# Top 15 Transportation Angel Investors in Egypt in June 2026

## Omar Darwazah
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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.

## Faisal Al-Abdulsalam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Payments

Faisal Al-Abdulsalam is the founder of Purity, and an active investor in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

## Gustavo Fuchs
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Transportation, Apps, Internet

Gustavo Fuchs

## Jambu Palaniappan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Customer Service

Jambu Palaniappan is Managing Partner of OMERS Ventures in Europe. He previously had several executive roles at Uber, where he was among the first 100 employees of the company globally. From 2012 to 2014, he led Uber’s international expansion in EMEA and India. From 2014 to 2016, he served as Regional General Manager for Uber in Eastern Europe,Russia, the Middle East and Africa leading a team of 300 as Uber built and scaled its business in that region. From 2016 to 2018, he was Head of Uber Eats in EMEA.  He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of JustEat PLC.Jambu studied Public Policy and Economics at Vanderbilt University.

## Ziyad Dahbour
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Logistics, Freight Service, Supply Chain Management

Ziyad has worked in enterprise data management for close to three decades, encompassing multiple roles ranging from engineering to consulting. Prior to joining Incorta, Ziyad led ILM engineering at Informatica which acquired TierData, a company he founded and at which he was CTO. Ziyad also was CTO and founder of OuterBay, which was acquired by HP.He started his career at Oracle where he held development and consulting roles focused on database and E-Business Suite.

## Osama Elkady
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Consulting

Osama Elkady is a Co-Founder, Board Member, and CTO at Incorta.

## Kevin Ambrosini
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion

Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024].  Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

## Faisal Alabdelsalam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps

Faisal Alabdelsalam is the Founder and CEO of Zetta Technologies. He previously worked at STC as a Database Manager. Faisal Alabdelsalam attended King Saud University.

## Hamza Ayed
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation

Hamza Ayed

## Hatem Dowidar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Real Estate

Hatem Dowidar

## Karl Olsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Apps

Magnus Olsson is the Founder and Managing Director at Careem.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

## Abdulrahman Mutrib
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Ride Sharing, Transportation

Abdulrahman Mutrib

## Paul Graham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator.

## Emad Sharaki
- Type: Angel
- Location: Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Emad helps businesses and companies with SEO improve ranking in search engine results — Planning and executing SEO strategies for various big-brand companies. He is a highly motivated individual who is prepared to use the knowledge collected from his practices and experience as he started his career as a web hosting technical support in 2003. hehas created many WordPress sites from 2008 till now. He learned about digital marketing in 2010 and started his new career in digital marketing in 2011 as a content writer, managing social media accounts, creating ads, and finally moved to SEO in 2013.

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