Top 30 Sports Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (June 2026)

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• Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
• Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
• POC Pharma — POC Pharma is a SaaS company helping the stakeholders in the Pharmacy Channel to digitally manage their go to market strategy.

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• Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
• 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.
• Tarjama — Translation services, certified translation agency, legal translation, medical translation, website translation, video translation, and subtitling.

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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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• 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.
• Brimore — Brimore is a social commerce platform connecting emerging brand owners with a network of resellers who market and sell their products using social media.
• 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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• Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
• 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.
• Silkhaus — Silkhaus makes living comfortable and convenient through 24/7 mobile support and a digital concierge.

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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.
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
• 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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• Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
• 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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• Pitz — PITZ is building the infrastructure layer for the $1T global auto repair industry — starting with Latin America, expanding to the US in Q4 2026. The platform combines voice-driven AI diagnostics, automated parts procurement, and embedded financing into a single system of record for independent repair shops. In 9 months: $1.78M ARR, 1,462 activeworkshops across Mexico and Brazil, 83% gross margin, 70% subscription revenue, and NRR above 100%. Founded in 2025. Delaware C-Corp. Seed stage.
• Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
• Nufi — At Nufi we provide modular building blocks (or legos) that you can connect together to quickly create your own solutions. We take care of all of the technical and regulatory complexities so that you can focus on bringing your products to reality. We are the legos of fintech and our goal is to empower everyone to build financial products.

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• 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.
• Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
• Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.

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• Chekk — Chekk helps businesses by providing seamless on-boarding solutions, accurate verification services, and on-going interaction capabilities.Chekk is your one stop shop to manage your Digital Identity, AML (Anti Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) journeys.Their corporate clients receive validated and up-to-date Digital Identity and KYCinformation in a fully automated fashion, providing the right means to be fully compliant with internal policies and regulatory requirements. It is also a great tool for businesses to improve their customer experience for on boarding and data exchanges. Chekk integrates social networks, bank systems, data verification and web services through its web portal and mobile app.
• HERE — OpenFin unified workspace for enterprise productivity powers desktops with the same app distribution, security and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
• Hivenet — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.

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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.
• Humanity Protocol — Humanity Protocol developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.

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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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• 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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• 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.
• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 !

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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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• 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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• 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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• MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
• 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.
• BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.

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• Equis — Equis is focused on the development of renewable energy, bioenergy, waste processing, and recycling infrastructure assets across developed markets.
• Innocap — Innocap is a business development financial services company located in Montreal.
• Vantage Data Centers — Vantage Data Centers provides innovative, scalable wholesale data center campuses to hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises across North America and Europe.

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• MidLyr — MidLyr replaces the 5+ tools your operations team stitches together for disputes, KYC, compliance, and collections. AI agents investigate. Your team decides. Live in 2-6 weeks.
• Scalvy — Scalvy is a distributed power delivery company that develops modular power electronics and energy systems that enable distributed power delivery for applications such as data centers, energy storage, and electric mobility. The company replaces traditional centralized power architectures with a distributed system of “power neurons,” which convertand manage electricity closer to the point of use, improving efficiency, scalability, and system reliability. Its platform is built on software-defined, modular components that can be scaled across different power levels and use cases, allowing flexible deployment in high-demand environments. These systems support high-voltage output ranges and deliver high power density while reducing the physical footprint and complexity of conventional power infrastructure.
• Engagesoft — Create an engaged team with Engagesoft. Get real-time data, actionable insights, and tailored strategies to improve employee retention, productivity, and motivation.

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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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• HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
• 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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• 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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• Roxonn — Roxonn is creating a Decentralized Software Organization (DSO) on the XDC Network to streamline global tech collaborations by directly connecting businesses with developers and open-source contributors. It uses blockchain for transparent project funding, task management, and rewarding GitHub contributions in XDC or ROXN tokens. A key part of itsecosystem is "Roxonn Code," an AI-powered tool enhancing developer productivity. Roxonn aims to build a comprehensive hub for software development and AI innovation, envisioning a decentralized AI compute network powered by the ROXN token.
• TradeTogether — TradeTogether Home Page 2022
• 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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• Eyewa — Eyewa is the first dedicated online eyewear store for the Middle East. We have thousands of different eyeglasses, sunglasses, color contact lenses and prescription contact lenses for you to choose from. On Eyewa, you’ll find quintessentially cool brands like Ray-Ban and Emporio Armani, heritage brands like Burberry and Persol, high-fashion brandslike Fendi, Dolce & Gabbanaand Prada sporty brands like Nike and Lacoste and everything in between. Discover their brands portfolio with thousands of styles here.
• Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.