Top 30 Sports Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2026

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• Zension — Zension is a subscription e-commerce company for consumer tech. Each and every day, we set out to create a new standard for connectivity and access to the best technology tools for all.
• PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
• Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.

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• VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
• Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
• 1Buy.AI — Decision-grade AI driven intelligence for electronics procurement. Real-time market intelligence and risk analysis for the semiconductor industry.

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• Phys — Phys is a mobile gaming startup that offers physical activity and entertainment using AR games.
• Emonovo — Best Study Abroad Partner in MENA to Find programs and universities around the world Emo was the 1st international student, now it is your turn to study abroad. Emonovo used to be named Marj3 which was highest reach scholarship portal in the MENA region.
• Let'sGrant — Let’sGrant is a point of sale lending platform, partnering with lenders and consumer goods stores to make the lending process fast, simple and flexible for everyone. With a vision to be internationally recognized as a driving force in personal and consumer loans in the MENA region, Let’sGrant will soon be launching the first online peer to peerlending platform for personal loans in the MENA region which connects individual investors directly to potential borrowers in search of funding through debt.

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• Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.

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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.
• Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
• 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!

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• Aydi — We are more than a platform. We are a global voice of modern agriculture, built with growers, powered by innovation, and driven by the responsibility to feed the future with dignity and confidence.
• Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.
• Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.

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• Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
• TruBuild — Automate technical evaluations, commercial comparisons, and contract analysis for complex, high-stakes construction tenders. Reduce evaluation time by up to 85%.
• Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.

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• Turpal — Turpal is a B2B platform offering an end-to-end solution enabling travel companies to boost their growth by offering experiences (tours, activities & attractions) to their customers in a seamless and scalable way. Turpal achieves this by offering:- A solution to sell experiences directly online to end-users ("web builder") or B2Bpartners (resellers) - A webapp and native app to help travellers have the best experience while in-destination ("post-departure app") - Access to a marketplace with more than 300,000 experiences around the world to be offered to travellers - A control panel to help travel companies manage all their day-to-day operations (inventory manager, product manager) - Marketing services to boost visibility and engagementTurpal's solutions rely heavily on high tech, such as AI and adaptive solutions, to deliver the best experience to B2B customers and their travellers.
• eBen — eBen is an Employee benefits provider utilizing work technology and world-class people engagement approaches.
• Bhatia Labs — Bhatia Labs provides productized services, platforms and infrastructure at affordable costs to individuals, startups and businesses all over the world.

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• Tulle — NeoSwap is a multi-party, multi-item NFT swap platform that redistributes items in a win-win-win manner, using minimal currency. It provides neo-barter solutions to unlock value within existing marketplaces and enable marketplaces where they were previously unsustainable. It was founded by John Ennis.
• Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
• HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.

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• Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
• Klink Finance — Klink enables weekly earnings on your deposit of up to $1M every week through its no-loss prize draws.
• Zodia Markets — Zodia Markets' mission is to be the most trusted and reliable partner for your institutional crypto trading. Secure your institution's digital assets today.

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• Abwaab — Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outsidethe classroom.
• Nas.com — Nas.io helps anyone go from idea to revenue in 1 minute with AI. Create digital products, build engaged communities, and automate marketing—all in one intuitive platform. Nas.io puts community first. Challenges, events, social feed, and memberships drive revenue growth for your business. Join 200k+ entrepreneurs and build your dream digitalbusiness with AI in 1 minute, no technical skills required.
• NorthLadder — Most of us know what it feels like to sell a pre-owned device - be it a smartphone, a laptop or a tablet. The fact is that the pre-owned market is intransparent and finding a fair price for your asset is daunting. Even if you do get a fair price, the inconvenience of meeting the buyer, negotiating the price, shipping the asset, and waiting forpayment could be an exhausting process. And then there is the worry of figuring out what happens to the data on your device.This is why NorthLadder came to be. We are the region’s only auction-driven selling platform for pre-owned electronics devices- a thoughtfully created service where people can sell their devices to a network of global buyers and get cash instantly in a safe, dignified, and hassle-free manner.But that’s not all. We have many convenient drop-off locations across the region for getting instant cash against your devices. Don’t want to drop off your device? No worries, we will come to your doorstep to pick it up and hand the cash over to you. And if you want your data to be erased, we can advise you on ways to do it or use internationally approved software to erase it for a small fee.We have served thousands of customers and their overwhelmingly positive feedback tells us we are on the right track. Our efforts actively contribute to the formation of a circular economy, which is the need of the day. You can help too, by introducing your electronic gadget to the secondary market - increase its lifespan and reduce its carbon footprint. This is what keeps us motivated: to help the planet as we continue our mission to serve millions of people across the globe.We are passionate, we are focussed, we are NorthLadder.

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• Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
• Nestrom — An all around EHS platform, Gather Observations, Inspections, Audits & Data and Action work-orders from one platform through a mobile app and web
• Three Wheels United — Three Wheels United is a tech-enhanced financier for light electric vehicles in India, starting with the auto rickshaws.

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• Innocap — Innocap is a business development financial services company located in Montreal.
• Alpha Generation — Alpha Generation manages and operates power generation facilities that are well positioned to provide reliable, secure, safe, and sustainable sources of power and meet the growing infrastructure needs created by electrification. This diverse portfolio of assets is owned by funds managed by ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, a leading middle-market, value added infrastructure investment firm with strategic partnerships and investments across the power, renewables, strategic gas, battery storage, and transformative infrastructure sectors.
• Yinson Holdings Berhad — Yinson provides Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading services.

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

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• qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
• BloomPath — Purpose-built AI for your organization's workflows. Embedded in your systems. Fine-tuned to your processes. Deployed inside your environment.
• Penny Software — Penny is a Procurement AI platform for enterprises that streamlines RFQs, POs, approvals, and payments in one unified source-to-pay system.

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• Furaha — Welcome to Furaha Financial, purpose driven financing. We are a financial technology business which acts as a software-based intermediary platform.
• Jumbotail — Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.Jumbotail is a VC funded startup building an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. It also operates a marketplace that connects tens of thousands of these Kirana stores with brands and traders. The company offers a wholesuite of services including supply chain logistics, a mobile app for placing orders, integration with point-and-sales devices, and credit solutions to shop owners that can’t easily get a loan from banks.They offer a wide selection of high-quality staples, homecare, packaged foods, and personal care products from all the leading brands, and staples producers. Their vision is to organize the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design. They are building products, platforms, and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Their market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have a strong core team consisting of alumni from Stanford, CMU, IIT, BITS, etc. having several years of industry experience in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, BCG, Housing, and Grofers.They are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. They are a passionate team driven by their sense of purpose to solve a critical real-world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next-generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that they are building.
• FourTwoThree — FourTwoThree is an end-to-end, enterprise-grade solution for climate action and sustainable finance.

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• OpenNode — A simple Bitcoin payment processor for any business. Accept Bitcoin payments, receive Bitcoin donations and send Bitcoin payouts all on the OpenNode platform.
• Roxom Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
• Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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• Flend — Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses.
• Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
• Ovasave — Understnd your fertility & hormonal health with Ovasave. Affordable & science-backed care to protect your future fertility. Egg freezing packages. Subscribe now!

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• Zizle — Zizle wants to use the Solana blockchain to transform social networking: better data privacy, decentralized governance, and more efficient revenue streams for consumers and producers. the platform's goal is to make social networking a more entertaining, healthy, and profitable environment.
• Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
• MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.

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• Circuit — Make digital assets recoverable
• Engagesoft — Create an engaged team with Engagesoft. Get real-time data, actionable insights, and tailored strategies to improve employee retention, productivity, and motivation.
• Thunder Code — Transform your QA process with Thunder Code's AI-powered test automation platform. Create, manage, and run automated tests without coding - perfect for QA teams seeking efficiency, reliability, and seamless integration.

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• STEPPI — Steppi, a corporate health and community engagement platform that encourages users to be more active by allowing them to exchange daily steps for discounts.

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• BILRS — Bilrs.com is a global bill payment solution platform, enabling online and offline Partners to offer a wide selection of bills to their Customer offerings through a single integration.
• Daleel — Daleel is a B2C2B financial marketplace that aims to improve overall financial wellbeing in the MENAP region.
• Better — Discover science-backed wellness products in UAE & Saudi Arabia. Fast delivery, money-back guarantee, and trusted by thousands. Shop now!

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• Fotrum — Fotrum: Empowering Mobile Gamers through Competitive GamingHave you ever wondered why PC games like Dota 2 and Counter-Strike remain incredibly popular for years, while many competitive mobile games struggle to maintain traction over time, even in the most successful regions? The secret sauce lies in community-driven activities. Just take a lookat CS:GO, where the community plays on platforms like Faceit, hosts tournaments, and fosters the growth of esports.Introducing Fotrum, the all-in-one ecosystem designed specifically for the mobile gaming market. At Fotrum, we've tackled the user retention challenges faced by mobile game publishers head-on by offering real competition and growth opportunities to mobile gamers on our innovative competitive platform.One of the major hurdles we've addressed is the lack of APIs provided by mobile game publishers. We've developed special bots that revolutionize the gaming experience. These bots are capable of creating lobbies, inviting players, initiating games, collecting in-game statistics, and much more. By bridging this technological gap, we ensure a seamless and enriched gaming experience for our users.But that's not all. Fotrum also provides an advanced toolkit tailored to esports organizations. Our toolkit includes an automated tournament system that simplifies the hosting of qualifications through our bot system, a targeting system to help teams find skilled players, and native integrations for tournament organizations, allowing for monetization opportunities.Fotrum has also played a pivotal role in creating the esports market for Standoff 2 in the CIS region. By providing a dedicated platform for competitive play, Fotrum has cultivated a thriving community of Standoff 2 enthusiasts, offering them a place to showcase their skills, compete in tournaments, and elevate the esports scene in the region.Currently, Fotrum supports popular games such as Standoff 2, PUBG Mobile, and Brawl Stars, with plans to expand our list of supported games in the near future. Mobile Legends will be added to our platform within a couple of months, further diversifying the gaming options available to our users.Behind Fotrum's success is a team of 15 highly experienced individuals in the game industry and software engineering. Our team brings invaluable expertise from some of the largest fintech companies, ensuring that Fotrum operates at the cutting edge of technology and gaming.Join the Fotrum community today and unlock the true potential of mobile gaming. Experience our advanced matchmaking system, access to tournaments, esports team system, comprehensive statistics, and game analysis. With Fotrum, mobile gamers can finally embark on a journey of growth, competition, and success.

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• Okadoc — The quickest way to book from thousands of doctors, manage your appointments and attend video consultations. All online: healthcare in your hands.

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• Brickken — Get ahead in the token game with Brickken. Our tools and experts will guide you through the process of creating, selling and managing tokens.
• myco — myco is a content streaming super dApp that smoothly integrates AVOD and SVOD capabilities into a decentralized ecosystem.
• Only U Bank — A bank for female influencers and their followers

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• HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
• The Cloud — NOTICE OF WINDING UP PETITION
• 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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• GHOSTDRIVE — The Ghostdrive leverages the decentralized nature of P2P networks (IPFS, and Filecoin) to provide unlimited data uploads. Unlike traditional centralized systems, where storage capacity is finite, P2P networks can dynamically expand their storage capabilities as more users join the network.
• Flanksource — Mission Control for Enterprise Software Teams
• SEO Site Checkup — SEO Site Checkup offers webmasters, small business owners, and SEO agencies with SEO tools, software, and articles. It offers users with analysis and monitoring tools to analyze SEO issues of websites, to generate white-label SEO reports, to receive notifications on SEO score changes, and to understand their competitors’ SEO profiles.SEO SiteCheckup is operated from New York, United States.

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• GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
• LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
• YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.

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• Omniful — Omniful's modular platform replaces legacy systems with AI-powered OMS, WMS, and TMS. Streamline fulfillment, cut costs, and scale across channels.
• Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
• 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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• VC Lab — We help idea-stage entrepreneurs and pre-seed startups get funding, build a team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, and launch impactful businesses.
• HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
• OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !