Top 35 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Egypt in October 2023

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• CardoO — Welcome To Our InnovationsExplore
• SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
• Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.

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

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• Buguard — Buguard, Inc. is a company information security solutions provider with expertise and demonstrated experience providing information assurance (IA) and computer security services to government, commercial and international customers. Buguard was founded in 2019 and is based in Cairo, Egypt. Our capabilities include risk and vulnerabilityassessments, secure network architecture and design, security program management and development, as well as security policy, process and procedure integration. Buguard is a focused, “boutique” consulting company.
• Menthum — Saving Made Simple
• SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!

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• Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
• Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
• Pylon — Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure.
• 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.

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• dKilo — dKilo is a technology company in the AdTech space. It offers smart out of home advertising solutions using the internet of things and AI.
• Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
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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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• Filtareeq — Empowering your logistics department in ecommerce journey
• 3attar.com — Healthy Super 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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• Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
• Ordera — Ordera is a mobile application focusing on enhancing the pick-up (takeaway) experience in the F&B industry, using Ordera people will be able to place and pay for their orders before their arrival to the venue and pick them up on the go in less than 30 seconds whether from the store or even from their cars like a virtual drive-thru. And with ourbuilt-in loyalty program, the more people use the application the more free-stuff they collect from their favorite venues. On the other hand, Ordera helps venue owners to increase their sales, know their customers, and maintain their loyal ones!
• Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).

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• Midient — We help restaurants collect, analyze, and act on their customer data to increase customer satisfaction and increase revenue.
• Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
• Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy

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• elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants
• Paperclip — Paperclip aims to champion the sharing economy via a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying, selling, renting and donating within communities. This concept has been tentatively titled the 'social inventory movement' - a marketplace where listings never leave; an ecosystem of people's assets, with ownership transferred from profile toprofile following transactions.The overarching mission is to change the way people think about the things that they own, in the same manner that Airbnb changed the way people think about their properties - to empower people by unlocking the value of their everyday assets such as bikes, power tools, clothes, books and even food.
• MyJam — All the food you love in one place.

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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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• Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
• Manara — We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our websiteto learn more.
• Roforco — Roforco runs a Roblox game accelerator that makes games successful by providing funding, resources and hands-on support. It's YCombinator for Roblox games, built by two YCombinator Alumni. Co-founders Artem and Brain have been building games together since they were 14 were developers on 12 top grossing titles, accounting for over 2.74billion plays/downloads.Prior to building the accelerator, Roforco was a game studio with a portfolio of games that reached benchmarks including 10 million monthly active users and 16,000 concurrent users. Roforco also worked with notable brands such as Unilever, for whom they made an branded game with over 50 million plays.In 2022, Roforco joined YCombinator's coveted startup accelerator and went on to secure a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Paul Graham, Dentsu Group, the prev. COO of Activision and the CEOs of Guilded and Jellysmack. Learn more about us at https://roforco.com/For press: tom@roforco.com Based and founded in San Francisco, CA

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• tru.ID — APIs for fast & frictionless mobile verification. Sign up today to see how tru.ID can turbocharge your user onboarding, conversion, security and experience.
• Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
• ImmunoMet Therapeutics — ImmunoMet Therapeutics is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel oncology products that are aimed to improve the quality of life of cancer patients. With more than 6 years of experience in the field of cancer metabolism and immunometabolism, ImmunoMet has developed a comprehensivepipeline of metabolic regulators preferentially targeting the cellular metabolism of drug-resistant cancer subpopulations and immuno-suppressors of anti-cancer effector T cells.

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• EdfaPay — Edfapay is a fintech enterprise that provides smart & efficient payment solutions, That save money, time & effort using soft pos technology.
• ON Market — E-grocery marketplace allows customers to order from their favorite retailers while empowering retailers to build & sustain online commerce

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• Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
• EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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• Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
• Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
• Breadfast — Fast & smooth shopping experience for the household.

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• Usage AI — Usage AI's automated cloud management tools help companies save time and money in the cloud.
• Vesto — Fintech
• Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.

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• Qashier — One Qashier solution streamlines POS & payment operations empowering businesses to thrive in the digital economy. Be More with Qashier.
• Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
• Bluu Seafood — Cultivated Seafood Made From Fish Cells. Tastier, Healther and More Sustainable.

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• GoMyCode — GOMYCODE: Learn digital skills! | GOMYCODE Empower people by upskilling and reskilling them on digital skills through instructor-assisted trainings.
• Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
• 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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• SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
• Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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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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• egmenu — egmenu is a new social network platform focused on food and beverage. Discover your favorite restaurants and order what you want. Further, follow your favorite food bloggers, participate in a community of food enthusiasts, share your delicious meal, and get the best price for your order.

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• Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
• Persist AI — Persist AI develops PLGA microspheres for long-acting injectable formulations 50% faster using automation and AI.
• 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.

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• Kenzz — Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA.
• FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.
• Amwal Tech — The fastest and most secure way to accept payments online

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• Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
• Natilus — Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+.
• Saltbox — Saltbox makes the hardest parts of running an ecommerce business simple. Explore our logistics and warehouse solutions growing eCommerce companies

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• valU — valU is your lifestyle enabling solution, Setting out to change the way you shop! We help you get what you want now, and pay as you can afford on a monthly basis; turning your aspirations into reality.
• The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.

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• The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.

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

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• MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
• Vezeeta — Vezeeta is the digital healthcare platform in MEA that connects patients with healthcare providers and health services. Patients are able to search, compare, book and review the best doctors in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Lebanon. It also provides innovative SaaS solutions to healthcare providers in the region. Vezeeta empowers millions ofpatients through data and the ability to better access healthcare in the region. With over 200,000 verified reviews, patients are able to search, compare, and book the best doctors in just 1 minute. Doctors also provide Patients with seamless healthcare experiences through our clinic management software.
• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

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• Brotinni — Brotinni is a food tech and dark butcher solutions startup bringing innovation to the meat industry,
• Sotech — Sotech operates as a healthech and IoT solutions startup. Sotech specialises in smart IoT, trackable out-of-home advertising, and data gathering to help clinics understand the volume, flow, and demographic of its visitors.

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• Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
• FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.
• OneOrder — One Order delivers exceptional produce, custom cuts of meat, high-quality seafood, and imported foods offering an array of global flavors.

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• Yumamia — Yumamia is a chain of virtual cloud kitchens that offers corporates & busy professionals a premium food delivery service through on demand & subscription based plans offering high quality, delicious & clean food that is more affordable & convenient than fast food. Currently operating in Egypt and expanding soon to the GCC.

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• Yumamia — Yumamia is a chain of virtual cloud kitchens that offers corporates & busy professionals a premium food delivery service through on demand & subscription based plans offering high quality, delicious & clean food that is more affordable & convenient than fast food. Currently operating in Egypt and expanding soon to the GCC.
• NewsGuard — Transparent Tools to Counter Misinformation on Behalf of Readers, Brands, and Democracies.
• Duel — The all-in-one Brand Advocacy Platform for eCommerce brands. Manage Brand Ambassador and Customer Loyalty programs at scale to accelerate organic growth.

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• Voltalia — The Investor Relations website contains information about Voltalia's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
• Masdar Capital — Masdar Capital is developing & deploying commercial-scale renewable energy projects.
• TBC Bank Uzbekistan — The first next-generation greenfield digital bank in Uzbekistan, established by TBC Group - FTSE 250 constituent financial services group