Top 5 Marketplace Angel Investors in Jordan in October 2023

Mohammad Farah

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace
Angel
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Muyawama — We make hiring local, trusted service professionals ridiculously simple - and help people use the time saved to pursue their passions

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Usama is Chief Technology Officer at OODA Health. Before OODA, he was Founder and CEO of Open Insights, where he consulted clients on artificial intelligence, big data strategies and new business models. Usama was the first Global Chief Data Officer at Barclays in London, after he launched the largest tech startup accelerator in MENA as ExecutiveChairman of Oasis500 in Jordan.His background includes Chairman and CEO roles at several startups, including Blue Kangaroo Corp, DMX Group and digiMine (Audience Science). He was the first person to hold the Chief Data Officer title when Yahoo! acquired his second startup in 2004. He has held leadership roles at Microsoft and founded the machine learning systems group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his work on machine learning resulted in the top Excellence in Research award from Caltech, and a U.S. Government medal from NASA.Usama has published over 100 technical articles on data mining, data science, AI/ML, and databases. He holds over 30 patents and is a Fellow of both the AAAI and the ACM. Usama earned his PhD in Engineering in AI and Machine Learning from the University of Michigan. He holds two BSE’s in Engineering, a MSE Computer Engineering and a MSc in Mathematics.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Lending
Series A, Seed
India, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

MiNeeds —
MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
Snapmint — Snapmint facilitates simplified, fairly-priced and hassle-free EMI options without a Credit Card.

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Ali Hoja

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace
Angel
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Muyawama — We make hiring local, trusted service professionals ridiculously simple - and help people use the time saved to pursue their passions

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Fadi Ali Ghandour is Founder & Chairman of Wamda Capital he is a serial entrepreneur mostly known for being the founder and CEO of Aramex, one of the leading global logistics and transportation companies listed on the Dubai Financial Market.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Kenya, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Onfleet — Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University.
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.
Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.

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