# Omar Barakat

> Omar Barakat is a seed investor at Foundation Ventures backing Retail and Shopping. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Foundation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundationventures)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Omar Barakat is a seed investor at Foundation Ventures focused on Retail and Shopping. Omar Barakat is the Managing Partner at Foundation Ventures. He attended Concordia University in 2015.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 100% |
| Shopping | 1 | 100% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 100% |
| Local Shopping | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kenzz | Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Full Circle Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/full-circle-africa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Outliers Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outliers-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Samurai Incubate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samurai-incubate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Foundation Ventures

VC Fund · Cairo, Egypt

Foundation Ventures is an early-growth stage venture capital fund that backs founders building industry-defining companies. The firm unlocks massive growth for our portfolio companies by giving them access to the largest network of distribution channels across the region. Foundation Ventures was established in 2018 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

3 contacts available at Foundation Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mazen Nadim | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mazen-nadim |
| Ziyad Hamdy | Co-Founder / Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ziyad-hamdy |
| Omar Barakat | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omar-barakat-13c8 |

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## FAQ

### What does Omar Barakat invest in?

Omar Barakat invests primarily in Retail, Shopping and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Omar Barakat last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Omar Barakat closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 1 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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