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Top 10 EdTech Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Edtech startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 EdTech Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in January 2026

Investor	EdTech United Arab Emirates investments
Hesham Zreik	1
Bashar Hamood	1
Othman AlOthman	1
Ivanka Trump	1
Kaustubh Wagle	1
Arya Bolurfrushan	1
Abdulaziz Al Loughani	1
Lamya Mahmood	1
Ramit Harisinghani	1
Khalid AlHadlaq	1

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

ToyFlix — Toyflix is a pioneering subscription-based toy rental platform transforming India’s US$2 billion toy industry by making premium.
LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
Kyamaganda Community Development Organisation — it is a community-based nonprofit organization founded to restore hope and dignity among vulnerable children, youth, and families in Uganda.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.

Othman AlOthman

Investment focus

Content, Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Lisan — Lisan is an AI writing platform offering state-of-the-art proofreading and grammar checking to help individuals who write in Arabic to maximize their productivity, create exceptional content using cutting-edge generative AI models, and automate tasks with AI accelerators.

Ivanka Trump

Investment focus

Education, Farming, CleanTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Twigtale — Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging forkids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
University of The Community/ Indigenous Cultural Arts Museum — UNIVERSITY FOR SELF LEARNING

Kaustubh Wagle

Investment focus

EdTech
Convertible Note
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

SecureMyScholarship — SecureMyScholarship is the world's number one Scholarship Finder Search Engine. With over 400 university partners and 40,000 course options, our Scholarship Portal assists with finding scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate international students. SecureMyScholarship is 100% free for students who receive opportunities to secure their guaranteed scholarship to study abroad. Save money on your higher education by filling in the required information and secure your guaranteed scholarship to study abroad, which is available for your secondary and higher educational students. SecureMyScholarship is sometimes also referred to as SMS or Secure My Scholarship.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
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Abdulaziz is co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts ecommerce solution servicing the largest customer base in the MENA region. Abdulaziz is also co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the MENA region. Previously, Abdulaziz was the founding Executive ViceChairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a USD7bn independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait (2013-2017). Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Talabat.com<http://Talabat.com> until 2010, and has since then been investing in technology startups and involved in a number of local and regional entrepreneurial initiatives. Abdulaziz has also previously served as Director at Global Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of Global Investment House “Global” where he has played a major role in managing key investments within the Private Equity Group of Global by handling various assignments on corporate restructuring, business planning, deal structuring, due diligence and managing portfolio companies' to exit. Abdulaziz has served as an executive and member of board on a number of companies within the MENA region in the technology, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer finance, food & beverage and real estate sectors.Abdulaziz holds a Bachelor's degree - double major in Information Systems and E-Commerce from University of Toledo, and an MBA degree from London Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.
Fakespot — Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.
Yougotagift.com — Buy UAE's most popular gift cards and gift vouchers online! Personalize and digitally send them via email or SMS! Starting at 20 AED. Choose from 200+ Top Brands.

Lamya Mahmood

Investment focus

Tutoring, Education
Seed, Funding Round
Oman, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Pottoin — NUnit is the most popular unit test framework for .NET.
Thiqa Tutoring — Thiqa Tutoring (TT) is Tutors Providers, by customers, for educational and teaching services. International educational and teaching methodologies and standards.

Ramit Harisinghani - General Manager, MENA @ b8ta

Investment focus

EdTech
Convertible Note
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

SecureMyScholarship — SecureMyScholarship is the world's number one Scholarship Finder Search Engine. With over 400 university partners and 40,000 course options, our Scholarship Portal assists with finding scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate international students. SecureMyScholarship is 100% free for students who receive opportunities to secure their guaranteed scholarship to study abroad. Save money on your higher education by filling in the required information and secure your guaranteed scholarship to study abroad, which is available for your secondary and higher educational students. SecureMyScholarship is sometimes also referred to as SMS or Secure My Scholarship.

Khalid is an active angel investor in early-stage technology companies with 17 years of experience and a General Management education from Harvard Business School. After an exciting career at Microsoft and Logica, Khalid co-founded and managed Xceed Ventures, a social media intelligence company that got acquired. He currently serves as the CreativeSolutions Director at the Central Payment System of Saudi Arabia to support the development of FinTechs in Saudi and bring disruptive innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Social Network
Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Digitzs —
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