# Mariam Kamel

> Mariam Kamel is a seed investor at LoftyInc Capital (Cairo) backing Retail and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LoftyInc Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loftyinc-capital-management)
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 83%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariam-kamel-5362071a5/?originalSubdomain=eg

Mariam Kamel is a Manager, AUC Angels at AUC Venture Lab.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 2 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Finance | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Egypt | 5 | 83% |
| Morocco | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WafR | WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops. | $4M | Seed | Feb 20, 2026 |  |
| WellPal | 3attaris a disruptive healthy lifestyle startup aiming at solving the pains of 40 million Egyptians battling hypertension/diabetes/allergies conditions and malnutrition. ●Local market in Egypt has well over 40,000,000+ while Gulf has around15,000,000+ ●We’ve built a unified marketplace platform for healthy lifestyle, from educating theuser, to providing them with professional advice from top nutrition/medical experts, and all the way to shopping thousands of products that cater to their needs |  | Seed | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| CreditFins | CreditFins is Egypt’s and the region’s first FinTech platform focusing on alleviating financial stress through an innovative debt management solution that enables clients to pay-off their credit card debt faster & cheaper via a streamlined subscription-based model. With its proprietary scoring system and plans for machine learning, CreditFinswill be able to offer its clients tailored, more inclusive financial services that focus on helping them improve their financial wellbeing while making them better informed, empowered, and connected. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Jul 28, 2021 |  |
| Opio | OPIO is a clothing and lifestyle brand that is crafted in Egypt designed for the women on-the-go, who want to look fashionable and timeless. It’s known for its effortless and easy to wear style that can be worn from day tonight. OPIO pieces are instantly recognizable with their clean lines, subtle detailing, and soft quality textiles, creating aneffortlessly chic look. they are specially created for a generation of free spirits, role jugglers, deep souls, young hearts, outgoing, and laid back who wants to look good without too much effort. | $300K | Seed | Jan 13, 2021 |  |
| ILLA | ILLA is an asset-light FMCG-focused middle mile delivery logistics company.The company manages the delivery process from planning to execution by digitizing each step of the delivery process by monitoring our clients’ logistics activities to optimize it and converted to sales growth. It also provides a dynamic solution that helps its clientsovercome the daily market challenges of delivering products to different types of retail and non-retail outlets.ILLA connects FMCG companies with a large network of trucks with different types and capacities to act as an internal fleet to provide full control and visibility over the driver. | $500K | Seed | Nov 03, 2020 |  |
| ElGameya | ElGameya is a fintech mobile application that helps users organize and manage micro-savings and credit. The platform offers collaborative lending options and runs on the concept of a shared economy. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 06, 2020 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [F6 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flat6labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [F6 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flat6labs-cairo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alex Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-af5a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Al Mada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/al-mada-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Attijariwafa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/attijariwafa-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Averroes Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/averroes-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LoftyInc Capital

VC Fund · Carmel, United States

Over the last decade, LoftyInc Capital has invested over $25m into over 150 of Africa’s fastest growing enterprises, including three unicorns, and attracted c.USD1.5b in follow-on funding into our portfolio companies. With an overall goal to prioritize long-term growth and sustained benefits to communities, we have also built an extensive ecosystemin the process, spanning tech hubs, angel networks, and talent platforms. Across all funds, we have realized 14 exits and achieved 3.8x net DPI on our LoftyInc Afropreneurs Fund 2.

5 contacts available at LoftyInc Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Idris Ayodeji Bello | Founding Partner & Portfolio Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idris-ayodeji-bello |
| Kevin Simmons | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-simmons-54d6 |
| Lydia Idem | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lydia-idem-finkley |
| Mariam Kamel | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariam-kamel |
| Marsha Wulff | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marsha-wulff |

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## FAQ

### What does Mariam Kamel invest in?

Mariam Kamel invests primarily in Retail, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Mariam Kamel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mariam Kamel closed in Feb 2026. 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.

### 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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