Top 5 Construction Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates (October 2026)

Karim Helal is a successful serial entrepreneur, having founded and managed a wide range of startups, ranging from Import/Exports to online web applications.Following a peaceful childhood in the UAE, Karim spent the next 15 years in Canada, first earning a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique, then working as a ProjectManager for Ericsson Canada and then returning to school to get an MBA in entrepreneurship from HEC.As a co-founder and managing partner of the popular eTendering site Monaqasat.com, Karim is responsible for setting the vision and direction of the application while also ensuring the business viability of the business. Under his direction, the startup quickly grew to the most popular eTendering application in the UAE, with over 500 signed businesses and over a billion dirhams worth of awarded tenders within the first 14 months.

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Procurement, Real Estate
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

ProTenders — ProTenders is the fast-growing construction tech platform that transforms how companies connect, track and procure.

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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.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 272
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $3.9M–$50M; Series B $17M–$105M
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

Etched — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Panthalassa — We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.
Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.

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Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 89
Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Angel $70k–$700k; Series A $3.5M–$30M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kopra Bio — Cancer immunotherapy that turns cancer cells into biofactories minting their own destruction.
Apollo Atomics — Apollo is building the most power-dense pressurized-water nuclear reactor. (YC P26)
Discovered Materials — AI Agents that discover new materials to improve compute

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Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Human Resources, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 17
Round size: Seed $250k–$12M; Series A $10M–$15M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Zamp — Zamp is the sales tax technology provider of solution that eliminates the need for you to manage the software.
Starpath Robotics — Making fully reusable missions to the Moon and Mars possible.
Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.

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