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Top 50 Startup Investors in Egypt

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Egypt. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Egypt. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Egypt

Investor	Egypt investments
Flat6Labs	51
Endure Capital	29
Algebra Ventures	29
A15	25
Cairo Angels	25
AUC Angels	24
Flat6Labs Egypt	23
HIMAngel	21
Alex Angels	20
4DX Ventures	17
Egypt Ventures	15
Edventures	14
LoftyInc Capital Management	14
Disruptech Ventures	14
Launch Africa	13
Global Ventures	13
Foundation Ventures	13
Sawari Ventures	12
Shorooq Partners	11
Vision Ventures	11
BECO Capital	11
International Finance Corporation	8
Fawry	8
MSA Capital	7
Nuwa Capital	7
Outliers Venture Capital	7
Kepple Africa Ventures	7
Nama Ventures	7
Flourish Ventures	7
Nclude	5
Arzan Venture Capital	5
Golden Palm Investments	5
Raed Ventures	5
EQ2 Ventures	5
Endeavor Catalyst	5
Khwarizmi Ventures	5
Averroes Ventures	4
Rise Capital	4
Accion Venture Lab	4
Jedar Capital	4
Raba Partnership	4
Acasia Ventures	4
Glint Consulting	4
Access Bridge Ventures	4
Visa	4
Oqal	4
HALA Ventures	4
Global Founders Capital	4
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology	4
Next Billion Ventures	4

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Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

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.
Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy
Midient — We help restaurants collect, analyze, and act on their customer data to increase customer satisfaction and increase revenue.

Endure Capital is an early stage investment fund headed by entrepreneurs looking for startup teams. They look for founders who are relentlessly resourceful and imaginative, solving genuine problems that matter to a lot of people and building high growth companies that endure.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
Pylon — Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure.

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
Shift EV — Electrifying fleets in emerging markets.
Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.

A15 is an entrepreneurial company that invests in digital products and technology brands. They aspire to empower the human race to overcome its limits and expand its capabilities by creating real products for real people. They help them scale by providing them with investment, the support of our ecosystem, and act as their launchpad for expansion.It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
Buguard — Buguard, Inc. is a company information security solutions provider with expertise and demonstrated experience providing information assurance (IA) and computer security services to government, commercial and international customers. Buguard was founded in 2019 and is based in Cairo, Egypt. Our capabilities include risk and vulnerabilityassessments, secure network architecture and design, security program management and development, as well as security policy, process and procedure integration. Buguard is a focused, “boutique” consulting company.
Menthum — Saving Made Simple

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
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Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.

What is AUC Angels? AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region. Angel investors are individuals who are interested in investing in early-stage startups with growth potential which in turn supports the growth of a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
dKilo — dKilo is a technology company in the AdTech space. It offers smart out of home advertising solutions using the internet of things and AI.
Sprints — home page Description

MENA’s leading seed and early stage VC firm, and the manager of the most renowned startup programs in the region. We are Accelerating the Future.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
3attar.com — Healthy Super App
Filtareeq — Empowering your logistics department in ecommerce journey

HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments. HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
GBarena — Discover esports tournaments and gaming event all around the world, Compete against other players and gain reward, Engage with your friends, Build your own gaming community.
FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.

Alex Angels is an investment management company that helps investors to invest in early-stage companies with strong management teams. The company specializes in the fields of financial services, financial exchange, and investments. Alex Angels was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Al Iskandariyah, Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
CardoO — Welcome To Our InnovationsExplore

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
MoneyFellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

Egypt Ventures is an investment firm that empowers the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Columbia.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.
Gahez Market — Gahez Market Online store
MNT-Halan — MNT-Halan is a microfinance lending and payments company.

EdVentures is a corporate venture capital that invests in startups specializing in education, culture and innovative learning solutions in SEED and Pre-Series A rounds focusing on Egypt, Africa, and the Arab World. The corporate VC was launched in 2017 by Nahdet Misr Publishing House. It provides technical and financial support to startups in orderto ensure success and continuity in the market by providing investment according to the needs and maturity level of each company.

Investment focus

Education, Training, Online Portals
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

OBM Education — OBM is the most-advanced and expansive Egyptian startup in college guidance, career readiness and mapping the future directions for schools students in Egypt.
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Super Fny — Super Fny is an online tutoring platform that looks to help students enrolled in vocational schools foster their technical skills.

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.

Disruptech specializes in financial technology start-up investments.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Isupply — Isupply engages in the field of pharma distribution and healthcare.
Nice Deer — Nice Deer is an Egypt-based InsurTech startup aims to bridge the gap between health care providers, health insurance companies and beneficiaries by facilitating insurance and repayment of insurance claims.
Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.

Foundation Ventures is an investment firm that backs exceptional teams building industry defining companies in Egypt and the MENA region.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, Jordan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
Kenzz — Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA.
The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

The Middle East/North Africa is the next great investment opportunity. The Middle East has a collective population larger than the US, the vast majority of whom are ‘digital natives‘ (e.g.; under 30) with great appetites for consumer technology products and services. The region boasts higher per capita GDP and more disposable income than Indiaor China. In short, the Middle East is one of the technology sector’s high-growth regions, and offers tremendous potential for expansion in mobile, internet, social media and eCommerce services.Like the BRIC’s and other emerging markets, local partners are key to success. Sawari Ventures is at home in the Middle East, and knows its culture, context and business climate. They have experience and relationships working with technology and investment leaders world-wide. They know how to translate local visionaries into global hits.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, United States

Portfolio highlights

The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
Dtonic — Efficient Spatio-Temporal Big Data Processing across Smart-X Industries

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Haseel — The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age.
RedBox — Don't wait for drivers to deliver your packages! Instead, use RedBox lockers to ship your packages and collect them at your convenient time. No human contact!
Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations

BECO Capital provides growth capital and hands-on operational support for early-stage technology companies. It is a technology-focused venture capital that supports entrepreneurs and financial sectors to raise funds.The company helps small companies with growth capital and hands-on operational mentorship in their early stage of development. Itwas founded in 2012 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.BECO Capital was founded on February 1, 2014, by Dany Farha and Amir Farha, and it is headquartered in Dubai.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
Pine Street Labs — A non-custodial API for managing wallets. Built for enterprises.
Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Veritas Finance — Veritas Finance focuses on meeting the financial needs of the micro, small, and medium enterprises. Veritas Finance Private Limited is an organization started with the primary intention of reaching out to the customers who either have no access or inadequate access to financial services in the informal sector. 'Veritas' in Latin meanstruth. True to its name, Veritas is focused on making a true impact through inclusive access to financial services on the customers engaged in informal activities.The company is run by professionals with rich experience in the financial services industry that aims to make availing credit easy to this segment and make a positive impact on the lives of millions of Indians engaged in informal activities and who actually build the nation.
SteinCares — SteinCares is a supplier of specialty healthcare products, such as complex generics, biosimilars, and cutting-edge pharmaceuticals.
Mahindra Last Mile Mobility — Mile Mobility is a division of M&M that is in charge of the company's well-known mix of petrol, CNG, diesel, and electric last mile mobility 3- and 4-wheelers - passenger and freight vehicles.

Fawry is the leading digital transformation & E-payment platform in Egypt, offering financial services to consumers and businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Delivery
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mylerz — mylerz is a parcel delivery company in Egypt that introduces a fast same day delivery through the use of unmatched technologies to ensure swift and secure transfer of parcels.
Brimore — Brimore is a social commerce platform connecting emerging brand owners with a network of resellers who market and sell their products using social media.
Alsoug — Al soug.com is The Sudan Market is a free advertising website for a new marketing concept that will save you effort and time. We offer you the best in the e-shopping concept on our website alsoug.com No hassle of searching through social media pages and groups everything you, your family and your friends need in one place, modern, organized andopen. To advertise through the site you can join our family via email or your Facebook account

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.
Shenji Changhua — Shenji Changhua is a biotechnology company focusing on neurological diseases such as ALS.
Life Biosciences — Lingfu Bio is a service provider of the whole industry chain of experimental animals and animal models.

A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Mascotte Health — Supercharge your practice with a strong operational team and state-of-the-art technology.
Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.

Backing outlier founders in MENA & the US at the earliest stages

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Amwal Tech — The fastest and most secure way to accept payments online
Kenzz — Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA.
FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Cartona — Cartona is a B2b marketplace directly connects retailers with suppliers

Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
Muqbis — As the word Muqbis means, our main job is to connect talented hands and home based businesses to their targeted customers and support them to grow their businesses hassle free. On the other hand Muqbis opens a wide market to support customers find “the made with love home products and services” they look for and compare varieties, prices and findnearby providers. In Muqbis we believe that world is changing, life patterns are changing and for sure work styles are changing and we are here for it.

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
Flash — Flash is a mobile application and financial service company that facilitates digital payments to businesses.
Indifi Technologies — Indifi Technologies is a digital lending platform that offers loans to those that have potential and intent.Indifi believes in helping small businesses grow by offering loans to those that have potential and intent. Most such businesses have little or no access to financing from traditional institutions such as banks or lack either collateral orfinance data trail to access a loan.Indifi is a technology platform that gathers and analyzes data of businesses from various sources and draws insights to judge their creditworthiness, their past and current performance in the context of the industry they are operating in. This differentiated approach helps find businesses that are low on risk and high on promise thus opening up possibilities for those who earlier had no access to short or long term business funding.Indifi takes the relevant applications to multiple lenders, increasing the chances to secure a loan and creates choice for lenders to pick the ones they wish to back.

Nclude by Global Ventures is committed to accelerating Fintech Innovation and driving Financial Inclusion through partnerships with leading Fintech and fintech enabled companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

OneOrder — One Order delivers exceptional produce, custom cuts of meat, high-quality seafood, and imported foods offering an array of global flavors.
Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Gameball — Gameball is a one-stop platform to market your products and keep your customers engaged, leading to boosted conversion and increased RoI with a data-driven success strategy.
MoneyFellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
Zid زد — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
Mozn — Confidently screen customers, monitor transactions and assess risk with powerful AI and seamless automation.

EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
Hala — Hala is the UAE's first car insurance product that rewards you for driving safely. For each day you're accident free, you get hala coins which you spend on meals, gym memberships, and hotel stays.
AIfluence — AIfluence uses advanced algorithms to accurately match influencers to brands, manage, predict and deliver measurable ROI on every influencer marketing campaign

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Thunes — Pay the World
InvGate — InvGate is the solution to build a modern service desk and empower IT with total visibility of your IT estate.
Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms.Ever since its launch in 2018, it has seed funded startups, assistedfounders, and scaled up several companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Baytonia — Baytonia is an E-commerce marketplace that is dedicated to customer happiness and consistently provides exceptional value in the form of distinctive and high-quality homeware collections.
erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

Averroes Ventures helps and invests in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies. Averroes Ventures' team possesses years of combined experience in global business operation and management across a multitude of sectors to help achieve visions.

Investment focus

Transportation, Logistics, Delivery
Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Khazenly — Khazenly is an on-demand digital warehousing and fulfillment management platform that provides an omnichannel solution to help merchants digitize their businesses.
ILLA — ILLA is an asset-light FMCG-focused middle mile delivery logistics company.The company manages the delivery process from planning to execution by digitizing each step of the delivery process by monitoring our clients’ logistics activities to optimize it and converted to sales growth. It also provides a dynamic solution that helps its clientsovercome the daily market challenges of delivering products to different types of retail and non-retail outlets.ILLA connects FMCG companies with a large network of trucks with different types and capacities to act as an internal fleet to provide full control and visibility over the driver.
Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.

Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
Mexico, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

Homzmart — Homzmart is an e-commerce platform that sells home furniture, home décor, lighting, and home supplies. The company specializes in the fields of home improvement, eCommerce, home directory, technology, and home shopping. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
Facily — Facily is a social commerce marketplace in Latin America. The platform focuses on low-ticket items, delivering great prices and differentiated logistics to lower income neighbourhoods, leveraging learnings from China. Facily offers a unique experience by bringing the opportunity to buy together with friends directly from producers andmanufacturers, having fun playing with freemium features. Facily also promotes community buying by leveraging local leaders and influencers.

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.

VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
Revivo — Buy electronics spare parts and accessories easily online.
Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.

Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Menthum — Saving Made Simple
Precision Cardiovascular — Precision Cardiovascular is a unique sensor system for remote monitoring of patients with acute heart failure that provides unbiased data to improve long-term health outcomes and reduce the expenses of emergency situations.
Swaplanet — Save up to 90% on children's clothes, by exchanging unused clothes stored in your house. The clothing sector produces 10% of global CO2 emissions (vs. 6% for plastics!!) Help us reduce this and help our planet! Save Money, Save Space, Save The Planet!

Glint Consulting is a management consulting firm that specializes in business strategy, operational efficiency, and growth acceleration. Its consulting services enable our clients to achieve better results and accelerate growth through advising management on key opportunities and issues such as strategy, operations, digital, and technology.GlintConsulting was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Payments
Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Kashier — Kashier is a payment management platform for commerce and retail businesses that provide tools used for running a business. The toolkit covers subscriptions to invoices and online payments and is built with the capability to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today’s fast-growing businesses, from small startups to large enterprises.
Wasla Browser — Search, Shop and Save Money! Wasla is your new shopping browser. Wasla is the first mobile browser designed to help you save money from all your favorite stores so that you can shop more and pay less.
Filkhedma — FilKhedma is the largest home services marketplace in Egypt. Users can book online quality guaranteed reliable service providers in home cleaning, maintenance and other services. Service providers apply online and are accepted after passing through the onboarding process after which they receive orders through a mobile app. The service operates in3 Egyptian cities.

Access Bridge Ventures (ABV) is a leading early stage venture capital fund. tha invests across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and on a case by case basis outside these regions. We currently have investments in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and aggressively expa

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, India, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Bridgecard — Issue physical or virtual cards that carry a MasterCard or Visa logo to your users with our card issuing APIs. Get started in a week.
Skillbee — Explore the latest abroad job opportunities for freshers & experienced candidates.
Orcas — Orcas is a mobile application that helps you find tutors in your area or online. Read reviews from other parents and chat with the tutor (for free) before booking.

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.Visa also provideselectronic payment, risk management, and payment security solutions to online merchants; digital goods transaction services in online games, digital media, and social networks; and mobile financial services for mobile network operators and financial institutions in developing economies.Visa’s global payment brands include Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink. Together they provide payment options through credit, debit, prepaid, and commercial programs in 200 countries and territories. Visa's global network, VisaNet, delivers value-added processing services such as fraud and risk management, dispute resolution, rewards, and other business-enhancing applications.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Funding Round, Series B, Corporate Round
United States, United Kingdom, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Thunes — Pay the World
Tuma — TumaTM is a smart, micro merchant solution that enables businesses to take card payments from customers using their own smartphones.
Doxa Holdings — Doxa Holdings International is a fintech start-up helping connect buyers, suppliers, and financiers seamlessly through its best-in-class enterprise platform, Doxa Connex — a procurement, payment, financing, and analytics platform for the Built Environment (Construction, Engineering, Real Estate Developers).Officially incorporated in Jan 2019, ithas grown more than twice in size since 2021 and serves customers across the world, with a regional focus in Southeast Asia. It has deep and significant partnerships with financial institutions and is also recognised as a Networked Trade Platform (NTP) Value Added Service, while being fully integrated with the InvoiceNow and PEPPOL invoicing network.Doxa closed its S$3m Pre-Series A round from financial institutions including VCs, public listed and logistics corporations, and obtained internationally recognised ISO27001 and ISO20000 certifications in 2022.

A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.

Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

El-Dokan — El-Dokan is the first enterprise eCommerce software designed for large and growing retail stores in MENA to help them optimize their operations and improve their sales conversion.
Torod — Torod is an API aggregator that enables E-store owners to select the best shipper based on price, insurance, destination, and item value, with a single click set-up.
intella — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.

Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is the Egyptian house of expertise. It brings together outstanding Egyptian scientists and experts from universities, research institutions, private sector, NGOs, policymakers, and prominent Egyptian scientists in Diaspora to deliberate country problems, propose and carry out scientific studies andfuture strategic basic plans to tackle these problems.

Investment focus

Training, Education, Online Portals
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Drop — Drop App lets you wash your car anywhere. Service, repair and customize it at Egypt's top rated & verified workshops and best service centers.
Kouncel — Kouncel is an interactive online platform providing an encyclopedia of pre-recorded legal courses tackling an array of legal topics from various jurisdictions. We aim to introduce a user-friendly and accessible platform to bring you legal content in a way you've never seen before, all through multiple experts who are stars in their respective fields. Legal education has never been easier!
OBM Education — OBM is the most-advanced and expansive Egyptian startup in college guidance, career readiness and mapping the future directions for schools students in Egypt.

A venture capital partnership for emerging markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.
TopUp Mama — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.

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