Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Egypt
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Consumer startups based in Egypt. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Egypt. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Egypt
Investor | Consumer Egypt investments |
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Flat6Labs | 6 |
AUC Angels | 6 |
A15 | 4 |
Outliers Venture Capital | 4 |
EQ2 Ventures | 4 |
Endure Capital | 3 |
Algebra Ventures | 3 |
Flat6Labs Egypt | 3 |
Nuwa Capital | 3 |
Rise Capital | 2 |
Impact46 | 2 |
Alex Angels | 2 |
MSA Capital | 2 |
Egypt Ventures | 2 |
HIMAngel | 2 |
Shorooq Partners | 2 |
Paul Graham | 1 |
Nama Ventures | 1 |
CVentures | 1 |
MSA Novo | 1 |
Paul Antaki | 1 |
STV | 1 |
Averroes Ventures | 1 |
Wamda Capital | 1 |
Vostok Ventures | 1 |
4DX Ventures | 1 |
Raba Partnership | 1 |
Watheeq Financial Services | 1 |
LoftyInc Capital | 1 |
Khaled Alashmouny | 1 |
Nasser Chourbagi | 1 |
Cairo Angels | 1 |
Wingoo investment and technology | 1 |
Sunny Side Venture Partners | 1 |
ACE & Company | 1 |
Index Sports Fund | 1 |
Con O'Donnell | 1 |
K50 Ventures | 1 |
Golden Palm Investments | 1 |
Union Square Ventures | 1 |
Oqal | 1 |
JAM Fund | 1 |
Karim Hussein | 1 |
Foundation Ventures | 1 |
Pioneer Fund | 1 |
VNV Global | 1 |
Flexport | 1 |
Lotus Capital | 1 |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 1 |
Ibtikar Fund | 1 |
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
- Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.
What is AUC Angels?
AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region. Angel investors are individuals who are interested in investing in early-stage startups with growth potential which in turn supports the growth of a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- dKilo — dKilo is a technology company in the AdTech space. It offers smart out of home advertising solutions using the internet of things and AI.
- Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
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A15 is an entrepreneurial company that invests in digital products and technology brands. They aspire to empower the human race to overcome its limits and expand its capabilities by creating real products for real people. They help them scale by providing them with investment, the support of our ecosystem, and act as their launchpad for expansion.It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Ireland, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Velents — Automate interviews with our AI-driven video platform. Our AI assistant helps save time by screening CVs, interviewing candidates, and assessing skills.
- OneOrder — One Order delivers exceptional produce, custom cuts of meat, high-quality seafood, and imported foods offering an array of global flavors.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Backing outlier founders in MENA & the US at the earliest stages
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Soum — Soum is reimagining recommence in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient, trustworthy, and transparent recommence marketplace, starting with consumer electronics in Saudi Arabia.
- Amwal Tech — The fastest and most secure way to accept payments online
- Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Uncover — We are a community-built skincare brand that believes no woman should lose confidence over her skin. We celebrate every blemish, every stretch mark, every woman, and every body and encourage U to wear your skin with pride. We believe in patience, consistency, and self-love inspired through healthy, effective, nourishing products and lifestyle.
Endure Capital is an early stage investment fund headed by entrepreneurs looking for startup teams. They look for founders who are relentlessly resourceful and imaginative, solving genuine problems that matter to a lot of people and building high growth companies that endure.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- Pylon — Reliable smart energy solutions within the reach of emerging markets.
- Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- DXwand — DXwand Cognitive Engagement Toolkit, COGENT, is next generation chatbot that is trained to lookup your products, track orders and conducts a full sales order dialog with your customers. It supports both Arabic and English and works on Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, SMS, website, Twitter, Mobile App and over voice.
- YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
- Connect Money — Zero Capex. Go live in 60 days with Connect's one-stop-shop banking solution.
MENA’s leading seed and early stage VC firm, and the manager of the most renowned startup programs in the region. We are Accelerating the Future.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Canada, United States
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A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
- Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
- Mascotte Health — Supercharge your practice with a strong operational team and state-of-the-art technology.
Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
- Homzmart — Homzmart is an e-commerce platform that sells home furniture, home décor, lighting, and home supplies. The company specializes in the fields of home improvement, eCommerce, home directory, technology, and home shopping. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
- InstaCarro — InstaCarro is an online platform that enables individuals to buy and sell cars. The company aims to add value both to individuals who want to sell their cars and to resellers.For individuals who want to sell, InstaCarro delivers the convenience of online quotes, higher than average prices and immediate payment after inspection. For buyers, itoffers online access to the large inventory of cars previously inspected and guarantees immediate return if a car purchased is in different conditions than reported. It was launched by Diego Fischer and Luca Cafici in July 2015 and is operated from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Impact 46 is an asset manager and advisor that specializes in alternative investment opportunities. The firm provides innovative investment products and services to local & international institutions, family groups, endowments, and high net worth investors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman
Portfolio highlights
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- DataLexing — DataLexing is an All-in-One Data-Driven productivity platform that brings Insights, Apps, Notifications, Forms, and Sheets together in one place.
- Al Matar Group — Al Matar Group provides individuals and businesses with technical travel solutions.
Alex Angels is an investment management company that helps investors to invest in early-stage companies with strong management teams. The company specializes in the fields of financial services, financial exchange, and investments.
Alex Angels was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Al Iskandariyah, Egypt.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- CardoO — Welcome To Our InnovationsExplore
- SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
- DP Technology — DP Technology is a global leader in the "AI for Science" research paradigm, where AI learns scientific principles and data, then tackles key challenges in scientific research and industrial R&D.DP's commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to the creation of the DP "Particle Universe", an array of pre-trainedlarge science models designed to bridge foundational research with practical industrial applications. DP's software suite includes the Bohrium® Scientific Research Space, Hermite® Computational Drug Design Platform, RiDYMO® Dynamics Platform, and Piloteye® Battery Design Automation Platform. Together, these platforms form a robust foundation for industrial innovation and an open ecosystem for AI in science, fostering advancements in key areas such as drug discovery, energy, material science, and information technology.
- DP Technology — Deep Technology uses a new generation of molecular simulation technology to tackle micro-scale industrial design difficulties. Founded in 2018 and is based in Beijing China.
Egypt Ventures is an investment firm that empowers the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators.
The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Columbia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- MNT-Halan — MNT-Halan is a microfinance lending and payments company.
- Gahez Market — Gahez Market Online store
- Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.
HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments.
HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
- GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
- FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- 44.01 — We offer a permanent CO2 storage solution using the natural power of mineralisation
- Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.
- Zyp Technologies — Zyp Technologies produces electric motorcycles intended to accelerate a net-zero carbon emission world. The business provides consumers with electric vehicle models and a broadened battery swap network that makes the switch to electric motorcycles simple.
Paul Graham
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
- Roforco — Roforco runs a Roblox game accelerator that makes games successful by providing funding, resources and hands-on support. It's YCombinator for Roblox games, built by two YCombinator Alumni. Co-founders Artem and Brain have been building games together since they were 14 were developers on 12 top grossing titles, accounting for over 2.74billion plays/downloads.Prior to building the accelerator, Roforco was a game studio with a portfolio of games that reached benchmarks including 10 million monthly active users and 16,000 concurrent users. Roforco also worked with notable brands such as Unilever, for whom they made an branded game with over 50 million plays.In 2022, Roforco joined YCombinator's coveted startup accelerator and went on to secure a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Paul Graham, Dentsu Group, the prev. COO of Activision and the CEOs of Guilded and Jellysmack. Learn more about us at https://roforco.com/For press: tom@roforco.com Based and founded in San Francisco, CA
- ParadeDB — ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres.
Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- iStoria — iStoria, a specialized EdTech app that helps people improve their English language through reading interesting stories
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
We invest in bold entrepreneurs creating meaningful change in financial services. We favor fast moving, forward thinking teams with deep market insights and an unquenchable appetite for growth. We back groundbreaking businesses with fundamentally distinguishable characteristics and disruptive business models. CVentures is geography agnostic. Weinvest in technology leaders across local and cross-border startup ecosystems.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Internet, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
- MagicCube — MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers.
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Zid زد — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
Paul Antaki
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
- Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.
- Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.
Averroes Ventures helps and invests in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies. Averroes Ventures' team possesses years of combined experience in global business operation and management across a multitude of sectors to help achieve visions.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Logistics, Delivery
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ILLA — Digital trucking and delivery platform powered by reliable drive to enable businesses with different volumes handle and optimize their trucking and logisitcs processes effeciently.
- Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
- Khazenly — Khazenly is an on-demand digital warehousing and fulfillment management platform that provides an omnichannel solution to help merchants digitize their businesses.
We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
- qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
Vostok Ventures makes seed and early stage venture investments in IT projects from Eastern Europe. It focuses on mobile applications, e-commerce, cloud services, and the gaming industry.
Vostok Ventures was co-founded by Michael Kharenko and Svyatoslav Pogrebnoy, and is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Bakery, Mobile Apps
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Iraq, Ukraine
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
- Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
- Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
- Cleva — Cleva Banking is a banking platform helps in recieving international payments by opening USD accounts.
Watheeq Financial Services is a Saudi-based closed joint-stock company.
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Investment focus
- Rental, Delivery, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Khaled Alashmouny is the AMS IC Design at Apple.Khaled Alashmouny attended University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
Nasser Chourbagi is the owner of Consolidated Casuals.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Lebanon
Portfolio highlights
- Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
- Sprints — home page Description
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
Wingoo investment and technology is a investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mira Cosmetics — Welcome to our beauty products website, where every beauty enthusiast's dreams come true
Sunny Side Ventures is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Shipping, Logistics
- Seed
- Egypt, Morocco
Portfolio highlights
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage.
ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
Index Sports Fund is an investment fund.
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- Retail, Sports, Apparel
- Seed
- Egypt
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- WayUp Sports — WayUp Sports is an ecommerce platform specialized in performance based sports gear, offering 10k+ product range, for 15+ sports, sourced directly from 70+ local and international brands.
Con O'Donnell is Founder & Advisor at ElWafeyat.
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- Blockchain, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- Egypt
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- Elk — Elk is a development board for the blockchain and the decentralized web. It combines the simplicity of Arduino along with native support for decentralized networks. With only a few lines of code you can build IoT that interfaces with Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper, and more.
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
K50 Ventures is the most trusted first-check investor for mission-driven founders building a better future for the 99% in the US and LATAM.
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- Health Care, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Colombia, Brazil
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- Assis — Assis goal is to empower business owners by helping them grow their companies through technology that gives customers an amazing experience each and every time they connect with them.
- Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
- Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
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- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream Africa is world class logistic company. We use our technology, networks, and systems to enable African businesses to quickly finance, manage and monitor their regional supply chains.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Neynar — Developer Platform for Web3 Social
- UNIGRID — At UNIGRID, we are dedicated to exploring sodium chemistries that are safe, sustainable, and affordable, for stationary energy storage and e-mobility applications.
- Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries
A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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- AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
- Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, India
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- Urbanic — Urbanic is a naturally charming, vibrant, and socially responsible fashion brand that celebrates your unique individuality.
- Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
- Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.
Karim is a technology veteran with deep experience in product and innovation management and rapid business growth and scaling – particularly in the healthcare and financial services markets. Karim has been an active investor and mentor to a number of technology businesses in Egypt and the US. He is founder and Chairman of D-Kimia DiagnosticSolutions developing fast, affordable, and accurate medical diagnostics using nano-technology and focused on controlling the Hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt and globally. Karim has served on the board of D-Kimia, Integreight, Shezlong.com, Prognos.ai, and Simplex Arabia CNC Solutions. He is also Chairman of the entrepreneurship committee of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, a mentor to high impact entrepreneurs through the Endeavor network, and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Previously, Karim was SVP, Products and Engineering at WebMD, Inc., directing product management, technology strategy and engineering. Prior to WebMD, Karim was co-founder and CTO of Riskclick, Inc., a software firm specializing in commercial insurance applications. He also was a senior associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton where he was a member of the Global e-Commerce team.Karim received his PhD in Information Systems from MIT and a dual BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 40 publications and a patent for his work on distributed computing.
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- Internet, Blockchain, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Egypt
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- Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
- Shezlong — Talk to your therapist online privately anytime anywhere!
Foundation Ventures is an investment firm that backs exceptional teams building industry defining companies in Egypt and the MENA region.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Jordan, United States
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- Kenzz — Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA.
- OpenFi — OpenFi's goal is to provide consistent, responsible, and exceptional conversational AI. The market-leading conversational AI enables the customers to safely harness the potential of Generative AI to automate client interactions and set new benchmarks.
- Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
- Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.
VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation. The company has a special focus on online marketplaces and businesses with strong network effects. The common shares of VNV Global are listed onNasdaq Stockholm, Mid Cap segment, with the ticker VNV.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Marketplace
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation
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- MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
- VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.
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- Logistics, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Pakistan, Egypt
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- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Natilus — Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+.
- FrontEdge — Front Edge is a financial technology provider. They provide technology tools to manage every trade transaction in emerging markets.
Lotus Capital Investments
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Seed
- Egypt, Norway, Estonia
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- Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
- Forward Protocol — Create Blockchains, Subnets, and dApps with A No-Code Interface Wordpress for Web 3.0 Cross-Chain Compatible Industry Agnostic Adoption-Focused Deploy Your dApp Now Join the Community Featured In Deploy and go live in a few minutes. No programming skills required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07z8cQPQGI&ab_channel=ForwardProtocol Lowest Barrier to Entry Easy to use Open Source Drag and drop Complete control Set
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.
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- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, Poland
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- Allego — Discover the benefits of EV charging. Find out how Allego electric vehicle charging stations can enhance convenience and reduce emissions.
- Ulker Biskuvi — Ulker Biskuvi manufactures chocolate, biscuits, crackers, chocolate-covered biscuits, cakes, cookies, and more. They are food manufacturers who manufacture biscuits and crackers for national and international markets.
- Enefit Green AS — Enefit Green was established to unite all of the group's renewable energy production units into a single company. In addition to production units in Estonia, Enefit Green has a subsidiary in Latvia ‒ SIA Enefit Power and Heat Valka ‒ which produces electricity and heat in the town of Valka.
Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.
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- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan
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- DataQueue — Discover essential strategies for AI readiness with DataQueue. Learn how to prepare your business, choose the right AI tools, and develop a strategic AI plan for future success
- Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.
- Algebra Intelligence — Algebra Intelligence is a software development firm that integrates artificial intelligence solutions into the energy sector by providing comprehensive asset performance management, proactive notifications, predictive maintenance, and energy forecast.
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