Top 30 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Arab Emirates in October 2023

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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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• Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
• AIfluence — AIfluence uses advanced algorithms to accurately match influencers to brands, manage, predict and deliver measurable ROI on every influencer marketing campaign
• Hala — Hala is the UAE's first car insurance product that rewards you for driving safely. For each day you're accident free, you get hala coins which you spend on meals, gym memberships, and hotel stays.

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• liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
• Caplight — Caplight is a platform that enables institutional investors to buy and sell derivatives of private equity.For the first time in the private markets, institutional investors can hedge positions, generate income on assets, and access true liquidity with public settlement-like mechanics.Caplight serves a broad range of QIBs including hedge funds,VC funds, family offices, pensions, endowments, mutual funds, and insurance firms.Securities are offered by North Capital Private Securities, member FINRA/SIPC, a partner of Caplight Markets LLC.
• Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.

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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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• 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.

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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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• Suraasa — Suraasa is an online platform for teachers to get mentorship, teaching diploma courses, and access to best job opportunities that transform their careers
• ElectricPe — ElectricPe are racing ahead to provide smart, affordable, and clean Electric Mobility to a billion Indians.
• STAGE — Indian languages content platform for artist led entertainment, such as poetry, comedy and storytelling etc.

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• Mozn — Confidently screen customers, monitor transactions and assess risk with powerful AI and seamless automation.
• 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.
• 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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• Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
• Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
• Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• SellerX — We buy and build Amazon businesses, helping entrepreneurs realise the next stage of their businesses, and their lives.
• Finley Technologies — Unlock growth for your company by using modern software to streamline debt capital diligence, compliance, and reporting.
• Razor Group — A consumer goods holding company with a clear strategic focus on focused product categories, long-term value enhancement and first-class customer satisfaction.

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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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• The Luxury Closet — The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth.
• Gazillion, Inc. — Gazillion Entertainment, we develop, publish and operate diverse games on many platforms. Our goal: To build breakthrough experiences featuring world-class brands and original franchises, superior production quality and unmatched gameplay. Gazillion is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

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• liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
• 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.
• Connecterra — Connecterra is a developer of software for the dairy industry. Connecterra is building an Artificial Intelligence that will grow food sustainably to feed future generations. Connecterra exists to give people a previously impossible understanding of the world around them so they can make more productive, humane and sustainable use of Earth’s naturalresources. They use machine learning to turn raw data into insight-driven efficiencies for the benefit of people, companies, and the natural habitats in which they operate

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• Sakkini — Sakkini is a relocation portal that empowers users with information and tools to make smarter decisions about relocating and settling into a new country.
• Unnyhog — At Unnyhog, they are gamers and they used to play a lot. They have been always noticing a lot of minuses in games, especially on mobiles. That’s why they decided to develop their own games. So far they have developed 3 games, and their games were downloaded more than 4 million times.
• The Luxury Closet — The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth.

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• MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
• Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
• Pine Street Labs — A non-custodial API for managing wallets. Built for enterprises.

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• Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
• 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.
• Parker — Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances.

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• NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
• Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
• Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.

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• Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
• Paynas — Through its cloud-based HRM tool designed to fit the needs of SMEs, a seamless payroll solution—via Visa-powered cards, and tailored and affordable medical insurance, paynas aims to unlock the resources SMEs need to grow, while promoting the financial inclusion of their employees through a menu of financial services and benefits.
• Subsbase — Discover the future of recurring revenue management with Subsbase. Streamline your operations, boost growth, and elevate customer experiences with our cutting-edge platform.

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• invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
• Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
• Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
• Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.

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• qlub — Qlub is the fastest, most secure form of digital menu & contactless payment for customers at restaurants, clubs & lounges.
• Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
• Floward — Send fresh flowers and a variety of gifts online with Floward. Browse through our numerous products and get same-day flowers delivery

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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
• Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

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• Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
• Embla — Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.

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• Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!
• Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
• GAIA — GAIA is a furniture eCommerce platform for the sale of home products and design accessories. It offers a range of products such as sofas, chairs, drawers, dressers, tables, desks, rugs, and textiles that let consumers purchase home furnishing products at affordable prices.

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• Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
• Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
• GrocerApp — GrocerApp is a low-price online supermarket that allows users to order products across categories like grocery, vegetables, beauty & wellness, household care, baby care, pet care, and meats & seafood and gets it delivered to their doorstep.

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• Quicko — Quicko is an online marketplace in Australia, focusing on groceries, with future plans to expand to other business lines. Offering a “Personal Shopper” experience, who's shopping on customer behalf from local stores, and deliver it to the customer, with no integration efforts or operational cost on the store. QX is the Operational Arm forQuicko, offering on-demand last-mile delivery services to Quicko, and any other 3rd party merchants. Quicko's mission is to raise the bar for customers’ price, selection and delivery speed expectations, by pioneering the on-demand delivery experience, and empowering offline businesses & local stores. Adding value, not overhead.

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• Shikho — Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology company on a mission to revolutionise the way Bangladesh learns today and democratise access to a high quality education. It is building a hyper-localised digital learning ecosystem designed specifically for the Bangladeshi national curriculum to serve a growing total addressable market of ~42 millionstudents. "Shikho - The Learning App" is available on the Google Play Store.
• Trukkr — Trukkr is Pakistan's First and Largest Online Logistics Platform. They make the process of booking commercial cargo fast by linking a shipper with transporters over a secure, intuitive and powerful platform. We ensure that shippers have complete transparency in price discovery, visibility, flexibility, and choice while at the same time givetransporters easy access to more jobs, whenever they want them. Founded in 2019, Trukkr is committed to reinventing the old school trucking industry in Pakistan by making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity, while ensuring shippers have access to the right truck, at the right time.
• Pastoral — Pastoral is an agtech precision regenerative livestock farming platform built for the needs of global livestock farmers.