Top 20 Education VC Funds in Egypt
A list of 20 VC funds that invest in Education startups based in Egypt. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Egypt. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Education VC Funds in Egypt
Investor | Education Egypt investments |
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Edventures | 12 |
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology | 4 |
Algebra Ventures | 3 |
NFX | 2 |
Launch Africa | 2 |
AUC Angels | 2 |
Cairo Angels | 2 |
Zaldi Capital | 1 |
Mixpanel | 1 |
Twilio | 1 |
African Development Bank | 1 |
Cubit Ventures | 1 |
The Challenge Fund | 1 |
Tanmia wa Tatweer Project | 1 |
HIMAngel | 1 |
Notion Capital | 1 |
Stripe | 1 |
Alex Angels | 1 |
Segment | 1 |
Med Angels | 1 |
EdVentures is a corporate venture capital that invests in startups specializing in education, culture and innovative learning solutions in SEED and Pre-Series A rounds focusing on Egypt, Africa, and the Arab World. The corporate VC was launched in 2017 by Nahdet Misr Publishing House. It provides technical and financial support to startups in orderto ensure success and continuity in the market by providing investment according to the needs and maturity level of each company.
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Investment focus
- Education, Training, Online Portals
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
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- Super Fny — Super Fny is an online tutoring platform that looks to help students enrolled in vocational schools foster their technical skills.
- OBM Education — OBM is the most-advanced and expansive Egyptian startup in college guidance, career readiness and mapping the future directions for schools students in Egypt.
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is the Egyptian house of expertise. It brings together outstanding Egyptian scientists and experts from universities, research institutions, private sector, NGOs, policymakers, and prominent Egyptian scientists in Diaspora to deliberate country problems, propose and carry out scientific studies andfuture strategic basic plans to tackle these problems.
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Investment focus
- Training, Internet, Education
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Kouncel — Kouncel is an interactive online platform providing an encyclopedia of pre-recorded legal courses tackling an array of legal topics from various jurisdictions. We aim to introduce a user-friendly and accessible platform to bring you legal content in a way you've never seen before, all through multiple experts who are stars in their respective fields. Legal education has never been easier!
- Drop — Drop App lets you wash your car anywhere. Service, repair and customize it at Egypt's top rated & verified workshops and best service centers.
- Crafty Workshop — Crafty Workshop offers an arsenal of online technical and pedagogical workshops and courses aimed at artisans and craftspeople.
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
- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
- Shift EV — Electrifying fleets in emerging markets.
We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
- Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
- Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
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- Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
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
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- 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.
- Sprints — home page Description
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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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Lebanon
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- 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
Zaldi Capital is one of the fastest growing asset management companies in Egypt.
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Investment focus
- Legal, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Kouncel — Kouncel is an interactive online platform providing an encyclopedia of pre-recorded legal courses tackling an array of legal topics from various jurisdictions. We aim to introduce a user-friendly and accessible platform to bring you legal content in a way you've never seen before, all through multiple experts who are stars in their respective fields. Legal education has never been easier!
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- Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.
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- Dream Business System — we help coaches, course creators, and trainers to build an online coaching business
Twilio is a developer platform for communications and is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services, and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers, and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
- Frame AI — Frame AI is a Proactive AI Platform that drives value from unstructured data across the company through traits, triggers, and trends.
- Nurdle AI — Get your AI into production Faster, Cheaper & Easier with Nurdle's privacy-safe lookalike data. Trusted by leading brands in gaming and social media.
African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It finances development projects and programs in cooperation with other national and international development institutions; offers technical assistance in the selection, study, and preparation of projects; and promotes investments of public and privatecapital in projects and programs designed to contribute to the economic and social progress of the regional member states. The company also provides sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public sector and non-sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public and private sectors; lines of credit for trade finance; agency lines; guarantees such as partial credit and risk guarantees; equity and quasi-equity trade finance; and risk management products comprising interest rate swaps, currency swaps, commodity swaps, interest rate caps, and collars. In addition, it offers trade finance services consisting of risk participation agreements, trade finance lines of credit, and soft commodity finance facilities as well as technical assistance. African Development Bank was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Energy, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Kouncel — Kouncel is an interactive online platform providing an encyclopedia of pre-recorded legal courses tackling an array of legal topics from various jurisdictions. We aim to introduce a user-friendly and accessible platform to bring you legal content in a way you've never seen before, all through multiple experts who are stars in their respective fields. Legal education has never been easier!
- ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
- Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
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.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Medical, Delivery
- Seed
- Egypt
The Challenge Funds are two Delaware limited partnerships focused on equity investments in Israel-related privately held and publicly traded companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Hardware
- Series B, Series D, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Sprints — home page Description
- EarlySense — Improve patient safety with contact free, continuous monitoring using the EarlySense remote technology device.
- Crescendo Networks — Crescendo Networks accelerates and optimizes delivery of business-critical Web applications through the market’s best-performing application delivery controllers. A purpose-built hardware design with a massively parallel architecture enables Crescendo’s ADCs to outperform competing products under peak load with all features turned on, allowingservers to serve user requests even under massive HTTP traffic or extreme load. The company’s products are used by many of the world’s most sophisticated and fastest-growing Web properties to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue.
Tanmia wa Tatweer Project
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Investment focus
- Legal, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Kouncel — Kouncel is an interactive online platform providing an encyclopedia of pre-recorded legal courses tackling an array of legal topics from various jurisdictions. We aim to introduce a user-friendly and accessible platform to bring you legal content in a way you've never seen before, all through multiple experts who are stars in their respective fields. Legal education has never been easier!
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.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
- ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
- Tomorrow Things — TomorrowThings builds digital twins in a one-click fashion to enable sustainability with the power of simplicity.
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet.Businesses of every size, from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook, use the company’s software to accept online payments and run complex global operations. The company combines economic infrastructure with a set of applications for newbusiness models like crowdfunding and marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and more. Stripe navigates global regulatory uncertainty and partners closely with internet leaders like Apple, Google, Alipay, Tencent, Facebook, and Twitter to launch new capabilities.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Vengo AI — Vengo AI stands at the forefront of digital companionship and creator-driven marketplaces, recognized for its innovation with over $300,000 in credits and grants from tech leaders like Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Stripe, and more. Situated in an $850 billion market poised for significant growth by 2030, Vengo AI uniquely merges technology toredefine social interactions and AI leadership. This platform is a collaborative effort between Spinnr and Vengo AI, setting a new standard for next-gen brand-consumer engagement through real-time video and customizable AI personas. It revolutionizes brand engagement and offers celebrity AI personas for scalable, personalized fan experiences, all while requiring zero effort from the stars themselves. Vengo AI uniquely combines artificial intelligence capabilities with real-life human connections, offering a dual experience that sets it apart in the industry. This approach not only places Vengo AI at the vanguard of digital companionship but also firmly integrates creators into its economic model, enabling them to share in the platform's success and redefine the landscape of digital interaction and community-driven economic participation.
- Clerk — With Clerk, you can add beautiful, high-conversion Sign Up and Sign In forms to your React application in minutes. After signing in, Clerk empowers your users to take control of their account security with multi-factor authentication and device management.If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “there’s got to be a better way to build auth” -Clerk was built with you in mind. It truly only takes minutes to add best-in-class authentication experiences to your application - and Clerk’s team is constantly working behind-the-scenes to make them even better.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
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.
Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps you collect, clean, and activate your customer data.
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- Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Ukraine
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- U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.
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- Dream Business System — we help coaches, course creators, and trainers to build an online coaching business
Med Angels is a federation of Mediterranean angel networks. As a network of networks, we are focused on facilitating cross-border investing and syndicating deals among participating Mediterranean angel networks.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- Egypt, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Sprints — home page Description
- Smileyscope — Smileyscope solves paediatric problems using VR keeping kids calm and still during needles, allowing clinicians to do their job safely
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