bashar Hamood	7
Hesham Zreik	5
Musaab Hakami	5
Asif Keshodia	4
Arya Bolurfrushan	4
Omar Darwazah	4
Chantalle Dumonceaux	3
Magnus Olsson	3
Zeneca ..	2
Ivan on Tech	2
Tushar Ahluwalia	2
Yusuf Al Hasan	2
Jonathan Doerr	2
Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD FRCPC	2
Mark Ransford	2
Brian D. Evans	2
Dany Farha	2
Walid Hanna	2
Sid Dhamija	2
Mishaal Alireza	2
Deniz Devrim Cengiz	2
Fahad Hafiz	2
Hosam Arab	2
Omar Benmoussa	1
Andreea Danila	1
Andy Preikschat	1
Eamon Tuhami	1
Alexander Rugaev	1
Tarush Awasthi	1
Abdulhamid Al Omar	1
Zeid Husban	1
Khalid Al Taweel	1
Yahya Bajarash	1
Abdulaziz Al Loughani	1
Huey Lin	1
Wes Schwalje	1
Omar Bajarash	1
Hussain Al Qemzi	1
Youcef Oudjidane	1
Dan Westgarth	1
Sandeep Tandon	1
Onur Erbay	1
n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault	1
Anuscha Iqbal	1
Oliver Samwer	1
Scott Moore	1
omar bajarash	1
Florian Prucker	1
Akshay Kothari	1
Joel Yarbrough	1

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Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

BubbleFuse — BubbleFuse will provide a platform for users to create and share their own digital content and products.
GrowBots — GrowBots is a web-based platform that helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
DataVizion — DataVizion is an innovative data visualization platform that enables businesses to easily create real-time visualizations of their data.

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

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.
The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

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 — Embedded digital asset capabilities for financial institutions. Digital asset infrastructure - purpose-built for the Middle East.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Singapore

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.

Magnus Olsson is the Founder and Managing Director at Careem.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Digital Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

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.

Zeneca is a founder of @ZenAcademy and @The333Club.

Investment focus

Web3
Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Eesee — The platform that accelerates sales, provides additional liquidity and trading volume to the digital assets market, facilitates the community and lowers cost-barrier to enter the market using the unique protocol.
/Reach — A discord and web platform designed to amplify project visibility and audience interactions in the web3 space, while rewarding participants.

Ivan on Tech CEO @moralisweb3 @moralismoney.

Investment focus

Web3, Gaming, Web Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Eesee — The platform that accelerates sales, provides additional liquidity and trading volume to the digital assets market, facilitates the community and lowers cost-barrier to enter the market using the unique protocol.
GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
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.

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

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Mexico, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.

Yusuf Al Hasan

Investment focus

Seed, Pre-Seed

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.

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

Investment focus

Credit, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
United States, United Arab Emirates

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.

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).

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

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 a global digital asset gateway that brings unparalleled accessibility to the digital asset space. Through our simple, safe and innovative digital assets, we provide people in emerging markets the opportunity to build a better future. We are pioneering web3 technologies and driving adoption of digital assets for the next billion.
Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eesee — The platform that accelerates sales, provides additional liquidity and trading volume to the digital assets market, facilitates the community and lowers cost-barrier to enter the market using the unique protocol.
Kaskade Finance — Kaskade finance solves the cold start liquidity problem.
Hedgehog Protocol — Hedgehog Protocol operates as a cryptocurrency trading fee hedging protocol.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Information Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

GoNabit — GoNabit lists one deal per day in each city. Deals provide great value buying opportunities for a limited period of time - typically 24 hours. We negotiate great discounts based on strength in numbers - we collectively commit to buying a certain number of Nabits, and in return local businesses give huge discounts.GoNabit bridges the gap betweenclicks and bricks - and by activating the social value graph - truly helps people experience social commerce through strength in numbers.GoNabit is an easy way for buyers to use strength in numbers to get great discounts and discover fun local activities. GoNabit uses short-term deals and the power of social media to amplify word-of-mouth turning individual buyers into value evangelists.For local businesses, GoNabit is a risk-free way to promote their business to savvy young buyers in search of new things to do - with customers guaranteed. GoNabit gives advertisers the premier platform for efficient, measureable, risk-free local marketing that creates real customers.
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.
Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.

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

Investment focus

Search Engine, Billing, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Lebanon, United Arab Emirates

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 — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
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…

Sid Dhamija

Investment focus

FinTech, Database, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates

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.

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, FinTech
Series A, Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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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 — Stake is a digital real estate investment platform providing the easiest and most transparent way to invest in income generating properties, starting in Dubai. Our mission is to make investing in real estate accessible and profitable for all.

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Psychology
Seed, Series A
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

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.

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

Investment focus

Finance, Incubators, Hedge Funds
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Israel

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.

Hosam Arab

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Banking
Seed, Debt Financing
Canada, United Arab Emirates

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.
Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).

Omar Benmoussa is the Founder at of Kapten.

Investment focus

Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
Angel
United Arab Emirates

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.

Andreea is a senior venture capital and private equity executive, she has successfully executed various fund management mandates, including private equity, venture capital, mezzanine, having raised $600 million of private capital from emerging markets. For over a decade, Andreea amassed functional expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capitalformation, investments, and portfolio management while working for regional private equity funds ($1.2bn AUM) and international consulting firms (EY Corporate Finance). Previously, she acted as a strategic partner to multinationals on assignments about joint ventures and market entry strategies and led investments in more than 50 early-growth companies.Andreea attended Harvard Business School and holds an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from Hult International Business School. She is often quoted in international and local publications such as Arabian Business, CEO Middle East, CNBC Arabia and Entrepreneur Middle East.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Homebase — Discover the future of Real Estate Investing with fractional ownership via tokenization. Through Homebase you can invest in Real Estate with as little as 100$.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
Millennial Brands — Millennial Brands is an emerging consumer player specializing in launching and developing the next generation of direct-to-consumer and digital brands.

Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Pakistan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Dukkantek — 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.
FreightFlows — Freightflows is a maritime company that offers predictive analytics for global trade. It specializes in the fields of analytics, big data, data science, and machine learning. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

Eamon Tuhami is the Founder of X8IQ. Eamon attended London Guildhall University.

Investment focus

Rental, Software, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Glisser — Virtual events embedded right inside your own website. Live digital engagement experiences that deliver real results Ecosystem Embeddable Integration-Enabled Monetization Opportunities Organizer Experience Simple for Planners Simple for Speakers World-Class Support Audience Experience Customizable Feature-Rich Hybrid-Ready Simple for Audiences Core Platform Data Insights No Hidden Costs Scalable Secure See all Benefits
Voltric — Voltric provides a subscription service for electric vehicles on a 12 or 24 month plans.
Finalrentals — Discover the freedom of the open road with our car rental services available in over 25 countries! Explore the world in comfort and style with Finalrentals.

Alexander Rugaev is the Founder of AR Ventures FZE. He previously worked at Insolar as an Advisor. Alexander Rugaev attended the Baltic State Technical University and Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning
Secondary Market, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Udemy — Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achievetheir goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content.
Discord — Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for managing the global issues and policy affairs that present the biggest risks and opportunities to your organization.

Tarush Awasthi

Investment focus

Property Management
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.

Abdulhamid is the CEO of Talabat, the leading online food delivery e-Commerce in the GCC. The firm evolved from a Kuwaiti based start-up to become a market leader in its space. He joined Talabat at an early stage and contributed to its growth from his post as head of Business development and Product. In 2015, Rocket Internet acquired Talabat for170m USD, representing the largest Internet technology acquisition in the Middle East till date. Started his career in the IT and the Banking industries, and prior to joining Talabat he was the e-Channels team lead for Kuwait Finance House, one of the leading Islamic banks in the Middle East. Abdulhamid received his MBA from the University of Leeds with a BSc in Computer Science.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.

Zeid obtained his Bachelor`s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the UK in 2008. He then moved back to Jordan and co-founded ifood.jo, an online food ordering platform. ifood.jo attracted the eyes of investors from abroad and in 2013, the company sold a majority stake to the Turkish food ordering company Yemeksipeti. Zeid soldthe rest of his shares in ifood.jo in 2016 after a successful acquisition by the global giants "Delivery Hero". Now hoping to revolutionize the point-of-sale industry in the region.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.

Khalid Al Taweel of RAI group.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Wafeer — Wafeer is a fintech personal finance management app that provides financial solutions.
RestHero.io — Easily create your own online store and start selling today! Our platform offers a free trial and easy setup for your eCommerce needs. Start building your store now!

Yahya Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Abdulaziz is co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts ecommerce solution servicing the largest customer base in the MENA region. Abdulaziz is also co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the MENA region. Previously, Abdulaziz was the founding Executive ViceChairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a USD7bn independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait (2013-2017). Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Talabat.com<http://Talabat.com> until 2010, and has since then been investing in technology startups and involved in a number of local and regional entrepreneurial initiatives. Abdulaziz has also previously served as Director at Global Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of Global Investment House “Global” where he has played a major role in managing key investments within the Private Equity Group of Global by handling various assignments on corporate restructuring, business planning, deal structuring, due diligence and managing portfolio companies' to exit. Abdulaziz has served as an executive and member of board on a number of companies within the MENA region in the technology, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer finance, food & beverage and real estate sectors.Abdulaziz holds a Bachelor's degree - double major in Information Systems and E-Commerce from University of Toledo, and an MBA degree from London Business School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Music
Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.
Snapbook — Visit the Snapbook store to customize you're gifts, photo prints, unique phone cases, and wall art with Snapbook.
Yougotagift.com — YouGotaGift offers a range of online card gifts from more than 400 brands through email, SMS and its app. It operates across three major business verticals including consumer gifting and employee and customer rewards.

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Colombia, Singapore, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Truora — Connect with your users via WhatsApp Optimize your onboarding process using WhatsApp.
CapitalOS — Embedded spend management for vertical SaaS platforms
Fintecture — Under continuous control and supervision of the financial regulator, Fintecture is an authorised Payment Institution (ACPR-17248).First bank to bank instant payment solution in France, Fintecture Pay by Bank enables merchants and businesses to :+ Bypass card ceilings + Avoid illegitimate declined payments + Significantly reduce theirtransaction costs + Receive funds rapidly into their bank account + Reduce fraud by removing chargebacks + Increase security, protecting their customersFintecture Pay by Bank makes payments easy and adapts to your needs : may it be B2B payments, recurring payments, Pay by link, you name it !=======Sous le contrôle et la supervision continus du régulateur financier, Fintecture est un établissement de paiement agréé (ACPR-17248).Première solution instantanée de paiement banque à banque en France, Fintecture Pay by Bank permet aux marchands et aux entreprises de : + Contourner les plafonds des cartes + Éliminer les rejets illégitimes + Baisser considérablement les coûts de transactions + Disposer plus rapidement des fonds collectés + Réduire la fraude en supprimant les chargebacks + Augmenter la sécurité, protégeant leurs consommateursFintecture Pay by Bank facilite les paiements et s’adapte à vos besoins : B2B, paiements récurrents, abonnements, Pay by Link et bien plus.

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.

Omar Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Debt Financing
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Hussain Al Qemzi

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE

Youcef Oudjidane is the founder of Byld Ventures and co-founder of Bloom (YC W22)

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.

Dan Westgarth

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Shopping
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
TILT — TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards.

Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
ScratchNest — ScratchNest creates technologies from scratch, giving them a personalized touch, and exhilarating user experience. Striving in this direction, ScratchNest stands as the first Indian company to design, develop, and manufacture UHF RFID, NFC, BLE, and Datalogging devices in India. Founded in 2019, we are a culmination of innovation and hard work bya highly brilliant team of IITians consistently striving to provide you with the best worth of your time and money.We aim to extract the most and best out of technology so that the world relishes the power of automation. By developing the never-before technologies in India, ScratchNest aims to lay a milestone in the Make in India campaign.

Onur Erbay is the Partner at Global Founders Capital (Investing in Turkey, MENA and CEE.

Investment focus

Digital Marketing, Property Management
Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance

n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault

Investment focus

Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

Anuscha Iqbal

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

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.

Oliver Samwer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1972. Oliver holds M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Oliver and his two brothers founded Alando.de in 1999. After the sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., he was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland andAustria. In 2000, Oliver and his two brothers founded Jamba! AG, which was acquired by Verisign Inc. in 2004. In 2007, Oliver founded Rocket Internet. Since 2014, Oliver has served as Rocket’s Chief Executive Officer. Oliver is responsible for strategy development and implementation, business development and investor relations.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
enshift — Streamlining local clean energy for large-scale real estate.Easily simulate, plan and realise your buildings’ journey to energy independence and ‘net zero’. With just an address, instantly discover the financial and environmental returns your building can generate by transitioning to clean energy. Once you’re ready select and contract your idealconstruction and financing partners and reduce transition risks.

Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

HackQuest — Web3.0 programming for everyone.
FortyTwo — FortyTo is developing UX frontend technology for decentralized finance, enhancing user experience, promoting diversified token baskets, better yields, and affordable swap rates in the interchain ecosystem.
Tensorplex Labs — Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks.

omar bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Florian spent over 8 years in the financial services industry based in New York, Frankfurt and most recently London. As Executive Director of Securities Trading at Goldman Sachs, he oversaw the creation of a pan-European electronic trading platform for private investors.Prior to this, he was responsible for servicing private bank and assetmanagement clients in Germany and Austria. Florian studied Business and Electronics at the Technical University of Munich.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Credit
Seed
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
Velocity — Fast, flexible growth capital for D2C eCommerce brands. Get up to Rs. 3 crore in revenue-based financing for marketing & working capital within 1 week. No equity dilution or collateral requirements.

Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
Nile — Serverless Postgres build with multi-tenacy at it's core. Fault tolerant, globally distributed, with user and tenant management built in.

Joel Yarbrough is the VP of Asia Pacific at Rapyd.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
firmly.ai — Make every moment shoppable.
Decentro — Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services.

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