# Abdallah Yafi

> Abdallah Yafi is a Series A investor at B&Y Venture Partners (Abu Dhabi) backing Apps and News. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [B&Y Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-y-venture-partners)
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdallah-yafi-aa1642/

Abdallah Yafi is a Series A investor at B&Y Venture Partners in Abu Dhabi focused on Apps and News. Abdallah Yafi is the General Partner at B&Y Venture Partners with more than 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship, technology, strategy and management consulting across the Middle East, Europe and North America. He is also a Founding Partner at Y Venture Partners - an angel fund that invests in early stage companies and supports highimpact entrepreneurs in building high growth venture - and is an active supporter of the Lebanese startup ecosystem.Abdallah is a former founder himself with an online marketplace venture and a SAAS business under his belt and a successful track record of exiting companies in Canada and the UK. Between 2010 and 2015, Abdallah chaired the Strategy Committee and Executive Committee of Big Bus Tours - the leading global operator of open-top sightseeing - where he overviewed strategy and business development for the group and recently co-led a large private equity exit transaction of the business on behalf of the company shareholders.Previously, Abdallah held a Management Consultant position with CSC (Computer Science Corporation) and a Manager position with Accenture France.Abdallah holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique and a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| News | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Music | 1 | 17% |
| Hardware | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bridged Media | - We provide tools for Impact driven content creators to embed social action in their multi-format content to address the emerging desire among consumers to make tangible impact, enhance engagement & retention metrics for content creators and fulfil sustainable goals set out by organizations more efficiently. - We give access to contentcreators access to a content management system through which they are able to copy-paste the desired action through a single line of code. The platform works on an engagement and action model, where the consumer engages through a varied content style that flips on the same webpage to deliver the relevant action. Our technology aims to bridge the gap between empathy and action in all forms of content (text, video or audio. - The global digital content tool market size is expected to reach US$ 38.2 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 12% during 2020 and 2030. | $713.8K | Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Bridged Media | - We provide tools for Impact driven content creators to embed social action in their multi-format content to address the emerging desire among consumers to make tangible impact, enhance engagement & retention metrics for content creators and fulfil sustainable goals set out by organizations more efficiently. - We give access to contentcreators access to a content management system through which they are able to copy-paste the desired action through a single line of code. The platform works on an engagement and action model, where the consumer engages through a varied content style that flips on the same webpage to deliver the relevant action. Our technology aims to bridge the gap between empathy and action in all forms of content (text, video or audio. - The global digital content tool market size is expected to reach US$ 38.2 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 12% during 2020 and 2030. | $713.8K | Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| iKcon | iKcon is a cloud kitchen and food technology company based in the UAE that develops and operates delivery-focused kitchen infrastructure for restaurant and food brands. The company supports businesses with kitchen operations, logistics integration, digital ordering systems, and market expansion services. Its platform is designed to help food brandslaunch or scale delivery operations without investing in traditional dine-in restaurant spaces. iKcon primarily works across the Middle East and North Africa region, serving both local and international restaurant partners. | $20M | Series A | Mar 28, 2021 |  |
| iKcon | iKcon is a cloud kitchen and food technology company based in the UAE that develops and operates delivery-focused kitchen infrastructure for restaurant and food brands. The company supports businesses with kitchen operations, logistics integration, digital ordering systems, and market expansion services. Its platform is designed to help food brandslaunch or scale delivery operations without investing in traditional dine-in restaurant spaces. iKcon primarily works across the Middle East and North Africa region, serving both local and international restaurant partners. | $20M | Series A | Mar 28, 2021 |  |
| Roadie Music by Band Industries | Roadie Music is a brand of innovative tools carefully designed for musicians and music enthusiasts. It was created by the leading music-technology startup Band Industries. The company was founded by Hassane Slaibi and Bassam Jalgha and has offices in both Seattle and Beirut. Slaibi and Jalgha decided to combine their passions for music and tech bydeveloping the company’s first award-winning product, the Roadie Tuner, in 2013. It garnered worldwide attention and accolades, including the TechCrunch Disrupt 2014 Audience Choice Award. In 2017 and 2018, they successfully released their more advanced products, Roadie 2 and Roadie Bass. The company continued its success with Roadie 3 in 2020 and is now moving into the space of music education with a brand new hardware solution currently in the works and the release of their first guided teaching app Ukulele by Roadie. | $2.8M | Series A | Jun 24, 2020 |  |
| Roadie Music by Band Industries | Roadie Music is a brand of innovative tools carefully designed for musicians and music enthusiasts. It was created by the leading music-technology startup Band Industries. The company was founded by Hassane Slaibi and Bassam Jalgha and has offices in both Seattle and Beirut. Slaibi and Jalgha decided to combine their passions for music and tech bydeveloping the company’s first award-winning product, the Roadie Tuner, in 2013. It garnered worldwide attention and accolades, including the TechCrunch Disrupt 2014 Audience Choice Award. In 2017 and 2018, they successfully released their more advanced products, Roadie 2 and Roadie Bass. The company continued its success with Roadie 3 in 2020 and is now moving into the space of music education with a brand new hardware solution currently in the works and the release of their first guided teaching app Ukulele by Roadie. | $2.8M | Series A | Jun 24, 2020 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BY Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/by-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [B&Y Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-y-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Al Hokair Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/al-hokair-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AlTouq Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altouq-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BeryTech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berytech-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cedar Mundi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedar-mundi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About B&Y Venture Partners

VC Fund · Beirut, Lebanon

B&Y Venture Partners started with a vision: to create the go-to venture capital fund for early-stage technology start-ups. We do this by investing in great entrepreneurs and by providing them with value beyond just money, in exchange for a minority share in their business.We aim to partner with world-class entrepreneurs who want to buildthe next big technology success stories. We look for highly-driven teams with a “get it done” attitude, who can achieve exceptional execution of their ideas. We believe that founding teams are the most important component of start-up success.

3 contacts available at B&Y Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abdallah Yafi | Founder - General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abdallah-yafi |
| Fadi Bizri | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fadi-bizri |
| Ghaith Yafi | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ghaith-yafi |

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## FAQ

### What does Abdallah Yafi invest in?

Abdallah Yafi invests primarily in Apps, News and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Abdallah Yafi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Abdallah Yafi closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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