# Tamer Azer

> Tamer Azer is a seed investor at Shorooq Partners (Cairo) backing Financial Services and Payments. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shorooq Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shorooq-partners)
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamerazer/

Tamer Azer is a Partner, Egypt at Shorooq. He attended Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 33% |
| Payments | 3 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 33% |
| Series A | 4 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Egypt | 4 | 27% |
| Pakistan | 3 | 20% |
| United States | 3 | 20% |
| Singapore | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Octane | Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses. | $5.2M |  | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Octane | Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses. | $5.2M | Seed | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Corgea | Corgea automatically secures your vulnerable source code. Corgea leverages AI to reduce development effort by 80%, enabling security teams to issue pull requests for source code fixes for engineering approval. | $2.6M | Seed | Nov 06, 2024 |  |
| COLABS | Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan. | $2M | Seed | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| COLABS | Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan. | $2M | Series A | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Settle Payments | SETTLE automates enterprise's payments and manages all their bank accounts in one place for better cashflow decisions. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| DXwand | DXwand is a technology & AI passionate team curious about transforming businesses with AI to be their growth partner. | $4M | Series A | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| Triple-A | TripleA helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts, leveraging on the fast-growing 300m+ people using cryptocurrencies.With its white-label, easy setup, instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rate, real-time fiat conversion, and no chargeback crypto payment solution, TripleA meets the needs of e-commercemerchants, retailers, game providers, PSPs, fintech, and marketplaces.TripleA was founded in Singapore in 2017 by Eric Barbier, a repeat entrepreneur in FinTech. The company is licensed by MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore's Central Bank), allowing partners to operate in a fully compliant and regulated environment. | $10M | Series A | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Virtualness | Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| OneLoad | OneLoad is an online service that enables users to easily buy prepaid vouchers for all mobile companies, pay utility bills and transfer balance to others. | $11M | Series A | Aug 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Algebra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algebra-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zayn Venture Capital (Formally Zayn Capital)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitrate-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [El Sewedy Capital Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/el-sewedy-capital-holding) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [4DX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4dx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MSA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/msacap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Shorooq Partners

VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Founded in 2017, Shorooq Partners is the leading alternative investment manager across the Middle East and North Africa regions. The firm’s venture capital and private credit funds invest in the most innovative technology companies. The firm has built deep sectoral expertise in Fintech, Platforms, Software, Gaming and Web3.0. Shorooq Partners hasbacked market leading disruptors including Pure Harvest Smart Farms, Nymcard, Tamara, Sarwa, Lean Technologies, TruKKer, Mozn and Lendo. Since its inception, Shorooq Partners was built on the principle of being founders’ partners, company builders and value investors.Shorooq Partners is a pan regional firm with direct and indirect presence across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Egypt and Korea. Shorooq Partners refers to a group of companies that are affiliates of each other and which operate under this business name, of which Shorooq Partners Ltd (regulated by the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority FSRA FSP: 190004) is a member.

5 contacts available at Shorooq Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mahmoud Adi | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mahmoud-adi |
| Nathan Yonghyun Kwon | Principal & Korea Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nathan-yonghyun-kwon-f1bf |
| Shane (You Keun) Shin | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shane-shin |
| Tamer Azer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tamer-azer |
| Tarek Fouad | Head of Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tarek-fouad |

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## FAQ

### What does Tamer Azer invest in?

Tamer Azer invests primarily in Financial Services, Payments and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tamer Azer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tamer Azer closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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