Top 25 Legal Startup Investors in Middle East in May 2026
Top 25 Legal Startup Investors in Middle East in May 2026
| Investor | Legal Middle East investments |
|---|---|
| LionBird | 3 |
| lool ventures | 3 |
| Daniel Recanati | 2 |
| Brighteye Ventures | 2 |
| Firstime Venture Capital | 1 |
| Shibolet Capital | 1 |
| Eilon Tirosh | 1 |
| Ashish Shetty | 1 |
| Nicholas Nottebohm | 1 |
| TA Ventures | 1 |
| Rami Lipman | 1 |
| Oryx Fund | 1 |
| Sri Batchu | 1 |
| African Development Bank | 1 |
| Village Global | 1 |
| Academy of Scientific Research and Technology | 1 |
| UI Investments | 1 |
| Tanmia wa Tatweer Project | 1 |
| Josh Rodger | 1 |
| Miguel Rodrigues | 1 |
| Jimmy Stone | 1 |
| Andrew Verbitsky | 1 |
| Launch Africa | 1 |
| Zaldi Capital | 1 |
| Kivilcim Cayli | 1 |
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LionBird is a Tel Aviv- and Chicago-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage software companies operating in the healthcare, commerce, and enterprise sectors. Founded in 2012, LionBird has developed an investment strategy around early-stage startups that leverages online technology to re-imagine traditional offline business processes andmodels.
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- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
- OneStep — OneStep offers providers the ultimate digital physical therapy solution that enables remote therapeutic monitoring and boosts clinical outcomes.
- Jimini Health — Jimini’s mission is to radically improve the efficacy of mental health care across the world. Jimini has developed a novel care model that combines teletherapy sessions with personalized AI support. With Jimini, your therapy care team includes your licensed clinician and Sage, your always-available AI therapy assistant, who work together to helpyou achieve your goals.Founded in 2023 by a team of seasoned AI and biotech entrepreneurs, health tech veterans, and psychology researchers, Jimini puts science and tech first, using safe, purpose-built patient-facing technology that works exclusively under clinical oversight and high safety standards.World leaders in psychology designed Jimini’s care model to ensure that every part of the patient's journey is clinically beneficial. Jimini does not believe that LLMs should replace clinicians; rather, AI will help therapists deliver higher-quality care and focus on the most complex parts of their job. Jimini’s care model is first and foremost led by excellent clinicians.Jimini is committed to improving mental health quality and creating radically better, more modern, and clinically efficacious mental health experiences for patients.
- Phantom Neuro — Phantom Neuro is leveraging advancements in neuroscience, surgery, artificial intelligence, and robotics to make lifelike control accessible to the general population.
We find and work with Israel’s best founders who are driven by a clear vision of how the world or an industry could be better. We share their obsession with bringing that vision to life. We do this at the very start of their journey. We are Israel’s Seed Fund.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- ai.work — We are building the next generation of autonomous workers for the enterprise, introducing the world's first AI Worker Platform with autonomous, policy‑aware agents that automate and handle the busywork behind IT, Procurement, HR, Legal, Deal Desk, Finance, and Operations teams. Each AI Worker is domain-trained, policy-aware, and ready toautomate resolutions, shrinking ticket queues, accelerating service times, and reducing team workload by 50% or more. Your next hire is agentic.
- Zeroport — Zeroport enables secure remote access using hardware-enforced, non-IP isolation, eliminating malware, data exfiltration, and VPN-based attack surfaces.
- Cassidy Bio — A biotechnology company developing AI-driven genomic foundation models
Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures. .
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- Internet, Analytics, Advertising
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Israel, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Yo Egg — At Yo Egg, we're on a mission to become the largest and most sustainable egg producer in the world, without the use of chickens.
- QuamCore — QuamCore is driving breakthroughs across industries by advancing the field of quantum computing, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and bringing large-scale, commercially viable quantum computing to reality.
- Helios — Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of ourreactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel.
Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!
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- Education, Software, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
- Installer — The only installation management platform yo'll ever need. Access a network of professional installer companies across categories.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
- Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
- STAX Engineering, Inc. — The STAX mission is to help 1 billion people significantly through new technologies that promote health, sustainability, reduced environmental toxins, and reduced global warming.
Established in 1973, Shibolet is one the most distinguished corporate law firms in Israel, with substantial international experience in dynamic and evolving market sectors.They are globally minded and build relationships that last. The world’s most respected banks and businesses turn to us for support on their most complex and challengingmatters, and on transactions that define and direct the market.From their office in Tel Aviv and desk in China, they deliver innovative, relevant and tailor-made legal solutions to their clients’ across a broad spectrum of industries worldwide.They have close working relationships with local law firms, banks and governments’ in all countries where their clients are investing. They also have an associated office in New York City.Their dedicated China practice contains specialists fluent in Chinese. They were also the first Israeli firm to establish a China desk and develop close working relationships with leading local Chinese law firms.They are the exclusive Israeli member of TerraLex – an international network of over 160 leading independent law firms in nearly 100 countries, serving the business and personal interests of clients whose requirements transcend their national borders. Membership is by invitation only and members are renowned and respected worldwide.They are the only major Israeli law firm to be ISO 9001:2000 certified for Legal Services.
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- Legal, Analytics, InsurTech
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- LitiGate — LitiGate helps legal teams provide faster services, at less cost & with improved accuracy. Our litigation case management software automates repetitive tasks & uses cutting-edge AI to analyse evidence & reveal crucial untapped information.
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Apps, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- Thumzap — Premium domains add authority to your site. Transparent pricing. 1 year WHOIS privacy included. 30-day money back guarantee.
Ashish Shetty
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- Artificial Intelligence, PaaS, Legal
- Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Univfy — The Univfy AI Platform helps women and couples navigate their family-building options with cost-savings, greater success, and a simplified experience. Univfy combines AI/machine learning, clinical expertise, and empathy to maximize each patient’s chances of success with assisted reproductive technology such as in vitro fertilization (IVF)while increasing growth and efficiency for physicians. Univfy is the only highly-scalable AI platform to provide scientifically-validated, personalized reports that counsel patients from diverse demographics about their probability of having a baby with IVF. Through technology developed by Stanford University researchers, Univfy uses a rigorous scientific process to develop and validate prediction models and to provide essential information to support better budgeting, planning, and physician-patient shared decision-making.Its methods have been published in the top, peer-reviewed research publications, setting a gold standard for IVF success model performance metrics. Univfy has a global IP portfolio, comprising patents issued in the US and other countries.
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
Nicholas Nottebohm is a Portfolio Manager at Cornerstone Investment Partners.
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- Legal, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments. We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Bipi — Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Aurora Labs — Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Created using Aurora Labs' Line-Of-Code Intelligence™, the Automotive Software Intelligence (ASI) solution collects granular and actionable data from complex automotive systems, applying AI to enable software transparency andmanagement. Aurora Labs' ASI solution detects and validates changes in the software lines-of-code for OTA updates, and analyses dependencies and software behaviour to enable predictive software maintenance throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Aurora Labs provides automotive development teams unique tools to roll out new technologies and services on time and on budget.Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised $34m and has been granted dozens of patents. Aurora Labs has customers around the world and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, and the US.
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- SaaS, Social, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
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- Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Oryx Fund is a MENA-focused Investment fund from Hambro Perks. Investing in game-changing early-stage technology companies at late Seed and Series A, led by outstanding entrepreneurs in sectors we have deep expertise such as Fintech, Healthtech, Enterprise tech, Logistics tech, and Edtech.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Coraly — Coraly is a real estate growth platform that unifies listings, leads, transactions, marketing, and compliance in one AI-powered system for agents and teams.
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
- Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.
Head of Growth at Ramp Previously led Growth Strategy & Ops at Instacart (strategy & business operations functions for consumer growth, pricing and advertising revenue). Board member of NYSE: BOAS, a prop-tech oriented SPAC. Active angel investor and advisor to early stage companies. Early (first ~40 employee) at Opendoor (from $100Mto $5B+ revenue; 40 to 1800 people). Built, scaled and managed a variety of core business teams including Analytics, Sales and Pricing. Prior to that was an investor primarily in tech at Invus Group, Universal Music Group, and Bain Capital. Alumnus of McKinsey, Harvard Business School and Dartmouth College.
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- Legal, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
- Channel3 — Channel3 provides a universal, API-driven product catalog that enables developers to search, deduplicate, and monetize product data.
- Vybe — Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps.
African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It finances development projects and programs in collaboration with national and international development institutions. The bank provides technical assistance for project selection, study, and preparation. It facilitates investments from the public andprivate sectors in initiatives aimed at economic and social progress. The African Development Bank serves the development finance and economic growth sectors.
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- Financial Services, Banking, Energy
- Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Awash Bank — Awash Bank offers unique products and services that support small and medium-scale businesses. They provide personal, business, sme banking, corporate banking, mobile banking, online banking, credit services, debit card services, consumer loans, and more.
- Invest In Africa — Invest In Africa improving access to skills, markets, and finance to empower enterprise to create long-term jobs. They focused on job creation and improving the business environment for both investors and local SMEs. They increase the linkages between large international and domestic companies and smaller local businesses and increase access toskills, markets, and finance.
- Ethiopian Airlines — Fly to 125+ destinations worldwide with Ethiopian Airlines. Discover our award-winning services, comfortable cabins, and affordable fares. Book now!
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
- VeriSIM Life — Make confident decisions about drug development, quickly and efficiently, using a decision-engine that takes your toughest translational questions and generate actionable insights to guide your next steps.
- Lore — Being a fan used to be fun. We are going to fix it.
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.
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- Training, Internet, Education
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Egypt
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- 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!
- 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.
- Crafty Workshop — Crafty Workshop offers an arsenal of online technical and pedagogical workshops and courses aimed at artisans and craftspeople.
UI Investments is an investment firm.
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, France
Portfolio highlights
- DillX — Streamline due diligence, mitigate risks, and unlock investment potential. Discover DillX SaaS RegTech platform for investors in MENA.
- Cilkoa — The barrier solution for paper packaging. Oxygen & water vapor dual-barrier property. Resistance to water & grease. Virtuous life cycle
- Nauticoncept — Nauticoncept provides digital solutions for boating professionals such as manufacturers, dealers, and charter businesses. Their boat fleet management solution digitizes and optimizes the processes of nautical companies through white label applications that allow the exchange of information on boats, manufacturing processes, preparation anddelivery, the life cycle of the boat around an E-book of maintenance, and the management of the uses of the boat by the owner, tenants, or members of boat clubs.Nauticoncept is headquartered in Mâcon, France and was founded in 2016.
Tanmia wa Tatweer Project
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- Legal, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
Investing in early stage companies who are disrupting industries which are long overdue change: joshua.rodger@nobacap.com Investment professional with a demonstrated history of working in venture capital alongside startups and funds to help them grow.
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- Legal, Content, Fitness
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- BILRS — Bilrs.com is a global bill payment solution platform, enabling online and offline Partners to offer a wide selection of bills to their Customer offerings through a single integration.
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
- Better — Discover science-backed wellness products in UAE & Saudi Arabia. Fast delivery, money-back guarantee, and trusted by thousands. Shop now!
Miguel Rodrigues is the Chief Financial Officer of Moove. He previously worked at The Kraft-Heinz Company as a CFO of, the Grocery Business Unit. Miguel Rodrigues attended The Wharton School.
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- Legal, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
Jimmy Stone is based out of Nashville, Tennessee, and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Alderbrook. Jimmy previously worked at Audubon Capital as a Hedge Fund Analyst. Jimmy Stone attended The Wharton School.
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- Legal, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
Andrew Verbitsky
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- Legal, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
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
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
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- Legal, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.
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- Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
- Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
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