Womena
VC Fund
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Womena is a VC fund in Dubai focused on E-Commerce and Retail. We produce creative content focused on female founders, creatives and changemakers. Our flagship accelerator program, womentum, is an experience-based early stage accelerator for female-led tech startups in the Middle East, and aims to increase the pipeline of women entrepreneurs in the regional ecosystem. The accelerator is documented through ourmedia platform and produced into a docu-series called Womentum. Our Womena Bossladies network has the largest number of female entrepreneurs and investors in the Middle East. All of these elements come together to make womena the leading ecosystem enabler for diversity and inclusion in MENA.Founded in 2014, womena has built an award-winning angel investment group that facilitated over 3 million AED in funding into 10 companies. The goal of womena is more women in business, more women investors, and a more inclusive, diverse, and consequently booming ecosystem.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Womena invests in
Stages Womena invests in
Countries Womena invests in
Contacts
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Amira Salah-Ahmed
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Dulce Lada
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Elissa Freiha
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Farida Fawzy
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Christina Andreassen
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 4 (33%)
- Retail 2 (17%)
- Internet 2 (17%)
- Software 2 (17%)
- Health Care 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (67%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
- Convertible Note 1 (8%)
Country
- United Arab Emirates 6 (50%)
- Egypt 2 (17%)
- Denmark 1 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (8%)
- Saudi Arabia 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Amira Salah-Ahmed
Strategy and Media Development
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Strategy and Media Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Dulce Lada
Marketing Manager
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Marketing Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Elissa Freiha
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Farida Fawzy
Content Producer
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Content Producer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Christina Andreassen
Business Development
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Business Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Chefaa
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Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning | $750K / Seed / Apr 27, 2020 | |
Furnwish
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Furnwish is a platform enabling home owners to discover, visualize and interact with furniture using immersive Augmented reality (AR) experiences; Creating tools to empower retailers & design professionals in better showcasing their products & services, reducing their returns & refunds and utilizing their showrooms so they can showcasemore inventory options with less space. | $25K / Pre-Seed / Oct 17, 2018 | |
Mathaqi
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Mathaqi is an online food delivery platform featuring meals curated by Home Chefs. | $266.7K / Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | |
OfficeRock
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Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms. | Dec 27, 2017 | |
WARM (World Airplay Radio Monitor)
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WARM (World Airplay Radio Monitor) is a new digital service that allows you to track and monitor music played on the radio all around the world and in real-time. WARM has the purpose of giving true transparency to artists/bands, DJs, managers, record labels, PR agencies and promoters by monitoring an impressive collection of +23.000 radiostations in more than 130 countries. As of today, the website and app provides several features including: accurate real time data, detailed downloadable reports, clear geographical maps displaying gathered info on radio airplays. The new award-winning tool brings the promise of democratizing the way data on radio plays has been handled so far, and it has already had massive attention including feature articles on MusicAlly and Forbes. Free trial: https://warmmusic.net/ | Seed / Nov 01, 2017 | |
Loyyal
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Loyyal leverages blockchain and smart contract technology to provide loyalty and rewards network infrastructure solutions. It introduces interoperability to the currently fragmented industry, multi-branded coalitions, superior program liability management and dynamic issuance/redemption options customized for each unique relationship. | Seed / Jan 01, 2017 | |
Bayzat
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Bayzat is a technology company that provides insurance and HR solutions.They help individuals and companies compare, buy, and use their health insurance. With Bayzat Benefits, their technology platform, they are able to streamline the policy placement process for their clients and help them understand their policy. More importantly, BayzatBenefits automates administrative work for HR professionals and ensures that all HR processes are centralized, accessible, and secure. | $3.6M / Series A / Nov 10, 2016 | |
Souqalmal
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Souqalmal.com is the leading financial comparison site in the Middle East with operations in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE. The company has empowers customers to make decisions on their best deal on credit cards, mortgages, personal loans and insurance products. The company has raised 3 rounds of fundraise and over USD 12M to date.Shareholders include major comparison site GoCompare from the UK, Hummingbird Ventures, Riyadh Taqnia Fund, 500 Start up amongst others. Multiple awards from the Best Online Business of the Year by Gulf Capital to The UAE start up of the Year by Forbes, the company has thrived and grown its insurance business 7X in 3 years. | Convertible Note / Nov 07, 2016 | |
Wrappup
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Wrappup uses AI to auto-summarize your meetings, declaring war on pens everywhere!The platform uses a combination Speech Analysis, NLP, and Deep Learning models to identify important moments in discussion. Just invite lucy@wrappup.ai to your next call, and she’ll listen for keywords like “follow-up” or “next steps” to generate all the actionitems for you. Users can train the system with their own set of keyword triggers and vocabulary, making Lucy smarter and smarter as she grows! | $800K / Seed / Jun 26, 2016 | |
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OfficeRock
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Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms. | $500K / Seed / Apr 01, 2016 | |
| See all 12 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Womena invest in?
Womena invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 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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Who are the partners at Womena?
The team at Womena includes Amira Salah-Ahmed (Strategy and Media Development), Dulce Lada (Marketing Manager) and Elissa Freiha (Co-Founder), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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