Top 40 SaaS Angel Investors in Egypt in November 2024
A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Saas startups based in Egypt. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Egypt. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 SaaS Angel Investors in Egypt in November 2024
Investor | SaaS Egypt investments |
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Omar Darwazah | 3 |
Gehan Fathi | 2 |
David Buttress | 2 |
Faisal Abdel Salam | 1 |
Khaled Nasser | 1 |
Mohamed Okasha | 1 |
Jamal El Dabal | 1 |
Karen Sewasa | 1 |
Joseph Hanna | 1 |
Khaled Alashmouny | 1 |
Anthony Saleh | 1 |
Ahmed Medhat | 1 |
Family & Friends | 1 |
Mohammed Shafik | 1 |
Tarek Fahim | 1 |
Scooter Braun | 1 |
Jason Finger | 1 |
Ha Taji | 1 |
Os Majeed | 1 |
Simon Rowlands | 1 |
Ashraf Bacheet | 1 |
Mohamed Haroun | 1 |
Tarek Sakr | 1 |
Nasser Chourbagi | 1 |
Paul Antaki | 1 |
Faisal Al-Abdulsalam | 1 |
Idris Ayodeji Bello | 1 |
Con O'Donnell | 1 |
Ah Moniem | 1 |
mohamed alsamman | 1 |
Yaser Alghamdi | 1 |
Ali Shaaban | 1 |
Karim Hussein | 1 |
Jeffrey Katzenberg | 1 |
Al Raya Kuwaiti | 1 |
Osman Ahmed Osman | 1 |
Amal bint Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan | 1 |
Abderahman ElSewedy | 1 |
Tarek Roushdy | 1 |
Amr Awadallah | 1 |
Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
- Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
Gehan Fathi
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Seed
- Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NowPay — NowPay is a FinTech company focusing on improving the financial-wellness of corporate employees. It enables employees to get paid at any point in time during the month.
- Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Food Delivery, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Egypt, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants
- Paperclip — Paperclip aims to champion the sharing economy via a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying, selling, renting and donating within communities. This concept has been tentatively titled the 'social inventory movement' - a marketplace where listings never leave; an ecosystem of people's assets, with ownership transferred from profile toprofile following transactions.The overarching mission is to change the way people think about the things that they own, in the same manner that Airbnb changed the way people think about their properties - to empower people by unlocking the value of their everyday assets such as bikes, power tools, clothes, books and even food.
- MyJam — All the food you love in one place.
Faisal Abdel Salam
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Hollydesk — Holydesk help employees in submitting work-related invoiced and getting paid in no time, while keeping organization financial records clean.
Khaled Nasser
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Investment focus
- Internet, Professional Networking
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Tays — Tays is a professional user to user networking app that uses a unique machine-learning algorithm to matchmake individuals based on their professional interests and aspirations to help people in expanding and maintaining their network on a professional level while keeping the social and casual touch.
Mohamed is the Founder & Managing Partner at DisrupTech, he also serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mohamed is an proficient Chief Executive with more than 25 years of experience. Most recently, Mohamed was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fawry (CASE: FWRY), the leading electronic payment company in Egypt. Mohamedco-founded the company in 2009 and grew it through multiple rounds of financing until taking it public in 2019 in a 30x oversubscribed IPO. Before Fawry, Mohamed served as Head of Marketing at Vodafone Egypt, where he led various commercial operations. Earlier, Mohamed started his career at Raya Holding where he spent 10 years across several of the group’s subsidiaries, culminating with him becoming General Manager of the Information Technology subsidiary. Mohamed holds an M.B.A. from the Paris ESLSCA business school, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo. Additionally, Mohamed completed the Management Development Program at the IMD Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
- Banknbox — Banknbox provides a diverse range of services, including ATM administration, transaction monitoring, POS and soft-POS electronic payment devices, payment gateways, and anti-fraud systems.
- Connect Money — Zero Capex. Go live in 60 days with Connect's one-stop-shop banking solution.
Jamal El Dabal
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Investment focus
- Travel, Tourism, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Tripdizer — Tripdizer is a travel tech startup based in Egypt. Tripdizer offers an end to end solution by offering personalized itineraries to travelers that resonate with their budget and interests, using a homegrown algorithm integrated with AI, to ensure an optimized travel experience based on the inputs of thousands of other travelers.
Karen Sewasa
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Investment focus
- Internet, Professional Networking
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Tays — Tays is a professional user to user networking app that uses a unique machine-learning algorithm to matchmake individuals based on their professional interests and aspirations to help people in expanding and maintaining their network on a professional level while keeping the social and casual touch.
Joseph Hanna
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Investment focus
- Internet, Professional Networking
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Tays — Tays is a professional user to user networking app that uses a unique machine-learning algorithm to matchmake individuals based on their professional interests and aspirations to help people in expanding and maintaining their network on a professional level while keeping the social and casual touch.
Khaled Alashmouny is the AMS IC Design at Apple.Khaled Alashmouny attended University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
Anthony Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Emagen Investment Group, Inc. and General Partner of WndrCo.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Egypt, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
- CREATESAFE — CREATESAFE, automating the management, distribution, and marketing of music.
- VersusGame — VersusGame offers creators and brands the opportunity to cultivate a community with an interactive content solution that rewards knowledge
Ahmed Medhat - Research Scientist, Core Data Science @ Meta
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Pylon — Reliable smart energy solutions within the reach of emerging markets.
- Grin Gaming — GrinData micro markets software leverages best-in-class high-frequency trading and machine learning to deliver reliable odds pricing on the most markets.
- Anarchy — Anarchy builds a cloud platform for AI pioneers to build LLM tools augmented with external interactivity.
Family & Friends
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, The Netherlands, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- thrie — Transportation
- Alphunt — Building the golden era for designing new materials, chemicals, catalysts, and drugs through generative AI.
- Bite - build your social circle — Bite is a social app focused on creating and facilitating hangouts. So you can build or maintain your social circle
Co-founder & CFO of Go.dayuse.
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Investment focus
- Local, Travel, Leisure
- Seed, Angel
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Godayuse — Godayuse is world's first portal specializes only in featuring day activities to help people break their routine without having to travel
- HyperSpace — We invent, build, and operate next-gen attractions connected to digital lifestyles.
Tarek is an entrepreneur and a software engineer by education. He is the founder and managing partner at Endure Capital, a cross-border Venture Capital fund and an early investor in Careem, Wuzzuf, Aspect Biosystems, Boom Supersonic and Mawdoo3 among many other leading startups in the US, Canada, UK, and MEA.Tarek serves as a board member ofEndeavor Egypt, the organization that credits itself as pioneering the concept of high-impact entrepreneurship in growth markets around the world. He is also a fellow of IVLP the US Department of State’s premier professional program for current and emerging international leaders.Tarek has also founded Alboraq, a Non-Profit Organization in Egypt focusing on Hands-On youth development.Tarek has Engineering, Business, and Management degrees from Ain Shams University, The American University in Cairo, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
- Pylon — Reliable smart energy solutions within the reach of emerging markets.
Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management,record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss.Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest.Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies.Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Wellness, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Egypt, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Kindo — Enhance AI productivity with Kindo. The first platform to support any AI model plus 200+ SaaS integrations, all while being centralized, compliant, and secure. Try today!
- Spatial Labs — Spatial Labs is a technology infrastructure company that is powering the next generation of Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Omni-channel, and Immersive Experiences - collectively known as the Metaverse.
- Mitchell & Ness — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks.
Jason Finger is a founder at Seamless.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
Ha Taji
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- BlinkApp — linkApp is a mobile application that uses technology to save lives by monitoring drivers’ behaviors and sending out notifications to emergency services and personal network in case of road accidents. Whether you are an insurance company, a fleet owner or simply an individual who wants to be safe on the road, BlinkApp is here for you!
Os Majeed
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- BlinkApp — linkApp is a mobile application that uses technology to save lives by monitoring drivers’ behaviors and sending out notifications to emergency services and personal network in case of road accidents. Whether you are an insurance company, a fleet owner or simply an individual who wants to be safe on the road, BlinkApp is here for you!
Simon Rowlands is Managing Partner at Africa Platform Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.
Ashraf Bacheet
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Investment focus
- Internet, Professional Networking
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Tays — Tays is a professional user to user networking app that uses a unique machine-learning algorithm to matchmake individuals based on their professional interests and aspirations to help people in expanding and maintaining their network on a professional level while keeping the social and casual touch.
Security Engineer and Civil Engineer worked in many companies.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Web Design
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Pastes.io — Pastes.io is a simple and efficient pastebin for mainly code to be distributed neatly and efficiently across the web.website where you can store any text online for easy sharing. The idea behind the site is to make it more convenient for people to share large amounts of text online.
Tarek Sakr
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Ediscovery, Home Decor
- Seed, Series B
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants
- EFreshli — Furnishing & decorating a space is exciting but knowing where to start and how to navigate can sometimes seem challenging. We created Efreshli to provide convenient furnishing & decoration services to help create a more accessible journey, all online. Whether you want to be fully involved or need a professional designer to take over, our process is about finding the right mix of products to bring your style to life.
Nasser Chourbagi is the owner of Consolidated Casuals.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
Paul Antaki
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
Faisal Al-Abdulsalam is the founder of Purity, and an active investor in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- VOO — VOO helps SMEs to increase their delivery success rate by providing one platform to manage deliveries , one API integration which connect businesses to a large network of national and international shipping providers , we are "Your E-Commerce Growth Partner"
- SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
- ShipHaly — mobile app connect shoppers who want to buy from abroad with travelers who can buy and deliver these items in 100% safe and secure way
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Con O'Donnell is Founder & Advisor at ElWafeyat.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
Ah Moniem
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- BlinkApp — linkApp is a mobile application that uses technology to save lives by monitoring drivers’ behaviors and sending out notifications to emergency services and personal network in case of road accidents. Whether you are an insurance company, a fleet owner or simply an individual who wants to be safe on the road, BlinkApp is here for you!
mohamed alsamman
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Delivery, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Awfar — Awfar Market is the first online platform for supermarket and Grocery Stores in MENA Region, providing users with the ability to choose their favorite supermarket chain and shop for groceries, also comparing and viewing products nutrition information and picking appropriate delivery time & method of payment. Awfar Market provided the deliveryy service in the most safe and hygienic way through Through our Cloud Sourcing Delivery Application, Delivery Rep ( with their cars ) using our Application to pickup order and deliver to customer GPS Location, which is equipped with the required tools to keep your groceries safe, cool and fresh.- Vision Our Vision to be a leader in the e-commerce Sector In Middle east Through building a new shopping experience matching with culture of Middle East customers and satisfy their needs.- Mission: We are on a mission to virtualize the businesses around the Arab world
Yaser Alghamdi
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Retail, Grocery
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- EdfaPay — Innovative and modern payment solutions tailored to suit the needs of businesses of all sizes and types, allowing for effortless growth management through a
- ON Market — E-grocery marketplace allows customers to order from their favorite retailers while empowering retailers to build & sustain online commerce
Ali Shaaban has been a pioneer in the digital advertising and communications industry for more than 18 years, founding the award-winning full-fledged creative digital agency Icon Creations back in 2003 when the industry was at its infancy stage. Since then, Ali Shaaban has built strong long-term relationships and a strategic network with most ofthe leading automotive brands in Egypt and the Middle East, where he established a solid track record of delivering top-notch digital products & services that stood the test of time. Driven by passion for excellence and an always-on personalized approach to satisfying his partners, Ali Shaaban is the quintessential digital partner to have on your side in the automotive industry today.His automotive portfolio includes Alfa Romeo, Bentley, BMW, Castrol, Citroën, Ferrari, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, JAC, Jaguar, Jeep, KIA, Land Rover, Maserati, Mazda, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Pirelli, Renault, Seat, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen and more. Aside from being a digital pioneer, Ali Shaaban is also an angel investor and serial supporter of emerging innovative startups and fresh business ideas, venturing into several sectors to contribute in making a sustainable impact on the local and regional economies. His latest investments have tapped into the Fintech sector with rising companies such as Paynas (https://Paynas.com), Oxygen (https://oxygen.us/), Dfin Holding (https://www.dfinholding.com/) , and Kiwe wallet (https://kiweapp.com/)
as well as the Media and AI sector with Speakol (https://speakol.com/) ,
NU Digital Awards (https://nudigitalawards.com/) and Nanotronics (https://nanotronics.co/ ).Ali Shaaban believes in always taking the next step forward in his extensive career,
and using his core values and commanding personality as motivation, he has paved
an impressive path over the years that will certainly lead
towards an even more diverse and fruitful future.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- QuadriBot — QuadriBot is an engineering company specializing in the design and development of electronics and automation technology, real-time systems and the development of IT and electronic solutions around smart transportation issues. We focus on robotics and autonomous vehicles as well as any mobile platfo.
- Nanotronics Imaging — At Nanotronics we provide customized solutions for automated optical inspection, process control, and security. Learn more about what we can do for you.
Karim is a technology veteran with deep experience in product and innovation management and rapid business growth and scaling – particularly in the healthcare and financial services markets. Karim has been an active investor and mentor to a number of technology businesses in Egypt and the US. He is founder and Chairman of D-Kimia DiagnosticSolutions developing fast, affordable, and accurate medical diagnostics using nano-technology and focused on controlling the Hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt and globally. Karim has served on the board of D-Kimia, Integreight, Shezlong.com, Prognos.ai, and Simplex Arabia CNC Solutions. He is also Chairman of the entrepreneurship committee of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, a mentor to high impact entrepreneurs through the Endeavor network, and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Previously, Karim was SVP, Products and Engineering at WebMD, Inc., directing product management, technology strategy and engineering. Prior to WebMD, Karim was co-founder and CTO of Riskclick, Inc., a software firm specializing in commercial insurance applications. He also was a senior associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton where he was a member of the Global e-Commerce team.Karim received his PhD in Information Systems from MIT and a dual BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 40 publications and a patent for his work on distributed computing.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Blockchain, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
- Shezlong — Talk to your therapist online privately anytime anywhere!
Jeffrey Katzenberg is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at WndrCo. He is a former CEO and Principal Partner of DreamWorks Animation.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Egypt, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
Al Raya Kuwaiti
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Investment focus
- Medical, Software, Internet of Things
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Sotech — Sotech operates as a healthech and IoT solutions startup. Sotech specialises in smart IoT, trackable out-of-home advertising, and data gathering to help clinics understand the volume, flow, and demographic of its visitors.
Osman Ahmed Osman is the Co-Founder at Parlio.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Price Comparison, Information Technology
- Angel, Series B
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Bkam — Bkam is the leading price comparison website and mobile application in the MENA region.
Amal bint Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Primary Education
- Pre-Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Farid — Farid is the first and most prominent platform in the Middle East and North Africa to offer direct, one-on-one sessions for character development and mental health treatment.
Abderahman ElSewedy
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Investment focus
- Software
- Series A
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- NowPay — NowPay is a FinTech company focusing on improving the financial-wellness of corporate employees. It enables employees to get paid at any point in time during the month.
Tarek Roushdy is a Founder & Managing Partner at UI Investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Consulting, Service Industry
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Egypt, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WellPal — Healthy Super App
- UNLOCK — Companies looking to outsource certain department functions should look no further than Unlock EPN. A complete and diverse business directory of agencies and companies in Egypt. All are available with direct contact information for your convenience.
- UNLOCK — UNLOCK is an ideal professional services agency. They offer AI matching technology, structured bidding, and the revolutionary UNLOCK for service procurement.
Co-founder/CEO of Vectara. Co-Founder/ex-CTO @Cloudera. PhD EE Stanford. Egyptian, American & Saudi Arabian. IG, FB, LI: @awadallah
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Egypt, Germany
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Facebook
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Angel Investors in Egypt by industry