Top 40 Software Startup Investors in Bahrain (September 2026)

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• Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
• Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
• Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!

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• Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
• Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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• Benyany — Benyany simplifies and keeps homebuilding affordable. With curated product alternatives and real-time updates, you can keep tabs on your spending, manage your responsibilities, and maintain control. Easily and affordably construct your ideal home with Benyany!
• Lamma — Lamma is an e-commerce platform with AI capabilities designed for the GCC.
• PROCODE — PROCODE is MENA’s leading gaming and esports platform, helping gamers at all levels unlock their potential through localized content, structured training, expert coaching, and tournaments, building the region’s gaming infrastructure and shaping its esports future.

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

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• Morni — Morni is an interactive platform that provides roadside assistant services in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries through a smart-phone application. Morni currently provides its services to both individuals and corporations.
• Signit — Transform your contract workflows with secure, legally-binding e-signatures. Trusted by 700+ Saudi organizations.
• Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.

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• Umbrel — Run your personal server on a Raspberry Pi with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud, Matrix, and PhotoPrism to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free.
• Forecastr — Forecastr is online software that helps founders forecast revenue, predict runway, understand their numbers & get funded.
• MedZoomer — MedZoomer provides safe and secure medication delivery to your patients. Don't get left behind, Zoom past the competition. Learn More.

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• Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
• Bundle — Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions.
• Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses.

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• Cobi — Cobi provides AI-based business intelligence tools for fintech companies. Its platform analyzes transaction and customer behavior data to segment users based on spending and shopping patterns. The company helps businesses use these insights to improve customer targeting, product planning, and engagement through merchant platforms.
• Soor Insurance — Experience hassle-free car insurance in Bahrain. Compare, customize, and purchase your motor insurance policy in minutes. Trusted by thousands.
• OpenFarming — OpenFarming.Earth is an AI-powered food distribution and supply-chain platform focused on helping food distributors automate order aggregation, inventory management, demand forecasting, routing, and payment workflows. The company mainly targets distributors, wholesalers, restaurants, hotels, and grocery supply chains in the Middle East.

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• Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
• RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them

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• 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.
• Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
• Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.

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• Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
• THINK-AI — The Think AI Fabric: AI Node, ILM, and Constellation bonded into one supercompute platform, built for radical efficiency. Nothing sits idle.

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• PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
• Keyper — Keyper simplifies real estate management for property owners, tenants, and partners. Manage portfolios, get market insights, apply for rent with flexible payment options, and explore partnership opportunities to earn passive income. Join Keyper today!
• Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136

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• Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
• Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
• WakeCap — WakeCap Technologies RTLS is an IoT-based enterprise solution designed to support the digitization process of work sites, Construction, Oil and Gas, Industrial, Manufacture.

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• WNNA — WNNA is an Intuitive based personal recommendation engine that is empowered by AI. WNNA app recommends activities you could do based on decisions you would usually make. Activities may include listening to music, watching movies, eating food, visiting attractions and so on. It does this by scurrying through different sources over the internet, getyou only the information you would regularly use to make decisions
• inagrab — Inagrab is a company with a mission to bridge the gap between businesses and people by monetizing word of mouth using their core product called Dalooni. Dalooni is platform connects businesses with a sales force consisting of the everyday individual without technically paying them a salary, and helps the unemployed youth of the MENA Region getaccess to a source of income and enhance their business development capabilities gradually.
• Tamarran — Tamarran is the GCC's fastest trending and home-grown gym management software and booking app that is used by sports gyms, fitness studios, sport academies, personal trainers, and recreational centers to manage and promote their businesses in a better way using a cloud-based management software that is accessible via a mobile app and awebsite. The platform comes in Arabic and English. More details about the gym management software can be found via: https://tamarran.com/en/businessThe company is currently based in Bahrain and has recently started its expansion in KSA, UAE, and Kuwait with more than 200 venues in less than a year. Tamarran is raising funds to help in accessing GCC markets faster starting from KSA. Tamarran is striving to have the first mover advantage in the $4 billion sports and fitness market in this part of the world. The vision of this company is to become the MENA’s biggest sport community platform. A one-stop-shop for sports that connects the sport enthusiasts and service providers with each other and help them exercise, socialize and compete with each other using technology.Tamarran is solving two important problems in this field. Firstly, it is very difficult for people to explore different sport options. It is also hard to find, compare and access the suitable sport facility, activity or personal trainer due to the scattered sources and lack of credible information. On the other side, the sport centers struggle a lot in running their businesses due to the absence of technological solutions as most of them either use manual systems, very old or very expensive solutions. Tamarran is solving these two problems by introducing one platform that connects everything together and enable people find and book a wide range of sport facilities, recreational activities and events in a fast manner while helping gym and studio owners better manage their businesses using a mobile app.

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• BARQ — BARQ enables bullet delivery for any business. From e-commerce to food, e-groceries and various sectors, BARQ utilizes its state-of-the-art delivery technologies to deliver orders as fast as 15 minutes up to same day delivery service.BARQ converts retail outlets to micro-fulfilment centers/dispatching hubs making delivery faster &easier. Once a customer places an order through the business platform, order gets fulfilled by the closest retail outlet and delivered to the customer once ready for pick up (bullet delivery).BARQ also serves warehouses and fulfillment centers with several delivery options, 4hrs up to same day or next day, depending on the business’ need. While restaurants and food aggregators enjoy 30-45 minute delivery service & paying a delivery fee ONLY.
• Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• Unipal — Unipal provides university students access to tailored discounts and promotions through a digital identification.

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

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• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
• Diameter Pay — Diameter Pay is a financial service company that provides financial inclusion, fintech, blockchain, and social entrepreneurship services.
• City Protocol — City Protocol offers growth incentives and creative tools driven by AI. A portable reputation is created via City ID.

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• Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
• FlyAkeed — FlyAkeed is the only app that enables you to browse fully-booked flights and waitlist to issue your ticket once your seat becomes available again.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.

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• invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
• Soum — ‍Soum is reimagining recommence in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient, trustworthy, and transparent recommence marketplace, starting with consumer electronics in Saudi Arabia.
• Bedrock Robotics — Advanced autonomy for the built world.

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• Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
• Clara — Easy company incorporation, equity management, documents and data room. Everything you need to manage and grow your business in one place.
• Union Bank of India — Union Bank of India is a financial institution offering consumer and business banking services.

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• Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
• Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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• LemonRocks — LemonRocks is an AI-driven platform that offers real-time insights into startups, tracks VC performances, and presents co-investment opportunities with top-tier angel investors.
• Abaxx Technologies — Smarter tools for commodity traders and finance professionals to communicate, trade and transact faster and to manage risk in global commodity markets.
• ASIC Power Company — ASIC Power provides state-of-the-art ASIC technology and royalty streaming financing to the cryptocurrency mining industry.

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• Yasmina — Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services.
• yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• Doos — Shop groceries, beauty, gifting, and lifestyle products from Doos Store. Fast delivery in minutes across Saudi Arabia. Discover a wide range of high-quality...
• Moyasar — Moyasar is an online payment gateway that provides electronic payment solutions.
• GrubTech — An end-to-end kitchen management platform with food aggregator, online ordering, POS, ERP and 3pl integrations; to streamline online food delivery orders and create efficiencies for delivery-centric restaurants and cloud kitchens (ghost kitchens, dark kitchens, virtual kitchens).

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• 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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• Parcel — Bahrain's delivery platform for instant, same-day & next-day courier service. Last-mile delivery for restaurants and e-commerce across Bahrain.

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• GoEname — Goename.com is a comprehensive cloud infrastructure provider specializing in high-performance GPU hosting, domain registration, and web services. Serving a global base of over 400,000 customers, the company was acquired by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance its specialized hardware and edge computing portfolio.
• AlgoHelix — Ai Based Algo Trading
• Perff .inc — Turn Your Ad Spend Into Measurable Growth. Perff AI connects brands with affiliate publishers across MENA — automating campaign matching, fraud detection, and performance optimization. You pay only for real results.

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• Rain — Rain is a licensed and trusted crypto exchange in the Middle East with customers worldwide. Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies on Rain.
• Emrgo — Learn about our solutions across corporate finance, primary issuance, custody, distribution, brokerage, investment management and market infrastructure.

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• Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
• Binli Technology — Binli Technology is a new energy vehicle manufacturer.
• The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.

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• 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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• Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
• Awok.com — Today AWOK.com has close to 700 employees with its own courier service fleet, which enables the company to keep control on the quality of service delivered to customers as well as timely delivery. The company sells its products in at least 120 countries through its cross border services and has its own fulfillment center and logistics.Offeringapproximately 70,000 products across 30 plus categories, the vision has always been to be the preferred E-Commerce channel across all locations that the company operates in, where customers are assured of affordable, effortless and seamless shopping experience. At Awok.com, we believe that in order to create the best shopping experience and deliver highest quality of customer satisfaction technology needs to exploited to the fullest. With this in mind we have built a reliable and scalable technology network and are constantly looking to innovate with the help of our highly skilled and creative team.

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• 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.
• Subzero Labs — Subzero Labs is developing Rialo, a developer-first Layer 1 blockchain built for internet-scale decentralized applications.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Rain — Rain is a licensed and trusted crypto exchange in the Middle East with customers worldwide. Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies on Rain.
• Rivian — Keep the world adventurous forever
• Greaves Electric Mobility — Greaves Electric Mobility is the E-Mobility arm of Greaves Cotton Limited.

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• Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
• Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
• UPFRONT — UPFRONT is a B2B financial platform that optimizes cash flow for small and medium-sized enterprises in MENA. The company offers solutions in financial analytics, payment orchestration, open banking, and working capital management to assist businesses optimize operations, get finance, and scale more quickly.

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• The Stories Studio — A Bahrain based indie game development studio creating games for Impact. Looking for someone to develop your game. Get in touch with us.

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• COFE App — COFE App gives coffee drinkers a smart way to order their daily coffee. The mobile application serves as an online coffee marketplace and aims to bring about a lifestyle change for its users by providing a smarter, more efficient way to get to their daily caffeine dose. With an intention to fulfil all the needs a coffee lover could possibly have,COFE App provides coffee beverages from both chain coffee houses as well as specialty coffee roasters. Users can also source coffee beans, coffee machines and coffee accessories through the mobile application.COFE APP is funded by a multi-national cross-sector base of entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) funds from the Middle East and Silicon Valley. The company's Series A funding round was led by KISP ventures a fund established by KFH Capital (Kuwait). Other investors include: Cedar Mundi (Lebanon), Towell Holding International (Oman), Takamul Capital and Dividend Gate Capital (Bahrain), and Nizar AlNusif Sons Holding and Arab Investment Company (Kuwait)
• CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
• FinFirst Capital — Own Finfirst.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.

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• Stllr Network — Stllr Network streamlines authentic video content production by creators on web or API.
• Taffi — We help fashion retailers drive more sales with agentic solutions that personally inspire and support shoppers
• CADO Gifting — CADO Gifting is a leading online gift shop based in Dubai that offers a variety of premium products like flowers, cakes, roses, plants, chocolate boxes, home items, balloons, baskets, hampers and also experiences for you, your loved ones and your business. Home Delivery & Fast Delivery.

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• Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
• Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses.

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• inagrab — Inagrab is a company with a mission to bridge the gap between businesses and people by monetizing word of mouth using their core product called Dalooni. Dalooni is platform connects businesses with a sales force consisting of the everyday individual without technically paying them a salary, and helps the unemployed youth of the MENA Region getaccess to a source of income and enhance their business development capabilities gradually.

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• Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
• Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
• Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.