Top 5 Gaming Angel Investors in Egypt
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
Investor | Gaming Egypt investments |
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David Buttress | 2 |
Kushal Shah | 2 |
Paul Buchheit | 1 |
Khalid AlTawil | 1 |
Paul Graham | 1 |
David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.
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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.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video, Gaming
- Seed, Series B
- Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
- 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).
- 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 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.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
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- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Experience the power of super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Rental
- Seed
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
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- 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 — UAE Listings and Directories for Vape and Tobacco Shop in UAE
Paul Graham
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
- Roforco — Roforco runs a Roblox game accelerator that makes games successful by providing funding, resources and hands-on support. It's YCombinator for Roblox games, built by two YCombinator Alumni. Co-founders Artem and Brain have been building games together since they were 14 were developers on 12 top grossing titles, accounting for over 2.74billion plays/downloads.Prior to building the accelerator, Roforco was a game studio with a portfolio of games that reached benchmarks including 10 million monthly active users and 16,000 concurrent users. Roforco also worked with notable brands such as Unilever, for whom they made an branded game with over 50 million plays.In 2022, Roforco joined YCombinator's coveted startup accelerator and went on to secure a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Paul Graham, Dentsu Group, the prev. COO of Activision and the CEOs of Guilded and Jellysmack. Learn more about us at https://roforco.com/For press: tom@roforco.com Based and founded in San Francisco, CA
- ParadeDB — ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres.
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