# Amr Awadallah

> Amr Awadallah is a seed investor in Palo Alto backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/awadallah
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/awadallah
- Website: http://www.awadallah.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/awadallah

Amr Awadallah is a seed investor in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Amr Awadallah is based out of Palo Alto, California, and was the Founder and CEO of Vectara. Amr previously worked at Google Cloud as a VP of Developer Relations. Amr Awadallah attended Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$12M |
| Series A | $5M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 32% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 21% |
| Mobile | 3 | 16% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 63% |
| Angel | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 63% |
| Egypt | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PlayAI | Play.ht provides AI voice generators and realistic text-to-speech generation solutions. The company enables people to create realistic voice-over audio using just text. Use cases include voice-over audio for product demos, videos, podcasts, audio articles, etc. | $21M | Seed | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| AppFlowy | AppFlowy provides an open source collaborative work management tool that enables users to create apps that suit offers built on a community-driven toolbox, including templates, plugins, themes, and more. | $6.4M | Seed | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Nextdata | Nextdata offers an operating system for decentralized data at scale on an AI platform. | $12M | Seed | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| Qdrant | Qdrant develops vector databases and search technology designed to support artificial intelligence applications that require similarity search, recommendation, and semantic retrieval capabilities. The company’s core offering is a vector-oriented database that stores high-dimensional numeric representations of data, enabling efficient search andretrieval operations based on similarity rather than exact matches. This allows applications such as semantic search, content recommendation, and clustering to operate on large data sets of text, images, and other unstructured content. The database supports real‑time indexing and querying of vectors generated by machine learning models, enabling developers to integrate AI‑driven search and recommendation features into applications. Its APIs allow software systems to submit vectors representing user queries or content items and receive the most similar vectors based on nearest-neighbor search algorithms. This capability is commonly used to surface semantically relevant search results or related content recommendations in applications involving natural language processing, image similarity, and personalization systems. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| Synapse Analytics | We help financial institutions make better risk decisions with AI.Synapse Analytics enables them to automate the entire credit lifecycle—from onboarding and verification to assessment and decisioning.Our AI-powered infrastructure brings speed, accuracy, and intelligence to every step of the credit process. Whether you're serving first-timeborrowers or scaling complex lending operations, we help you move faster, reduce risk, and unlock financial access for more customers. With built-in orchestration capabilities, you can centralize fragmented workflows, enforce policies, and coordinate teams—seamlessly and at scale.Our tools are built for business and risk teams—not technical experts. No-code, intuitive, and ready to use out of the box. Just better decisions, faster.By simplifying complex processes and reducing barriers, Synapse Analytics plays a key role in expanding financial inclusion—empowering more people and businesses to access the credit they need to grow. | $2M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Pragma Platform | Pragma is a “backend game engine” that enables multiplayer and social games. Pragma provides developers full extensibility, visibility and scalability. Our platform is made up of 5 interconnected applications: accounts & social, payments, player data, telemetry, and game loop. Pragma is built by engineering leaders that built platforms for someof the largest live service games like League of Legends, Valorant, Plants vs Zombies 2, and Eve Online. | $12M | Series A | Apr 20, 2021 |  |
| Luciq | Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications. It delivers real-time contextual throughout the application's life cycle that helps mobile application developers to detect bugs and errors on their application.The company was founded in 2014 and headquarteredin California, United States. | $5M | Series A | May 04, 2020 |  |
| testRigor | TestRigor offers a codeless test automation tool powered by generative AI, designed to help manual testers and product managers. Comprising a team of engineers and data scientists, the company developed testRigor with a focus on catering to fast-paced startups in industries where the critical functionality of applications is paramount. TestRigor isdedicated to empowering developers and QA teams to leverage the capabilities of machine learning, pushing the limits of software testing. | $718.3K | Pre-Seed | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Rology | AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform |  | Convertible Note | Apr 01, 2019 |  |
| FOSSA | FOSSA provides a platform that helps enterprises manage and maximize open-source use at scale. The company's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning and compliance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $2.2M | Seed | Feb 23, 2017 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

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- [42CAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/42cap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Amr Awadallah invest in?

Amr Awadallah invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Amr Awadallah's check size?

Amr Awadallah typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$12M at Seed and $5M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Amr Awadallah participates in.

### When did Amr Awadallah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amr Awadallah closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 19 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?

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