Top 45 Community Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (October 2023)

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• invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
• Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• Torod — Torod is an API aggregator that enables E-store owners to select the best shipper based on price, insurance, destination, and item value, with a single click set-up.
• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• El-Dokan — El-Dokan is the first enterprise eCommerce software designed for large and growing retail stores in MENA to help them optimize their operations and improve their sales conversion.

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• Evergo — Evergo is a one stop shop booking application availble on both iOS and Android. Evergo’s online platform enables users to schedule and book appointments, call-backs, and all kinds of sessions with businesses across multiple sectors. The booking feature is available for both in-person and online appointments.
• Faceki — AI ID Verification, KYC, Facial Recognition, KYT, AML Cyber Security Solutions. Enhance security protocols with our advanced technology. Explore now AI Solution
• Unipal — Unipal provides university students access to tailored discounts and promotions through a digital identification.

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• Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
• AlgoDriven — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
• Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.

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• BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
• Believe — Believe Pte Ltd. is a global, Singapore-based FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products that suit their culture and life choices. From breakthrough personal care essentials to beauty products surpassing global standards, our worldwide team of experts use cutting-edgetechnology, scientifically proven methodologies and ancient knowledge to gift our customers
• Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.

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• Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
• Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
• Shift EV — Electrifying fleets in emerging markets.

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• 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.
• Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
• Connecterra — Connecterra is a developer of software for the dairy industry. Connecterra is building an Artificial Intelligence that will grow food sustainably to feed future generations. Connecterra exists to give people a previously impossible understanding of the world around them so they can make more productive, humane and sustainable use of Earth’s naturalresources. They use machine learning to turn raw data into insight-driven efficiencies for the benefit of people, companies, and the natural habitats in which they operate

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• Nabta Health — Nabta Health provides personalised healthcare to women. Accessible from home, at work, and in a clinic. Holistic and hybrid.

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• Sakkini — Sakkini is a relocation portal that empowers users with information and tools to make smarter decisions about relocating and settling into a new country.
• Unnyhog — At Unnyhog, they are gamers and they used to play a lot. They have been always noticing a lot of minuses in games, especially on mobiles. That’s why they decided to develop their own games. So far they have developed 3 games, and their games were downloaded more than 4 million times.
• The Luxury Closet — The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth.

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• Rippling — Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps. It is a platform that automates manual work, like onboarding new hires. In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, andSlack. It’s the only platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of the administrative work.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• Roofstock — Explore the leading online marketplace for investors in the single-family rental (SFR) home sector. Roofstock lets you evaluate, purchase, and own properties with confidence. Meet your investment goals in an accessible, transparent, and cost-efficient way.
• Spring Health — Eliminating barriers to mental healthcare. Clinically-proven technology with world-class providers to deliver precisely what your employees need.

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• Carbon Health — Carbon Health Provides Smart, hassle-free Primary & Urgent Care. Book same day Adult & Pediatric appointments instantly.
• Chocolate Finance — Making life richer
• 500 Startups Vietnam — 500 Startups Vietnam is a US$14 million fund to invest in promising Vietnam-connected startups. We provide finance, mentorship, and connections to both global and regional startups.

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• Airalo — Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store for travellers to access over 190+ eSIMs at the most affordable, local rates from around the world, all via eSIM compatible smartphone, tablet or PC. Airalo offers you both connectivity and freedom - you’ll never have to carry multiple SIM cards or change your number again, no matter where you are in theworld.
• Channels Inc. — Channels Inc. - Learn how you can leverage the Channels SaaS platform and apps to listen and understand your employees better while simplifying collaboration.
• FocWell — FocWell is a psychology-based digital wellness platform powered by data, technology, and coaches that helps many people meet their wellness goals from mental health management to stress reduction

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• MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
• Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
• Pine Street Labs — A non-custodial API for managing wallets. Built for enterprises.

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• Apiture — You have always been told “they can’t do it“ or “it’s going to take a year.“ Legacy technology should not be your obstacle; now you can transform development processes that would take years into hours. They don’t wrap old technology with an API layer. They create everything as an API, so they can help you innovate faster. Their engineers,ex-bankers and fintech-savvy leaders are pursuing an ambitious goal: to change the future of banking with their solutions. They are headquartered in Wilmington, NC, with an office in Austin, TX.
• Amplified Music Rights — AMR Songs is a music library rights acquisition service.
• Cutting Edge Media Music — Cutting Edge Media Music are the experts in music for media – film, television, video games, advertising, Broadway – across its publishing, label, services, and marketing verticals. Cutting Edge Media Music also owns IP in some of the most popular media properties and franchises in the world.

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• The Luxury Closet — The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth.
• Gazillion, Inc. — Gazillion Entertainment, we develop, publish and operate diverse games on many platforms. Our goal: To build breakthrough experiences featuring world-class brands and original franchises, superior production quality and unmatched gameplay. Gazillion is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

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• Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
• TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy the world's largest travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
• H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.

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• Smartvel — Are you looking to drive marketing success? Smartvel offers you specialized content creators and travel content solutions with AI. More information here!
• Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
• Managed by Q — Keep your workplace running smoothly with Eden Workplace's all-in-one workplace management and desk booking software. Discover how Eden Workplace's suite of solutions can streamline your workflow today!

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• Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
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• The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

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• Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
• COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
• CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.

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• Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
• Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
• NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.

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• Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
• Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
• elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants

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• Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
• Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
• Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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• Huspy — Huspy is a proptech based in Dubai redefining the home financing process through a user friendly digital experience that puts the buyer first.
• AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
• Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software : power your operations with insights automation to cut costs & boost profits.

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• mtion interactive — mtion is a creating the metaverse for gamers to stream from, share with each other, and be in. mtion's platform provides gamers with the tools to create their own personalized 3D spaces in which the can create, build, and socialize with in.
• Userpilot — Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
• The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.

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• Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
• AIfluence — AIfluence uses advanced algorithms to accurately match influencers to brands, manage, predict and deliver measurable ROI on every influencer marketing campaign
• Hala — Hala is the UAE's first car insurance product that rewards you for driving safely. For each day you're accident free, you get hala coins which you spend on meals, gym memberships, and hotel stays.

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• Anya — Using smart technology, we provide parents and parents-to-be with vital support on their breastfeeding and parenting journey, anytime, anywhere.
• Nabta Health — Nabta Health provides personalised healthcare to women. Accessible from home, at work, and in a clinic. Holistic and hybrid.

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• Bhatia Labs — Bhatia Labs provides productized services, platforms and infrastructure at affordable costs to individuals, startups and businesses all over the world.
• Pole Position — Automotive events agency in Dubai with creative new activation ideas and a single source for turnkey automotive event management and delivery

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• Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
• Ordera — Ordera is a mobile application focusing on enhancing the pick-up (takeaway) experience in the F&B industry, using Ordera people will be able to place and pay for their orders before their arrival to the venue and pick them up on the go in less than 30 seconds whether from the store or even from their cars like a virtual drive-thru. And with ourbuilt-in loyalty program, the more people use the application the more free-stuff they collect from their favorite venues. On the other hand, Ordera helps venue owners to increase their sales, know their customers, and maintain their loyal ones!
• Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).

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• Enhance Ventures — Enhance is already live in 7 countries and can rapidly develop vertical marketplaces across Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey with a higher chance of success.
• Magnitt — Magnitt is a startup directory that connects investors, mentors, and emerging companies in the Middle East. The discovery platform is a database with over 5,500 MENA startups and over 200 investors.
• Joi Gifts — Joi Gifts is the best online gift shop for any occasion. Send flowers, cakes, and more with same-day delivery in KSA, UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Middle East.

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• Nabta Health — Nabta Health provides personalised healthcare to women. Accessible from home, at work, and in a clinic. Holistic and hybrid.

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• Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
• Trukkr — Trukkr is Pakistan's First and Largest Online Logistics Platform. They make the process of booking commercial cargo fast by linking a shipper with transporters over a secure, intuitive and powerful platform. We ensure that shippers have complete transparency in price discovery, visibility, flexibility, and choice while at the same time givetransporters easy access to more jobs, whenever they want them. Founded in 2019, Trukkr is committed to reinventing the old school trucking industry in Pakistan by making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity, while ensuring shippers have access to the right truck, at the right time.

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• Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
• Plutus21 — Plutus21 is an investment firm focused on alternative assets such as crypto, venture capital, and real estate.
• Cupidstone — Spice up your look with high-quality fashion jewelry from Cupidstone. We offer a wide array of fashion jewelry including necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings at a price that will fit right into your budget. Treat yourself or your love to a gift from the best online fashion jewelry store!

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• Eat App — Powerful restaurant reservation and guest management system. Flexible enough to use at both small and large restaurants. Sign up today. It's free!
• Sary — Sary is a B2B marketplace for wholesale, groceries, stores, offices, cafes, restaurants, and hotels in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Shop for your business from a wide range of suppliers and distributors in one place. Get the best wholesale market prices, various items, great sales deals, offers, and discounts, fast delivery, order tracking, online payment, and cash on delivery with one click
• Speero — Speero is an automotive spare part market place.

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• Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
• InvGate — InvGate is the solution to build a modern service desk and empower IT with total visibility of your IT estate.

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• Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
• EnsoData — EnsoData helps sleep labs optimize the care continuum with sleep study management and AI Scoring for PSGs and HSATs.
• Vergent Bioscience — Targeting cancer through enhanced tumor visualization

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• Dtonic — Efficient Spatio-Temporal Big Data Processing across Smart-X Industries
• The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
• Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.

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• ReserveOut — Reserveout, choose a city to find out the best restaurants & promotions near you ..RESERVE A TABLE NOW!

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• 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.
• University of The Community/ Indigenous Cultural Arts Museum — UNIVERSITY FOR SELF LEARNING

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• Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
• Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
• The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.

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• Enfore — EnFour is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. It was founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries. Enfour's solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities insights normally only available to largercompanies. Their goal is to provide the majority of small businesses around the world with similar efficiencies and scale effects to those that large enterprises possess. They founded enfore to re-imagine how these businesses utilize technology and to enable them to stay competitive in a connected world. By combining innovative hardware, powerful and easy to use software as well as comprehensive services, enfore delivers an amazing solution to connect all business aspects.
• Citra Style — Citra Style designs and produces fashion for Muslim Women that follows contemporary runway and mainstream trends. Products are available both online and offline across the globe, with strong footprint in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany. The quality of merchandise is considered best in the segment.Citra Style’s fashion experts combinefashion items to looks which are made available online in a distinguished “Shop-By-Look” feature to inspire online shoppers.The team consists of Western born/raised Muslims with extensive fashion and ecommerce experience. Citra Style has a solid investor base that will help grow the company into a Multi 100 million USD business.
• Factory Berlin — Factory Berlin is the strongest innovation network in Europe: a curated community of 3500+ creators from the world of startups, tech, and corporates.

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• Omooma — Learn more information about pregnancy, miscarriage, breastfeeding, babycare and more from Omooma blog

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• Nabta Health — Nabta Health provides personalised healthcare to women. Accessible from home, at work, and in a clinic. Holistic and hybrid.

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• Hayi — Hayi is a free, private social network for neighbourhoods in the UAE. The mobile application provides neighbours with an exclusive platform to connect, share information and befriend those in close proximity.

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• Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
• Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
• Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

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• Magnitt — Magnitt is a startup directory that connects investors, mentors, and emerging companies in the Middle East. The discovery platform is a database with over 5,500 MENA startups and over 200 investors.
• Telfaz11 — Telfaz11 is a creative media studio from Saudi Arabia specializing in locally-relevant entertainment content
• POSRocket — Traditional cash registers are a thing of the past. POSRocket modernizes this near-obsolete system by providing business owners with an intuitive, user-friendly, cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) platform.