# Yasser Elrifai

> Yasser Elrifai is a seed investor at Business Valley (Dubai) backing Big Data and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Business Valley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-valley)
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jun 2019
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasser-el-sayed-el-rifai-46b31921/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Yasser_Elrifai

Yasser Elrifai is a seed investor at Business Valley in Dubai focused on Big Data and Machine Learning. Co-Founder in BusinessValley.comWith more than 10 years of experience in technology and telecommunication, And five years of successfully running one of the biggest cloud telephony service providers in the Saudi Market. Yasser started to build a strong connection with CEO’s and Investors , With a great passion to help the startups emergingmarket. Where he started to think of building BusinessVelley, Angel Group Network in Egypt. “The Market is very rich of talents and opportunities, We need a smart group of investors to believe in this mission of helping improving the economy and the Startup ecosystem”. Yasser says.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |
| Natural Language Processing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WideBot AI | WideBot is the first bot builder platform in the MENA region. We allow anyone to build his own intelligent chatbot without any coding or technical experience in just 10 minutes. |  | Seed | Jun 29, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Business Valley

VC Fund · Cairo, Egypt

Co-working space , Incubator and Angel group network in Egypt

1 contacts available at Business Valley.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yasser Elrifai | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yasser-elrifai |

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## FAQ

### What does Yasser Elrifai invest in?

Yasser Elrifai invests primarily in Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 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 Yasser Elrifai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yasser Elrifai closed in Jun 2019. 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?

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