# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2026

## Musaab Hakami
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish.
Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups.
During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded:
- co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components.
- invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content.
- invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization
- invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered.
- invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer
- invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators.
- invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV
- He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

## Magnus Olsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Digital Media

Magnus Olsson is the Founder and Managing Director at Careem.

## Chantalle Dumonceaux
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Chantalle Dumonceaux

## Arya Bolurfrushan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Education

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

## Walid Hanna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Search Engine, Billing, Internet

Walid Hanna is Founder and CEO at Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

## Omar Darwazah
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.

## Mark Ransford
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Angel Investor

## Manu Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Real Estate

Manu is the founder of Blue Lion Global VC, and was previously a founding member and Partner of Lakestar VC (>$1.4bn). He splits time between San Francisco and London.

## Omar Rebhan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Coffee

Early Stage Angel Investor, Market Entry & Growth Strategist

## Max Burger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Max Burger is an Angel Investor in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is the co-owner of FMCG.

## Harveen Narulla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.

## Amal Dokhan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Amal Dokhan serves as a Partner at 500 Startups. She was the CEO of Global Entrepreneurship Network Saudi before that. She attended King Abdul Aziz University and the University of Wollongong.

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

## Andy Preikschat
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Andy Preikschat is CEO of Don's RV, a top-20 RV dealer in California. He is CIO of Edgebrook Partners, which has 9 B2B software investments, and is an Angel Investor. He has degrees from Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College.

## Gowri Narayanan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Gowri Narayanan - Partner, FinTech @ SoftBank Vision Fund

## David Pirrie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Mobile, Internet

David Pirrie - Director @ Financial Software

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

## Fahad Sami Al-Hukair
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software

Fahad Sami Al-Hukair

## Samih Toukan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

## Turki AlJeaid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Wellness

Turki AlJeaid

## William Zeqiri
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.

## Mazin Alzaidi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Internet

Mazin Alzaidi, General Partner at STV.

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Mobile

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Khalid AlTawil
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Rental

Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.

## Nadia Mannell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Women's, mHealth, Health Care

Nadia Mannell Founding General Partner of Seed South Capital.

## n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance

n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault

## Al Serkal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning

Al Serkal

## Dany Farha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Information Services

Dany is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, with many exits from ventures in a variety of industries. Dany co-founded and exited Bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest job site; Butlers, the UAE’s largest commercial laundry company and Intercat, one of the largest catering companies in the UAE. Dany was a seed investor in Gonabit, a MiddleEast focused daily deal website that was acquired by Living Social in 2011. He currently sits on the boards of 3 portfolio companies.Dany is the first to acknowledge that he wouldn’t have accomplished all these things without the support of the investors and mentors that gave him his start. It is this belief that serves as the impetus behind BECO. Like those that boosted him when he needed it, Dany aspires to serve the next wave of entrepreneurs, so that they too can fulfil their potential and pass along the same spirit of generosity to those that follow in their footsteps.

## Kamel Gazzaz
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Digital Media, NFC, Audiobooks

Kamel Gazzaz - Angel Investor @ Mars Reel

## Yahya Bajarash
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: SaaS, Payments, Logistics

Yahya Bajarash

## Yan Hascoët
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Banking, Finance, Cannabis

Yan Hascoët

## Al Shafar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning

Al Shafar

## Al Ghussain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning

Al Ghussain

## Muhammad Ismail
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ras Al Khaimah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: CRM, Hardware, Software

Muhammad Ismail is the Managing Director at Amtec Links International. Muhammad Ismail attended University of Derby.

## Prajit Nanu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Advice, Payments, Financial Services

Prajit serves as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors. Based in Mumbai, Prajit is responsible for executing the business strategy and directing the overall performance and growth of our organization. He is also in charge of driving innovation across processes and create value add for customers. Prior to co-foundingInstarem Prajit, held several leadership positions in global companies, including Global Sales Director, TMF Group and Vice President, Sales and Account Management at WNS (NYSE:WNS). He is a graduate from Mumbai University.

## Omar Benmoussa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments

Omar Benmoussa is the Founder at of Kapten.

## Alexander Rugaev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning

Alexander Rugaev is the Founder of AR Ventures FZE. He previously worked at Insolar as an Advisor. Alexander Rugaev attended the Baltic State Technical University and Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation.

## Srinivas Rao M
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Advice, Payments, Food and Beverage

Srinivas Rao M is a CEO at T-Hub.

## Abdulhamid Al Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics

Abdulhamid is the CEO of Talabat, the leading online food delivery e-Commerce in the GCC. The firm evolved from a Kuwaiti based start-up to become a market leader in its space. He joined Talabat at an early stage and contributed to its growth from his post as head of Business development and Product. In 2015, Rocket Internet acquired Talabat for170m USD, representing the largest Internet technology acquisition in the Middle East till date. Started his career in the IT and the Banking industries, and prior to joining Talabat he was the e-Channels team lead for Kuwait Finance House, one of the leading Islamic banks in the Middle East. Abdulhamid received his MBA from the University of Leeds with a BSc in Computer Science.

## Alper Celen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Software, Logistics

Alper Celen is a Founding Partner at Enhance Ventures and the Co-Founder of Joi Gifts.

## Scott Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.

## Youcef Oudjidane
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food

Youcef Oudjidane is the founder of Byld Ventures and co-founder of Bloom (YC W22)

## omar bajarash
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Payments, Logistics

omar bajarash

## Khalid Al Taweel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Delivery

Khalid Al Taweel of RAI group.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Zeid Husban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics

Zeid obtained his Bachelor`s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the UK in 2008. He then moved back to Jordan and co-founded ifood.jo, an online food ordering platform. ifood.jo attracted the eyes of investors from abroad and in 2013, the company sold a majority stake to the Turkish food ordering company Yemeksipeti. Zeid soldthe rest of his shares in ifood.jo in 2016 after a successful acquisition by the global giants "Delivery Hero". Now hoping to revolutionize the point-of-sale industry in the region.

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