# Top 25 Education Startup Investors in Egypt in May 2026

## Edventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Training, Online Portals

EdVentures is a corporate venture capital that invests in startups specializing in education, culture and innovative learning solutions in SEED and Pre-Series A rounds focusing on Egypt, Africa, and the Arab World. The corporate VC was launched in 2017 by Nahdet Misr Publishing House. It provides technical and financial support to startups in orderto ensure success and continuity in the market by providing investment according to the needs and maturity level of each company.

## Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Training, Education, Online Portals

Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is the Egyptian house of expertise. It brings together outstanding Egyptian scientists and experts from universities, research institutions, private sector, NGOs, policymakers, and prominent Egyptian scientists in Diaspora to deliberate country problems, propose and carry out scientific studies andfuture strategic basic plans to tackle these problems.

## Algebra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

## NFX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

## AUC Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Finance

What is AUC Angels?

AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region. Angel investors are individuals who are interested in investing in early-stage startups with growth potential which in turn supports the growth of a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt.

## Cairo Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.

## Twilio
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Twilio is a developer platform for communications and is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services, and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers, and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications.

## Stripe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet.Businesses of every size, from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook, use the company’s software to accept online payments and run complex global operations. The company combines economic infrastructure with a set of applications fornew business models like crowdfunding and marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and more. Stripe navigates global regulatory uncertainty and partners closely with internet leaders like Apple, Google, Alipay, Tencent, Facebook, and Twitter to launch new capabilities.It was founded in 2010 by John and Patrick Collison and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

## African Development Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belvédère, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Legal, Energy, E-Learning

African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It finances development projects and programs in cooperation with other national and international development institutions; offers technical assistance in the selection, study, and preparation of projects; and promotes investments of public and privatecapital in projects and programs designed to contribute to the economic and social progress of the regional member states. The company also provides sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public sector and non-sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public and private sectors; lines of credit for trade finance; agency lines; guarantees such as partial credit and risk guarantees; equity and quasi-equity trade finance; and risk management products comprising interest rate swaps, currency swaps, commodity swaps, interest rate caps, and collars. In addition, it offers trade finance services consisting of risk participation agreements, trade finance lines of credit, and soft commodity finance facilities as well as technical assistance. African Development Bank was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

## Tanmia wa Tatweer Project
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, E-Learning

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## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

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.

## Flat6Labs Egypt
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

MENA’s leading seed and early stage VC firm, and the manager of the most renowned startup programs in the region. We are Accelerating the Future.

## Access Bridge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Marketplace

Access Bridge Ventures (ABV) is a leading early stage venture capital fund. tha invests across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and on a case by case basis outside these regions. We currently have investments in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and aggressively expa

## Cubit Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Medical, Delivery

Cubit Ventures is a USD10m seed stage venture fund backing tech and SaaS startups driving digital transformation in Egypt; one of the fastest growing economies in the world and undergoing a massive digital transformation.. We have a strategic relationship with Founder Institute, supporting our portfolio companies with access to the world'slargest network of mentors and investors (14,000+), and a global network of 4000 companies ($20B portfolio value) across over 200 cities.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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.

## Segment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting

Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps you collect, clean, and activate your customer data.

## HIMAngel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments.
HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.

## Alex Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps

Alex Angels is an investment management company that helps investors to invest in early-stage companies with strong management teams. The company specializes in the fields of financial services, financial exchange, and investments.
Alex Angels was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Al Iskandariyah, Egypt.

## The Challenge Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series D, Series C
- Focus: Software, Hardware, Internet

The Challenge Funds are two Delaware limited partnerships focused on equity investments in Israel-related privately held and publicly traded companies.

## Notion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

## Amazon Web Services
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software,startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

## Zaldi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, E-Learning

Zaldi Capital is one of the fastest growing asset management companies in Egypt.

## Med Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Egypt, Arkansas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech

Med Angels is a federation of Mediterranean angel networks. As a network of networks, we are focused on facilitating cross-border investing and syndicating deals among participating Mediterranean angel networks.

## Flat6Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.

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