Top 35 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in October 2023

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• Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
• IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
• 3D VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — 3D technology consulting and implementation services, specializing in the application of 3D printing and 3D science to all spheres of human interaction. For instance, in the field of aquaculture, 3D farms not only cultivate seaweed and shellfish for the purpose of harvesting, but they also rehabilitate ecosystems that were damaged by commercialfishing in the past. Commercial fishing is destructive in addition to being harvesting.

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• Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
• CoreTigo — CoreTigo provides high-performance IO-Link Wireless communication solutions for machine builders, system integrators & industrial equipment manufacturers.
• Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.

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• OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
• Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
• Geekbang Technology — Geekbang Technology is a Enterprise services company.

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• Trullion — The best AI-powered accounting software for lease accounting & revenue recognition compliance. Accountants trust Trullion for automated financial software.
• SphereX — Experience unmatched decentralized security with SphereX, safeguarding your DeFi apps non-stop. Trust in our transparent, ML-based protection.
• Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

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• Yodas.com — Helping top developers manage their careers by connecting with the best opportunities at the right time
• Percepto — Percepto is a developer of autonomous drone technology for inspection and surveillance.Drones hold the potential to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries including energy, security, insurance, agriculture, and more. Drones completely change the way inspection, measurement, surveillance, and deliveries are done today. Still, the main barrier tomaking them a must-have platform is the ability of drones to perform tasks autonomously.The company is at the forefront of redefining how industrial sites and critical infrastructure are holistically inspected and monitored, harnessing remote robotics to autonomously collect, aggregate, and analyze visual data.Leveraging its experience with Percepto Sparrow, the most deployed drone-in-a-box solution on the market, Percepto introduced Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring) the first end-to-end autonomous inspection and monitoring platform. Percepto AIM empowers the remote operation center of the future to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety, and reduce operational costs.
• Wemark — Wemark is a blockchain-based marketplace for digital content, starting with photos.Photographers can now benefit the blockchain by direct-licensing their photos to customers, saving up to 75 percent in fees compared with existing stock photography agencies. Wemark's mission is to enable the worldwide distributed exchange of digitalproperty.

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• Ava — Ava makes it easy to gain a profound and accurate understanding of your cycle and health—empowering you to make informed choices for your life. Because we believe every woman deserves greater control over her wellbeing, and the tools to maximize her physical and emotional potential.
• Corephotonics — Corephotonics is the pioneer and worldwide market leader of dual camera technologies for smartphones and mobile devices, providing a perfect mobile camera photography experience, novel photography features and superior image quality
• Clover Food Lab — Clover Food Lab is a fast food chain that operates through food trucks and restaurants. The company serves a food menu that changes day to day and with the seasons based on what is available from local farmers and includes a large mix of organic ingredients.Clover Food Lab was founded in 2008 by Massachusetts.

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• Guardz — Ultimate cybersecurity solution built for MSPs, IT pros, & business owners. Protect your clients & business with an all-in-one security & monitoring solution.
• CoinScan — Fastest trading history in the industry for any ETH token along with seeing pending transactions. One-of-a-kind Airdrops and Holders distribution for quick analysis and much more.
• Nest Genomics (YC W22) — Nest Genomics is a lab-agnostic, comprehensive software solution for implementing genomic programs at scale.

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• Juno Medical — Juno Medical offers comprehensive, modern healthcare services for the whole family. Transparent pricing, inclusive and welcoming atmosphere. Learn more.
• Teal Health — Teal Health is on a mission to empower women when it comes to their health – starting with at-home cervical cancer screenings. We believe that it’s time for women’s health to be designed for women, their preferences, and their experiences. With this in mind, Teal Health is creating the first FDA-approved at-home cervical cancer screening makingit simple for a woman to stay current on this life-saving screening from the comfort, convenience, and privacy of her home. Through timely screenings, Teal health plans to eradicate cervical cancer in the US.Teal is backed by passionate and committed investors who share this important vision, including Felicis Ventures, Emerson Collective, Metrodora, and Serena Ventures.
• SoLo Funds — SoLo is a community that allows members to easily access and supply short-term funds for immediate needs. Our community works together to create mutually beneficial outcomes where members can both improve their financial health.

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• Sawerly — Sawerly is the medium between photographers and the people who require their services. We provide booking service to help customers find quality photographers for any type of photo shoot opportunity they may be having, whether it was a conference, wedding, products, landscape or even family gatherings. Sawerly translates the photography market intoservices and prices which will help customers make a rational and intelligent decision through the bidding system for photography requests. Photographers will be able to create their digital reputation through Sawerly by displaying experience, previous work, rating and testimonials from previous clients. Sawerly’s services are provided through our product website www.sawerly.com and app on iOS and Android. we are currently Saudi-focused but have plans to expand in the MENA region. Also, we plan to expand in the products and services that we supply though the website like printing, photo stock, and ecommerce for photography accessories

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• Umoove — Umoove created a face and eye-tracking solution that is compatible with any smartphone or tablet with a front facing camera. Umoove's technology does not require any additional hardware of any kind. Umoove develops in-house medical applications and, at the same time, is powering eye tracking research in top universities across the world.Eye tracking is used as a method for diagnose and therapy of many neurological disorders such as ADHD, concussions, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's, autism, strokes and more. Umoove's first product, uHealth, was released in early 2015 and can be found on the AppStore. Outside of the mHealth space, Umoove shares it's SDK with qualifying third party developers in various markets such as gaming, automotive, analytics, advertising and wearable's.
• Wemark — Wemark is a blockchain-based marketplace for digital content, starting with photos.Photographers can now benefit the blockchain by direct-licensing their photos to customers, saving up to 75 percent in fees compared with existing stock photography agencies. Wemark's mission is to enable the worldwide distributed exchange of digitalproperty.

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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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• Napo — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 15% multi-pet discount.
• Hexa — Elevate your eCommerce experience with a 3D tech-stack that lets you create, manage, analyze, and distribute your 3D commerce assets.
• Spinframe Technologies — Spinframe developing cloud-base technologies for the automotive industry and provides an interactive visual user experience that increases the engagement & conversion.

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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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• FUE Bioscience — FUE Bioscience is a medical robot R&D business that specializes in microsurgery above the head and neck. It continues to develop a product matrix of fully intelligent, high-precision, and anthropomorphic surgical robots based on the platform of macro-micro-controlled humanoid dual-arm robots.
• Life Wilderness — Life Wilderness reimagines human-computer interaction and is linked to the transportation and travel industries.
• Xintu Heterogeneous — Xintu Heterogeneous offers data storage solutions for heterogeneous computing.

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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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• Artela — Artela is an extensible blockchain network enabling developers to build feature rich dApps.
• Web3Go — Web3Go is a blockchain startup that provides data tools powered by artificial intelligence.
• HypeLab — HypeLab is a web3 ad network that helps clients acquire new users in a scalable way. It serves both images and video creatives and uploads assets directly on the self-service advertiser portal. HypeLab is located in San Francisco, California.

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• Moxy.io — Moxy.io is an entertainment provider that will power the next generation of video games. Moxy.io was founded in 2021.
• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.

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• 40seas — We empower importers, exporters - and everyone in between - with a highly reliable, digital alternative to legacy B2B payment and financing options.
• WaveBL — WAVE BL lets you digitally issue, transfer, sign, endorse and surrender trade documents while cutting costs and eliminating fraud.
• Spinframe Technologies — Spinframe developing cloud-base technologies for the automotive industry and provides an interactive visual user experience that increases the engagement & conversion.

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• Wisdo Health — Our award-winning social health platform utilizes SDOH assessments and pro-social measures to increase quality of life and decrease medical spending.
• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• insoundz — Insoundz reinvents how audio professionals produce and use sound to drive greater insights, next-generation content and increased engagement.

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• BioLoomics — BioLoomics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that uses evolution in a microscope to develop drug discovery tools and protein drugs. Our VariVolve platform tests millions of protein designs for a targeted activity in hours, enabling efficient mining of the vast chemical space of protein designs. A strong advantage of our approach is theuse of whole intact cells as test vessels that capture complex drug behavior not attainable in conventional assays.
• Erthos — erthos is a producer of biodegradable packaging materials intended to replace traditional polystyrene and polypropylene inputs.
• ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport

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• Certania — Certania is a provider of testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) services focused on addressing global challenges.
• TradingHub — TradingHub provides trade data analytics to the financial services industry. Among their clients are global banks, leading asset managers, hedge funds and major regulatory institutions. Throughout their product suite they employ market-leading analytic techniques. Employing these sophisticated methodologies, their tools produce accurate andactionable results, allowing their clients to:-Identify actions that may constitute market abuse.-Identify potential rogue traders.-Analyse best execution.-Objectively assess and improve the performance of traders.
• Keeper Security — Keeper is the top-rated password and secrets manager for protecting businesses and families from cyberthreats. Try free now!

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• NeoSwap — NeoSwap is a multi-party, multi-item NFT swap platform that redistributes items in a win-win-win manner, using minimal currency. It provides neo-barter solutions to unlock value within existing marketplaces and enable marketplaces where they were previously unsustainable. It was founded by John Ennis.
• Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
• Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!

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• Tesorio — Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash. Its AI processes over $30 billion in transactions each year for companies ranging from 50 to 10,000 employees. Tesorio serves customers around the globe with AR automation and cash flow forecasting, acrossverticals including software, manufacturing, retail, finance, and pharmaceuticals.Customers include Box, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Currency Cloud, Instructure and many other publicly traded and privately held companies that care about cash flow performance.
• Tuio — Tuio is a insurance company that provides digital platform providing house or propety insurance.
• Strike Graph — Strike Graph ensures a streamlined, reliable, and quick path to achieve your SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance. Connect with our security experts today!

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• Stackless — Stackless is a Data Platform as a Service that mass produces custom data warehouses and actionable insights at an affordable price.
• Spinframe Technologies — Spinframe developing cloud-base technologies for the automotive industry and provides an interactive visual user experience that increases the engagement & conversion.

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• LandVault — In-Play is a non-intrusive monetization solution for games and digital spaces that puts player experience first.
• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• Tonstarter — Tonstarter is the TON-native launchpad, enabling crypto projects to raise capital in a decentralized, safe, and user-friendly environment.

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• Cleary — The Cleary Employee Experience platform is purpose built to help distributed, remote, and hybrid teams to scale their culture.
• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• KresusLabs — Kresus allows users to connect to their bank accounts and view their transactions, balances, and budgets.It supports a wide range of banks and financial institutions also allows users to categorize their expenses and view insights into their spending habits and uses end-to-end encryption to protect users

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• Workiz — Join 100K+ field service pros who are already beating their competition with Workiz field service business management & scheduling software.
• SupPlant — SupPlant is a company in the field of “IOT” in agriculture. By changing the basic concept of irrigation methods, the SupPlant's unique technology can save water on global scales and improve productivity and yields. During the past 4 years, SupPlant developed a unique artificial intelligence system that is able to analyze data generated fromcrops through sensors and translate this data into irrigation commands.
• Silverfort — Silverfort offers a revolutionary agentless and proxyless authentication platform for enterprises. It extends Multi-Factor Authentication, Risk-Based Authentication and Zero Trust policies in a unified, AI-driven manner across all corporate users, devices and systems, both on-premise and in the cloud, without requiring any modifications toendpoints and servers. That includes systems that couldn't be protected before, such as homegrown applications, legacy systems, IT/OT infrastructure, file shares, command-line tools, machine-to-machine access (service accounts) and more. Silverfort allows companies to detect and prevent identity based attacks (including account compromise, lateral movement, brute force, password spraying and more), achieve compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, NIST and HIPAA, and securely migrate servers and applications to the cloud without modifying them.

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• Splashlight Studios — Splashlight-Studios is the largest vertical integrated e-commerce photography studio in Dubai. We know what it takes to help you sell better online.

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• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• Anichess — Anichess develops a decentralized chess game.
• Wanderers — Stars Fall, Legends Rise

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• Verofax Limited — Looking for flexible Asset Management and Tracking Solution? Verofax democratizes Digital Transformation through Asset Digitization & Traceability Software.
• Aktivate — Aktivate provides a SaaS based tecnology platform for K-12 schools to manage and fund scholastic sports. The system features administration and engagement tools to bring together student-athletes, their families, schools, and valued partners.
• Talis — The NFT marketplace that empowers artists and bridges physical & digital art on the Terra blockchain.

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• Cosmic Wire — Cosmic Wire is the next-gen Internet: connecting worlds, empowering creators and transforming industries through Web3 innovation and blockchain solutions.
• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
• 0xBoost Finance — Unleash the Power of Multi-Chain Staking and Boost Your Assets. Stake. Earn. Grow. Empowering Crypto Investors Across Multiple Blockchains.

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• AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
• QuantHealth — QuantHealth is an AI company that provides a platform to simulate clinical trials in order to accelerate and de-risk drug development.
• Gina Life — At Nevia bio, we are focused on women's health. Our mission is to use innovative technologies to provide early detection of diseases through vaginal secretions analysis, enabled by Nevia's Machine Learning Platform.

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• Community — Community is a text messaging service that connects individuals and organizations instantly and directly to their audiences through text messaging at scale.
• nami — nami is an Artificial Intelligence of Things company. Transform smart devices and systems into intelligent ones for Security, Energy-Saving and Health Care.
• Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.

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• Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
• Playbook — Playbook accelerates career growth for women through expert-led Masterclasses and an engaged community that enables women to keep learning and leading.
• One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.