# Aly Shalakany > Aly Shalakany is a seed investor at Shalakany Law Office backing SaaS and Information Technology. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Shalakany Law Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shalakany-law-office) - Location: Cairo, Egypt - Total investments: 13 - Last investment: Nov 2025 - Lead investor: 62% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://eg.linkedin.com/in/aly-el-shalakany-a6aa0b31 - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/alyshalakany - Website: https://x.com/alyshalakany Aly Shalakany is a seed investor at Shalakany Law Office in Cairo focused on SaaS and Information Technology. Aly El Shalakany is a practicing lawyer in Egypt as well as a qualified solicitor of England and Wales. He joined Shalakany Law Office from Linklaters LLP in London, whom he joined at the start of his legal career as a trainee solicitor. Aly has been consistently recognized as a leading lawyer by the top ranking firms over the past decade as aresult of working on a range of “pathfinder” transactions within the Egyptian jurisdiction. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | SaaS | 2 | 15% | | Information Technology | 2 | 15% | | Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 15% | | EdTech | 1 | 8% | | Mobile | 1 | 8% | 23 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 3 | 23% | | Angel | 3 | 23% | | Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% | | Series A | 1 | 8% | | Convertible Note | 1 | 8% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Egypt | 5 | 38% | | Senegal | 1 | 8% | | Pakistan | 1 | 8% | | United States | 1 | 8% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bluworks.io | Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions. | $1M | Seed | Nov 22, 2025 | | | Metric | Metric is a digital accounting app. | | Seed | Apr 17, 2025 | | | Bluworks.io | Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 22, 2024 | | | Bluworks.io | Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 22, 2024 | | | Lengo | Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector. | | Pre-Seed | Oct 04, 2023 | | | Lengo | Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector. | | Pre-Seed | Oct 04, 2023 | | | Nawah Scientific | Cutting edge research is available exclusively to those with high tech equipment in their labs. Nawah is a core hub of advanced equipment specialized in natural and medical sciences. Nawah's online platform receives experiments requests, Nawah's scientists carry them out and return results online. Thus, researchers can do much advancedresearch regardless of their location and available facilities in their labs. In 3 years, we analyzed 10K+ samples for 25 universities and companies in the MENA, Malaysia, UK and Switzerland. | $7M | Series A | Feb 02, 2022 | | | Orcas | Orcas is an education platform that provides 1-on-1 tutoring for students from pre-school to high school. It offers online and in-person sessions across multiple subjects, with progress tracking and flexible learning plans for different school systems. | $2.1M | Seed | Jan 16, 2022 | | | Orcas | Orcas is an education platform that provides 1-on-1 tutoring for students from pre-school to high school. It offers online and in-person sessions across multiple subjects, with progress tracking and flexible learning plans for different school systems. | $2.1M | Seed | Jan 16, 2022 | | | Kashat | Kashat, is a mobile financial services company aimed at serving the financial needs of the unbanked and underbanked in Egypt. Through its mobile app, Kashat, instantly lends small loans to the financially excluded. The service uses alternative cellular data to underwrite thin file(people who have never had access to credit before) customers tocultivate a financial identity by building a credit history with Kashat. Once customers have signed up and been approved for a loan, they hcan withdraw their loans through mobile wallets and other digital payment services. The entire process is enabled digitally, through Kashat's user friendly mobile app. Kashat is regulated by the Financial Regulatory Authority in Egypt. | $1.8M | Convertible Note | Sep 12, 2021 | | 10 of 13 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Launch Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-africa) — VC Fund, 5 deals together - [Acasia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acasia-ventures-22) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Access Bridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-bridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Algebra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algebra-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Camel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/camel-ventures-b1ba) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Epic Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/epic-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together ## About Shalakany Law Office VC Fund 1 contacts available at Shalakany Law Office. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Aly Shalakany | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aly-shalakany | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Aly Shalakany invest in? Aly Shalakany invests primarily in SaaS, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Aly Shalakany last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Aly Shalakany closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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