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Top 15 Retail Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates (September 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United Arab Emirates Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hosam Arab
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Series A, Debt Financing B2B, FinTech, Software
Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
2 Germany, Mexico, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Retail, InsurTech, Insurance $3.4M–$50M
Jonathan Doerr
Angel
2 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, VoIP, Credit
Basheer K.P.
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
Abdullah Ibrahim
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Shoes, Retail, Fashion
Anthony Lewis
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Shoes, Retail, Fashion
Omar Ibrahim
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Shoes, Retail, Fashion
Prem Sehgal
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Shoes, Retail, Fashion
Dany Farha
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology $4M–$42M
Wiktor Namysl
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Series A Retail, E-Commerce, Brand Marketing
Robert Kay
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed SaaS, Retail, Software
Mishaal Alireza
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Seed iOS, Apps, Video $1M–$2M
Salman Butt
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS $1M–$4M
Akram Assaf
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Software, E-Commerce
Nabeel Jawad Sultan
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace
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Hosam Arab
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Hosam Arab is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the CEO and Co-founder of Tabby. Hosam previously worked at Namshi.com as a CEO. Hosam Arab attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
  • Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Tushar Ahluwalia is based out of Germany and is the CEO and Co-Founder of GeneralMind. Tushar previously worked at Razor Group as a Co-CEO and Co-Founder. Tushar Ahluwalia attended London Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Mexico, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$50M; Pre-Seed $3.4M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
  • Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
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Jonathan Doerr
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Jonathan Doerr is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the Founder of Smileneo. Jonathan previously worked at Daraz as a Co-Founder & Co-CEO. Jonathan Doerr attended Baruch College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, VoIP, Credit
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
  • HelloCurve — Curve is an AI-powered Voice and Customer Intelligence Platform for Modern Sales & Support teams. Curve provides you with a business phone and call center quality technology through the cloud. We are reimagining CX through with our integrated Voice and Customer Intelligence Platform. With Curve, you can conduct customer conversationseffortlessly and extract deep insights with speech to text transcription, sentiment analysis, conversation auto-tagging, and seamless CRM integrations. Managers can elevate QA, pinpoint training opportunities, identify customer trends, and improve team collaboration.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Basheer K.P.
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Basheer K.P. is the Founder and Managing Director at Western International Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jazp — Find the hottest fashion and the coolest trends. The best brands available across fashion and electronics at our online store http://t.co/Ns36gibDxs
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Abdullah Ibrahim
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Abdullah Ibrahim

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Baza Bazaar — Baza Bazaar - The UAE’s #1 luxury marketplace for buying and selling authentic deadstock rare and exclusive streetwear and sneakers. We are an authentication company that focuses on customer experience and satisfaction. Brands you can buy include Nike Air Jordans, Adidas Yeezys, Supreme, Fear of God, Off White, Bape, TDE, Vans, OVO, Kaws, Kith, LV,amongst many others. We ship to all the Emirates including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah. Yallah! Get Baza.
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Anthony Lewis
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Anthony Lewis

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Baza Bazaar — Baza Bazaar - The UAE’s #1 luxury marketplace for buying and selling authentic deadstock rare and exclusive streetwear and sneakers. We are an authentication company that focuses on customer experience and satisfaction. Brands you can buy include Nike Air Jordans, Adidas Yeezys, Supreme, Fear of God, Off White, Bape, TDE, Vans, OVO, Kaws, Kith, LV,amongst many others. We ship to all the Emirates including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah. Yallah! Get Baza.
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Omar Ibrahim
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Omar Ibrahim

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Baza Bazaar — Baza Bazaar - The UAE’s #1 luxury marketplace for buying and selling authentic deadstock rare and exclusive streetwear and sneakers. We are an authentication company that focuses on customer experience and satisfaction. Brands you can buy include Nike Air Jordans, Adidas Yeezys, Supreme, Fear of God, Off White, Bape, TDE, Vans, OVO, Kaws, Kith, LV,amongst many others. We ship to all the Emirates including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah. Yallah! Get Baza.
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Prem Sehgal
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Prem Sehgal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Baza Bazaar — Baza Bazaar - The UAE’s #1 luxury marketplace for buying and selling authentic deadstock rare and exclusive streetwear and sneakers. We are an authentication company that focuses on customer experience and satisfaction. Brands you can buy include Nike Air Jordans, Adidas Yeezys, Supreme, Fear of God, Off White, Bape, TDE, Vans, OVO, Kaws, Kith, LV,amongst many others. We ship to all the Emirates including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah. Yallah! Get Baza.
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Dany Farha
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Dany is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, with many exits from ventures in a variety of industries. Dany co-founded and exited Bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest job site; Butlers, the UAE’s largest commercial laundry company and Intercat, one of the largest catering companies in the UAE. Dany was a seed investor in Gonabit, a MiddleEast focused daily deal website that was acquired by Living Social in 2011. He currently sits on the boards of 3 portfolio companies.Dany is the first to acknowledge that he wouldn’t have accomplished all these things without the support of the investors and mentors that gave him his start. It is this belief that serves as the impetus behind BECO. Like those that boosted him when he needed it, Dany aspires to serve the next wave of entrepreneurs, so that they too can fulfil their potential and pass along the same spirit of generosity to those that follow in their footsteps.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$9.5M; Series A $4M–$19M; Series B $30M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoNabit — Group-buying platforms emerged as a game-changer by offering consumers a chance to access bulk discounts through collective purchasing power.
  • JadoPado — JadoPado is a marketplace where people around the world come together to buy and sell great stuff!JadoPado lets you sell new, used and refurbished products directly to buyers. Sellers handle their own stores including products, offers, orders and fulfilment, while making sure everything looks great!JadoPado gives buyers incredible choiceacross a wide range of categories and an easy to use, secure experience. JadoPado handles payments on behalf of sellers and pays them out after you’ve received your purchase.
  • Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
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Wiktor Namysl
Angel · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Wiktor Namysl is a Partner at Orbit Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Brand Marketing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
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Robert Kay
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Robert Kay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hang w/ — We leverage our 13 years of experience and innovative design practices to help our top-tier clients achieve success.
  • Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
  • Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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Salman Butt
Angel · Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Salman Butt - Co-Founder & Chief Expansion Officer @ Salla

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
  • Byzanlink — Byzanlink: Access Institutional Grade Yield On-chain Bridging TradFi and DeFi with RWA Tokenization for stable, institutional-grade yields
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Akram Assaf
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Akram Assaf - Co-Founder & CTO @ Bayt.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoNabit — Group-buying platforms emerged as a game-changer by offering consumers a chance to access bulk discounts through collective purchasing power.
  • Journify — Activate trustworthy data for your business with Journify - the leading data activation platform for top data-driven companies. Sign up free!
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Nabeel Jawad Sultan
Angel · Muscat, Masqat, Oman · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Nabeel Jawad Sultan, a seasoned professional with over two decades of rich, diversified and multi-domain experience, has directed and steered business growth through the crests and troughs of a global market economy. A great visionary with a keen eye on operational efficiencies, he has made sizeable contributions to many organizations. A qualifiedCPA from the State of California - USA by education, a business leader by experience, a contributing member of various professional networks and a pursuing hobbyist in the areas of travelling, reading, writing & cycling, he has evolved as a business strategist with a great knack of strategy implementation, business directions and merger & acquisitions.Inspired by the challenges of the sellers and buyers in the e-commerce world, Nabeel pioneered the vision of Nabay.com, a global eCommerce platform. Combining his decades of experience, expertise and prowess, he has structured Nabeel Sultan Investments with a vision of creating a global enterprise, leading to wealth creation for all stakeholders and giving back to society as part of his social responsibilities.Nabeel has a background in Coopers & Lybrand (PwC) in London and Muscat and held several board positions, including:Founder and Managing Director of Shurooq Investments Services Company SAOG 1998-2007 Board Member Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2003-2007 Chairman of IT and Telecommunication Committee, OCCI 2003-2007 Chairman of Insurance Committee, OCCI 2005-2007 Deputy Chairman, Oman Qatar Insurance Company (SAOC) 2004 Chairman of Omani association for Certified Accountants 2003-2005 Board member of the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce ( NUSACC) Chairman, Young Presidents Organization (YPO) 2018-2019 Nabeel ho;ds 60% of Nabay.com .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nabay.com — Nabay.com, a pioneering initiative by Nabeel Jawad Sultan, is a unique and innovative global online e-commerce marketplace offering tailored for consumers and businesses around the world – both on web and mobile apps – a one of its kind online mall ‘The Nabay Mall’.
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Retail Angel investor funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance

Stats across 11 deals from 18 investors.

18
investors
in United Arab Emirates Retail startups
11
deals
in United Arab Emirates Retail startups
$1.2M
median round
in United Arab Emirates Retail startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
36%
Seed
most common funding stage

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