# Karim Beguir

> Karim Beguir is a seed investor at InstaDeep (London) backing Software and E-Commerce. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [InstaDeep](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/instadeep)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karim-beguir-2350161/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kbeguir

Karim Beguir is a seed investor at InstaDeep in London focused on Software and E-Commerce. Co-Founder & CEO of InstaDeep and Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning, Karim helps companies get a grip on the latest AI advances and deploy them in practice. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and former Program Fellow at NYU’s Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. This encouragedhim to launch InstaDeep, nominated at MWC17 in the top 20 global startup list by PCMAG. He is on a mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to a wider audience.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $630k–$30M |
| Pre-Seed | $600k–$600k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 17% |
| Energy | 1 | 8% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tunisia | 4 | 33% |
| France | 3 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 17% |
| South Africa | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blueprint Bryan Johnson | Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M | Angel | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Thunder Code | AI Testing Agent for Your Software Teams Transform Manual Testing into Automated Success: Create, manage, and run automated tests with the power of AI - no coding required. Thunder Code helps QA teams deliver better software faster. | $9M | Seed | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Dabchy | Created in 2016 by Ameni Mansouri, Ghazi Ketata, and Osama Mahjoub, Dabchy is a localized fashion marketplace where women can buy and sell their new or used fashion items online. Dabchy is headquartered in Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia. |  | Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Uptale | Uptale provides an enterprise solution that enhances employee learning through immersive experiences in 360° and virtual reality. The platform allows organizations to create, share, and analyze training modules without requiring technical expertise. | $9.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 13, 2024 |  |
| Wattnow | Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends. |  | Series A | Aug 15, 2024 |  |
| AlphaLoops | Alphaloops is a VC backed team with the goal of becoming the one stop shop for operational generative AI tools in Finance. | $630K | Seed | Jun 10, 2024 |  |
| FlexAI | Unlocking the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure | $30.5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Callab AI | Clusterlab is a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) research. It is the company behind the Arabic audiobook summarization app Reedz. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Reedz | Reedz is a mobile application for podcasts in Arabic and interactive book summaries in Audio and text format. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Callab AI | Clusterlab is a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) research. It is the company behind the Arabic audiobook summarization app Reedz. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2024 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Janngo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janngo-africa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Medin Fund Management Co](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/medin-fund-management-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [216 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/216-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Intelligence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-intelligence-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arkea Capital Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arkea-capital-investissement) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About InstaDeep

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

InstaDeep is an EMEA leader in decision-making AI products for the Enterprise, with headquarters in London, and offices in Paris, Tunis, Lagos, Dubai and Cape Town. With expertise in both machine intelligence research and concrete business deployments, the Company provides a competitive advantage to its partners in an AI-first world. Leveraging itsextensive knowhow in GPU-accelerated computing, deep learning and reinforcement learning, InstaDeep has built products, such as its novel DeepChain™ platform, that tackle the most complex challenges across a range of industries. InstaDeep has also developed collaborations with global leaders in the Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, such as Google DeepMind, NVIDIA and Intel. The Company is part of Intel’s AI Builders program and was named an Elite Preferred Deep Learning Partner by NVIDIA

3 contacts available at InstaDeep.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Isabelle Levard | Group CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isabelle-levard |
| Karim Beguir | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karim-beguir |
| Zohra Slim | Co-Founder and CD&VO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zohra-slim |

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## FAQ

### What does Karim Beguir invest in?

Karim Beguir invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Tunisia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Karim Beguir's check size?

Karim Beguir typically joins rounds of $630k–$30M at Seed and $600k–$600k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Karim Beguir participates in.

### When did Karim Beguir last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karim Beguir closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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.

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