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Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Egypt in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in April 2025

Investor	Consumer Egypt investments
Falak Startups	7
Flat6Labs	7
AUC Angels	6
EQ2 Ventures	4
Outliers Venture Capital	4
A15	4
Algebra Ventures	3
Oqal	3
Endure Capital	3
Nuwa Capital	3
Flat6Labs Egypt	3
Impact46	2
Shorooq Partners	2
Egypt Ventures	2
MSA Capital	2
Alex Angels	2
HIMAngel	2
Rise Capital	2
MSA Novo	2
Golden Palm Investments	1
VNV Global	1
CVentures	1
STV	1
Sturgeon Capital	1
Beltone Venture Capital	1
Paul Antaki	1
Wingoo investment and technology	1
Sunny Side Venture Partners	1
Index Sports Fund	1
Nasser Chourbagi	1
Cairo Angels	1
Acasia Ventures	1
Cubit Ventures	1
Vostok Ventures	1
JAM Fund	1
Foundation Ventures	1
Lotus Capital	1
Con O'Donnell	1
Karim Hussein	1
Paul Graham	1
Khaled Alashmouny	1
Union Square Ventures	1
LU Innovation	1
Averroes Ventures	1
Pioneer Fund	1
4DX Ventures	1
Raba Partnership	1
K50 Ventures	1
Flexport	1
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	1

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Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Zofa — Zofa provides integrated solutions that promote long-term change while improving productivity and patient care and enabling fast delivery of medical products.
MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
Marginplus Group — We’re creating innovative investment solution to drive Africa’s growth and transform lives through real estate and agriculture.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Manufacturing
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.
InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique

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.

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 — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Backing outlier founders in MENA & the US at the earliest stages

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

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

EFreshli — Furnishing & decorating is exciting with our expert designers, curated shopping experience, and professional setup. Transform your space with our easy 3-step process.
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 — White labeled card issuance - Zero upfront investment - no integrations - go live in less than 10 weeks.

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
DESAISIV — DESAISIV, a MENA based InsurTech startup specialising in health insurance which is transforming health insurance for insurers and clients through exploiting their advanced AI solutions which were developed in collaboration with top machine learning scientists from the University of Oxford. DESAISIV’s philosophy is simply to put AI at the centre ofall decision making. This AI-driven approach guarantees that clients of Groups and SMEs will get optimized insurance policies tailored to their needs, also it will make sure that insurance companies will optimise their processes using the latest AI technologies. Benefitting from access to a vast database of hundreds of millions of patient records, DESAISIV has achieved an impressive average prediction accuracy of over 95%. Demonstrating their commitment to excellence, they have set an ambitious target to exceed 99% accuracy by the end of this year. Through their AI-driven products, DESAISIV streamlines various aspects of health insurance, including automating underwriting procedures, tailoring policy's benefits and coverage, improving quality of service by predicting developing diseases, identifying high-risk behaviours, and reducing customer attrition.
TWIG — TWIG is a Bank Agnostic Automated Savings Platform in the MENA region. Our flagship app provides Automated Saving Plans to help users save better; a Smart Budgeting tool with tailored insights; and Smart, customizable and user-specific Goals.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
ShopLook — Online personal styling destination. Discover outfit ideas or virtually create your own using our outfit maker.
Cash Cows — Cash Cows helps startups hone their operations and strategies so they can expand profitably and create better brands. They collaborate with customers to close the gap between traditional business practices (experience) and cutting-edge approaches (solutions), allowing companies to operate successfully.

A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
Mala Inc. — This is meta description
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

WellPal — Healthy Super 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.
Instadiet — Instadiet helps to lower your blood sugar level to the normal range without medication or surgery. It controls blood sugar without medication and includes reducing the chances of heart disease, dispensing with medications, reducing cumulative sugar, and weight loss.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Spoilz — Play innovative new games with Spoilz, your one-stop destination for gaming joy. From casual to strategy, experience the best in gaming today!
Cipher — Cipher It provides a wide range of services, including risk assessment, rapid response, and recovery to ensure business continuity.
Mala'a Technologies — Make better financial decisions with Malaa. Manage your financials, track your expenses, take a loan or invest your money all from one app. Connect you bank accounts and start today

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NymCard — <p><span style="color:#ce9178;">NymCard is providing, in the MENA region and around the globe, dynamic and secure building blocks for building fast and easy card programs.</span></p>
CQR — CQR is dedicated to offering unrivaled protection by combining proactive techniques, cutting-edge technology, and guidance.
The Box Self Storage Services LLC — The Box Self Storage Services offer complete protection for your goods both for domestic and commercial purposes. As an added advantage, They offer you the flexibility of accessing the stored items at any time through Their 24-hour access control log. Moreover, They provide insurance for your goods should there be any unexpected damage duringcalamities.They provide the best moving and relocation services in Dubai and UAE. They design a customized relocation plan for you based on your requirements and budget. One of Their relocation experts will always be around keeping an eye on the loading and unloading process and making sure that your items stay safe and undamaged.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
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.

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.

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.

Alexandria Business Angels Network

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.

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.

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.

Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets

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.

MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
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 is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Marketplace
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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

STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.

Unique investment funds for those who believe the best opportunities for profit, impact, and innovation can be found in frontier & emerging markets.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Cargon — A simple, fast and innovative industry leading service with powerful analytical tools.
DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Oasis — Oasis provide loans to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs.

Beltone Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Beltone Holding Company.

Investment focus

Retail, Sports, Apparel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
VelyVelo — Discover VelyVelo, the specialist in the rental, servicing and maintenance of electric bicycles for professionals in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille.
BIRD NEST — Live in a beautifully designed nests and small apartments in Cairo and Sahel.

Paul Antaki

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

Wingoo investment and technology is a investment firm.

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.

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.
Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

Index Sports Fund is an investment fund.

Investment focus

Retail, Sports, Apparel
Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

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.

Nasser Chourbagi is the owner of Consolidated Casuals.

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.

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.
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The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Menthum — Saving Made Simple
Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.

Cubit Ventures is a USD10m seed stage venture fund backing tech and SaaS startups driving digital transformation in Egypt; one of the fastest growing economies in the world and undergoing a massive digital transformation.. We have a strategic relationship with Founder Institute, supporting our portfolio companies with access to the world'slargest network of mentors and investors (14,000+), and a global network of 4000 companies ($20B portfolio value) across over 200 cities.

Investment focus

EdTech, Medical, Delivery
Seed
Egypt

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.
Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
Sprints — home page Description

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.

Investment focus

Transportation, Bakery, Mobile Apps
Series B, Seed, Series A
Egypt, Iraq, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
Breadfast — Fast & smooth shopping experience for the household.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.

Foundation Ventures is an investment firm that backs exceptional teams building industry defining companies in Egypt and the MENA region.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, Jordan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Lotus Capital Investments

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed
Egypt, Norway, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

Con O'Donnell is Founder & Advisor at ElWafeyat.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Hardware, Software
Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

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.
Shezlong — Talk to your therapist online privately anytime anywhere!

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

Khaled Alashmouny is the AMS IC Design at Apple.Khaled Alashmouny attended University of Michigan.

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.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Avian Labs — We're building software so that you can pay people, not numbers. Anywhere in the world.
Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries

LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. They work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society.Their goal and mission is to contribute to increased growth in Sweden by ensuring knowledge and research from Lund University benefit society.By supporting anddeveloping research findings with researchers and students they work to lead more ideas to company formations and/or licensing deals.Services for all researchers and students:- Business advice – support and advice - Verification support – VFT- Market and IP screening – comprehensive survey of markets, competitors and patent situationThe services are freely available to researchers and students at all faculties at Lund University.An important part of the work of LU Innovation is providing commercialisation support to individual researchers or students. As well as business developers with many years of experience from both research and business, they have patent engineers, a communications officer and a lawyer who can help with the process. LU Innovation has two sections: one a part of the public authority and the other a holding company, which function as one unit with a joint mission and joint management.LU Innovation is led by the board of the holding company and the steering group of the public authority section. The members of the two bodies are identical - see board members. The operations are led by Director of Innovation Linus Wiebe, who is both MD of the holding company and head of the public authority section.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Egypt, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Quritis — Quiritis offers an automated tool to help harden the security for cloud-based applications that runs within containerized software, such as Docker. Quiritis has a patented methodology to automatically generate security profiles based on customers solutions that protect and minimizes attack surfaces
Bifrost security — bifrost security offers an automated tool to help harden the security for cloud-based applications that run within containerized orchestrated services such as Kubernetes. bifrost has a patented methodology to automatically generate security profiles based on customers' solutions that protect and min
Selcis BioPharma — Selcis BioPharma is developing a technology where short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) can be delivered to the colon.

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.

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.

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
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.

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, South Africa, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Swypex — The all-in-one financial platform empowering businesses with control, visibility, and efficiency. Swypex simplifies business finances, freeing you to focus on growth.
Kera — We are on a mission to connect health ecosystems and enable healthy lives for all communities. Starting in Senegal.
Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.

Investment focus

Logistics, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Pakistan, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Dislog Group — Dislog Group is a diversified Moroccan industrial group operating in three key sectors: health, hygiene, and food.
Cosmos Health — Cosmos Health Inc. (NASDAQ: COSM), is a fully reporting Pharmaceutical Holding Company based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, that specializes, through its subsidiaries, in the wholesale of pharmaceutical products throughout Europe.
Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem — Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem is the state-owned energy distribution corporation in charge of supplying electricity to consumers through its enormous network.

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