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Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Enterprise startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates

Investor	Enterprise United Arab Emirates investments
Musaab Hakami	3
Chantalle Dumonceaux	3
Sid Dhamija	2
Zeneca ..	2
Ivan on Tech	2
Tushar Ahluwalia	2
Hosam Arab	2
Arya Bolurfrushan	2
Jonathan Doerr	2
Magnus Olsson	2
Yusuf Al Hasan	2
Walid Hanna	2
Asif Keshodia	2
Zaim Azrak	1
Wiktor Namysl	1
Omar Aljeraisi	1
Al Serkal	1
Alexander Abramyan	1
Khalid Al Taweel	1
Tore Hofstad	1
n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault	1
Zeid Husban	1
Hamdan Mohamed Saleh Aljneibi	1
Ekaterina Tikhonova	1
Al Shafar	1
Charles Azrak	1
Omar Benmoussa	1
Yahya Bajarash	1
Yahya Bajarash	1
omar bajarash	1
Turki AlJeaid	1
Yan Hascoët	1
Omar Bajarash	1
Trond Riiber Knudsen	1
William Zeqiri	1
Amal Dokhan	1
Dany Farha	1
Gowri Narayanan	1
Faiz Mayalakkara	1
Shravan Shroff	1
Omar Rebhan	1
Andy Preikschat	1
Mazin Alzaidi	1
Eduardo Ronzano	1
Mikhail Tyurin	1
Khalid AlTawil	1
Youcef Oudjidane	1
Abdulhamid Al Omar	1
Thibaud Elziere	1
Abdullah Aljaberi	1

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GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community

Chantalle Dumonceaux is the Venture Partner of Accelerator Ventures. She previously worked at Shoppies as a Co-Founder. Chantalle Dumonceaux attended Columbia University.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Souqalmal — Compare more quote features than ever from top UAE brands at souqalmal.com
OfficeRock — Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.

Sid Dhamija

Investment focus

FinTech, Database, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.

Zeneca is a founder of @ZenAcademy and @The333Club.

Investment focus

Web3
Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Eesee — The platform that accelerates sales, provides additional liquidity and trading volume to the digital assets market, facilitates the community and lowers cost-barrier to enter the market using the unique protocol.
/Reach — A discord and web platform designed to amplify project visibility and audience interactions in the web3 space, while rewarding participants.

Ivan on Tech CEO @moralisweb3 @moralismoney.

Investment focus

Web3, Gaming, Web Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Eesee — The platform that accelerates sales, provides additional liquidity and trading volume to the digital assets market, facilitates the community and lowers cost-barrier to enter the market using the unique protocol.
GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
EclipseFi — EclipseFi is a Cosmos modular multi-chain token issuance platform that seeks to tackle Launchpad's cross-chain user experience and sustainability challenges with features like smart accounts and cross-chain design.

Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Mexico, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
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.
Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.

Hosam Arab

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Banking
Seed, Debt Financing
Canada, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).

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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Jonathan Doerr is the CEO of Daraz. Prior to this, Jonathan served as the managing director of Jumia Nigeria.

Investment focus

Credit, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Magnus Olsson is the Founder and Managing Director at Careem.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Digital Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
Getbee — Use live video calls to create in-person interactions with your clients from product recommendations to completing a purchase.
Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.

Yusuf Al Hasan

Investment focus

Seed, Pre-Seed

Portfolio highlights

Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.

Walid Hanna is Founder and CEO at Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

Investment focus

Search Engine, Billing, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Lebanon, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

ARAMOZ — Optimized for the Arab world, Aramoz ® is a powerful job search engine that provides exceptionally extensive, accurate and relevant results. Using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Aramoz provides users with unmatched effectiveness. But don’t take our word for it. Just try and compare for yourself…
OX FACTORY — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
INFOGRAPHIQS — Infographiqs ® is a powerful infographic search engine that provides an exceptional degree of extensiveness, accuracy and relevance. Optimized for infographics only using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Infographiqs provides unmatched effectiveness. Try it and compare for yourself…

Asif Keshodia is an Angel Investor based in Dubai, UAE and the co-founder of Storfox.com. He is most notable for his work as the Group CFO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in a milestone deal for the Middle East tech sector. He joined Souq in 2011 as an early stage investor and raised over $400m to help it become the leading onlineretailer in the region. After its acquisition by Amazon in 2017, he took the role of MENA Regional Finance Director at Amazon. Asif has over 20 years of experience with some of the world’s biggest names, such as PwC, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon, in countries around the world, including the UK, South Africa, Russia, and Pakistan. He is now using his decades of multinational corporate experience to help usher small startups to big success. He is dedicated to aiding young entrepreneurs launch their projects, with sights currently set on bolstering the e-commerce ecosystem in the MENA region and South Asia’s burgeoning market.In the recent past Asif has served on the Boards of Souq, Payfort.com, and Instashop.com, recently acquired by the Delivery Hero. He has also invested in a number of fledgling startups including Shipox, Clicky.pk, EzHire and Cartlow.comAsif is a graduate of the University of Karachi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Economics and a Chartered Accountant (FCA). In 2016, he was named Best Retail CFO of the MENA Region by renowned Middle Eastern publication, The CFO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE
CLICKY.PK — Clicky.pk offers the largest collection of trendy and affordable fashion and lifestyle products online. Clicky has the best online brand stores in Pakistan. Huge Collection of Jewellery, Handbags, Clutches, Sunglasses, Clothing, Nightwear & More!
PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.

Zaim Azrak

Investment focus

B2B, Logistics, Transportation
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

arcab — arcab is the technology enabled private bus aggregator. It enables fleet owners to make more money by increasing utilization of vehicles

Wiktor Namysl is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Brand Marketing
Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.

Omar Aljeraisi

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE with retail and institutional investors worldwide. Investors earn up to 15% per annum

Al Serkal

Investment focus

Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bloovo — BLOOVO is an innovative online recruitment platform, which adopts algorithms in the recruitment process, offering unique recruitment solutions in an interactive manner to both employers and job seekers in the Gulf region. BLOOVO aims to eliminate the job-mismatch hurdles through the introduction of insightful algorithm-based features and theprovision of enhanced and more affordable services.

Alexander Abramyan

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Mobile Apps
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Fotrum — Fotrum Project - competitive matchmaking platform

Khalid Al Taweel of RAI group.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Wafeer — Wafeer is a fintech personal finance management app that provides financial solutions.
RestHero.io — Easily create your own online store and start selling today! Our platform offers a free trial and easy setup for your eCommerce needs. Start building your store now!

Tore Hofstad

Investment focus

Digital Marketing, Travel Accommodations
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

HotelOnline — HotelOnline is the #1 revenue partner for the hospitality sector in Africa. More than 5,000 accommodation and restaurant partners in 24 countries have increased their revenue, and improved their customer experience with HotelOnline's technology-driven solutions. The HotelOnline Group includes Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network.

n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault

Investment focus

Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

Zeid obtained his Bachelor`s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the UK in 2008. He then moved back to Jordan and co-founded ifood.jo, an online food ordering platform. ifood.jo attracted the eyes of investors from abroad and in 2013, the company sold a majority stake to the Turkish food ordering company Yemeksipeti. Zeid soldthe rest of his shares in ifood.jo in 2016 after a successful acquisition by the global giants "Delivery Hero". Now hoping to revolutionize the point-of-sale industry in the region.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.

Entrepreneur

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Delivery Service
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Happy Day Delivery — HappyDay DeliveryDelivery company with big ambitious to connect all UAE businesses with 25 years of experience in logistics and express delivery. Our services starting from express transport services, parcel and goods delivery, food and sweet delivery, to receiving goods from merchants and delivering them to customers. Our mission is to providethe best services at the best prices, and this is achieved through your evaluation of the service and your satisfaction with it.Sit at Home/work We Will Take Care Delivery The complete safety of the parcels, goods or gifts that we transport while preserving them from scratching, breaking or damage. In the event of damage to the order from a company, the company bears the value of the goods.Happyday Delivery is a company that specializes in courier services. we partner with small businesses and online stores and help them reach their customers. Not only that, but Happyday Delivery can also buy bespoke products from your selected store and have it delivered.The company offers its services in the 7 leading cities of UAE. So if you are based out anywhere in consists of seven independent city-states: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Umm al-Qaiwain, Fujairah, Ajman and Ra’s al-Khaimah, you can avail the services of Happyday Delivery.For businesses, Happyday Delivery comes with only one subscription plans available at same price for all emirates. Apart from that, we let you choose your own customized plan at your convenience. Moreover, growing their business rapidly, Happyday Delivery can ensure delivery time as fast as possible.For individual consumers, we offer their service at a very cost-effective price. You can get your package delivered at same price. You can avail Happyday Delivery service from their smartphone app and through the website.Same Day Courier Services With Ease At Happyday Delivery App, our innovative delivery platform provides business owners with an integrated, flexible, and seamless way of managing deliveries. With the ability to book or schedule same day courier services, fulfilling your daily delivery requirements couldn’t be easier!Happy Day Delivery Individuals, restaurants and business owners Various (fashion - technology - entertainment, etc.) WorldwideThe project was launched in the United Arab Emirates, and its services will be available to all over the world • A service of financed advertisements for restaurants and stores • Storage and delivery space reservation service • Product Trading Service • 55 employees • AED 9,937,975 • Beginning of the third yearWith the spread of the Corona epidemic and the consequent social distancing, users turned to online delivery applications away from gatherings for fear of infection.Online delivery companies were able to achieve profits and success, as they witnessed a strong polarization by consumers during the last period, this is increasing the biggest gains were made in favor of the giants of online companies, as many. Came to distribution networks a machine in the number of requests as consumers resort to quarantine them increase hai the order became mega deliveries to provide daily necessities, such as Talabat and Careem where more than just an option for many, in light of the procedures imposed by most countries of the world internet to confront the spread of the Corona epidemic (Covid-19) from violations, fines and even penalties.The growth of the e-delivery sector without much competition, at least for the time promising what opened a field the cloud connectivity sector is booming, including infrastructure Whatever currently, there are several factors that play a role infrastructure in the field of technology, the quality of internet connection, the rate of internet penetration in society, to achieve in the UAE, which is expected to these factors are available in the Gulf region in general, and in particular.Where is this sector? Annual basis until 2022, and this percentage is expected to increase in light of the change a constant growth rate of 23% over imposed by the spread of the Corona virus on consumer habits To order online, due to the lack of I became resort that a wide segment of individuals and even companies.What does mean ? In 2019, the value of e-commerce in the UAE reached or its absence, and mentions other options about the rest of the countries in the region to 59 billion dirhams (about 16 billion dollars), which is a relatively high value, alone because of the ease of ordering online.

Ekaterina Tikhonova is an individual investor,lawyer and formerly a head in the field of HoReCa.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Retailhub — Retailhub is a platform that allows merchants and aggregators to connect directly.

Al Shafar

Investment focus

Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bloovo — BLOOVO is an innovative online recruitment platform, which adopts algorithms in the recruitment process, offering unique recruitment solutions in an interactive manner to both employers and job seekers in the Gulf region. BLOOVO aims to eliminate the job-mismatch hurdles through the introduction of insightful algorithm-based features and theprovision of enhanced and more affordable services.

Charles Azrak

Investment focus

B2B, Logistics, Transportation
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

arcab — arcab is the technology enabled private bus aggregator. It enables fleet owners to make more money by increasing utilization of vehicles

Omar Benmoussa is the Founder at of Kapten.

Investment focus

Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.

Yahya Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Yahya Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Debt Financing
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

omar bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Turki AlJeaid

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Wellness
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

MyBenefits Technolgoies — MyBenefits offers corporates a flexible and scalable solution to standardize staff discounts, flexible benefits and wellness initiatives throughout all markets. HR teams and managers are able to manage access, distribute rewards, monitor usage, and customize what content is displayed through an easy to use admin tool. With a simple requestMyBenefits can turn on hundreds of staff discounts in any market, anywhere.Employees have access to an app based on their work ID and able to use exclusive discounts, offers and access events specifically because they work for an organization.

Yan Hascoët

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Cannabis
Angel, Seed, Series A
France, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
Roof — Roof provides private co-living studios for students with common areas.

Omar Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Debt Financing
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

Investment focus

Software, Construction, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Norway, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
New Zealand, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.
ArchiPro — Browse projects, find products, connect with professionals and learn about building, all in one place. Find everything you need to build your dream right here.
Invivo Wines — Invivo Wines is a premium new zealand winery producing world class wines from both the marlboroughand central otafgo regions.

Amal Dokhan serves as a Partner at 500 Startups. She was the CEO of Global Entrepreneurship Network Saudi before that. She attended King Abdul Aziz University and the University of Wollongong.

Investment focus

FinTech, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Blink — Blink is the best online ordering system for restaurants and supermarkets that helps managers to take their business online providing the most powerful CRM and analytics environment.
Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
Socialee — Socialee’s video commerce platform allows consumers to discover and shop through honest video reviews by enabling creators to monetize based on how authentic and useful consumers find their reviews.

Dany is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, with many exits from ventures in a variety of industries. Dany co-founded and exited Bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest job site; Butlers, the UAE’s largest commercial laundry company and Intercat, one of the largest catering companies in the UAE. Dany was a seed investor in Gonabit, a MiddleEast focused daily deal website that was acquired by Living Social in 2011. He currently sits on the boards of 3 portfolio companies.Dany is the first to acknowledge that he wouldn’t have accomplished all these things without the support of the investors and mentors that gave him his start. It is this belief that serves as the impetus behind BECO. Like those that boosted him when he needed it, Dany aspires to serve the next wave of entrepreneurs, so that they too can fulfil their potential and pass along the same spirit of generosity to those that follow in their footsteps.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Information Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

GoNabit — GoNabit lists one deal per day in each city. Deals provide great value buying opportunities for a limited period of time - typically 24 hours. We negotiate great discounts based on strength in numbers - we collectively commit to buying a certain number of Nabits, and in return local businesses give huge discounts.GoNabit bridges the gap betweenclicks and bricks - and by activating the social value graph - truly helps people experience social commerce through strength in numbers.GoNabit is an easy way for buyers to use strength in numbers to get great discounts and discover fun local activities. GoNabit uses short-term deals and the power of social media to amplify word-of-mouth turning individual buyers into value evangelists.For local businesses, GoNabit is a risk-free way to promote their business to savvy young buyers in search of new things to do - with customers guaranteed. GoNabit gives advertisers the premier platform for efficient, measureable, risk-free local marketing that creates real customers.
JadoPado — JadoPado is a marketplace where people around the world come together to buy and sell great stuff!JadoPado lets you sell new, used and refurbished products directly to buyers. Sellers handle their own stores including products, offers, orders and fulfilment, while making sure everything looks great!JadoPado gives buyers incredible choiceacross a wide range of categories and an easy to use, secure experience. JadoPado handles payments on behalf of sellers and pays them out after you’ve received your purchase.
Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.

Gowri Narayanan - Partner, FinTech @ SoftBank Vision Fund

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series C, Series D
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Trellis Technologies — Finally, an API for insurance information.

Faiz Mayalakkara Director Investments, Emirates Investment Authority.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Panama, United States

Portfolio highlights

BharatX — BharatX is a Fin-Tech startup that enables any Consumer-facing app/website in India to offer Credit to their users by integrating its APIs. It can enable white-leballed journeys like of "Buy Now, Pay Later","Credit Line", "Try and Buy", "Pay in 3", "Postpaid", etc.
Fello — Fello is a savings and investment platform that helps to save, invest and earn higher returns than a traditional savings account.
Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them

Shravan at various times has spoken at A league universities and campuses of the Symbiosis, IITs and IIMs. He has been sharing his thoughts and expertise on not just robust business models but also the unique worth of humane and ethical business practices in the process of value creation for the benefit of the coming management generation.Shravan’s efforts have not gone unnoticed as he is often acknowledged through numerous awards and recognitions including Society magazines Top 100 achievers(2005), India Today Young Guns Top 50(2005), STAR screen distribution and exhibition award and many more.Shravan’s name also figures in t Apart from this, Shravan is invited to address institutions like Chicago Business School, INSEAD, Symbiosis, IIT’s and IIM campuses from time to time and to speak at prestigious media events such as the IIFA Awards, FICCI and India Retail Summit.He is an active member of the Mumbai chapter of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) a US based non-profit organization, as well as Mumbai Angels, which is a unique platform to start up and very early stage companies by bringing them face to face with successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives who are interested in and have the funds available to invest in start up companies.Shravan has also been chosen by the UB Group in its McDowell’s Signature Campaign as an ‘Icon of Success’. In 2005, Shravan was invited by the I& B Ministry to join the Censor Board of India as a member. Shravan was also the Co-Chairman of the Entertainment Sub-Committee of CII (Confederation of Indian Industries), Mumbai for the year 2004-2005.Shravan’s entrepreneurship has been recognised all over India.He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shunali and daughters Zara and Rania

Investment focus

Travel Accommodations, Travel, Local
Seed
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

InvenZone — InvenZone is a niche networking platform for researchers and scientists focusing on solving the core pain points of researchers like discovering the right data, complexity of the research papers, tracking the research updates and connecting with the right community or people. The platform is backed by huge AI in solving the pain points. We havebuilt contextual semantic search & we are also including conceptual semantic search to make the discovery a very simple task. With Sparq (Semantic Parsing And Reasoning of Query), finding the answers to complex questions is effortless. Doing research becomes a lot simpler & efficient with many other technologies and tools that InvenZone offers. With research papers heading the social conversations, finding the right connections is now easy.
SeekSherpa — SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each.
HotelOnline — HotelOnline is the #1 revenue partner for the hospitality sector in Africa. More than 5,000 accommodation and restaurant partners in 24 countries have increased their revenue, and improved their customer experience with HotelOnline's technology-driven solutions. The HotelOnline Group includes Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network.

Early Stage Angel Investor, Market Entry & Growth Strategist

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Coffee
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Coffinado — Coffinado is an e-Commerce platform providing a variety of coffee beans to customers & coffee shops from self-owned roasters.
PerchPeek — PerchPeek is the easiest way to relocate your employees to hundreds of destinations around the world. With support globally from the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, AND MORE!
Space Nation — Space Nation is a Finnish startup aimed at encouraging public participation in the burgeoning commercial space industry, has raised more than 2.2 million Euros in a crowdfunding campaign launched Feb. 2 for the Space Nation Astronaut Training Program, including one million Euros pledged in the first 43 minutes for the smartphones application forcitizen astronauts. Space Nation is an official partner of NASA and has lab space at the International Space Station. Space Nation has partnership agreements with a number of space tech companies, including Axiom Space for access to the ISS and spaceflight training experiences, and IceXtech in Iceland for astronaut field training in the extraterrestrial looking landscapes of the geothermal regions of North East Iceland. Space Nation is the first space travel company to become an affiliate of UNWTO, the United Nation World Travel Organisation.

Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Pakistan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
FreightFlows — Freightflows is a maritime company that offers predictive analytics for global trade. It specializes in the fields of analytics, big data, data science, and machine learning. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

Mazin Alzaidi, General Partner at STV.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility

Mikhail Tyurin is a business angel and a former prod & tech director of X5 Digital.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Retailhub — Retailhub is a platform that allows merchants and aggregators to connect directly.

Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Rental
Seed
Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
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).
RentSher Middle East — RentSher was established in 2016 and is an online platform for renting event furniture and services, electronics, medical and travel essentials. It manages order bookings, payments, deliveries and value added services.

Youcef Oudjidane is the founder of Byld Ventures and co-founder of Bloom (YC W22)

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.

Abdulhamid is the CEO of Talabat, the leading online food delivery e-Commerce in the GCC. The firm evolved from a Kuwaiti based start-up to become a market leader in its space. He joined Talabat at an early stage and contributed to its growth from his post as head of Business development and Product. In 2015, Rocket Internet acquired Talabat for170m USD, representing the largest Internet technology acquisition in the Middle East till date. Started his career in the IT and the Banking industries, and prior to joining Talabat he was the e-Channels team lead for Kuwait Finance House, one of the leading Islamic banks in the Middle East. Abdulhamid received his MBA from the University of Leeds with a BSc in Computer Science.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

Abdullah Aljaberi

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Delivery Service
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Happy Day Delivery — HappyDay DeliveryDelivery company with big ambitious to connect all UAE businesses with 25 years of experience in logistics and express delivery. Our services starting from express transport services, parcel and goods delivery, food and sweet delivery, to receiving goods from merchants and delivering them to customers. Our mission is to providethe best services at the best prices, and this is achieved through your evaluation of the service and your satisfaction with it.Sit at Home/work We Will Take Care Delivery The complete safety of the parcels, goods or gifts that we transport while preserving them from scratching, breaking or damage. In the event of damage to the order from a company, the company bears the value of the goods.Happyday Delivery is a company that specializes in courier services. we partner with small businesses and online stores and help them reach their customers. Not only that, but Happyday Delivery can also buy bespoke products from your selected store and have it delivered.The company offers its services in the 7 leading cities of UAE. So if you are based out anywhere in consists of seven independent city-states: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Umm al-Qaiwain, Fujairah, Ajman and Ra’s al-Khaimah, you can avail the services of Happyday Delivery.For businesses, Happyday Delivery comes with only one subscription plans available at same price for all emirates. Apart from that, we let you choose your own customized plan at your convenience. Moreover, growing their business rapidly, Happyday Delivery can ensure delivery time as fast as possible.For individual consumers, we offer their service at a very cost-effective price. You can get your package delivered at same price. You can avail Happyday Delivery service from their smartphone app and through the website.Same Day Courier Services With Ease At Happyday Delivery App, our innovative delivery platform provides business owners with an integrated, flexible, and seamless way of managing deliveries. With the ability to book or schedule same day courier services, fulfilling your daily delivery requirements couldn’t be easier!Happy Day Delivery Individuals, restaurants and business owners Various (fashion - technology - entertainment, etc.) WorldwideThe project was launched in the United Arab Emirates, and its services will be available to all over the world • A service of financed advertisements for restaurants and stores • Storage and delivery space reservation service • Product Trading Service • 55 employees • AED 9,937,975 • Beginning of the third yearWith the spread of the Corona epidemic and the consequent social distancing, users turned to online delivery applications away from gatherings for fear of infection.Online delivery companies were able to achieve profits and success, as they witnessed a strong polarization by consumers during the last period, this is increasing the biggest gains were made in favor of the giants of online companies, as many. Came to distribution networks a machine in the number of requests as consumers resort to quarantine them increase hai the order became mega deliveries to provide daily necessities, such as Talabat and Careem where more than just an option for many, in light of the procedures imposed by most countries of the world internet to confront the spread of the Corona epidemic (Covid-19) from violations, fines and even penalties.The growth of the e-delivery sector without much competition, at least for the time promising what opened a field the cloud connectivity sector is booming, including infrastructure Whatever currently, there are several factors that play a role infrastructure in the field of technology, the quality of internet connection, the rate of internet penetration in society, to achieve in the UAE, which is expected to these factors are available in the Gulf region in general, and in particular.Where is this sector? Annual basis until 2022, and this percentage is expected to increase in light of the change a constant growth rate of 23% over imposed by the spread of the Corona virus on consumer habits To order online, due to the lack of I became resort that a wide segment of individuals and even companies.What does mean ? In 2019, the value of e-commerce in the UAE reached or its absence, and mentions other options about the rest of the countries in the region to 59 billion dirhams (about 16 billion dollars), which is a relatively high value, alone because of the ease of ordering online.

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