Top 40 Payments Startup Investors in Egypt in December 2024
A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Egypt. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Egypt. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Payments Startup Investors in Egypt in December 2024
Investor | Payments Egypt investments |
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Falak Startups | 5 |
Disruptech Ventures | 4 |
Global Ventures | 4 |
A15 | 3 |
EFG Hermes | 3 |
Arzan Venture Capital | 2 |
Global Founders Capital | 2 |
Algebra Ventures | 2 |
Sequoia Capital | 2 |
VentureSouq | 2 |
Battery Road Digital Holdings | 2 |
Lorax Capital Partners | 2 |
FMO | 2 |
AMK Investment Office | 1 |
Glint Consulting | 1 |
Nour Nouf | 1 |
Camel Ventures | 1 |
Ingressive Capital | 1 |
Al Tuwaijri Fund | 1 |
riyadh group | 1 |
Nclude | 1 |
Omar Darwazah | 1 |
PayU GPO | 1 |
Launch Africa | 1 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 1 |
Venture MENA | 1 |
Wamda Capital | 1 |
Marakez | 1 |
Plus Venture Capital | 1 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
Flat6Labs | 1 |
KEM | 1 |
Block, Inc. | 1 |
Class 5 Global | 1 |
Alex Angels | 1 |
Block, Inc. | 1 |
Addition | 1 |
Faisal Al-Abdulsalam | 1 |
P1 Ventures | 1 |
Flourish Ventures | 1 |
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, Mobile Apps, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- 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
- 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.
- Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.
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
- Banknbox — Banknbox provides a diverse range of services, including ATM administration, transaction monitoring, POS and soft-POS electronic payment devices, payment gateways, and anti-fraud systems.
- Lucky — Lucky is an app for credit products, offers, and cashback rewards.
- Connect Money — White labeled card issuance - Zero upfront investment - no integrations - go live in less than 10 weeks.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
- Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.
- Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.
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.
Established in 1984, EFG Hermes is the leading investment bank in the Arab world. The Firm specializes in Securities Brokerage, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity and Research. EFG Hermes is listed on both the Egyptian and London stock exchanges. The recent acquisition of a 65% stake in Credit Libanais marks the first step towardsEFG Hermes’s transformation into a universal bank and will enable it to rapidly expand into retail and commercial banking.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kenzi Wealth — KENZI is developing the asset management infrastructure layer, which will be offered easily to banks, independent asset managers (IAMs), and independent financial advisors (IFAs) via a plug-and-play suite of APIs.
- Bedaya Mortgage Finance — Bedaya Mortgage Finance Co. is the first online mortgage provider in Egypt.
- Palm Hills Developments — Palm Hills Developments offers projects for integrated homes, businesses, and resorts. 70% of the project sites are set aside for lush vegetation and complex creative landscapes with the intention of changing their clients' perceptions of reality.
Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
- Gameball — Gameball is a one-stop platform to market your products and keep your customers engaged, leading to boosted conversion and increased RoI with a data-driven success strategy.
- Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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, Internet, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- EFreshli — Furnishing & decorating is exciting with our expert designers, curated shopping experience, and professional setup. Transform your space with our easy 3-step process.
- YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
- Connect Money — White labeled card issuance - Zero upfront investment - no integrations - go live in less than 10 weeks.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
- Eon — Meet Eon, the next-generation cloud backup solution with the first-ever backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. We empower organizations with cloud backup posture management (CBPM), making complex backups simple and turning them into valuable, easily accessible assets.
- AMP — AMP Robotics creates a scalable robotic system that reduces the cost of recycling and enables smart recycling facilities. AMP Robotics' solution is a combination of computer vision and machine learning with robots that can identify and rapidly pick recyclable materials off a conveyor belt for market and recovery.AMP Robotics automates theidentification, sorting, and processing of material streams to extract value for material recovery facilities (MRFs) that process municipal solid waste, construction and demolition, e-waste, and auto-shredding. The company's engineering design reduces the cost of capital investment with modular implementation easily dropping into existing facility infrastructure without costly retrofits or interruption to operations.AMP Robotics was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Pathao — Pathao can move you forward. One app for your success, earning, betterment, comfort, easy going lifestyle and many more. Keep #MovingSafely
- Mala Inc. — This is meta description
- PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
Frontier Markets venture capital
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Egypt, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- zypl.ai — zypl.ai applies 'no data' AI at scale to advance financial inclusion in emerging and frontier markets. Our SaaS solution enables banks and microfinance organizations to instantly and accurate underwrite loans, both offline and digitally, to consumers with limited or no credit history.zypl's proprietary approach includes training AImodels on synthetically generated data with simulation of 'black swan' conditions, providing stable and adaptable SaaS in spite of macro volatility in developing markets. Apart from analyzing traditional variables such as social, demographic, and professional background of clients, our SaaS reviews device metadata, psychometrics, web trace, and macroeconomic factors to arrive at credit decisions.In the process, we fully customize AI models to risk appetite of each individual enterprise partner with the goal of reflecting their competitive market advantages. Additionally, we offer complete flexibility on mode of integration through either cloud or on-premise deployment based on enterprise preference. We only deploy explainable AI models with embedded 'weight-of-evidence' interpretation of each decision made by the software, complying with emerging regulatory requirements on credit scoring.Having launched our beta last year, we have scaled presence to 10 enterprise clients in 4 markets across Central Asia. In this time, we have underwritten >$9 million in consumer and small business (services, trade, agriculture) loans to over 12 thousand consumers with staggeringly low 0.7% portfolio-at-risk rate. Since booking first revenue earlier this year, we have surpassed 25% compounded monthly growth rate and reached financial break-even this month.As a complement to credit scoring, our product team has ventured into churn prediction in telecom sector through partnerships with 3 leading telcos in Central Asia. Our rapid product iteration and development is a result of an AI Academy that we have launched to nurture talent internally.zypl.ai was ideated at Stanford University's Startup Garage and recently completed the Silkway Accelerator by Google for Startups and Astana Hub. Our startup was launched with a grant from the Islamic Development Bank as part of the Transform Fund. With our pre-seed capital raise, we plan on globalizing our AI SaaS solution by expanding to new markets in MENA, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe.
- AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
- IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing
Lorax Capital Partners is an Egypt focused PE firm with USD 320 million under management
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Delivery, Payments
- Private Equity, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- MNT-Halan — MNT-Halan is a microfinance lending and payments company.
- Lucky — Lucky is an app for credit products, offers, and cashback rewards.
- Connect Money — White labeled card issuance - Zero upfront investment - no integrations - go live in less than 10 weeks.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, The Netherlands, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Trans-Oil Group of Companies — TRANS-OIL GROUP is an agro-industrial holding with oilseeds crushing, grain handling, commodities trading, and exports. It produces vegetable oil, flour.
AMK Investment Office is a generation private family office.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.
- Nexford University — Nexford is a next-generation online university based in Washington DC. Earn a globally affordable, accredited degree program at a flexible pace. Master competencies. Move forward in life.
Glint Consulting is a management consulting firm that specializes in business strategy, operational efficiency, and growth acceleration. Its consulting services enable our clients to achieve better results and accelerate growth through advising management on key opportunities and issues such as strategy, operations, digital, and technology.GlintConsulting was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Kashier — Kashier is a payment management platform for commerce and retail businesses that provide tools used for running a business. The toolkit covers subscriptions to invoices and online payments and is built with the capability to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today’s fast-growing businesses, from small startups to large enterprises.
- Filkhedma — FilKhedma is the largest home services marketplace in Egypt. Users can book online quality guaranteed reliable service providers in home cleaning, maintenance and other services. Service providers apply online and are accepted after passing through the onboarding process after which they receive orders through a mobile app. The service operates in3 Egyptian cities.
- Wasla Browser — Search, Shop and Save Money! Wasla is your new shopping browser. Wasla is the first mobile browser designed to help you save money from all your favorite stores so that you can shop more and pay less.
We inspire to build societies where knowledge empowers every individual to realize their full potential to contribute to the greater good and to be responsible for future generations.
Investment in startup business, Community Services, Shared Offices.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Venture Capital
- Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
- Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Safanad — Safanad is a global holding company focusing on key investment platforms in Education, Healthcare, Digital Infrastructure, and Real Estate sectors, delivering strong risk-adjusted returns through partnership and operational excellence.
- Lucky — Lucky is an app for credit products, offers, and cashback rewards.
- Shorooq Partners — Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
The Pioneering Venture Debt and Venture Capital Partner for FinTech and FinTech-enabling Startups in Egypt
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Investment focus
- Payments, Warehousing, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Egypt, China
Portfolio highlights
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- Semitech — Semitech is an intelligent manufacturing system supplier focused on providing integrated manufacturing solutions for high-tech industries.
- Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.
Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
- Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.
Al Tuwaijri Fund is a venture capital fund.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Shipping, Logistics
- Seed
- 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.
- 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
Al-Riyadh Investment Companies Group.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Shipping, Logistics
- Seed
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
- 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.
Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
- Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DotPe — DotPe is a commerce and payments platform seeking to disrupt the payment experience by increasing customer engagement and offering catalog discovery.The technology start-up provides an offline enterprise business with a commerce and payments platform to drive digital transformation in the way they sell, manage, and engage their customers. Itenables businesses to sell more, sell directly, and sell more efficiently. It was founded in 2019 by Anurag Gupta, Gyanesh Sharma, and Shailaz Nag, and its headquarters are located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
- Ayoconnect — API pulsa, token listrik, e-money, dan PPOB terlengkap. Ayoconnect menghubungkan 50+ platform ke 3.000 produk digital.
- BriskPe — BriskPe is not just another fintech start-up. We're a Mumbai-based financial innovator, driven by a relentless pursuit of excellence in cross-border payments. Our journey is a fusion of regulatory know-how, technological innovation, and an unwavering commitment to empowering Indian MSMEs. We proudly stand within the sturdy framework of theRBI's OPGSP, securing our position as a trustworthy player in India's financial landscape. In Canada, we've earned our stripes with a coveted Money Service Business (MSB) license from Fintrac, ensuring that our global reach extends far beyond just one nation. Our mission is as bold as it is straightforward: to arm Indian MSMEs with the artillery they need to conquer the global market. Accessibility is not just a buzzword for us; it's a guiding principle etched into our very core. We believe that every Indian exporter, regardless of size, should have the tools and resources to navigate the complex world of international payments. We ensure that every payment is not just a transaction but a well-documented journey that our customers can track with ease. At BriskPe, we've embraced the regulatory framework as a means to foster trust and security in every transaction.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
- 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.
- R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Early Stage Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
- Subsbase — Discover the future of recurring revenue management with Subsbase. Streamline your operations, boost growth, and elevate customer experiences with our cutting-edge platform.
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
- qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- 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
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
Marakez is the leading Mixed-used developer in Egypt
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Investment focus
- Mobile, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants
- EFreshli — Furnishing & decorating is exciting with our expert designers, curated shopping experience, and professional setup. Transform your space with our easy 3-step process.
- Kiwe app — Kiwe app is a mobile payment application that enables users to transfer money instantly.
At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...
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- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
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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
- Octa — Octa is a one-click automated system for collecting invoices that ensures timely payment to business-to-business firms.
- Settle Payments — SETTLE automates enterprise's payments and manages all their bank accounts in one place for better cashflow decisions.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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- Cartona — Cartona is a B2b marketplace directly connects retailers with suppliers
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
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- Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
- Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.
- Zofa — Zofa provides integrated solutions that promote long-term change while improving productivity and patient care and enabling fast delivery of medical products.
KEM is an investment firm.
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- Apps, Credit, Payments
- Convertible Note
- Egypt
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- Lucky — Lucky is an app for credit products, offers, and cashback rewards.
Sell anywhere. Diversify revenue streams. Streamline operations. Manage your staff. Get paid faster. Sign up for Square today.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Egypt
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- Gridless — At the Frontier of Bitcoin Mining in Africa
- Yellow Card — Buy and Sell BTC, ETH, USDT & More in Africa | Yellow Card
- Aston Reinvestment Trust — As a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) ART's remit is to ensure that viable businesses and social enterprises in the West Midlands can access the finance they need.
Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
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- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- 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
- Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement
Alex Angels is an investment management company that helps investors to invest in early-stage companies with strong management teams. The company specializes in the fields of financial services, financial exchange, and investments.
Alex Angels was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Al Iskandariyah, Egypt.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Egypt
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- CardoO — Welcome To Our InnovationsExplore
- 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.
Block is Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and our foundational teams.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Egypt
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- Gridless — At the Frontier of Bitcoin Mining in Africa
- Yellow Card — Buy and Sell BTC, ETH, USDT & More in Africa | Yellow Card
- Aston Reinvestment Trust — As a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) ART's remit is to ensure that viable businesses and social enterprises in the West Midlands can access the finance they need.
We invest in early & growth stage technology companies. We were founded with a mission to support visionaries in building impactful & enduring businesses.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
- OneChronos — OneChronos ATS: The Smart Market for Institutional Investors
- Speckle — Teams around the world use Speckle for effective project delivery
Faisal Al-Abdulsalam is the founder of Purity, and an active investor in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
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- VOO — VOO helps SMEs to increase their delivery success rate by providing one platform to manage deliveries , one API integration which connect businesses to a large network of national and international shipping providers , we are "Your E-Commerce Growth Partner"
- 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.
- ShipHaly — mobile app connect shoppers who want to buy from abroad with travelers who can buy and deliver these items in 100% safe and secure way
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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- Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
- Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
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- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Nkoloso — Nkoloso AI monitors Africa's natural resources 10x faster using AI and Robotics.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
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- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- 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.
- Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
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