Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Internet startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2025
Investor | Internet United Arab Emirates investments |
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Ivan on Tech | 2 |
Walid Hanna | 2 |
Zeneca .. | 2 |
Musaab Hakami | 2 |
Mike Dudas | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Sulaiman Al- Rubaie | 1 |
Arya Bolurfrushan | 1 |
Sergej Kunz | 1 |
Jasmine Zhang | 1 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 1 |
Anurag Arjun | 1 |
Amal Dokhan | 1 |
Jaynti Kanani | 1 |
Vivek Seth | 1 |
Aamer Chaudhry | 1 |
Gaurav Mehta | 1 |
Martin Köppelmann | 1 |
Sami ElShafai | 1 |
Thibaud Elziere | 1 |
Faiz Mayalakkara | 1 |
Dom Monhardt | 1 |
Sergei Kovalev | 1 |
Anton Bukov | 1 |
Ekaterina Tikhonova | 1 |
Pawel Iwanow | 1 |
Khalid AlTawil | 1 |
Muhammad Ismail | 1 |
Harveen Narulla | 1 |
Chantalle Dumonceaux | 1 |
Mazin Alzaidi | 1 |
Al Serkal | 1 |
Tim Draper | 1 |
Yan Hascoët | 1 |
Ahmed Al Sanad | 1 |
Omar Benmoussa | 1 |
Al Shafar | 1 |
Philipp Zentner | 1 |
Omar Rebhan | 1 |
DCF GOD | 1 |
Raheel Qurashi | 1 |
Brian D. Evans | 1 |
Mikhail Tyurin | 1 |
Dany Farha | 1 |
Al Ghussain | 1 |
Nour Al Hassan | 1 |
Sergey Fedorchenko | 1 |
Othmane Bouhlal | 1 |
Omar Aljeraisi | 1 |
David Pirrie | 1 |
Ivan on Tech CEO @moralisweb3 @moralismoney.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Gaming, Web Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Eesee — Company based in British Virgin Islands.
- 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.
Walid Hanna is Founder and CEO at Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
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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 — OX Factory ® is a global modeling agency headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. It represents male and female models from the Middle East.
- 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…
Zeneca is a founder of @ZenAcademy and @The333Club.
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Investment focus
- Web3
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates
Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Saudi Arabia, 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.
- Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
- Groundfloor — Groundfloor Club: A shared neighborhood workspace & social venue where work, connection & community come together. Daily social events and a local community.
Mike Dudas is the founder and former CEO of The Block: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-block-crypto. Previously, he was the CRO and co-founder of from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.
Mike Dudas was born on June 1, 1979.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Armenia, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Pixelverse — Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game.
- Kintsu — Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems.
- Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Sulaiman Al- Rubaie
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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.
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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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.
- AppliedAI — AAICO uses artificial intelligence to solve document, process, and measurable business improvement problems in regulated industries.
- Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
Co-Founder of 1inch Network, Software Engineer and Security Expert.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Series A
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Oasis.app — Borrow Dai, a USD pegged Stablecoin, or multiply your exposure using crypto as your collateral
Jasmine Zhang is a General Partner at A&T Capital.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series B
- China
Portfolio highlights
- Cobo — Get access to 4 wallet technologies in one platform - Custodial, MPC, Smart Contract, and Exchange Wallets. Our advanced risk controls and developer tools help lay the foundations for any blockchain innovation.
- Mintverse — Mintverse is a service platform, where users can create, discover and collect an array of digital items and NFTs while also being able to crowdfund NFT art, crypto & NFT projects. Mintverse is working towards its vision of mass NFT adoption while further developing existing use cases and exploring future use cases of the NFT data structure.Backed by major investors and partners, Mintverse has the resources to develop the growth of the NFT community by tackling the current existing problems such as high gas fees, lack of monetary incentives for creators, and insufficient utility for current NFT assets.
- Botanika — Meet the new era of hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage. Our pioneering algorithms completely revolutionize how data is fragmented, encrypted, and stored.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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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!
- Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
- Poolside — The best code you never wrote.
Anurag Arjun is the Founder of Avail. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology. He previously worked at Polygon Technology as a Co-Founder. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Web3, Network Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
- Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Octa — Reduce DSO by 30%, save 20+ hours per week, and delight customers with our all-in-one platform.
- Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
- Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
- Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
Vivek Seth is a senior vice president @ ADNOC Logistics & Services.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ShipFinex — Discover ShipFinex, the innovative blockchain platform revolutionizing ship ownership. Access, trade, and own fractional shares of marine assets securely and transparently
Aamer Chaudhry is a Principal Director of Accenture.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology
- Angel
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Botanika — Meet the new era of hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage. Our pioneering algorithms completely revolutionize how data is fragmented, encrypted, and stored.
Gaurav Mehta is a chairman of Best Oasis Limited and SPM Shipping DMCC.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ShipFinex — Discover ShipFinex, the innovative blockchain platform revolutionizing ship ownership. Access, trade, and own fractional shares of marine assets securely and transparently
Martin Köppelmann - Co-Founder & CEO @ Gnosis
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Database
- Seed
- United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
Sami ElShafai
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Crowd Analyzer — The 1st media and digital crowd monitoring, analytics and activation by which brands and agencies can understand people's opinions on social, analyze their content, ask them questions, and incentive them to do digital actions.
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
Faiz Mayalakkara Director Investments, Emirates Investment Authority.
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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
Dom Monhardt
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Investment focus
Portfolio highlights
- Octa — Reduce DSO by 30%, save 20+ hours per week, and delight customers with our all-in-one platform.
entrepreneur, innovator, fundraiser, is an investor in blockchain, fintech, "Web3", biotechnology and artificial intelligence, raising capital, selling companies and "M&A transactions".Consulting professional with over 15 years of experience in the financial, marketing and IT industries, he has competencies inblockchain, DeFi, BioTech and AI investments and innovation.Advised and tested 139 niches and over 200 products. Helped launch dozens of successful startups - from cryptography to cloning.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Asset Management, Supply Chain Management
- Series A
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- De.Fi — Your gateway to Decentralized Finance | Manage assets across blockchains, generate returns from cryptocurrencies, access the best token swap rates and more
I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Ekaterina Tikhonova is an individual investor,lawyer and formerly a head in the field of HoReCa.
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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.
Pawel Iwanow heads MP’s operations in the Middle East and is in close relationships with the company’s local investors. He is also involved in rolling out the successful Heroleads business model in other global hubs and supports the establishment of further MP hubs in the Middle East & Africa region. Pawel Iwanow holds a business degree fromthe European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel (EBS).
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Investment focus
Portfolio highlights
- Octa — Reduce DSO by 30%, save 20+ hours per week, and delight customers with our all-in-one platform.
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
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 — UAE Listings and Directories for Vape and Tobacco Shop in UAE
Muhammad Ismail is the Managing Director at Amtec Links International. Muhammad Ismail attended University of Derby.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Hardware, Software
- Private Equity
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Amtec Links International — Amtec Links International is an IT company that develops, manufacture, sell, resell, and support a range of products and solutions.Amtec Links International partners with some of the leading companies in the IT industries such as Microsoft, Dell, Cisco to offer its ranges of products and solutions in the Middle East and African markets.Thecompany also design, manufacture, and distribute its products through resellers, distributors, and online. Amtec Links International was established in 2007 by Muhammad Ismail in Nigeria, later moved the head office to United Arab Emirates where it is currently based.
Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Telr — Simplify your payment processes with our easy integration. Accept online payments seamlessly with our all-in-one solution. Discover more now.
- SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
- Inzen Studio — CVtogel adalah salah satu situs togel online terkemuka di Asia menawarkan berbagai jenis permainan togel Dua permainan populer adalah Togel Singapore dan Togel Hongkong.
Chantalle Dumonceaux is the Venture Partner of Accelerator Ventures. She previously worked at Shoppies as a Co-Founder. Chantalle Dumonceaux attended Columbia University.
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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.
Mazin Alzaidi, General Partner at STV.
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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.
Al Serkal
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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.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- QurieGen — QurieGen is a biotechnology company that accelerates drug discovery and development.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Aetherflux — Abundant and renewable energy, delivered virtually anywhere
Yan Hascoët
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Investment focus
- Banking, Finance, Cannabis
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- France, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
Dr. Al Sanad is a Professor of King Saud University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology
- Angel
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Botanika — Meet the new era of hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage. Our pioneering algorithms completely revolutionize how data is fragmented, encrypted, and stored.
Omar Benmoussa is the Founder at of Kapten.
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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.
Al Shafar
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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.
Founder & CEO of LI.FI
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Early Stage Angel Investor, Market Entry & Growth Strategist
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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 Spaceport: Your gateway to immersive astronaut training and space missions. Join our Moon Pioneer Mission for hands-on experiences with former NASA astronauts, building resilience, teamwork, and a space-ready mindset. Explore space with us!
DCF GOD
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Neutrl — Neutrl partners with online brands to provide a sustainable shopping experience - allow customers to remove carbon emissions from their orders.
- Cabal — Cabal is an innovative protocol that effectively generates revenue while operating on the robust initial layer 1 network.
- Kamigotchi — Kamigotchi is an on-chain game built on the Interwoven Stack from Initia.
Raheel Qurashi is a Director of Kyndryl.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology
- Angel
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Botanika — Meet the new era of hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage. Our pioneering algorithms completely revolutionize how data is fragmented, encrypted, and stored.
Brian D. Evans is the Founding Partner at ReBlock Ventures. Brian D. Evans attended Swiss School of Business and Management.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eesee — Company based in British Virgin Islands.
- Kaskade Finance — Kaskade has pioneered the use of volume bootstrapping to control and direct liquidity incentives across decentralized exchanges and dApps on various networks.
- Hedgehog Protocol — Hedgehog Protocol operates as a cryptocurrency trading fee hedging protocol.
Mikhail Tyurin is a business angel and a former prod & tech director of X5 Digital.
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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.
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.
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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.
- Keyper — Keyper simplifies real estate management for property owners, tenants, and partners. Manage portfolios, get market insights, apply for rent with flexible payment options, and explore partnership opportunities to earn passive income. Join Keyper today!
Al Ghussain
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- Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
Nour Al Hassan, is a female founder and CEO of two companies that specialize in linguistic services and translation -- Tarjama and UREED. Building on the success of Tarjama, which she founded in 2008, she realized there was demand to leverage the power of the internet to connect businesses and freelancers across the region through a digitalmarketplace called Ureed. Ureed, which means I want, is an on-demand tool that creates jobs for the freelance workforce while at the same time gives businesses of any size access to a pool of talent who can translate quality content, in more than 30 languages, including Arabic, English and French instantly. Nour is focused on driving Ureed to become the region’s official editorial marketplace for linguistic and editorial services offering editorials services, such as blogging, copywriting, legal documentation, editing and proofreading.Nour has spent her career creating and building a vast network of translators, editors, and linguists from the Middle East and around the world through Tarjama, a renowned translation company, which has translated more than 200 million words in 30 languages for companies and organizations across the world. For nearly a decade, Nour has pledged her time and expertise to empower females across the region, and she is continuing to this day to break barriers and drive the female workforce across the GCC and beyond.Nour is a lifelong advocate of women’s empowerment a mission that is reflected in Tarjama’s socially responsible business model, which trains and employs the largest network of Arabic speaking female translators in the world. Nour’s drive to enable women will continue through her latest launched venture Ureed.com, a platform that will enhance women’s global economic contribution to the workforce by offering a virtual editorial marketplace that matches Arab freelance translators, editors, content writers and interpreters in the region to employers worldwide.With more than 15 years of experience, Nour is an Aspen Fellow, a certified life coach, and a member of both the advisory board at Saint Joseph University in Lebanon. She is a mentor to start-ups, spends time speaking to entrepreneurs and empowering the ecosystem in MENA to promote the value creation potential of the region. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Al-Ahlia University in Jordan.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Freelance
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Ureed.com — Ureed is an online marketplace connecting employers from around the world with vetted and certified freelance talents across all professional fields.
Sergey Fedorchenko is a head of data management at Megafon.
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- Internet, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Retailhub — Retailhub is a platform that allows merchants and aggregators to connect directly.
Othmane Bouhlal is the Founder of Kapten.
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- Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
- Angel
- United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
Omar Aljeraisi
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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.
David Pirrie - Director @ Financial Software
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Investment focus
- iOS, Mobile, Internet
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
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