Top 40 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2023)

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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.
• Caplight — Caplight is a platform that enables institutional investors to buy and sell derivatives of private equity.For the first time in the private markets, institutional investors can hedge positions, generate income on assets, and access true liquidity with public settlement-like mechanics.Caplight serves a broad range of QIBs including hedge funds,VC funds, family offices, pensions, endowments, mutual funds, and insurance firms.Securities are offered by North Capital Private Securities, member FINRA/SIPC, a partner of Caplight Markets LLC.
• Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.

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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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• 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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• Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
• AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
• Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital. It wasfounded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

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• Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
• 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.
• Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.

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• Evorra — Evorra is a SaaS marketplace for brands and agencies to simply build and scale the most valuable audiences in the world while respecting privacy and providing data-source transparency.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.

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• Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.

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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.
• 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.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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• Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.

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• Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
• Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

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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.
• Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
• Light Microfinance — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.

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• Micruity — Micruity powers lifetime income products in retirement plans by enabling all stakeholders to share data through a single secure connection
• Virtualitics — Our patented technology is based on over 11 years of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA/JPL and supported by a talented team of data scientists, designers and engineers with several hundred publications in the field of artificial intelligence and data visualization. Powered by a suite of AI-enabled products,Virtualitics provides a rapidly deployable end-to-end solution that quickly preprocesses and fuses data sources, builds predictive AI models, and leverages our best-in-class data analytics and visualization platform for exploration and collaboration in either desktop or virtual reality.
• Culina Health — Culina Health is a personalized nutrition platform powered by registered dietitians to help you prioritize the way you want to live. We make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible and easier to understand so that you can fuel a satisfying and well balanced life.

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• TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
• RemoteTeam.com — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
• StartupFon — StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.

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• MedTrace Pharma — MedTrace develops a hardware platform (MT-100) that automates the production and injection of the gold standard tracer 15O-water into the patient. MedTrace also develops an analytical software platform to interpret the results from the PET scanner.By use of 15O-water, doctors will increase sensitivity in the analysis of the patient while at thesame time increasing patient throughput up to a factor of 4 compared to today's clinical workhorse.
• Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
• Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030

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• Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
• Medialyzer — Measure, analyze and increase the online impact of TV advertising.
• artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce

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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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• 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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• 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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• ELEVATUS — Hire the world's best talent with our award-winning recruitment software, Elevatus. Recruit a talented workforce that will help your company succeed and grow.
• OQ TECHNOLOGY — OQ Technology's Satellite 5G IoT - The world's first global satellite 5G operator, that can collect data from more than 1000 sensors, and so providing cellular coverage for assets and machines anywherer in the world.
• MANAFA Capital — MANAFA is an online marketplace for investing equity into innovative, early-stage companies. It provides sophisticated investors free access to direct investment opportunities, diligence tools and industry data insights for an asset class that was previously very difficult to access. For entrepreneurs, MANAFA offers an efficient way to access anetwork of sophisticated investors as well as leading partners.

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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.

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• BARQ — BARQ is the first bullet delivery PaaS in the middle east, leading the e-commerce industry to achieve a 30 min. delivery time.
• BALLURH — A SaaS platform that provides predictive analytics with smart recommendations for Retailers to enhance decision-making, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
• Lawazem | لوازم — It is the first B2B marketplace that is especially made to solve that problem. Lawazem consolidates all your operational purchases and spending in one place, whether it is groceries, stationary, cleaning materials, office accessories, or else.We go beyond to make your work environment even better, by providing gift and flower deliveries to youremployees and clients, arrange for internal events, and prepare for your guest and internal meetings through our hospitality partners.Finally, we even help in becoming your concierge for your international purchases, online purchases that require Credit Cards, and help you improve your sourcing process.Lawazem is here to help you anytime and every time.

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• Blyp — Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies.
• CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
• GlossAI — GlossAi turns your impossibly long, but precious content, into an endless source of compelling share-worthy videos for the various uses of your target audience.

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• Fitmap — A unique marketplace where people meet trainers and coaches from various branches of sport and health all around the world.
• Jib Games — We are a venture-backed game studio based in Istanbul, developing & publishing MMORPGs since 2009. Our games have been played by 25 million players in 8 countries.We believe that a good education brings self-awareness which drives happiness. Our mission is to dream, design, create and develop better and happy ways to get educated.Currentlyworking on Polity, a gaming platform where players can choose to excel in various professions as a citizen in an open virtual world. These professions derive from popular casual games. We target worldwide (esp. Tier 1) 16+ years old lifelong gamers.
• Zonetix Market Research — Zonetix is a zero-party data market research company operating in emerging markets.

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• Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
• Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
• Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.

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• MASAN Group — As an Integrated Consumer Ecosystem, Masan Group satisfies the evolving big unmet needs of 100 million Vietnamese consumers
• GuocoLand Limited — GuocoLand Limited ("GuocoLand"​ or "GLL"​), is a public company listed on the Singapore Exchange since 1978. The principal activity of GuocoLand Limited is that of an investment holding company. The principal business activities of its subsidiaries are property development, property investment, hotel operations, propertymanagement and activities relating thereto. As a premier regional property company, GLL is focused on achieving scalability, sustainability and growth in its core markets through its property development, investment and management businesses.
• Sabana Real Estate Investment Management Pte. — Sabana Real Estate Investment Management has four industrial property segments that include high-tech industrial, chemical warehouse and logistics, warehouse and logistics, and general industrial. It invests in income-producing real estate used for industrial purposes and real estate-related assets.

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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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• AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
• 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.
• Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.

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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.

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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.
• Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
• 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.

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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.

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• Aqarmap — Aqarmap is a real estate marketplace that specializes in providing real estate management services. It features an online-based platform that allows users to buy, sell, and search for their ideal apartments and houses. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Al Qahirah, Egypt.
• Zoomaal — Zoomaal is the leading crowdfunding platform in the Arab world.Zoomaal went live in July, 2013. Semi-finalist in the MIT Arab Enterprise Forum business plan competition, backed by four Middle Eastern venture capital firms and featured on CNN, Wamda, the International Herald Tribune and more, Zoomaal is at the forefront of Arab crowdfunding: helpingpeople empower Arab creativity and culture.

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• Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
• Edurey Eğitim, Danışmanlık, Bilişim ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş — A Learning Experience Platform where you can include users' experience and participation in processes while offering a social learning environment with different features. You can include the learner experience in all your training processes with EDUREY LXP. Or You can choose Edurey LMS which is The training management system, where you canmake your training management processes in the corporate or academic field, offers a unique experience to the users.

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• qlub — Qlub is the fastest, most secure form of digital menu & contactless payment for customers at restaurants, clubs & lounges.
• Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
• Floward — Send fresh flowers and a variety of gifts online with Floward. Browse through our numerous products and get same-day flowers delivery

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