Walid Mansour
Co-CEO @ oktopi
Walid Mansour is a Series A investor at oktopi focused on Software and E-Commerce. Walid is the co-founder and co-ceo of Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) and is the co-founder of WeBuild Ventures. Walid’s deep involvement in the VC & Technology ecosystem in the MENA region dates back to the mid 2000s. Since 2006, Walid has been intimately involved in this transformational entrepreneurial story by participating in thesetup, scale up and exit of several VC Funds and Technology companies and also serves as a board member and advisor to many successful internet and technology companies regionally and globally. Prior to MEVP, Walid has previously worked in Public Policy (UAE Prime Ministry Office), Strategy Consulting (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Industrial & Software engineering in France. Walid holds a Masters in Industrial Engineering from the “Institut National des Science Appliquées” INSA de Lyon (France) and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 62%
Last updated:
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Industries Walid Mansour invests in
Stages Walid Mansour invests in
Countries Walid Mansour invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (15%)
- E-Commerce 5 (15%)
- Marketplace 5 (15%)
- Apps 4 (12%)
- SaaS 4 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (35%)
- Seed 7 (21%)
- Series B 7 (21%)
- Funding Round 3 (9%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
Country
- United Arab Emirates 7 (21%)
- Saudi Arabia 3 (9%)
- United States 3 (9%)
- Lebanon 2 (6%)
- China 1 (3%)
Investments
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Stake
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Stake is a digital real estate investment platform providing the easiest and most transparent way to invest in income generating properties, starting in Dubai. Our mission is to make investing in real estate accessible and profitable for all. | $31M / Series B / Feb 17, 2026 | |
Mealplanet
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Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers. | $6M / Seed / Aug 14, 2024 | |
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Stake
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Stake is a digital real estate investment platform providing the easiest and most transparent way to invest in income generating properties, starting in Dubai. Our mission is to make investing in real estate accessible and profitable for all. | $14M / Series A / Jun 10, 2024 | |
Clinicy
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Clinicy provides medical institutions and patients with simple and automated solutions to manage daily operations and appointments through its cloud-based HCRM platform. They solve complex challenges for healthcare providers. | $5M / Series A / Jan 08, 2024 | |
Zest Equity
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Zest Equity is a financial technology company that provides software and infrastructure for managing private market transactions. The platform is used to structure and process investment deals such as private equity investments, venture capital rounds, and secondary share transfers. It supports the creation of special purpose vehicles , investoronboarding, document signing, and handling of capital flows through digital workflows. | $3.8M / Seed / Oct 05, 2023 | |
The Luxury Closet
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The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2020 | |
HyperPay
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HyperPay is a fintech company that provides payment gateway, solutions, and services for e-commerce and merchants. The company offers businesses with a dynamic array of integrated payment solutions and financial services to help businesses transition to a cashless society and positively impact people's lives and business growth. It alsoprovides merchants with a broad array of products and services in addition to payment processing, including risk and fraud management, monitoring system, installments, and invoicing systems among others. | $13M / Series B / Dec 28, 2019 | |
Nana
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Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes. | $6.6M / Series A / Feb 28, 2019 | |
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The Luxury Closet
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The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth. | $10.7M / Series C / Jul 27, 2018 | |
One Click Delivery Services
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One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications. | Seed / Jan 03, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About oktopi
We are a team of dedicated educators, technology professionals, and life-long learners who believe education tools should be flexible, easy to use, and accessible to everyone. Our mission is to build a platform that provides the best technology to teaching communities around the world so that they can focus on what matters- having a positive impacton their students’ lives.
oktopi Contacts
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Walid Mansour
Co-CEO
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Emilie Thomas Mansour
Founder and CEO
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Fadi Abbas
Co-founder and CPO
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Nagham Akileh
Head of Marketing
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What does Walid Mansour invest in?
Walid Mansour invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Marketplace startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Arab Emirates. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Walid Mansour closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 34 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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