Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Egypt in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Egypt. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Egypt. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Egypt in September 2025
Investor | Marketplace Egypt investments |
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Algebra Ventures | 24 |
A15 | 16 |
F6 Ventures | 15 |
Falak Startups | 14 |
AUC Angels | 12 |
Alex Angels | 11 |
Endure Capital | 10 |
Acasia Group | 10 |
Raed Ventures | 9 |
F6 Ventures | 9 |
Oqal | 8 |
Foundation Ventures | 7 |
Vision Ventures | 7 |
Sawari Ventures | 7 |
Flourish Ventures | 6 |
Disruptech Ventures | 6 |
LoftyInc Capital | 6 |
4DX Ventures | 6 |
Nuwa Capital | 6 |
Outliers Venture Capital | 6 |
Launch Africa | 6 |
MSA Capital | 5 |
Fawry | 5 |
Shorooq Partners | 5 |
Nama Ventures | 5 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 4 |
Rise Capital | 4 |
Next Billion Ventures | 4 |
HIMAngel | 4 |
BECO Capital | 4 |
EQ2 Ventures | 4 |
International Finance Corporation | 4 |
MSA Novo | 4 |
Egypt Ventures | 4 |
Flexport | 3 |
1984 Ventures | 3 |
Khwarizmi Ventures | 3 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 3 |
Nclude | 3 |
Access Bridge Ventures | 3 |
ACE & Company | 2 |
Newtown Partners | 2 |
Jameel Investment Management Company | 2 |
CVentures | 2 |
Quona Capital | 2 |
Crystal Stream Capital | 2 |
Global Ventures | 2 |
Starling Ventures | 2 |
Kevin Johnson | 2 |
Kevin Johnson | 2 |
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- enza — Our focus on providing the richest possible API environment means that enza clients can concentrate on solving business challenges and not waste valuable time and effort on technical integrations.
- 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.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.
F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact.
We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Wuilt — Wuilt is a website builder where you can create your own Arabic website in under 5 minutes.
- Olivery — Olivery is a comprehensive logistics platform designed to streamline logistics and delivery operations for businesses. It offers smart solutions including efficient route planning, real-time shipment tracking, automated insights, and seamless digital interactions to improve fleet performance and customer service. The platform integrates withleading tools to ensure smooth operations and enhanced customer satisfaction. Olivery focuses on making logistics more efficient, cost-effective, and reliable, empowering companies to save time, reduce expenses, and deliver faster. It also supports various delivery features such as zero-contact delivery via OTP, automatic photo/KYC capture, online payments for cash-on-delivery, and configurable driver information capture.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
- Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
- Fincart — Fincart.io - Your trusted partner for seamless shipping & working capital access to grow your online brand.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
Alexandria Business Angels Network
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- AgriCash — AgriCash is a financial services company that provides application for installment of agricultural production sectors.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
- ShopLook — Online personal styling destination. Discover outfit ideas or virtually create your own using our outfit maker.
- Cash Cows — Cash Cows helps startups hone their operations and strategies so they can expand profitably and create better brands. They collaborate with customers to close the gap between traditional business practices (experience) and cutting-edge approaches (solutions), allowing companies to operate successfully.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Lebanon
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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.
- Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- WellPal — Healthy Super App
- 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.
- Instadiet — Instadiet helps to lower your blood sugar level to the normal range without medication or surgery. It controls blood sugar without medication and includes reducing the chances of heart disease, dispensing with medications, reducing cumulative sugar, and weight loss.
Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
- DESAISIV — DESAISIV, a MENA based InsurTech startup specialising in health insurance which is transforming health insurance for insurers and clients through exploiting their advanced AI solutions which were developed in collaboration with top machine learning scientists from the University of Oxford. DESAISIV’s philosophy is simply to put AI at the centre ofall decision making. This AI-driven approach guarantees that clients of Groups and SMEs will get optimized insurance policies tailored to their needs, also it will make sure that insurance companies will optimise their processes using the latest AI technologies. Benefitting from access to a vast database of hundreds of millions of patient records, DESAISIV has achieved an impressive average prediction accuracy of over 95%. Demonstrating their commitment to excellence, they have set an ambitious target to exceed 99% accuracy by the end of this year. Through their AI-driven products, DESAISIV streamlines various aspects of health insurance, including automating underwriting procedures, tailoring policy's benefits and coverage, improving quality of service by predicting developing diseases, identifying high-risk behaviours, and reducing customer attrition.
- TruBuild — AI pre-construction tool to review tenders, compare bids, and manage contracts. Make faster decisions, reduce errors, and minimize admin.
Foundation Ventures is an investment firm that backs exceptional teams building industry defining companies in Egypt and the MENA region.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Jordan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kenzz — Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA.
- OpenFi — OpenFi's goal is to provide consistent, responsible, and exceptional conversational AI. The market-leading conversational AI enables the customers to safely harness the potential of Generative AI to automate client interactions and set new benchmarks.
- Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Egypt, United States, Lebanon
Portfolio highlights
- Axis — With axis, you can send money to friends instantly and for free, buy anything online, request money from anyone, earn rewards and cashback, and understand your spending habits so that you can budget.
- 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.
- Pearl Semiconductor — Pearl Semiconductor has been developing for the past few years reference clocks and clock generators based on piezoelectric MEMS resonators that are built on top of CMOS
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
- Liquid — A plataforma definitiva para CFOs maximizarem liquidez e receita.
- Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
DisrupTech Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm based in Cairo, Egypt, focused on backing founders disrupting the status quo.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
- Lucky — Lucky is an app for credit products, offers, and cashback rewards.
- Hamilton Treasury — Bitcoin isn’t just digital gold—it’s the new foundational layer of capital markets. Hamilton leverages Bitcoin’s unmatched security and decentralization to tokenize real-world assets (RWA), providing global access to institutional-grade financial products.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
- PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- 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.
- Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
Backing outlier founders who build different.
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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
- Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
- Vault Wealth — Discover the range of private wealth management services with personalized wealth planning from Vault, a certified private wealth advisor in Dubai & UAE. A secure digital wealth platform trusted by 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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
- Liquify Digital — Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
- DP Technology — DP Technology is a global leader in the "AI for Science" research paradigm, where AI learns scientific principles and data, then tackles key challenges in scientific research and industrial R&D.DP's commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to the creation of the DP "Particle Universe", an array of pre-trainedlarge science models designed to bridge foundational research with practical industrial applications. DP's software suite includes the Bohrium® Scientific Research Space, Hermite® Computational Drug Design Platform, RiDYMO® Dynamics Platform, and Piloteye® Battery Design Automation Platform. Together, these platforms form a robust foundation for industrial innovation and an open ecosystem for AI in science, fostering advancements in key areas such as drug discovery, energy, material science, and information technology.
- DP Technology — Deep Technology uses a new generation of molecular simulation technology to tackle micro-scale industrial design difficulties. Founded in 2018 and is based in Beijing China.
Fawry is the leading digital transformation & E-payment platform in Egypt, offering financial services to consumers and businesses.
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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.
- Gateberg — We are revolutionizing the healthcare industry with our state-of-the-art artificial intelligence solutions, specifically designed for medical diagnostics and breast cancer prediction. Our mission is to enhance patient outcomes, streamline medical processes, and safeguard healthcare systems.
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Rekaz — Rekaz provides system to automate recurring payments, enhance online presence, improve customer relationships and boost sales.
- NymCard — <p><span style="color:#ce9178;">NymCard is providing, in the MENA region and around the globe, dynamic and secure building blocks for building fast and easy card programs.</span></p>
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- Nodes — Nodes.inc is building the world’s first AI-native, full-stack hiring platform designed to automate and optimize the entire talent lifecycle — from candidate sourcing to predictive onboarding. Powered by multi-agent systems and self-learning AI, Nodes eliminates outdated ATS workflows, bloated HR stacks, and manual recruiting processes.Theplatform goes beyond incremental improvements: it creates rich persona-based candidate profiles, autonomously headhunts across the internet, engages with passive talent using hyper-personalized outreach, and continuously retrains itself based on hiring outcomes. With performance-based pricing and a modular architecture, Nodes enables enterprises to reduce hiring time from 120 days to under 14, slash early-stage attrition, and ensure every hire is a high-fit hire.Backed by top operators and used by Fortune 500 companies, Nodes.inc is redefining the infrastructure layer for the future of work.
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
- Woba — Woba is a software that provides an ecosystem with work solutions for office and remote teams.
- Tarjama — Translation services, certified translation agency, legal translation, medical translation, website translation, video translation, and subtitling.
Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- InstaCarro — InstaCarro is an online platform that enables individuals to buy and sell cars. The company aims to add value both to individuals who want to sell their cars and to resellers.For individuals who want to sell, InstaCarro delivers the convenience of online quotes, higher than average prices and immediate payment after inspection. For buyers, itoffers online access to the large inventory of cars previously inspected and guarantees immediate return if a car purchased is in different conditions than reported. It was launched by Diego Fischer and Luca Cafici in July 2015 and is operated from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A venture capital partnership for emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
- CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Advance Tech Lending — Overcome cashflow disruptions with our credit solutions so you can focus on what matters: building your business.
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.
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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 — 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).
- FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.
Conviction-driven VC backing technology startups across MENA and the Gulf from pre-seed to growth stage
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
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.
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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.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
- AND Global — AND Global is a Financial Technology as a Services company that provides everything that a modern digital bank needs and more. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
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- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, United States, The Netherlands
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- Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
- InfiniLink — Empowering Hyperscale Datacenters Building Energy-Efficient Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Solutions
- Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.
Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.
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- Logistics, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Pakistan, Nigeria
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- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Cargon — A simple, fast and innovative industry leading service with powerful analytical tools.
- FrontEdge — Front Edge is a financial technology provider. They provide technology tools to manage every trade transaction in emerging markets.
1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that seeks to invest in fintech, healthcare, SaaS, e-commerce, and consumer sectors.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Egypt
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- Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
- Solea — Solea is the AI CSR that helps with booking, routing, and logging home service jobs in real time.
- Integrated Reasoning — Integrated Reasoning builds computer hardware to efficiently solve optimization problems. We're making faster and cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing boxes into trucks.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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- Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
- Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Nclude by Global Ventures is committed to accelerating Fintech Innovation and driving Financial Inclusion through partnerships with leading Fintech and fintech enabled companies.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt
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- Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- OneOrder — One Order delivers exceptional produce, custom cuts of meat, high-quality seafood, and imported foods offering an array of global flavors.
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
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- Health Care, Apps, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
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- Mala Inc. — This is meta description
- Teammates.ai — Autonomous AI Teammates that deliver superior results.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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- Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Jameel Investment Management Company is an investment firm.
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- Financial Services, Software, Finance
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States
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- Lean Technologies — Lean provides the Data and Payments tools to empower MENA's next generation of financial products | Trusted by Etisalat, Hubpay, Lulu Finance, Binance, Sarwa and more.
- Thndr — Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform.It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, AlQahirah, Egypt.
- Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
We invest in bold entrepreneurs creating meaningful change in financial services. We favor fast moving, forward thinking teams with deep market insights and an unquenchable appetite for growth. We back groundbreaking businesses with fundamentally distinguishable characteristics and disruptive business models. CVentures is geography agnostic. Weinvest in technology leaders across local and cross-border startup ecosystems.
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- Fashion, Internet, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Egypt, United States
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- 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.
- MagicCube — MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers.
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, Brazil, Indonesia
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- enza — Our focus on providing the richest possible API environment means that enza clients can concentrate on solving business challenges and not waste valuable time and effort on technical integrations.
- Belvo — Belvo is the leading Open Banking API platform in Latin America and the easiest way for users to connect their account to an app
- Ideem — Manual 2FA (SMS/WhatsApp One Time Passcodes, Authenticator Apps and Soft Tokens) are plagued with friction, fraud, and costs. Ideem cryptographically binds to the device to replace traditional possession factor 2FA and device fingerprinting solutions. Ideem's drop-in SDK works across all browsers and native apps. No user interaction isrequired - no effort, no permissions, no exceptions. Just an easy and invisible 2FA that reduces friction, fraud and costs.
Crystal Stream Capital specializes in making early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States, Egypt
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- Robot Era — Robot era is an emerging technology business creates embodied intelligence and generic humanoid robot technologies and products. Xingdong Era is committed to the development of universal humanoid robots that can adapt to a wide range of fields, multiple scenarios, and high intelligence, striving to realize the beautiful vision of intelligent robotsentering thousands of households and integrating into the lights of thousands of homes.
- Yupan Technology — Yupan Technology specializes in the core control technology of car intelligent chassis, offering secure chassis execution systems and global stable intelligent control solutions.
- Powernice Intelligent Technology — Powernice is a high-tech company that specializes in the development and production of high-precision intelligent actuators and equipment.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
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- 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.
- Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
- Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
Starling Ventures is a COA contract operator and ship broking company that provides chartering, operations, consulting, and SNP services.
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- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Egypt
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- MadEats — An on-demand online restaurant group that is built for delivery. Home of Yang Gang, Chow Time, Dot Coffee, and Fried Nice.
- Topship — Topship is the easiest for African businesses to import/export parcels, cargo and freight to their customers, distributors and suppliers across the World. We use technology to drive transparency and delight, making it easy for African businesses to connect with customers, suppliers and distributors across the World.
- Posh — We build automation systems to make EV battery disassembly fast, safe and scalable.
As president of the Platforms & Services Division of Microsoft, Kevin Johnson leads an organization of over 14,000 employees responsible for product development, marketing and strategy for the Windows and Online Services businesses. With Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and seven other senior executives, Johnson also serves on the Senior LeadershipTeam that sets overall strategy and direction for Microsoft.Since assuming his role in September 2005, Johnson successfully launched Windows Vista to consumers and commercial customers, resulting in record-breaking Windows revenue of nearly US$15 billion in fiscal year 2007. In addition to leading the Windows business, Johnson is driving the company's evolution towards software + services and building on the company's position as a leader in the online advertising market.Under Johnson's leadership, Microsoft has completed over 30 acquisitions in support of its software + services strategy. In August 2007, Johnson closed the company's largest acquisition, of aQuantive, Inc., to form Microsoft Advertiser & Publisher Solutions, and complement Microsoft's development of an industry-leading online advertising platform. Microsoft Advertiser & Publisher Solutions provides an online advertising platform for an ecosystem of industry partners, including advertisers, publishers and digital marketing agencies. Today the platform has offerings across digital media types and devices, including the PC, Web, mobile phones, gaming consoles, IPTV and Video-on-demand.Johnson also leads development and marketing of Microsoft's consumer online services, including Live Search, MSN.com and Windows Live, which collectively drove nearly $2.5 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2007. These compelling experiences attract hundreds of millions of consumers per month, and provide online advertising opportunities to businesses worldwide.Previously, Johnson held a number of leadership positions in sales and marketing at Microsoft, where he worked globally with consumer, small/medium business and enterprise customers. Prior to his current role, Johnson served as group vice president of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services, leading an organization of 30,000 employees, including field sales and marketing professionals who delivered $40 billion in revenue during fiscal 2005. Johnson also oversaw corporate operations and IT functions that support the work of Microsoft employees around the world.In his tenure as head of sales, marketing and services, Johnson led a transformation in the field. He organized subsidiary leadership teams in more than 80 countries and regions and orchestrated their efforts to better align with product development and company priorities. His re-engineering of the field operating approach and the sales compensation system contributed to an $11 billion increase in sales from 2002-2005. Johnson also led a cross-company initiative focused on emerging markets, positioning the company as a trusted partner for future growth.Johnson joined Microsoft in 1992, serving in a variety of roles across sales, marketing and services during his career at the company. Before joining Microsoft, Johnson worked in IBM's systems integration and consulting business unit from 1986 to 1992. He started his career in 1981 as a software developer in the petroleum and financial services industries.Johnson grew up in New Mexico and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from New Mexico State University. He is a founding member of the board of directors of NPower, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help other nonprofits use technology to expand the reach and impact of their work. He is also a member of the Western Region Board of Advisors of Catalyst, a non-profit organization dedicated to women's career advancement.
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Egypt, The Netherlands
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- WAFFARX — WaffarX is Egypt’s first Cash Back provider connecting consumers with ongoing savings via current offers from our growing network of advertiser partners Our mission is to create the largest single source of qualified online buyers in the MENA region & Africa by helping advertisers build strong relationships with frequent customers in arisk-free manner that benefits everyone involved.
- Sounding Board, Inc — Your strategic partner for leader transformation. Leadership development through coaching solutions, mentoring management, and flexible program software.
- Checkmate — Never miss a deal.
As president of the Platforms & Services Division of Microsoft, Kevin Johnson leads an organization of over 14,000 employees responsible for product development, marketing and strategy for the Windows and Online Services businesses. With Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and seven other senior executives, Johnson also serves on the Senior LeadershipTeam that sets overall strategy and direction for Microsoft.Since assuming his role in September 2005, Johnson successfully launched Windows Vista to consumers and commercial customers, resulting in record-breaking Windows revenue of nearly US$15 billion in fiscal year 2007. In addition to leading the Windows business, Johnson is driving the company's evolution towards software + services and building on the company's position as a leader in the online advertising market.Under Johnson's leadership, Microsoft has completed over 30 acquisitions in support of its software + services strategy. In August 2007, Johnson closed the company's largest acquisition, of aQuantive, Inc., to form Microsoft Advertiser & Publisher Solutions, and complement Microsoft's development of an industry-leading online advertising platform. Microsoft Advertiser & Publisher Solutions provides an online advertising platform for an ecosystem of industry partners, including advertisers, publishers and digital marketing agencies. Today the platform has offerings across digital media types and devices, including the PC, Web, mobile phones, gaming consoles, IPTV and Video-on-demand.Johnson also leads development and marketing of Microsoft's consumer online services, including Live Search, MSN.com and Windows Live, which collectively drove nearly $2.5 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2007. These compelling experiences attract hundreds of millions of consumers per month, and provide online advertising opportunities to businesses worldwide.Previously, Johnson held a number of leadership positions in sales and marketing at Microsoft, where he worked globally with consumer, small/medium business and enterprise customers. Prior to his current role, Johnson served as group vice president of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services, leading an organization of 30,000 employees, including field sales and marketing professionals who delivered $40 billion in revenue during fiscal 2005. Johnson also oversaw corporate operations and IT functions that support the work of Microsoft employees around the world.In his tenure as head of sales, marketing and services, Johnson led a transformation in the field. He organized subsidiary leadership teams in more than 80 countries and regions and orchestrated their efforts to better align with product development and company priorities. His re-engineering of the field operating approach and the sales compensation system contributed to an $11 billion increase in sales from 2002-2005. Johnson also led a cross-company initiative focused on emerging markets, positioning the company as a trusted partner for future growth.Johnson joined Microsoft in 1992, serving in a variety of roles across sales, marketing and services during his career at the company. Before joining Microsoft, Johnson worked in IBM's systems integration and consulting business unit from 1986 to 1992. He started his career in 1981 as a software developer in the petroleum and financial services industries.Johnson grew up in New Mexico and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from New Mexico State University. He is a founding member of the board of directors of NPower, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help other nonprofits use technology to expand the reach and impact of their work. He is also a member of the Western Region Board of Advisors of Catalyst, a non-profit organization dedicated to women's career advancement.
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- E-Commerce, E-Learning, Retail Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- WAFFARX — WaffarX is Egypt’s first Cash Back provider connecting consumers with ongoing savings via current offers from our growing network of advertiser partners Our mission is to create the largest single source of qualified online buyers in the MENA region & Africa by helping advertisers build strong relationships with frequent customers in arisk-free manner that benefits everyone involved.
- Sounding Board, Inc — Your strategic partner for leader transformation. Leadership development through coaching solutions, mentoring management, and flexible program software.
- Checkmate — Never miss a deal.
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