Top 50 Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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6 | United States, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps | $50k–$500k |
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Musaab Hakami
Angel
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5 | United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $50k–$6M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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5 | United States, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $50k–$472k |
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Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel
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4 | United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Education | $120k–$42M |
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Omar Darwazah
Angel
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3 | United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | |
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Asif Keshodia
Angel
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3 | Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods | $700k–$7.9M |
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Magnus Olsson
Angel
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Digital Media | $500k–$6.4M |
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Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $800k–$1M |
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Jonathan Doerr
Angel
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Credit, Retail, FinTech | |
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Deniz Devrim Cengiz
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, FinTech, Apps | $30k–$11M |
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Dany Farha
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Egypt | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Information Services | $4M–$19M |
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Walid Hanna
Angel
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2 | Lebanon, United Arab Emirates | Seed | Search Engine, Billing, Internet | |
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Mark Ransford
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, France, Hungary | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $100k–$4.9M |
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed | Apps, Retail, FinTech | $1M–$2M |
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Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD FRCPC
Angel
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech | |
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
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2 | Mexico, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Debt Financing | E-Commerce, Retail, Consumer Goods | |
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Fahad Hafiz
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed | Finance, Incubators, Hedge Funds | $41k–$5M |
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Hosam Arab
Angel
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2 | Canada, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Debt Financing | B2B, Retail, Banking | |
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omar bajarash
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Angel | SaaS, Payments, Logistics | |
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Yahya Bajarash
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Angel | SaaS, Payments, Logistics | |
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Ivanka Trump
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, Farming, CleanTech | |
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Prajit Nanu
Angel
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1 | India | Seed | Advice, Payments, Financial Services | |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | $780k–$3M |
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Eamon Tuhami
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | Rental, Software, Automotive | |
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Akshay Kothari
Angel
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1 | United States, India, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.2M–$7M |
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Huey Lin
Angel
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1 | Colombia, Singapore, Chile | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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Cristina Cordova
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | |
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Erik Podzuweit
Angel
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1 | India, Germany, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing | |
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Alexander Rugaev
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates | Secondary Market, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning | |
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Eduardo Ronzano
Angel
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $150k–$4M |
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Amal Dokhan
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $100k–$1M |
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Harveen Narulla
Angel
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1 | Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services | $320k–$2M |
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Thibaud Elziere
Angel
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1 | France, United States, Belgium | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, SaaS | $350k–$8.6M |
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Alper Celen
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Software, Logistics | |
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Florian Prucker
Angel
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1 | India, United Arab Emirates | Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Credit | |
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Musa Bin Adi
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | SaaS, Restaurants, Food Delivery | |
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Muhammad Ismail
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Private Equity | CRM, Hardware, Software | |
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Othmane Bouhlal
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Angel | Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments | |
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Andreea Danila
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$2.6M |
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Mato Perić
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $125k–$120M |
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food | $2.8M–$4M |
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Fahad Sami Al-Hukair
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | B2B, SaaS, Software | |
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Abdulaziz Al Loughani
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States | Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, Music | $300k–$3M |
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Gowri Narayanan
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series C, Series D | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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Joel Yarbrough
Angel
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1 | India, Australia, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed | FinTech, Payments, Financial Services | $4.7M–$20M |
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Sandeep Tandon
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Angel | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet | $500k–$5M |
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Andy Preikschat
Angel
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1 | United States, Pakistan, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $300k–$5.2M |
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ASISH DASH
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Angel | Tourism, Logistics, Tour Operator | |
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Credit | |
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Omar Benmoussa
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Angel | Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments | |
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Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $50k–$500k; Angel $100k–$400k; Pre-Seed $120k–$340k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Safedeploy — Fault free software update platform for tracking your software reliability in real time for every device and every software application
- Event Arena — Event Arena organizes events, corporate events, conferences, sales promotions, and presentations.
- Palacio Inc. — Palacio Inc. aims to inspire every living space through innovation in art and technology. Our first product Canvia is a revolutionary content platform for art and photography, which utilizes patented technology for a seamless and authentic experience in any environment. We bring content from leading contemporary creators and world class culturalinstitutions into our living spaces like never before.
GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $780k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$586k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
- Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE with retail and institutional investors worldwide. Investors earn up to 15% per annum
- Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community
Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Seed $67k–$472k; Pre-Seed $70k–$390k; Series A $50k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
- AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
- Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
- 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.
- The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
- Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- 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 — Embedded digital asset capabilities for financial institutions. Digital asset infrastructure - purpose-built for the Middle East.
- Exponential DeFi — View risk assessment ratings and expert research for 500+ decentralized finance pools from Exponential DeFi.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $700k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE
- 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.
Magnus Olsson is the Founder and Managing Director at Careem.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, 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 — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
- 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.
Chantalle Dumonceaux
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- 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.
Jonathan Doerr is the CEO of Daraz. Prior to this, Jonathan served as the managing director of Jumia Nigeria.
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- Industry: Credit, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opontia — Opontia provides a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. They buy businesses with a long-term competitive advantage and strong home-grown brands. They know that selling a business can be stressful and difficult, which is why they have streamlined the process so that you can receive money in your accountwithin just 6 weeks of starting the process.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $30k–$4M; Series A $105k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
- Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
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Browse database — It's Free!Dany is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, with many exits from ventures in a variety of industries. Dany co-founded and exited Bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest job site; Butlers, the UAE’s largest commercial laundry company and Intercat, one of the largest catering companies in the UAE. Dany was a seed investor in Gonabit, a MiddleEast focused daily deal website that was acquired by Living Social in 2011. He currently sits on the boards of 3 portfolio companies.Dany is the first to acknowledge that he wouldn’t have accomplished all these things without the support of the investors and mentors that gave him his start. It is this belief that serves as the impetus behind BECO. Like those that boosted him when he needed it, Dany aspires to serve the next wave of entrepreneurs, so that they too can fulfil their potential and pass along the same spirit of generosity to those that follow in their footsteps.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Information Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $4M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoNabit — GoNabit lists one deal per day in each city. Deals provide great value buying opportunities for a limited period of time - typically 24 hours. We negotiate great discounts based on strength in numbers - we collectively commit to buying a certain number of Nabits, and in return local businesses give huge discounts.GoNabit bridges the gap betweenclicks and bricks - and by activating the social value graph - truly helps people experience social commerce through strength in numbers.GoNabit is an easy way for buyers to use strength in numbers to get great discounts and discover fun local activities. GoNabit uses short-term deals and the power of social media to amplify word-of-mouth turning individual buyers into value evangelists.For local businesses, GoNabit is a risk-free way to promote their business to savvy young buyers in search of new things to do - with customers guaranteed. GoNabit gives advertisers the premier platform for efficient, measureable, risk-free local marketing that creates real customers.
- JadoPado — JadoPado is a marketplace where people around the world come together to buy and sell great stuff!JadoPado lets you sell new, used and refurbished products directly to buyers. Sellers handle their own stores including products, offers, orders and fulfilment, while making sure everything looks great!JadoPado gives buyers incredible choiceacross a wide range of categories and an easy to use, secure experience. JadoPado handles payments on behalf of sellers and pays them out after you’ve received your purchase.
- Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
Walid Hanna is Founder and CEO at Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
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- Industry: Search Engine, Billing, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Lebanon, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ARAMOZ — Optimized for the Arab world, Aramoz ® is a powerful job search engine that provides exceptionally extensive, accurate and relevant results. Using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Aramoz provides users with unmatched effectiveness. But don’t take our word for it. Just try and compare for yourself…
- OX FACTORY — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- INFOGRAPHIQS — Infographiqs ® is a powerful infographic search engine that provides an exceptional degree of extensiveness, accuracy and relevance. Optimized for infographics only using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Infographiqs provides unmatched effectiveness. Try it and compare for yourself…
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Hungary
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alpha Vault — Alpha Vault is a decentralized crypto investment platform
- Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar
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- Industry: Apps, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
- Stake — Stake is a digital real estate investment platform providing the easiest and most transparent way to invest in income generating properties, starting in Dubai. Our mission is to make investing in real estate accessible and profitable for all.
Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD ABIM FRCPC is an Iraqi-Canadian physician-entrepreneur who specializes in endocrinology, hypertension and genetics. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, and an early-stage investor and advisor with over 10 years of clinical and business experience. He has conducted extensive researchin the field of hormones and genetics at America’s research hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and co-founded and financed several startup companies in the fintech, blockchain and healthcare sectors. Business:Fady is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of FHS Capital (fhscapital.io), a privately held early-stage investment fund focusing on real estate, express car wash services, wellness and digital assets. He serves as a strategic advisor and consultant on several healthTech and blockchain companies, focusing on strategic planning, operational skills, business support, and financing. He led several seed financing rounds, including; Ovenue Inc. (ovenue.com), a no-code AI and blockchain Platform-as-a-Service for real-world asset valuation and tokenization; Flyby (flyby.global), a technology platform connecting last mile delivery with digital out of home advertising; and Fluus (fluus.com), a web3 ramping solution. Medicine:Fady completed clinical training in internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine; adult endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the National Institutes of Health; and clinical biochemical genetics at the University of Toronto. He is board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada; and in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. He is an active staff physician and adjunct professor at Vancouver General Hospital (UBC), and Trillium Health Partners (UofT), and a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Research: Fady served the NIH (2015-2021) as a physician-scientist in endocrinology/genetics, Head of Graduate Medical Education and Associate Program Director of endocrinology fellowship program. His research interests remain on adrenal disorders including primary aldosteronism, a common cause of hypertension that is potentially reversible with early detection and treatment. He has authored over 100 original articles, book chapters and reviews on endocrine-genetic conditions (h-index 20, i10-index 42), and was the founding member and first Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Endocrine and Metabolic Science (Elsevier).
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- Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FLUUS — FLUUS is an aggregator of fiat to crypto gateways with a crypto ramping network covering emerging. FLUUS allows users to buy, sell, or swap cryptocurrencies and tokens. They aggregate cryptographic services into a single software development kit, connect ramping, exchanging, transactions, and payments, and create a money experience.
- Fasset — Fasset is a global digital asset gateway that brings unparalleled accessibility to the digital asset space. Through our simple, safe and innovative digital assets, we provide people in emerging markets the opportunity to build a better future. We are pioneering web3 technologies and driving adoption of digital assets for the next billion.
- Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Mexico, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opontia — Opontia provides a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. They buy businesses with a long-term competitive advantage and strong home-grown brands. They know that selling a business can be stressful and difficult, which is why they have streamlined the process so that you can receive money in your accountwithin just 6 weeks of starting the process.
- Valoreo — Valoreo acquires, operates, and scales outstanding e-commerce brands with superstar products. We focus on brands with excellent customer reviews and merchants that have proven success by being top-seller in niche categories with high-growth potential.
Fahad Hafiz is a prominent serial entrepreneur. Hafiz has a wealth of expertise in a wide range of industries, including finance, oil and gas, travel, automotive, cryptocurrencies, and fintech
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- Industry: Finance, Incubators, Hedge Funds
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $41k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BC29 — Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz
- Al Dana —
- The Syndicate Investment Group (SIG) — Syndicate Investments is an investment company that invests in companies and provides them with the equity capital and support necessary to scale up from early-stage startups to successful businesses. With a presence in more than 16 locations globally and with $500M assets under management, Syndicate Investments is a recognized top-rankinginvestment company. It has a proven track record of finding the next big thing in a variety of industries and sectors.
Hosam Arab
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opontia — Opontia provides a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. They buy businesses with a long-term competitive advantage and strong home-grown brands. They know that selling a business can be stressful and difficult, which is why they have streamlined the process so that you can receive money in your accountwithin just 6 weeks of starting the process.
- Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
omar bajarash
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- Industry: SaaS, Payments, Logistics
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.
Yahya Bajarash
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- Industry: SaaS, Payments, Logistics
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.
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- Industry: Education, Farming, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Twigtale — Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging forkids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.
- HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
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Prajit serves as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors. Based in Mumbai, Prajit is responsible for executing the business strategy and directing the overall performance and growth of our organization. He is also in charge of driving innovation across processes and create value add for customers. Prior to co-foundingInstarem Prajit, held several leadership positions in global companies, including Global Sales Director, TMF Group and Vice President, Sales and Account Management at WNS (NYSE:WNS). He is a graduate from Mumbai University.
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- Industry: Advice, Payments, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- 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.
- CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3M; Pre-Seed $780k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Eamon Tuhami is the Founder of X8IQ. Eamon attended London Guildhall University.
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- Industry: Rental, Software, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glisser — Virtual events embedded right inside your own website. Live digital engagement experiences that deliver real results Ecosystem Embeddable Integration-Enabled Monetization Opportunities Organizer Experience Simple for Planners Simple for Speakers World-Class Support Audience Experience Customizable Feature-Rich Hybrid-Ready Simple for Audiences Core Platform Data Insights No Hidden Costs Scalable Secure See all Benefits
- Voltric — Voltric provides a subscription service for electric vehicles on a 12 or 24 month plans.
- Finalrentals — Discover the freedom of the open road with our car rental services available in over 25 countries! Explore the world in comfort and style with Finalrentals.
Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
- Hatica — Hatica aggregates activity from all your work apps to power software engineering dashboards and gen AI-driven insights to help teams drive velocity, alignment and well-being.
- Chroma — the AI-native open-source embedding database
Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Colombia, Singapore, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Truora — Connect with your users via WhatsApp Optimize your onboarding process using WhatsApp.
- Migrante — Immigrant fintech for latam
- Fintecture — Under continuous control and supervision of the financial regulator, Fintecture is an authorised Payment Institution (ACPR-17248).First bank to bank instant payment solution in France, Fintecture Pay by Bank enables merchants and businesses to :+ Bypass card ceilings + Avoid illegitimate declined payments + Significantly reduce theirtransaction costs + Receive funds rapidly into their bank account + Reduce fraud by removing chargebacks + Increase security, protecting their customersFintecture Pay by Bank makes payments easy and adapts to your needs : may it be B2B payments, recurring payments, Pay by link, you name it !=======Sous le contrôle et la supervision continus du régulateur financier, Fintecture est un établissement de paiement agréé (ACPR-17248).Première solution instantanée de paiement banque à banque en France, Fintecture Pay by Bank permet aux marchands et aux entreprises de : + Contourner les plafonds des cartes + Éliminer les rejets illégitimes + Baisser considérablement les coûts de transactions + Disposer plus rapidement des fonds collectés + Réduire la fraude en supprimant les chargebacks + Augmenter la sécurité, protégeant leurs consommateursFintecture Pay by Bank facilite les paiements et s’adapte à vos besoins : B2B, paiements récurrents, abonnements, Pay by Link et bien plus.
Cristina Cordova is a Partner at First Round Capital. Cristina previously served as the Head of Platform & Partnerships at Notion. Before Notion, Cristina spent more than seven years at Stripe as it scaled from 28 to nearly 3000 people, leading the Partnerships function and the business units for Stripe’s Corporate Card & Treasury products.Cristina was also previously an active angel investor, focusing on founders building fintech, SaaS and developer products as she advised and invested in more than 50 startups.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
- sachi — Premium childcare marketplace
- Kopperfield — Welcome to electrical upgrades without the hassle.
Erik has many years of experience in the financial and e-commerce sector. Until last, he was Co-CEO at Westwing Home & Living Germany. Prior to this, Erik spent 7 years working in London and Frankfurt as an Executive Director and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.Erik studied Business and Economics at the University of Kiel and Warwick BusinessSchool. In addition, he was a tutor for statistics and econometrics.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- getquin — Track your assets, dividends, performance and more in real-time. Discuss trades and stocks with the community.
- Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
- UpScalio — We will partner with you to invest, grow and scale your e-commerce business to new heights. For and by Indian entrepreneurs and innovators.
Alexander Rugaev is the Founder of AR Ventures FZE. He previously worked at Insolar as an Advisor. Alexander Rugaev attended the Baltic State Technical University and Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Secondary Market, Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Udemy — Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achievetheir goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content.
- Discord — Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
- FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for managing the global issues and policy affairs that present the biggest risks and opportunities to your organization.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $696k–$4M; Angel $643k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
- Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility
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Browse database — It's Free!Amal Dokhan serves as a Partner at 500 Startups. She was the CEO of Global Entrepreneurship Network Saudi before that. She attended King Abdul Aziz University and the University of Wollongong.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $100k–$261k; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fintesa — Finesea is a SaaS platform that allows any business to compliantly collect payments in over 200 countries for their products, and services - in just 10 minutes.
- Neqabty — Neqabty offers a mobile application that digitalizes society by linking organizations with its members in the field of healthcare.
- Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE with retail and institutional investors worldwide. Investors earn up to 15% per annum by financing a local business and supporting the local economy.
Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $320k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Telr — Established in 2014, Telr is an award-winning, Dubai-based start-up offering payment gateway solutions for SME’s, government bodies and large corporates. Its wholly owned, unique platform enables it to handle complex or unique payment methods or integrations. TELR was awarded with the prestigious Start-up of the Year award in 2014 only month’safter officially launching. In 2015 it won Best Payment Product in the Middle East award, whilst in 2017 it was awarded Innovative Vendor – Fintech at the 2017 GEC Awards in Dubai.With a fast-growing presence in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and India, TELR is building a wider regional presence in the MENA Region. TELR enables businesses to transact in over 120 currencies with payment platform capabilities in 30 languages and it provides customers with a range of financial and business services that include social commerce, QR Codes, anti-fraud protection, Shopping Cart Integrations, and digital invoicing. TELR is the first PCI DSS Level 1 certified company in MENA (payment security standards council).
- SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
- Inzen Studio — 5 game developers met at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab. They’d worked on a couple of kick-ass games before, ranging from a cult-hit fighting game that was almost violence perfected, to a popular vertical shooter involving some seriously enraged dots which you controlled by literally sketching out awesome attack formations. Though they had a lotof fun at the time, they wanted to create more immersive play experiences.. especially ones involving Giant Mecha Gorillas! Enter Inzen Studio.Starting in Oct 2012, Inzen Studio is now a band of 11 fired up developers across Singapore, Uruguay and China.Inzen draws inspiration from Asian entertainment throughout the years. Being big fans of manga, anime and the games that were released in the 90s, we cheered when Shōhoku faced off against Sannoh, we laughed when Ultraman forgot how to activate his powers and we felt awesome when we punched our Sega Saturn controllers like Segata Sanshiro.
Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $696k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2.1M; Series A $2.4M–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
- Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
Alper Celen is a Founding Partner at Enhance Ventures and the Co-Founder of Joi Gifts.
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- Industry: B2B, Software, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buglance — The best testing environment made real!
- Right Farm — right farm is a B2B eCommerce and supply-chain company that sources food from farmers for foodservice businesses, addressing global challenges in the procurement and supply chain of fresh produce. right farm was created with one mission in mind, to improve the food supply chain. We are here to make it simpler, smarter, and more sustainable - allthrough the use of data and technology. Our control of the supply chain and our use of predictive technology facilitates routing, operations, and purchasing, designed to provide a seamless and convenient end-to-end process from farm to table. Our mission doesn't stop there, we have built our business model with the environment in mind, which means we are committed to reducing waste across our supply chain, lessening carbon footprint by supporting local farmers, and building a restorative and regenerative value chain.
Florian spent over 8 years in the financial services industry based in New York, Frankfurt and most recently London. As Executive Director of Securities Trading at Goldman Sachs, he oversaw the creation of a pan-European electronic trading platform for private investors.Prior to this, he was responsible for servicing private bank and assetmanagement clients in Germany and Austria. Florian studied Business and Electronics at the Technical University of Munich.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Credit
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
- Velocity — Fast, flexible growth capital for D2C eCommerce brands. Get up to Rs. 3 crore in revenue-based financing for marketing & working capital within 1 week. No equity dilution or collateral requirements.
Musa is an entrepreneur, author , and a senior business leader who worked in various managerial positions with many years of experience specializing in management and compliance, marketing, business risk management, project management, operational risk, and enterprise infrastructure and operations for clients in the oil & gas, manufacturing,engineering, and food industries. Musa holds a master's degree in International Management from the University of Liverpool, a certificate in cybersecurity management from the University of Toronto, a diploma in Project Management, and a BSc degree in electrical power engineering technology.
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- Industry: SaaS, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Whatfoodsmenu — Online Ordering System For Restaurants , Everything You Need To Grow Your Food And Beverage Business
Muhammad Ismail is the Managing Director at Amtec Links International. Muhammad Ismail attended University of Derby.
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- Industry: CRM, Hardware, Software
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amtec Links International — Amtec Links International is an IT company that develops, manufacture, sell, resell, and support a range of products and solutions.Amtec Links International partners with some of the leading companies in the IT industries such as Microsoft, Dell, Cisco to offer its ranges of products and solutions in the Middle East and African markets.Thecompany also design, manufacture, and distribute its products through resellers, distributors, and online. Amtec Links International was established in 2007 by Muhammad Ismail in Nigeria, later moved the head office to United Arab Emirates where it is currently based.
Othmane Bouhlal is the Founder of Kapten.
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- Industry: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Andreea is an award-winning entrepreneur and venture capitalist. She is the Founder & General Partner of Global Millennial Capital, the first investor from the Arab world to introduce artificial intelligence into its investment origination process, and an investor and board member of various portfolio companies in Silicon Valley includingUnifimoney, Rocket Dollar, Envel, UnifImoney, Elly Health, Blue Studios, PathBooks among others.Prior to starting Global Millennial Capital, Andreea was an M&A professional with Ernst and Young Corporate Finance where she advised sovereign wealth funds, investment banks, and technology companies on strategy, M&A, and market entry strategies for billion-dollar strategic capital projects.She brings extensive experience in launching and scaling private equity and venture capital funds in the middle east, previously being a founding member and Director with a middle east USD 1 Billion private capital fund. She holds close and strategic relationships with most of the institutional investors from the Middle East for the last 15 years in the region.Andreea is a Harvard Business School alumni with a specialization in General Management and holds a post-graduate diploma from MIT - Artificial Intelligence.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KingsCrowd — KingsCrowd aggregates, analyzes, and rates startups raising on the online private markets so that you can invest like a venture capitalist.
- Unifimoney — Unifimoney is an investment and money management app built to simplify, diversify and unify your money management. Manage and grow your wealth effortlessly and in one place. Passive and Active investing, plus alternative assets like Crypto and Precious Metals, a credit card with rewards paid in Bitcoin, Gold, or Equities, and a full suite of banking services. Plus exclusive benefits and offers for customers including student loans with bonuses up to $2,500, mortgages, auto loans, insurance, HSA, and more.
- Millennial Brands — Millennial Brands is an emerging consumer player specializing in launching and developing the next generation of direct-to-consumer and digital brands.
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $125k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$6M; Series A $4.3M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bamba — Download Bamba's secure mobile point-of-sale application from the Google Play store.
- Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
- FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
- Sundial Foods — Sundial Foods utilizes a macro and microstructural engineering approach to create plant-based meat alternatives for conscious consumers.The company is passionate about making the affordable, accessible, and nutritional value of plant-based meats, made from ingredients that customers know and created using simple processes.It is headquartered inBerkeley, California in 2019.
Fahad Sami Al-Hukair
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Pre-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.
Abdulaziz is co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts ecommerce solution servicing the largest customer base in the MENA region. Abdulaziz is also co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the MENA region. Previously, Abdulaziz was the founding Executive ViceChairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a USD7bn independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait (2013-2017). Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Talabat.com<http://Talabat.com> until 2010, and has since then been investing in technology startups and involved in a number of local and regional entrepreneurial initiatives. Abdulaziz has also previously served as Director at Global Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of Global Investment House “Global” where he has played a major role in managing key investments within the Private Equity Group of Global by handling various assignments on corporate restructuring, business planning, deal structuring, due diligence and managing portfolio companies' to exit. Abdulaziz has served as an executive and member of board on a number of companies within the MENA region in the technology, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer finance, food & beverage and real estate sectors.Abdulaziz holds a Bachelor's degree - double major in Information Systems and E-Commerce from University of Toledo, and an MBA degree from London Business School.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.
- Snapbook — Visit the Snapbook store to customize you're gifts, photo prints, unique phone cases, and wall art with Snapbook.
- Yougotagift.com — YouGotaGift offers a range of online card gifts from more than 400 brands through email, SMS and its app. It operates across three major business verticals including consumer gifting and employee and customer rewards.
Gowri Narayanan - Partner, FinTech @ SoftBank Vision Fund
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series C, Series D
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- Trellis Technologies — Finally, an API for insurance information.
Joel Yarbrough is the VP of Asia Pacific at Rapyd.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: India, Australia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $4.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ziina — Send and Receive Cash. Fast.
- Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
- Decentro — Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services.
Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.9M; Series A $3M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats & Apartments for short and long-term stays in UAE from Silkhaus
- ScratchNest — ScratchNest creates technologies from scratch, giving them a personalized touch, and exhilarating user experience. Striving in this direction, ScratchNest stands as the first Indian company to design, develop, and manufacture UHF RFID, NFC, BLE, and Datalogging devices in India. Founded in 2019, we are a culmination of innovation and hard work bya highly brilliant team of IITians consistently striving to provide you with the best worth of your time and money.We aim to extract the most and best out of technology so that the world relishes the power of automation. By developing the never-before technologies in India, ScratchNest aims to lay a milestone in the Make in India campaign.
Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Pakistan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- FreightFlows — Freightflows is a maritime company that offers predictive analytics for global trade. It specializes in the fields of analytics, big data, data science, and machine learning. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
Asish is an Entrepreneur, Author, Engineer, Economist, Technologist and Finance Guy. He lives life like writing a check - without any limits!
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- Industry: Tourism, Logistics, Tour Operator
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leavelo — Leavelo is a niche marketplace for customized exquisite holiday packages. Travelers can customize their trip from select 5 star holdidays based on the type of trip they want to plan such as family trips, group trips, solo trips & more.
- StageWorks — StageWorks is a high-end content management agency. We’re a global team of writers, editors, and content managers that enable companies to create content at scale without compromising quality.We help industry-leading enterprises, agencies, and SMBs with their content needs. Our clientele includes International & Domestic businesses.Starting from social media blogs, SEO Articles to Website Content, and academic writings, we live and breathe content.
- Fit My Parcel — Fit My Parcel is a smart AI driven platform for Enterprises to take care of their complex supply chain and logistics needs.
Partner at Hedosophia
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
- Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
- Trace Finance — Trace Finance is building a seamless global banking solution for Startups, beginning in LatAm. We help Startups bring funding into local operations with a better, cheaper and faster alternative.
Omar Benmoussa is the Founder at of Kapten.
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- Industry: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Angel investor funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance
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