Top 30 eSports VC Funds & Investors in Middle East (October 2023)

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• Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
• Hotelmize — Our Big Data Solutions for the booking Industry identifies and takes advantage of booking price volatility, automatically increasing your profitability.
• Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.

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• Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
• Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
• Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

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• Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
• GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
• FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.

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• Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
• 3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
• Productive Machines — We create digital twins of the milling process to identify vibrations and then automatically personalize the tool path parameters to eliminate chatter. Our customers get to the best part, faster, the first time.

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• Luda — Lifting people through play
• Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
• Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.

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• PulPac — PulPac provides the packaging industry with a groundbreaking manufacturing technology for low-cost, high-performance fiber-based packaging and single-use products. By pioneering the technology of cellulose molding we enable our customers to replace single-use plastics with a sustainable and cost competitive alternative globally.
• Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
• Majority — Not a multicultural agency. An agency for the culture. We are built upon a diversity-led talent model. Not just for a more equitable world, but because we know diversity is the ultimate competitive advantage for disruptive creativity that moves culture. And when you move culture, you move product. Not a company with a mission. A mission with acompany: To accelerate the normalization of diverse faces powering the best creative companies in the world. Because when it’s normalized, you can see it. And when you can see it, you can be it. That is a generational legacy that is bigger than advertising. Not another coastal agency. An Atlanta agency. We are founded in the ATL, where the minority is the majority. Where local culture profoundly influences global pop culture. Where the Hollywood of the South collides with the Silicon Valley of the South. Atlanta culture drives black culture, which drives pop culture, which is America’s greatest renewable resource and global export. Not mediums deciding the best ideas. Ideas deciding the best medium. We ignite diverse lived experiences into cultural disruption that can take many forms, including: advertising, strategic planning, digital, branded entertainment, design, product innovation, experiences, art and activism. Our only agenda is that the best idea wins. (Yea this is a lot of site copy, thanks for persevering.)

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• NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
• FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
• Talenya — Using AI to find both active and passive job seekers, Paycor Smart Sourcing taps into the largest database of candidates and recruits the best for every role.

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• Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
• Bebopbee — BebopBee crafts exceptional, emotive and enduring casual gaming experiences
• Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.

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• Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
• FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
• Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.

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• Uplify — Uplify makes it easy for any streamers to monetize their content as their audience grows and create new authentic content your followers will love.
• OverPRO — Next generation eSports platform for players of any level
• Monetizr — Monetizr is a unique in-game advertising platform that enables brand marketers to engage with GenZ and Millennial audiences. Monetizr offers sequential multi-touch brand placements, scalability across hundreds of mobile games, high engagement, and data collection in exchange for valuable rewards.

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• GHOSTDRIVE — The Ghostdrive leverages the decentralized nature of P2P networks (IPFS, and Filecoin) to provide unlimited data uploads. Unlike traditional centralized systems, where storage capacity is finite, P2P networks can dynamically expand their storage capabilities as more users join the network.
• Flanksource — Mission Control for Enterprise Software Teams
• SEO Site Checkup — SEO Site Checkup offers webmasters, small business owners, and SEO agencies with SEO tools, software, and articles. It offers users with analysis and monitoring tools to analyze SEO issues of websites, to generate white-label SEO reports, to receive notifications on SEO score changes, and to understand their competitors’ SEO profiles.SEO SiteCheckup is operated from New York, United States.

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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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• OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
• Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
• Arcturus — Make video come alive.

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• Cappi — Cappi's mission is to empower the independent people of tomorrow.The Cappi team envisions a future which everyone can make a living by experiencing their authentic self.Today's generation share the unique passions to discover and experience the world. These generation has a craving to do what they love when they want in a happyenvironment and feel the power of living.By leveraging technologies human are able to delegate their financial task to an Artificial Intelligence creating financial freedom. This lifestyle is the foundation for the next generation of ambitious human in the changing world.Cappi is here to pave the way to rise the personnel wealth creation which we believe will cause the largest shift of empowerment in well-being. It will uplift individuality over institutions, enable people to work on their on terms, and lead to a more equitable future.
• Justhome — Discover how much home you can afford with our mortgage calculator. Explore the best mortgage rates in Germany. We're your go-to mortgage broker
• Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.

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• NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
• Ottopia — Ottopia Technologies is a software company engaged in the design, development, and commercialization of teleoperation systems.
• Mobb — Give your developers time back with fixes you can trust.

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• Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
• Cineshort — #1 Short Movie App. Cineshort is created to bring award-winning unique films to you for your short moments.
• Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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• Overwolf — Overwolf is an all-in-one platform for creating, sharing and monetizing in-game apps and mods
• Wristcam — Wristcam camera for Apple Watch. With the help of a camera on apple watch, you can capture 4K Photos, HD Videos and send Live Video Messages to your friends on any device.
• Illusive — Illusive is now Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense. We have joined forces to protect your organization from identity vulnerabilities and threats.

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• SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
• teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
• Canid — We believe vaccinating shouldn't be hard and it shouldn't be a distraction from what's most important: taking care of the kids.

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• Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
• NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
• Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform

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• KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
• Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
• Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision

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• Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
• Arcturus — Make video come alive.
• Proteus Motion — The Proteus system by Proteus Motion Inc. (formerly Boston Biomotion) is a new category of intelligent exercise and rehab equipment designed to strengthen, optimize, and restore movements using patented 3D resistance and 3D measurement. One system is used to train and measure any movement during post-op through peak performance, and enhancemovement efficiency through a unique neuromuscular stimulation that can only be achieved by moving in water or mud. Compared to traditional tools like free weights and cable machines, 3D resistance produces up to 3x more muscle stimulation, lower strain on the joints, and greater neuromuscular stimulation to accelerate "muscle memory" and more efficient movement patterns. Subscription software profiles strength for users using a new and comprehensive way to measure muscle performance, offers personalized insights and recommendations, and tracks progress across a suite of 6 proprietary metrics.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

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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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• Aumni — Master the private capital markets with the most intelligent investment data available.
• Tangibly — Tangibly is a platform for businesses to manage their intellectual property by securing their trade secrets in legally enforceable form.
• Paradox — Meet the AI assistant for recruiting built to save you time & money. She can screen candidates, schedule interviews, answer questions, & more in seconds.

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• Zoog — Be part of their story
• Next Dim — Next Dim is a revolutionary, proprietary, high performance network analysis solution.
• Pelles.ai — Pells.ai is leveraging generative AI and path-planning algorithms to create a new way to design and produce mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) building systems to save time, money, and materials.

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• Neol — Neol is a decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community.
• Hirize — Resume parser and matching AI-powered with GPT-3 Technology, supercharge your hiring with our wide range of recruitment solutions
• Artifica.io — Artifica.io creates products for the requirements of industries by utilizing artificial intelligence technologies.

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• Inthegame — Discover INTHEGAME platform and learn how our interactive overlay technology increases viewer engagement and monetization on your channels. Our no-code technology works on all CTVs and mobile devices.

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• SYLPHAERO — SYLPHAERO is working on a world-first: fully electric plasma-based jet engines, in order to tackle climate change. The reason behind the creation of these new engines is simple: today's electric aircraft can only use propeller-based electromagnetic motors, so they fly at low speeds. The world record is only 623 km/h for an electricaircraft, and the speed limit is about 1000 km/h. Our electric, plasma-based jet engines work differently. Instead of relying on electromagnetism like today's electric motors, they rely on thermodynamics like today's fuel-based jet engines. Usually, fuel is burned into the combustion chamber to heat the air at approximately 1700 °C, which generates CO2. The expansion of air due to the heat accelerates it toward the exhaust, where it generates thrust by leaving the engine at high speed. In our case, we use the same principle of heating the air to accelerate it. However, we heat it using electricity only, and we heat it so much that we generate a plasma, far above 2000 °C, without emitting CO2.
• Smart Immune — Smart Immune is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing the next generation of hematopoietic stem cell-based biotherapies to change the prognosis and life quality of patients with devastating diseases. The company's first cell therapy program is based on T cell progenitors or ProTcellsTM (CD7+/CD34-; CD5- cells)curative power to enable a short, polyclonal, and safe post-transplantation immune recovery. This program be completed by integrative developments from targeted conditioning to gene therapy and genome editing enabling clinicians to access new-generation treatments for a wide variety of inherited blood disorders and blood cancers.
• ØZERS NUTRITION — ØZERS is a French foodtech that designs highly functional sports nutrition using only healthy and vegan ingredients. The company is lead by a professional boxer and engineer, working together with biotech engineers and doctors.Our products are made out of plant-based ingredients like plant proteins, microalgaes, vitamins and minerals.

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• User1st — User1st Ltd. provides a cloud-based service designed that enables accessibility professionals, webmasters, content managers, user experience managers, and developers to make any website accessible without changing the existing codebase. This revolutionary product detects, fixes, and monitors any website simply by adding a single line of code– thenthe User1st Code-Fix Editor does the rest.User1st has designed a platform that enables businesses to achieve accessibility compliance in ways never before imagined at a fraction of the traditional time and costs. Not only providing protection from lawsuits but also reaching new customers never before able to engage online.User1st gives your team powerful tools to guide them through enabling all of the various aspects of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standards including: assistive keyboard navigation, dynamic color contrast, and screen reader compliance. User1st Accessibility Suite is continuously tested across all major browsers and across all major screen readers enabling the largest possible impact to reaching disabled users.User1st is being used everyday by tens of thousands of individuals. With the data collected, User1st continually updates its platform to better assist individuals with versatile disabilities such as: visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and motor disabilities. Additionally, many in the elderly population that do not self-identify as disabled benefit from the these capabilities improving their Internet experience.
• Reactful — Reactful A.I. and machine learning technology engages and converts your visitors on the web while you have their attention. Boost engagement and conversions by interpreting site visitors’ “digital body language”, and react accordingly in real time. Reactions can be as subtle as gently animating elements on a page, or more directly engagingvisitors with intelligent and timely messages in the form of a reaction or notification. Best of all, Reactful allows marketers to be agile and regain control of their website by launching and updating Reactful campaigns at any time - without ever requiring any coding or technical deployments.
• Inthegame — Discover INTHEGAME platform and learn how our interactive overlay technology increases viewer engagement and monetization on your channels. Our no-code technology works on all CTVs and mobile devices.

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• Postuby — Postuby is a practical social media management tool.
• Pink Games — Pink Games is a Local hyper-casual game studio.
• For Physician — For Physician offers 24/7 online specialist physician support.

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• BithTV — BithTV is an all-in-one free video editor to take your content to the next level. Create, edit, and publish videos in minutes.
• Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.