Top 35 Restaurants Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (June 2026)

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• MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
• BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
• Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.

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• XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
• MindOn — MindOn is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence software and algorithms to create humanoid robots.
• Amador Bioscience — At Amador we provide global-standard translational sciences and clinical pharmacology services to leading biopharmaceutical companies.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
• Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.

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• AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
• Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
• Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.

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• Shield Bio — At Shield, we’re ensuring that antibiotic resistance doesn’t become more deadly than cancer.In 2050 more people will be dying of antibiotic resistant pathogens than cancer. Infections that were once treatable with a simple oral antibiotics are now requiring complex, painful treatments and resulting in serious health complications for patients.Gonorrhea is one such infection, having become resistant to over 10 different antibiotics, they have only one treatment that is still effective and resistance to this has already begun to emerge. With 820,000 new infections every year in the US, antibiotic resistance will spread quickly, which is why the CDC has resistant gonorrhea at an urgent threat level, the highest level available.Shield's novel genomic testing platform enables STI clinics to identify the antibiotic resistant strains of gonorrhea and other pathogens that their patients have, so they can select the correct antibiotics and halt the spread of antibiotic resistance.
• Eloquent AI — Eloquent AI is the first AI Operator built specifically for financial services to automate complex, regulated customer service operations beyond frontline support. Our AI Operator learns to securely navigate your existing systems simply by observing your standard operating procedures—automating up to 96% of tasks without any engineering effort.
• Mecha Health — Mecha Health is a healthtech company that develops digital tools for remote injury assessment, monitoring, and treatment plans.

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• PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
• HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
• The Cloud — NOTICE OF WINDING UP PETITION

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• Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
• Tajweed — Tajweed is the first Arabic-language portal that teaches young people to recite the Holy Quran and revive their Arabic language skills.
• Travilege — Travilege provides a comprehensive B2B2C ERP SaaS platform to travel agents and operators. Its technology digitizes day-to-day operations, automates reservation processes, and promotes cooperation via an e-Hub.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
• Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan

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• XCath — XCath, meanwhile, is developing steerable robotic microcatheters for treating endovascular conditions such as cerebral strokes. Devices such as these are expected to help treat patients remotely, especially in parts of the world where special surgical procedures are not readily available.
• Flipspaces — Flipspaces is a Virtual- Reality-Tech-based design and contracting venture that aims at disrupting the way consumers design and execute the interiors of their spaces. At the core of the venture is a path-breaking technology product which gamifies the interior- designing experience for the consumer putting the control of interior-design in the handsof the consumer. Combined with our contracting arm which consists of our own product manufacturing capabilities and curated vendors network, we come in as end-to-end design to execution partner for companies looking to build their office, builders looking to differentiate their residential or commercial projects or players in the managed working space market.
• EndoQuest Robotics —

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• Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
• D360 bank — D360 bank is an online digital bank. The company provides financial services through it's app.
• Mala'a Technologies — Make better financial decisions with Malaa. Manage your financials, track your expenses, take a loan or invest your money all from one app. Connect you bank accounts and start today

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• Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
• Bluerails — Bluerails is a fintech firm that has created an on-chain treasury platform to improve cross-border payments and treasury management for businesses, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
• Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
• intella — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.

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• Kitopi — Kitopi is a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to grow their business and expand their delivery reach.
• Uptime — Discover thousands of the world's top books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts distilled into bite-sized 5-minute summaries, so that you can learn, grow, and get smarter, faster.
• The Luxury Closet — Buy & sell online at The Luxury Closet and get discounts of up to 90% off retail price on authentic, new & pre-loved luxury brands for watches, bags, clothes, shoes for both men and women.

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• Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
• Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.

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• Whatfoodsmenu — Whatfoodsmenu is a marketplace and online ordering platform for restaurants, cafes, cloud kitchens, and food outlets. Moreover, Whatfoodsmenu is a cloud smart management software as a service (SaaS). Whatfoodsnenu also is working to develop advanced solutions to automate kitchen management and point of sale to improve and increase the efficiency ofits client’s operations. Furthermore, whatfoodsmenu aims to provide all- in- solutions on one platform. Whatfoodsmenu main services include a marketplace on web and on mobile, QR digital menu, E-store – online ordering, online payment, point of sales, QR code table management, floor planning, Expenses and Profit, WhatsApp ordering messages, Dine-in + Takeaway and Delivery Orders. Whatfoodsmen aims to disrupt the market with its competitive and comprehensive advantage offering.Whatfoodsmenu is a simple and easy way to order food online. Customers enjoy a variety of options and cuisines that can be delivered to their homes or offices. The digital menu is based on a smart interface that any standard user can use without difficulty. Whatfoodsmenu creates a digital menu for restaurants, cafes, cloud kitchens, and food outlets in either one or multiple languages and assigns QR codes to the digital menu with the ability to receive payments via more than 20 payment methods or simply accept cash. Also available within the platform is the ordering and payment system across tables and QR codes, where customers can easily order and pay without talking to employees, which contributes to a better user experience and reduces the need for employee intervention.How does it work?When the customer browses the digital menu of the restaurant or cafe, he or she chooses what he or she wants and completes the order upon checkout with a simple registration process. After user verification, the user can continue the checkout process and sends the purchase order via both the system and WhatsApp message to the restaurant directly.The Restaurants that receive orders via the system and or by WhatsApp message can confirm if they are accepting or rejecting the order. if orders are accepted will be added to the point-of-sale system that is also available within the whatfoodsmenu platform. Both Restaurants and whatfoodsmenu may set a delivery cost for each specific area, accept/reject the order, deliver, track and assign drivers, categories, items, etc. A staff management feature is also available to make things easier and faster

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• TAP — Talent Acceleration Platform (TAP) is a Dutch / Palestinian company bridging the gap between universal talent and unequal career opportunities.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
• Tamatem — We are the leading mobile games publisher in the Arabic speaking world! We bring international mobile games from all around the world to publish in the MENA market!

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• Inovat — Travellers have to stand hours in the queues and get charged hidden fees to receive Tax refund that they are entitled to. They change that. With Inovat, get the best Tax Free experience that you deserve.
• Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace

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• Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
• Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
• One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.

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• Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
• Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.
• Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.

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• OpenSooq — OpenSooq is an online classified platform that allows users to freely trade property, cars, products, and services in the Middle East & North Africa region. Sellers can offer products and services to millions of users online without intermediaries. Buyers can browse a wide variety of goods and services, including automotive, Real Estate,Electronics, and much more.
• ReserveOut — Reserveout, choose a city to find out the best restaurants & promotions near you ..RESERVE A TABLE NOW!

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• jalebi — An award-winning restaurant point of sale (POS) & inventory management system thathelps you save 5% on the cost of every order served.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.

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• Citics — Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others.
• NoneAway — Find your happy place
• ZUZU Hospitality — Maximize revenue for your independent hotel with our expert Revenue Management service, Channel Manager, and PMS. No fixed costs. Start risk-free today.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.

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• Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
• Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
• Aurelia — Aurelia operates as a financial automation platform.

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• TruckMap — The routing and revenue platform for truck drivers.
• Glue — Glue is smarter work chat.
• Subject — Empower students with engaging, video-first curriculum from Subject.com for better outcomes in K-12 education. Increase graduation rates and student success.

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• Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.

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• Too Lost — Distribute your music to 450+ platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and more. Start your music distribution journey today.
• Holder Properties — Holder Properties is a real estate development company that specializes in upscale student housing. corporate headquarters and call centers.
• Miamin Corp — We help you carve out the right plan to enhance your digital preparedness and measurable success

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• Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
• Bazaar Technologies — Bazaar's mission is to build an operating system for traditional retail in Pakistan. Our suite of digital products empower merchants to simplify and grow their businesses.
• Kumu Holdings — kumu is a pinoy community platform where you can just hang out, explore the many livestreams the Kumunity has to offer, meet and chat with fellow Filipinos all around the world

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• Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
• Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
• Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.

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• ChatFood — ChatFood is a commission-free ordering platform that enables restaurants to take back control of their online business and sell via Instagram, WhatsApp, social media, and websites with built-in online payments solutions, third-party logistics integration, and marketing tools.
• BuyAnyAutoPart — BuyAnyAutoPart agggregates the market prices for all the parts a garage needs and at any moment allows theme to see those prices.

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• Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
• Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.

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• Fascano — Fascano optimizes the meal browsing, ordering, and payment processes.
• Qpay — Qpay offers a convenient and flexible financing solution for consumers and pays for them over time, usually without interest. QPay is a popular choice for consumers as it is fairly easy to get approved for, compared to traditional credit cards and personal loans.
• Strider Technologies — Strider Technologies - The Edge in Intelligence

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• Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
• Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.
• Tarjama — Translation services, certified translation agency, legal translation, medical translation, website translation, video translation, and subtitling.

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• Koppiku — Our CoffeeYour Way Our CoffeeYour Way Discover your new fave drinks From full-bodied coffees, to refreshing coolers View Menu View Menu koppiku latte (Hot/Iced) Cereal latte (Iced) koppiku milk tea (Iced) snow black (Iced) Americano (Hot/Iced) latte (Hot/Iced) cappuccino (Hot/Iced) Koppiku coconut latte (Hot/Iced) There is no Koppiku without You
• GiftShop — GiftShop is an e-commerce platform that enable customers to create unique merchandise and gifts for special occassions.
• Good Weird — Good Weird was made to help you stay vibrant, be colorful, and shine bright, because the world is more beautiful if we all stay a little weird.