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Top 50 Software Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United Arab Emirates Software startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Arab Emirates Software startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hesham Zreik
Angel
6 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $12k–$5M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
5 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Musaab Hakami
Angel
4 United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $50k–$7.4M
Karim Atiyeh
Angel
3 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $2.2M–$250M
Paul Taylor
Angel
3 United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency $1M–$525M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
3 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $450k–$40M
Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel
3 United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $800k–$1M
Arutyun Nazaryan
Angel
3 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed Web3, Fashion, Cryptocurrency $500k–$1.8M
Salman Butt
Angel
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS $1M–$4M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $625k–$7.5M
Yusuf Al Hasan
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Database, Software
Asif Keshodia
Angel
2 Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Fashion $700k–$7.9M
Samih Toukan
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$7.1M
Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel
2 United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $120k–$42M
Omar Darwazah
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $360k–$125M
Sid Dhamija
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Database, Software
Jitendra Gupta
Angel
2 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $100k–$29M
Dingaling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Angel Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1M–$15M
John Ives
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Computer $603k–$15M
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$35M
Anton Bukov
Angel
2 Singapore, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $410k–$100M
Kunal Shah
Angel
2 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $350k–$16M
Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
2 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, SaaS $15k–$5M
Mark Ransford
Angel
2 United Kingdom, France, Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $441k–$30M
Srinivas Rao M
Angel
2 India, United Arab Emirates, United States Grant, Seed Advice, Payments, Financial Services $12k–$3.5M
Prajit Nanu
Angel
2 India, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed Payments, Advice, Financial Services $3.5M–$3.9M
Olumide Soyombo
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $260k–$2.1M
Zafar Imran
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed PaaS, SaaS, Robotics
Amjad Masad
Angel
2 United States, France, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $500k–$34M
Massimiliano Spalazzi
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Amrish Rau
Angel
2 India, Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $340k–$25M
Hosam Arab
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Series A, Debt Financing B2B, FinTech, Software
Abdulhamid Al Omar
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Analytics
Sergey Kravchenko
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed Artificial Intelligence
Katya Kovalenko
Angel
1 Switzerland, Russian Federation Seed, Convertible Note Web3, Database, Consulting
Faiz Mayalakkara
Angel
1 India, United States, Panama Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $238k–$2.4M
Rafael Ilishayev
Angel
1 Brazil, Mexico, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series D E-Commerce, Marketplace, Real Estate $4M–$100M
AbdulMuhisn Al-Sulaiman
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed B2B, SaaS, Software
Tim Draper
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $356k–$50M
Khalid AlHadlaq
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed Software, Apps, Video
Batuhan Dasgin
Angel
1 United States, Gibraltar, Singapore Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1.5M–$10M
Karl Olsson
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A Audio, E-Commerce, Digital Media $500k–$6.4M
Turki AlJeaid
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, FinTech, Software
Nate Lipscomb
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Angel Education, EdTech, FinTech $1.2M–$10M
Krishnan Menon
Angel
1 India, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B FinTech, Payments, Education $275k–$7.5M
Youssef Salem
Angel
1 Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Rental, Grocery, Delivery $1M–$7.1M
Elena 🌸
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Angel Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
Dom Monhardt
Angel
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Othman AlOthman
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed Content, Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Martin Köppelmann
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed Web3, Blockchain, Database
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 6 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 888
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 5 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Musaab Hakami
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $584k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lisan — Lisan AI is an AI technology company focused on enhancing enterprise productivity through intelligent automation and multilingual AI solutions. The company develops advanced tools that streamline communication, optimize workflows, and improve operational efficiency for organizations across diverse industries.Its flagship product, WriteX, is anAI-powered multilingual writing assistant that supports both Arabic and English. The platform provides grammar correction, style enhancement, intelligent autocompletion, and compliance checks, helping professionals create accurate, polished, and contextually appropriate content more efficiently.MeetriX serves as an intelligent meeting assistant designed to improve collaboration and productivity through automated note-taking, real-time meeting analytics, and actionable insights. The solution enables organizations to capture discussions effectively, streamline follow-ups, and enhance decision-making processes.In addition, NitroX offers AI-powered accelerators that automate complex document creation, chart generation, and workflow processes. By reducing manual effort and accelerating operational tasks, NitroX helps organizations improve efficiency, scalability, and overall productivity.Together, Lisan AI’s suite of AI-driven enterprise tools empowers businesses to modernize communication, automate repetitive tasks, and build more intelligent, efficient digital workplaces.
  • Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
  • MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
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Karim Atiyeh
Angel · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time and control spend before it happens. A Lebanese entrepreneur, Karim previously built and sold YCombinator-backed Paribus to CapitalOne in 2016.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $8.5M–$88M; Series B $43M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1001 AI — 1001 is the AI-powered intelligence layer helping enterprises transform decisions, orchestrate actions, and accelerate outcomes.
  • Augustus — Building the clearing bank for the AI era
  • Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
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Paul Taylor
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$8M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$525M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
  • OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
  • VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
  • Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
  • SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
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Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Chantalle Dumonceaux is the Venture Partner of Accelerator Ventures. She previously worked at Shoppies as a Co-Founder. Chantalle Dumonceaux attended Columbia University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
  • Souqalmal — Compare more quote features than ever from top UAE brands at souqalmal.com
  • OfficeRock — Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.
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Arutyun Nazaryan
Angel · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Fashion, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $500k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EXBI — Crypto Launchpad. Invest In The Future Leaders Of WEB3
  • MakeMeLook.ai — We are a team of tech and fashion entrepreneurs who set out to create an innovative product by taking the best of offline shopping, interacting with stylists and combine with cutting edge AI technology.We are creating MakeMeLook.ai to save up to 10 hours a week on fitting, searching and selecting items, giving you the ability to create images andtry them on your exact digital copy in seconds.
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Salman Butt
Angel · Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • AmplifAI Health — Empowering healthcare with portable thermal imaging and advanced computer vision for early disease management insights
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Olugbenga Agboola is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave. Olugbenga previously worked at Access Bank as a Head of Digital Factory and Innovation. Olugbenga Agboola attended EC-Council University. Olugbenga Agboola has been a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Security Analyst.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Lorum Finance — Lorum is the correspondent institution for banks and fintechs: programmable access to global clearing, named custody, and treasury on a 100% reserve model.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Yusuf Al Hasan
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Yusuf Al Hasan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Database, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.
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Asif Keshodia
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Asif Keshodia is an Angel Investor based in Dubai, UAE and the co-founder of Storfox.com. He is most notable for his work as the Group CFO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in a milestone deal for the Middle East tech sector. He joined Souq in 2011 as an early stage investor and raised over $400m to help it become the leading onlineretailer in the region. After its acquisition by Amazon in 2017, he took the role of MENA Regional Finance Director at Amazon. Asif has over 20 years of experience with some of the world’s biggest names, such as PwC, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon, in countries around the world, including the UK, South Africa, Russia, and Pakistan. He is now using his decades of multinational corporate experience to help usher small startups to big success. He is dedicated to aiding young entrepreneurs launch their projects, with sights currently set on bolstering the e-commerce ecosystem in the MENA region and South Asia’s burgeoning market.In the recent past Asif has served on the Boards of Souq, Payfort.com, and Instashop.com, recently acquired by the Delivery Hero. He has also invested in a number of fledgling startups including Shipox, Clicky.pk, EzHire and Cartlow.comAsif is a graduate of the University of Karachi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Economics and a Chartered Accountant (FCA). In 2016, he was named Best Retail CFO of the MENA Region by renowned Middle Eastern publication, The CFO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.1M; Series A $5M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamel Pay — Kamel Pay is a fintech and digital financial solutions provider. Kamel Pay offers end-to-end digital payment services to the 20 million underbanked expat population in GCC and to their families abroad through a fully integrated platform.
  • CLICKY.PK — Clicky.pk offers the largest collection of trendy and affordable fashion and lifestyle products online. Clicky has the best online brand stores in Pakistan. Huge Collection of Jewellery, Handbags, Clutches, Sunglasses, Clothing, Nightwear & More!
  • PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.
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Samih Toukan
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
  • Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.
  • Jusoor Labs — Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions.
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Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$42M; Series A $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
  • AppliedAI — AppliedAI is an Abu Dhabi technology company building AI-native workflow systems for banking, fintech, insurance, and healthcare. Its platform, Opus, automates and supervises mission-critical, document-heavy processes with embedded governance and human oversight.
  • Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
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Omar Darwazah
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$14M; Pre-Seed $360k–$3M; Series B $24M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — Fuze Finance helps businesses move value across stablecoin and fiat rails, build digital asset trading and wallets with a regulated, secure infrastructure
  • Exponential DeFi — Exponential is now powering the YO Risk Engine. The risk graph that powers YO will soon be published.
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Sid Dhamija
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Sid Dhamija

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Database, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.
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Jitendra Gupta
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$9M; Angel $100k–$3.4M; Series A $4.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • OTPless — OTPless is a software company that develops SaaS products which enables users to log into various platforms using WhatsApp. They have officially partnered with WhatsApp to make their product safe, reliable and efficient. They are a young and dynamic company looking to revolutionize logging in as we know it. OTPless is headquartered in Delhi,India and was founded in 2021.
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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Dingaling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎
Angel · Delaware City, Delaware, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Dingaling is an individual investor and crypto twitter celebrity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $5.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fluent Labs — The blockchain for consumer crypto | Account by Fluent Foundation
  • Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
  • BLIFE Protocol — Bringing Web3 to Bitcoin with the backing of Animoca Brands. Merged with @Portalcoin
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John Ives
Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

John Ives is the General Partner of Tahoma Ventures. He previously worked at Fashion Metric as a Member of the Board of Directors. John attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he took Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$3.1M; Series A $2.4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Compliable — Compliable helps companies in the real money transaction space obtain and manage the licenses they need to be in compliance across all the jurisdictions they operate in.
  • Company Six Group — Company Six Robotic Systems LLC (CO6) is a technology leader and provider of robotic automation systems. The company aims to integrate cutting-edge, disruptive technologies and design turnkey automation systems for enterprises and individuals.
  • Resurface Labs — Your API system of record
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.4M; Series A $9M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palm — Palm specializes in AI-powered treasury software designed to optimize financial operations for businesses. The platform offers solutions for generating accurate cash forecasts quickly and managing company funds efficiently. Palm's technology streamlines automated workflows for forecasting and cash movement, ensuring enterprise-grade securityand controls. The company focuses on addressing treasury challenges with innovative solutions, supported by a team with expertise in treasury and fintech. Palm's services are aimed at improving financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its clients.
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
  • Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
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Anton Bukov
Angel · Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$655k; Series A $6M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ammalgam — Trade your impermanent loss for permanent gain. Lend, trade or leverage any asset without oracles. Live now: https://t.co/2eend1xsPf
  • CrossCurve Metelayer — Your Unfair Advantage for Building in DeFi. Any token. Any chain. Any operation. One MetaLayer.
  • Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
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Kunal Shah
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Kunal Shah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $4.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vaaree — Get Upto 60% Off, Buy home decor, kitchen, and garden products online in India. Vaaree offers Popular Bedsheets, Lamps, Pooja Essentials, Cozy Comforters, and more at the best prices.
  • Superleap — The #1 AI-native alternative to legacy CRMs. Trusted by 100+ enterprise teams. Book a demo to see Superleap in action.
  • Profound — Get your Profound AI Rep and unlock stronger collaborators, richer opportunities, and sharper hires
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Bhavik Bajaj

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $46k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
  • ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
  • THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
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Mark Ransford
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $630k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $441k–$4.2M; Series A $8.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talentir — Talentir runs global payouts, carries the liability and makes them profitable. Pay creators, sellers and freelancers in 180+ countries in seconds.
  • Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
  • Steward — Steward is an end-to-end KYC/B onboarding experience built for an AI age.
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Srinivas Rao M
Angel · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Srinivas Rao M is a CEO at T-Hub.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advice, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: India, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$3.5M; Grant $12k–$132k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
  • CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
  • CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
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Prajit Nanu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Prajit Nanu is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nium. Prajit previously served as the Global Sales Director at TMF Group. Prajit Nanu attended the University of Mumbai.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Advice, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$3.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
  • Acctual — Run a seamless AP/AR process for every bill, from one place - crypto and fiat. Synced to your accounting system.
  • Sheerdrive — Sheerdrive is a digital AI/ML pre-owned vehicle platform that tackles all critical factors needed to run a successfully used vehicle program.
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Olumide Soyombo is the Co-Founder of Bluechip Technologies. Olumide Soyombo attended Aston University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
  • Spleet — Fintech Spleet Provides Tenant verification, Rent collection solutions for landlords and rent financing (Rent now, pay later) for Tenants
  • The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
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Zafar Imran
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Zafar Imran

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Investment focus

  • Industry: PaaS, SaaS, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ZiCON Cloud — Your Partner For Change Information Technology & Services
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Amjad Masad
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Amjad Masad is the Founder at Repl.it.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$20M; Pre-Seed $500k–$20M; Series A $15M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wabi — Create, discover, and remix any mini-app in minutes. The era of personal software is here.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Raindrop — Monitor your AI Agent the right way. Get alerted when your agent fails in production, trace exactly what went wrong, and prove your fix worked.
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Massimiliano Spalazzi
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Massimiliano Spalazzi is the CEO at Jumia Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
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Amrish Rau
Angel · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $340k–$1.5M; Series A $3.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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Hosam Arab
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Software 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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Abdulhamid Al Omar
Angel · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Abdulhamid is the CEO of Talabat, the leading online food delivery e-Commerce in the GCC. The firm evolved from a Kuwaiti based start-up to become a market leader in its space. He joined Talabat at an early stage and contributed to its growth from his post as head of Business development and Product. In 2015, Rocket Internet acquired Talabat for170m USD, representing the largest Internet technology acquisition in the Middle East till date. Started his career in the IT and the Banking industries, and prior to joining Talabat he was the e-Channels team lead for Kuwait Finance House, one of the leading Islamic banks in the Middle East. Abdulhamid received his MBA from the University of Leeds with a BSc in Computer Science.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
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Sergey Kravchenko
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Sergey Kravchenko

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shaffra — Corporate metaverses & AI workforce
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Katya Kovalenko
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Katya Kovalenko

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Database, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Switzerland, Russian Federation

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • DeNet — DeNet connects computers, and devices into a single network creating a database of hundreds of thousands of devices, accessing unlimited storage and processing
  • ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
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Faiz Mayalakkara
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Faiz Mayalakkara Director Investments, Emirates Investment Authority.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Panama

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $238k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BharatX — BharatX is a Fin-Tech startup that enables any Consumer-facing app/website in India to offer Credit to their users by integrating its APIs. It can enable white-leballed journeys like of "Buy Now, Pay Later","Credit Line", "Try and Buy", "Pay in 3", "Postpaid", etc.
  • Fello — Fello is a savings and investment platform that helps to save, invest and earn higher returns than a traditional savings account.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
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Rafael Ilishayev
Angel · Holmdel, New Jersey, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Rafael Ilishayev is based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Gopuff. Rafael attended Drexel University. Rafael Ilishayev has been awarded as a Drexel University Founders Award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Series D
  • Geography: Brazil, Mexico, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$11M; Series D $100M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Loft — Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Orchata — Te presentamos orchata, tu super en 15 minutos. Te regalamos 100 pesos en tu primer pedido.
  • HyperSpace — Hyperspace is a permanent ticketed experiential attraction developer that creates, builds, operates, and funds attractions. Founded in 2020 and is based inDubai, AE.
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AbdulMuhisn Al-Sulaiman
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

AbdulMuhisn Al-Sulaiman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ToggleMarket — ToggleMarket is a B2B digital marketspace facilitating and powering secure multi-tenant interactions across the supply chains of non-standard goods - from procurement to fulfilment - through its advanced infrastructure e-commerce technology, and dedicated industry specific web platforms for Hospitality, Healthcare, Education and Construction.Toggle Market is an end-to-end highway for B2B procurement connecting pre-qualified buyers and suppliers with robust enterprise level workflow tools to manage complex multi-stakeholder transactions driving greater efficiencies in managing pre-opening procurement needs.
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Tim Draper
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 298
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CASIMIR
  • illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
  • SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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Khalid AlHadlaq
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Khalid is an active angel investor in early-stage technology companies with 17 years of experience and a General Management education from Harvard Business School. After an exciting career at Microsoft and Logica, Khalid co-founded and managed Xceed Ventures, a social media intelligence company that got acquired. He currently serves as the CreativeSolutions Director at the Central Payment System of Saudi Arabia to support the development of FinTechs in Saudi and bring disruptive innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Digitzs — Digitzs team comes from Visa, PayPal, and Apple. We make payments painless for platforms that process ticket payments for sporting events, donation payments for nonprofits and rent payments for property managers. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
  • Taste — User Reviews and Recommendations From Like-Minded People For Movies and TV Shows at Taste.
  • QiDZ — The family guide for best inspiration, deals and rewards for kids activities. Browse on QiDZ now and start creating family memories today.
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Batuhan Dasgin
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

BatuX is working as a Director at Celestia Foundation. Previously, he was a part of Binance as an investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Gibraltar, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Predicate — Policy for blockchain applications
  • Astria — The easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups.
  • SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
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Karl Olsson
Angel · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Magnus Olsson is the Founder and Managing Director at Careem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, E-Commerce, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VUZ — VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh.
  • Getbee — Use live video calls to create in-person interactions with your clients from product recommendations to completing a purchase.
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
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Turki AlJeaid
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Turki AlJeaid

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mala Inc. — This is meta description
  • MyBenefits Technolgoies — MyBenefits - The leading corporate benefits & discounts platform in MENA with zero vendor fees, 40+ discount categories, and white-label options.
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Nate Lipscomb
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Nate Lipscomb

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
  • 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.
  • Codingal — Codingal offers engaging & fun online AI and coding classes for kids and teens using the K12 Computer Science Framework. Sign up today to get a free class!
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Krishnan Menon
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Krishnan Menon is founder & CEO at BukuKas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SkorLife — Download Skorlife App now and check your credit score online for free! Take control, own, and see how Banks see your data only in a matter of seconds.
  • Remedo Healthcare — Help more patients find you online and reach you easily. Remedo premium services empower doctors to make their own brand and emerge as thought leaders in their own specialty by creating an engaged, loyal & informed community of patients. Remedo has helped 6000+ doctors across India to build an online presence for themselves
  • School of Accelerated Learning — Product Engineering program | School Of Accelerated Learning
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Youssef Salem
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Youssef Salem CFO at Swvl.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Grocery, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $6M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cypherleak — Cypherleak is an automated cyber risk monitoring and scoring solution that uses an organisation's domain name only to map their risk exposure across leaked passwords, attack surface, vulnerabilities and dark web data leakage. Additionally, Cypherleak supports global insurances by powering their cyber insurance products with reliable andaccurate cyber risk modeling and monitoring.
  • Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
  • PostEx — Instant & upfront payments for e-commerce stores offering Cash on Delivery. Get seamless COD, growth capital, and nationwide same-day delivery with PostEx!
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Elena 🌸
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Elena is researching and investing NFTs/ DeFi News.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.
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Dom Monhardt
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Dom Monhardt

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Octa — Reduce DSO by 30%, save 20+ hours per week, and delight customers with our all-in-one platform.
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Othman AlOthman
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Othman AlOthman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lisan — Lisan is an AI writing platform offering state-of-the-art proofreading and grammar checking to help individuals who write in Arabic to maximize their productivity, create exceptional content using cutting-edge generative AI models, and automate tasks with AI accelerators.
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Martin Köppelmann
Angel · Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Software startups

Martin Köppelmann - Co-Founder & CEO @ Gnosis

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Blockchain, Database
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
  • kpk — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
  • Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
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Software Angel investor funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance

Stats across 69 deals from 125 investors.

125
investors
in United Arab Emirates Software startups
69
deals
in United Arab Emirates Software startups
$1M
median round
in United Arab Emirates Software startups
12%
lead investors
lead at least one round
45%
Seed
most common funding stage

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