Top 15 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in October 2023

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• Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
• Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
• Supersmart — Supersmart is the world's leading loss-prevention solution for self-scan transactions. Supersmart uses its proprietary machine-learning, AI algorithm to validate all self-scanning transactions in physical stores. Our solution enables retailers to confidently provide self-scanning options to their customers, enhancing customer experiencewithout sacrificing potential loss.The Israel-based company was founded in 2014 by Yair Cleper and Amir Ayalon.

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• ThetaRay — ThetaRay's big data analytics solutions are based on AI & machine learning, empowering businesses to find opportunities and threats hidden in their big data
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
• ThoughtWire — The leading Digital Twin Technology to operationalize data from your built environment, IoT devices, people, and workflows.
• CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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• Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.

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• BioLoomics — BioLoomics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that uses evolution in a microscope to develop drug discovery tools and protein drugs. Our VariVolve platform tests millions of protein designs for a targeted activity in hours, enabling efficient mining of the vast chemical space of protein designs. A strong advantage of our approach is theuse of whole intact cells as test vessels that capture complex drug behavior not attainable in conventional assays.
• Erthos — erthos is a producer of biodegradable packaging materials intended to replace traditional polystyrene and polypropylene inputs.
• ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport

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• Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
• Hints — Taking notes is not enough
• Giraffe — Giraffe develops an investment engine to help individuals and companies to improve the world. It provides an engaging learning environment about impact and investing. Giraffe is located in New York, New York.

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• Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
• liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.

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• FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
• Arugga AI Farming — Arugga intends to transform greenhouse vegetable farming into a data-driven, automated and efficient field by designing the first autonomous robot which will monitor and treat every individual plant in the greenhouse.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• BiotaX — Microbiome Genomic Analysis Cloud Platform | Biotax.co
• EyeControl — EyeControl is a medical technology company specializing in innovative communication solutions. We implement advanced AI-technologies to bridge information barriers, facilitating better care and decision-making in healthcare environments.
• Forsea Foods — Forsea Foods develops cell-cultured seafood through the use of patented organoid technology which allows them to bypass the scaffolding stage of cultivated meat production.

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• Opster — Reducing the time and cost of running Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. Opster’s solutions ensure stability, optimize performance and minimize required hardware.
• Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
• TrialJectory — TrialJectory uses AI to match cancer patients with clinical trials that fit their exact cancer diagnosis. Named a TIME Best Invention of 2020, our service is 100% FREE for patients, and always will be. Get started, or share TrialJectory with someone in need!

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• buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
• Cosmo Connected — Cosmo Connected is a French start-up born in 2015, whose mission is to secure all people in mobility (users of bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and scooters). Cosmo Connected has developed a unique technology, combining hardware and software, which ensures visibility and security for the urban commuter. The device integrates different ignition modes(brake light, position light, hazard warning light, turn signals) designed to make users more visible. Connected to an application, it also has a fall detector, which alerts relatives or emergency services in the event of an accident. Our technology is patented in more than 150 countries. Our vision is to put our technology at the service of as many users as possible in order to make roads safer and greener, by promoting the use of soft mobility. Our goal is to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services that adapt to everyone's needs.
• Depoint — By digitizing every single human action, process, and operation. depoint enables retail organizations’ innermost workings to become instantly visible, accountable, and trackable. Allow managers to operate more accurately, beating their KPIs for greater short and long-term gains.

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• WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
• New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
• Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

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• Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
• OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
• Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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• Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
• Sckipio Technologies — Sckipio Technologies specializes in Gfast technologies. The company is passionate about delivering ultra broadband access for the masses. It is the first semiconductor company focused on the exciting new ITU standard.Sckipio is the first company to deliver Gfast modems and the only company with award-winning Gfast technology. More than 20% of theGfast standard came from Sckipio technical contributions.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel.
• AposHealth — We at AposHealth® are passionate about revolutionizing the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions by simply addressing peoples’ gait to help alleviate pain and help them move better and live better. Our flagship solution, Apos®, is FDA-cleared to temporarily reduce knee pain caused by osteoarthritis. It can also be used as a general wellnessdevice to help patients live well with chronic lower back and hip pain. With a 96 percent satisfaction rate, over 110,000 patients treated, and dozens of peer-reviewed publications supporting the science behind Apos® as well as its clinical effect, this system—consisting of gait analysis, personalized foot-worn device, and a customized treatment plan—has helped patients with chronic knee, lower back, and hip pain worldwide move, live, and thrive.

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• FlexDex — FlexDex is a minimally invasive surgery medical device technology that provides high dexterity. Its platform technology translates the surgeon’s hand, wrist, and arm movements from outside the patient into corresponding movements of an end-effector inside the patient’s body.The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Brighton,Michigan.
• MEDX Xelerator — MEDX Xelerator is a unique medical device and digital health incubator. It was founded by MEDX Ventures Group, together with three partners: Boston Scientific, Intellectual Ventures’ Invention Science Fund and Sheba Medical Center. Each of MEDX Xelerator’s partners contributes outstanding core competencies, which complement one another and togethercreate a solid foundation for your success. Our incubator is seeking medical innovations for minimally invasive procedures, medical robotics, medical implants and digital health.Our vision is to leverage the power of MEDX Xelerator, and together with the extraordinary Israeli med tech innovation scene create a local cluster of entrepreneurial companies with breakthrough solutions to true unmet medical needs. Our mission is to nurture those promising technologies into successful medical ventures for the benefit of patients and health care professionals. We see you, the entrepreneur, as the key to success and we are here for you to make it happen.
• RepAir — RepAir develops a Direct Air Capture system based on a proprietary electrochemical cell technology that can capture CO2 from the air in gigaton scale. Powered solely by renewable energy, our system can be deployed at the site of carbon storage or utilizations, saving arable land and avoiding CO2 transport.