Top 5 Gaming Angel Investors in Egypt in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Gaming startups based in Egypt. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Egypt. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Gaming Angel Investors in Egypt in July 2025

Investor	Gaming Egypt investments
David Buttress	2
Kushal Shah	2
Paul Graham	1
Yaser Alghamdi	1
Paul Buchheit	1

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David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.

Investment focus

Mobile, Food Delivery, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Egypt, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants
Paperclip — Paperclip aims to champion the sharing economy via a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying, selling, renting and donating within communities. This concept has been tentatively titled the 'social inventory movement' - a marketplace where listings never leave; an ecosystem of people's assets, with ownership transferred from profile toprofile following transactions.The overarching mission is to change the way people think about the things that they own, in the same manner that Airbnb changed the way people think about their properties - to empower people by unlocking the value of their everyday assets such as bikes, power tools, clothes, books and even food.
MyJam — All the food you love in one place.

Kushal Shah is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger's Dubai office and a Managing Partner for the Middle East. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he spent 12 years with a leading consultancy in London and Dubai. He studied Economics at Cambridge in the UK and he is a certified Chartered Accountant.

Investment focus

eSports, Video, Gaming
Seed, Series B
Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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).
LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.

Paul Graham

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

Yaser Alghamdi

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Retail
Pre-Seed, Seed
Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

EdfaPay — Innovative and modern payment solutions tailored to suit the needs of businesses of all sizes and types, allowing for effortless growth management through a
KalPay — KalPay is the largest Shariah Compliant Buy Now Pay Later in Pakistan, giving our customers easy access to credit and allowing them to purchase products in 3 monthly installments. We have a portfolio of hundreds of brands spread across multiple segments!
ON Market — E-grocery marketplace allows customers to order from their favorite retailers while empowering retailers to build & sustain online commerce

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.