Top 35 Finance Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (May 2026)

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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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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
• Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.

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• SoBanHang — SoBanHang helps small and micro businesses build online stores, reach more customers and manage cashflow effortlessly on smartphones
• Prota Games — Prota Games is the most popular eSports learning platform of Brazil with League of Legends and Fortnite Classes
• Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

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• Modanisa — Modanisa is an online fashion retailer for women's Islamic clothing, dresses and accessories. The site offers clothing and accessories to women of all ages and offers shipping and delivery all over the world. The site also trends latest hijab styles for women along with fashion tips for the Muslim regions. Designer abayas and jilbabs, Kayra,Armine, Aker and Tekbir are also sold online.
• Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
• yallacompare — Compare the best car insurance, credit card and personal loan providers in Dubai & the UAE with yallacompare

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• EthStorage — EthStorage is a crypto startup and It is a storage rollup built on top of ethereum.
• Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
• Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.

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• uTu — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
• UTU Singapore — utu is a travel technology company with a mission to transform the global travel experience for tourists. By introducing utu tax free to a world of rewards with higher tax refunds, they can get the most value out of their trips.
• My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies is a financial company that offers financial inclusion for banked and unbanked firms.

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• Stack — Stack is an immersive experience of the internet with collaboration at its core. Achieve more with your peers in an organized environment
• Aide Health — Aide Health is a clinician-to-patient service which uses conversational AI to improve patient engagement and clinical assessment for chronic disease.
• Zywa (YC W22) — Zywa is a FinTech startup building the best banking experience to help teens and young adults spend, receive and manage money. Zywa also allows parents to send money to their children, which they can spend securely whenever, wherever in the safe environment of their parent’s oversight. Zywa is launching its services initially in the UAE &Egypt and will be soon rolling out to the rest of the Middle East.

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• Rapyd — With Rapyd, your business can accept and send payments to just about anyone, anywhere. Faster, cheaper and easier. No one gives you more solutions to integrate payment processing and fintech.
• Safe Security — Safe Security is a leader in AI-driven cyber risk management. Its real-time, data-driven approach empowers organizations to predict and prevent breaches.
• Tenstorrent — At Tenstorrent, we build AI processors for machine learning workloads of today and tomorrow.

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• Instabase — Instabase combines the latest AI breakthroughs with industry expertise to create real business value for your business.
• Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
• Concordia — Concordia is a modular risk and collateral management protocol that unifies and enables multi-chain collateralization of digital assets.

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• Parabel — Lemnature AquaFarms - A Sustainable Aquaculture Company
• AUTO1 Fintech — AUTO1 Fintech is a digital platform offering instant financing and insurance products to automobile dealerships buying and selling used vehicles via AUTO1.
• Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.

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• Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
• Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
• Mascotte Health — Supercharge your practice with a strong operational team and state-of-the-art technology.

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• Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
• RideTandem — Tandem turns local transport providers into smart shuttles for work, education and more. The smart way to move your community.
• Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.

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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.

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• Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
• Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
• Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.

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• Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

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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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• Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
• Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
• Vellum — Vellum is the development platform for production-worthy large language model applications.

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• BC29 — Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz
• Al Dana —
• The Syndicate Investment Group (SIG) — Syndicate Investments is an investment company that invests in companies and provides them with the equity capital and support necessary to scale up from early-stage startups to successful businesses. With a presence in more than 16 locations globally and with $500M assets under management, Syndicate Investments is a recognized top-rankinginvestment company. It has a proven track record of finding the next big thing in a variety of industries and sectors.

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• Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
• Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
• Automat AI — Robotic process automation for Chrome using GPT3 guided Computer Vision

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• Frec — Next-level investing without a wealth advisor. Low-cost direct indexing with supercharged tax savings. Earn high interest on cash with Treasury.
• PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
• Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.

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• Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.

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• Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
• Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
• Alive — Alive is building a globally leading decentralized artificial intelligence platform supported by a global community of developers, individuals, economists and technologists.The Alive Foundation is a steward, and will support and grow the Alive community until it becomes self-sufficient. Time51 Labs helped launch Alive, and currently serve asadvisors to the Foundation and operators.

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• gamiphy — GAMIPHY is a user engagement and retention platform that equips brands in different industries with tools proven to increase customer reach and loyalty such as branded mini games, playable Ads and digital loyalty programs. The tools and techniques offered by GAMIPHY can be either integrated into existing websites and apps, or can be used to createplatform-independent solutions. The available solutions are diverse, fully customizable, DIY, and are guaranteed to improve each customer journey, thus shorten the path to earn the loyalty sought after.
• Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
• Kader — Kader is an on-demand mobile application that connects pre-vetted quality workers with businesses in the hospitality, retail and service sectors using an advanced matchmaking technology based on location, experience and qualifications.

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• Fenix24 — Fenix24 is a part of the Conversant Group family of companies that focuses on post-incident disaster recovery and restoration. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Westhill — Westhill is an insurance company that specializes in claims, technology, property and casualty, homeowners, and property. It helps insurance companies delight property owners in their “moment of truth” blending a proprietary digital experience. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
• CyberSmart — Innovative cybersecurity solutions for all businesses, no matter the size. Simple, affordable government-standard security certification products for SMEs.

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• Repzo — Repzo is a mobile sales CRM (customer relationship management) app . Simply put, this application turns your smartphone or tablet into the ultimate standalone field force management tool.
• Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
• Jiye Technologies — Jiye Technologies is revolutionizing Agri Marketplaces of Pakistan

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• Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
• slice — slice is a one-stop payment app for all spending needs. Their goal is to make money management simpler & faster for their users. It is backed by leading investors such as Tiger Global, Insight partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.
• Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.

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• Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
• TBD Health — TBD Health makes at-home STD/STI screening kits that are accurate, easy to use, and built for women.
• Entrée — No soggy delivery. No overly complicated meal kit. Just exceptional flavor!

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• GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
• MediQuo — MediQuo is a hospital in your pocket, connecting patients and professionals for any health interaction. Healthcare today has 75% of unnecessary medical visits that could be taken in the distance, and the vast majority of health professionals are using messaging platforms such as WhatsApp to communicate with patients or other health professionals.MediQuo is a chat-based app specialised in health, GDPR and health data compliant, giving professionals time control, incorporating patient medical history and phone privacy. Allowing also video and audio communication. It is a place for discussion, appointments or medical consultation with your doctor or any new health professional. Also includes immediate 24/7 medical response and a network, for health information and professional discovery. We have done already 1M consultations and got 600k app downloads. Our Google Play Ratings are 4,6 (with 6k reviews). We are amongst the top health apps in Spain and Latam.
• Zywa (YC W22) — Zywa is a FinTech startup building the best banking experience to help teens and young adults spend, receive and manage money. Zywa also allows parents to send money to their children, which they can spend securely whenever, wherever in the safe environment of their parent’s oversight. Zywa is launching its services initially in the UAE &Egypt and will be soon rolling out to the rest of the Middle East.

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• Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

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• albo — albo is the leading mexican challenger bank which helps you manage your money, and it can adapt to your lifestyle bringing you an honest service that cares about you. albo offers you a mobile banking app, a banking account, and a Mastercard card, allowing you to easily spend, save and invest your money. You can open your account in 60 secondsfrom your phone, having at your disposal personalized financing tools to help assist you in making better financial decisions. You can also be able to make free money transfers to whichever bank 24/7. albo includes many other innovating functions besides the ones mentioned above.
• Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
• One Trading — Discover an unrivalled trading experience with One Trading. We believe regulation powers user experience, not breaks it. Crypto - But regulated. Buy crypto now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOGE, Solana, Cardano and more.

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• Al Dana —
• Sunstar Space & Tech Corp. — Defence Tech, Space, Tech, UCAV.
• The Syndicate Investment Group (SIG) — Syndicate Investments is an investment company that invests in companies and provides them with the equity capital and support necessary to scale up from early-stage startups to successful businesses. With a presence in more than 16 locations globally and with $500M assets under management, Syndicate Investments is a recognized top-rankinginvestment company. It has a proven track record of finding the next big thing in a variety of industries and sectors.

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• Mirakl — Mirakl offers the industry’s advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform. With Mirakl, organizations across B2B and B2C industries can launch marketplaces faster, grow bigger, and operate with confidence as they exceed rising customer expectations. Platforms are the new competitive advantage in eCommerce, and the world’s most trusted brandschoose Mirakl for its comprehensive solution of technology, expertise, and the Mirakl Connect ecosystem to unlock the power of the platform business model for them. As a result, companies like ABB, Astore by AccorHotels, Best Buy Canada, Carrefour, Catch, Changi Airport, Darty, The Kroger Co., Leroy Merlin, Maisons du Monde, Metro, and Toyota Material Handling gain the speed, scale, and agility to win in the changing eCommerce landscape. For more information: www.mirakl.com.
• MerQube — MerQube is a cloud native indexing platform designed for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. In the growing space of passive (index-linked) indexing, MerQube provides robust financial indices in the areas of equities, futures and options and ESG and has the expertise that spans market-capitalization weightedindices to risk-premia, volatility, thematics, and ESG.
• New Era Cap — New Era Cap is a headwear and fashion apparel brand which offers products such as hand crafted caps and T-shirts.

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• NFTEye — NFTEye is an all-in-one platform that provides both deep analytics and professional trading suites. With NFTEye Analytics, customers can identify potential opportunities through hot mints, trending collections, bluechip index, and other valuable metrics & signals. NFTEye Trading Suites also provide services like real-time Sniper, SmartBidding, Smart Minting, etc., to help traders capture the potential opportunities. Our vision is to make NFT trading more intelligent for both professional and retail investors.
• Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
• Laifei Smart — Laifei Smart offers AI intelligent lawn mowing robots for global lawn care, and provides customers in this field with more standardized, precise and efficient intelligent solutions.

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• Toters — Fast & easy delivery. GET THE APP
• Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
• Mumzworld — Mumzworld.com is the largest e-commerce portal in the Middle East dedicated to all things mother, baby, and child. The Company serves over 2 million mothers in the MENA region and ships to more than 20 countries. Mothers can now shop faster and easier than ever before and find products not available anywhere else in the region.Mumzworld.com is acompany built by mumz for mumz, with the ultimate vision of becoming an indispensable online extension of a mother’s life. Mumzworld.com was created by the same team of Bayt.com (Alexa rank# 1,700), the largest job site in the Middle East. As a result, Mumzworld.com has:• Established the largest catalog of products for mothers in the region, bringing more than 200,000 products online from over 2,000 global and regional brands • Shipped over 60 tons of products to over 20 countries • Pioneered the e-commerce experience for mothers in the Middle East, being called the “Amazon for moms” by CNN. • Partnered with giant FMCGs, such as P&G and DANONE • Acquired exclusivity to a large selection of products, as well as exclusive distribution rights for a growing number of global brands