# Youssri Helmy

> Youssri Helmy is a seed investor at ITWorx (Palo Alto) backing FinTech and Finance. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ITWorx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itworx)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/helmyy
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/youssrihelmy
- Website: https://x.com/youssrihelmy

Youssri Helmy is a seed investor at ITWorx in Palo Alto focused on FinTech and Finance. Youssri Helmy is the Founder and CEO of ITWorx. He previously worked at Si-Ware Systems as a Board Member. Youssri Helmy attended Cairo University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $725k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Big Data | 1 | 33% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| Credit Cards | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Egypt | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SOKNA | SOKNA is Egypt’s first end-to-end funeral service providing your loved ones with care and respect at the completion of their life’s journey. | $1M | Seed | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Tribal | Tribal is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and ​virtual business credit cards​, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful ​spend management platform​ to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program. | $725K | Seed | Apr 02, 2018 |  |
| Cloudera | Cloudera develops a data management and analytics platform. They specialize in delivering a hybrid data platform with secure data management and cloud-native data analytics. They provide software subscriptions and public cloud services. They also provide clients with professional services for the implementation and use of software subscriptions,machine learning expertise, consultation, training, and education services. | $5M | Series A | Mar 16, 2009 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACE & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ace-and-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BECO Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beco-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kabnoury Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kabnoury-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mentors Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mentors-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Off the Grid Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/off-the-grid-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ITWorx

VC Fund · Cairo, Egypt

ITWORX is a global IT Services firm providing Cloud-based and On-premise solutions to the world’s leading organizations with an emphasis on Advanced Analytics, Enterprise Mobility, Performance Management, and CRM. ITWORX has a 20-year proven track record building award-winning solutions for Telco, Banking, Manufacturing, Agriculture, andGovernment; leveraging its vast pool of talent, wide range of partnerships, and global delivery capability.

3 contacts available at ITWorx.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Youssri Helmy | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youssri-helmy |
| Ramy Seoudi | CFO & Executive Director, Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ramy-seoudi-7a1f |
| Sarah Elsharkawy | Sernior Research Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-elsharkawy |

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## FAQ

### What does Youssri Helmy invest in?

Youssri Helmy invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Youssri Helmy's check size?

Youssri Helmy typically joins rounds of $725k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Youssri Helmy participates in.

### When did Youssri Helmy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Youssri Helmy closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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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