# Kushal Shah

> Kushal Shah is a seed investor at Dubai Angel Investors backing eSports and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dubai Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dubai-angel-investor)
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushyahvi/

Kushal Shah is a Co-Founder of Dubai Angel Investors. He was a Board Member at Airalo. He studied at the University of Cambridge.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$3.4M |
| Series B | $20M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| eSports | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 20% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 3 | 30% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 30% |
| Egypt | 1 | 10% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Derq | Derq uses AI to power a real-time predictive analytics platform, helping eliminate crashes, save lives, and create safer and smarter roadways. We create a unified view of all road users and predict their movement 24/7, leveraging inputs from existing infrastructure and existing or easily deployable cameras and other sensors. Our analyticsplatform feeds a live dashboard available to road owners and operators and sends alerts to connected vehicles and infrastructure through our patented V2X technology. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| LabLabee | LabLabee is an on-demand learning labs provider for Future networks. It allows telco operators, industrial companies, and large entreprise to incorporate a virtual hands-on experience into their transformation while lowering costs. | $3.4M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Traydstream | Traydstream is a pioneer in Trade Finance Technology. They build software that revolutionises the inefficient and protracted methods of Trade Finance processing, facilitating smarter and safer transactions world-wide, joining the financial dots with 21st century methods. Traydstream is a cloud-based platform whose modular technology digitisesand stores Trade Finance documentation, extracting the data intelligently and, based on machine-learnt experience, validating the transaction documentation against a vast, evolvable library of Trade Rules and Compliance checks. The platform redefines and streamlines Trade Finance processing. | $21M | Series B | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Airalo | Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store for travellers to access over 190+ eSIMs at the most affordable, local rates from around the world, all via eSIM compatible smartphone, tablet or PC. Airalo offers you both connectivity and freedom - you’ll never have to carry multiple SIM cards or change your number again, no matter where you are in theworld. | $60M | Series B | Jul 31, 2023 |  |
| VUZ | VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh. | $20M | Series B | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| VUZ | VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh. | $20M | Series B | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| LabLabee | LabLabee is an on-demand learning labs provider for Future networks. It allows telco operators, industrial companies, and large entreprise to incorporate a virtual hands-on experience into their transformation while lowering costs. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| GBarena | GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners). | $100K | Seed | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| GBarena | GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners). | $165K | Seed | Jan 03, 2020 |  |
| YaLLa esports | YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere. |  | Seed | Apr 09, 2019 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Brighteye Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brighteye-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Knollwood Investment Advisory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/knollwood-investment-advisory) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Caruso Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caruso-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dubai Future District Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dubai-future-district-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elbert Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elbert-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Faith Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faith-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Dubai Angel Investors

VC Fund · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai Angel Investors offers investment and support services focused on early-stage technology ventures. The company connects a collective group of individual investors who allocate capital into seed and initial growth funding rounds for startups that are progressing from concept toward market traction. It also facilitates structured investmentreview processes where ventures pitch to a committee that evaluates opportunities and decides on funding participation. In addition to financial backing, the company provides access to a network of contacts and guidance aimed at helping founders navigate early-stage development and scaling. Its investment activities include co-investing alongside other venture partners and supporting follow-on funding for portfolio companies showing continued progress.

5 contacts available at Dubai Angel Investors.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kushal Shah | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kushal-shah-33e6 |
| Abdullah Mutawi | Co-Founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abdullah-mutawi |
| Michael Trüschler | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-tr%C3%BCschler |
| Mohamed ElSayad | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohamed-elsayad |
| Tarek Amin | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tarek-amin |

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## FAQ

### What does Kushal Shah invest in?

Kushal Shah invests primarily in eSports, Software and Telecommunications startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 10 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 Kushal Shah's check size?

Kushal Shah typically joins rounds of $100k–$3.4M at Seed and $20M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kushal Shah participates in.

### When did Kushal Shah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kushal Shah closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 10 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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