# Zaid Al-Aifari

> Zaid Al-Aifari is a seed investor backing Education, Mobile Apps and Apps. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaid-al-aifari

Zaid Al-Aifari is a seed investor focused on Education and Mobile Apps. Zaid Al-Aifari

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$2.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 2 | 29% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 29% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Audio | 1 | 14% |
| Travel | 1 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Austria | 4 | 57% |
| Turkey | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monkee | Monkee is building the infrastructure for the next generation of commerce through Save Now Buy Later (SNBL) — an alternative to debt-based purchasing models like BNPL. The platform empowers consumers to save purposefully toward meaningful purchases, while enabling brands and retailers to engage the 1 in 3 consumers who want to buy, but refuse touse credit. With over 140,000 users, €230M+ in savings goals, and 600+ retail partners, Monkee turns early intent into action — driving loyalty, conversion, and incremental revenue without financial risk. After validating its model in B2C, Monkee is now scaling through embedded SNBL integrations at the point of intent across e-commerce and physical retail.Monkee aims to establish 'Save now Buy Later' as a responsible alternative to 'Buy now Pay later'.The company was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria. |  | Seed | Apr 10, 2024 |  |
| ELOOP | ELOOP is a zero-emission mobility provider that combines car subscriptions with car sharing, tokenizes its vehicles with the power of blockchain technology and has a unique growth model that ensures asset-light scalability. | $1.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 14, 2023 |  |
| Monkee | Monkee is building the infrastructure for the next generation of commerce through Save Now Buy Later (SNBL) — an alternative to debt-based purchasing models like BNPL. The platform empowers consumers to save purposefully toward meaningful purchases, while enabling brands and retailers to engage the 1 in 3 consumers who want to buy, but refuse touse credit. With over 140,000 users, €230M+ in savings goals, and 600+ retail partners, Monkee turns early intent into action — driving loyalty, conversion, and incremental revenue without financial risk. After validating its model in B2C, Monkee is now scaling through embedded SNBL integrations at the point of intent across e-commerce and physical retail.Monkee aims to establish 'Save now Buy Later' as a responsible alternative to 'Buy now Pay later'.The company was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria. | $1.6M | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| QuickSpeech | QuickSpeech is a completely individual software solution that trains employees from all industries effectively. Based on gamification, QuickSpeech offers an easily accessible app for its users. With less than 60 seconds learning effort per day, it playfully expands relevant knowledge. Micro & mobile learning for your employee onboardings, skillbuilding, talent management and executive coaching! If you are interested to collaborate, please contact me or visit: https://www.quickspeech.info/ |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Malwation | Malwation offers its users detailed reports against advanced malware in an automated and interactive manner with its new generation analysis technology, and with MSP, the endpoint security products that organizations invest heavily in their cyber security architectures are tested under the most stringent conditions. | $100K | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Midnightdeal | MidnightDeal is a dynamic travel marketplace that connects travelers, looking for premium vacation deals and hotels that have empty rooms.We allow customers to name their own price, and hotels to accept them, depending on their occupancy. By using our system, hotels can boost their revenue, without having to publicly lower their prices.After asuccessful market launch in 2018, MidnightDeal is currently selling dream vacations all over the DACH-region, with plans to expand to further European markets in 2020. | $577K | Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Deep Zen | They are working on sector-specific solutions that will eliminate the need to use studios and lengthy recording sessions by creating a human-like quality of speech with emotion that can be edited by using intuitive tools. Users can pick voices from an existing library, modify and tweak them, then generate voices directly from texts. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [European Super Angels Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-super-angels-club) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Startup Wise Guys](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-wise-guys) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alesta Yatırım](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alesta-girisim) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Galata Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galata-business-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lucky Car](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucky-car) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Presidio Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/presidio-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Zaid Al-Aifari invest in?

Zaid Al-Aifari invests primarily in Education, Mobile Apps and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Austria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Zaid Al-Aifari's check size?

Zaid Al-Aifari typically joins rounds of $100k–$2.4M 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 Zaid Al-Aifari participates in.

### When did Zaid Al-Aifari last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Zaid Al-Aifari closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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