Top 25 Social Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2023)

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• Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
• Eleos Health — Eleos Health provides automated health tech solutions that accelerate clinicians’ decision-making via an AI-powered Speech-to-Insights system to ensure the provision of personalized and time and cost-effective care.
• Inner Cosmos — The Evolution of Medicine

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• Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
• Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

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• Nori — Nori helps organizations, companies, and individuals meet their climate goals with high-quality carbon removal offsets. We currently fund farmers that use regenerative agriculture practices to sequester carbon in their soil.
• Yard Stick — Enabling soil carbon at scale. Measure soil carbon accurately, instantly, and affordably with Yard Stick technologies.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Gaviti — Gaviti is an automated receivables platform that accelerates cash flow and improves DSO by an average of 30%.
• Home365 — Home365, Is a Property Management Company. Our Goal Is Making Renting Out More Profitable, Predictable And Hassle Free. Click Here For More Information.
• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

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• nT-Tao Compact Fusion Power — Working on a clean, safe, scalable, and independent energy solution for future humanity and the planet. With proprietary super fast heating of high-density plasma, enabling commercial fusion energy.
• Ottopia — Ottopia Technologies is a software company engaged in the design, development, and commercialization of teleoperation systems.
• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

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• WeGoTrip — Book self-guided audio tours with skip-the-line tickets to museums, galleries, and many other attractions.
• Altris.AI — AI for Ophthalmology & Optometry is the future of eye care. It will set high diagnostic standards for the industry and bring better patient outcome as a result. Together we will solve the preventable blindness problem.
• Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.

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• zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
• Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
• Thumzap — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.

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• FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
• Arugga AI Farming — Arugga intends to transform greenhouse vegetable farming into a data-driven, automated and efficient field by designing the first autonomous robot which will monitor and treat every individual plant in the greenhouse.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Osaro — OSARO provides goods to robot piece-picking solutions to automate your critical warehouse tasks. Explore OSARO's solutions for e-commerce, grocery, and beyond.
• Sense — Sense, a technology company, provides home energy monitoring solutions for its customers.The company specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on themain breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application.Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Stampli — Stampli's AI-powered Accounts Payable automation solution brings all AP-related communication, documentation, & workflows into one place.
• Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
• Yurts Technologies Inc — Yurts is a Generative AI platform that is enterprise-ready. Its mission is to help individuals connect with their finest work. The company is revolutionizing knowledge management and enterprise processes at scale by combining Large Language Models (LLMs) and the practical power of GenAI applications.

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• Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
• NeoLogic (VLSI) — NeoLogic was founded to address the increasing workloads of video, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, and more in the cloud and at the edge. we developer a unique technology that cuts down the transistor count of circuits by a factor of up to 3x at any technology node.
• Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

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• Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
• Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
• Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!

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• KFOBIX — KFOBIX offers nano-composite materials to prevent freezing and contamination of solar panels, wind turbines, and automobile glass.
• DRONEQUBE — DRONEQUBE provides an innovative SaaS solution that empowers drones to monitor and defend vineyard health autonomously, addressing pressing concerns brought about by the climate crisis and increasing labor challenges.
• Our Next Energy — ONE is a Michigan-born energy storage company focused on battery technologies that will accelerate the adoption of EVs and expand energy storage solutions.

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• Drover AI — AI-Powered Computer Vision for Micromobility. Pioneering the use of computer vision and AI on micromobility vehicles.
• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
• COMPREDICT — COMPREDICT‘s virtual sensors and health & usage monitoring provide unique insights of vehicle usage and behavior without additional hardware for all sectors of mobility. Our solution is currently used in applications with 2 up to 18 wheel vehicles – and even trains. The virtual sensors measure the real dynamic behavior of components likesteering, brakes, powertrain and battery, regardless of whether the vehicle is a prototype or a series product, for a single vehicle or an entire fleet. We close the feedback loop between product development, in-use behavior or fleet management and service operations. With COMPREDICT, optimized component design and maintenance allow our customers to reduce weight, CO2 emissions and environmental impact over the whole product lifecycle.

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• Nuro — Nuro is a technology company that develops a self-driving vehicle for local goods transportation. Nuro transforms local commerce through autonomous delivery. Its service helps merchants deliver goods to customers quickly, affordably, and safely. Nuro's mission is to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Sightec — From today's delivery and inspection drones, to the flying passenger taxis of tomorrow. Sightec is opening up our skies to safe, reliable and high-performance air mobility with pioneering computer vision and AI flight technologies.
• FortePhest — Founded in 2017, FortePhest is a biotechnology company focusing on crop protection. The Company develops innovative products to control both regular weeds and weeds which are resistant to herbicides. They do this mainly by exploring novel Mechanisms of Action (MOA) discovered in plants. Inspired by natural plant protectors, our products areintended to provide potent, environmentally friendly, and sustainable solutions that may eventually improve crop productivity. Our technology is based on research of world-class teams of scientists from Cornell University, The Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Funatix Club — Founded in 2015, Funatix Club is a technology company oriented to the development of online Sport-Management games.

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• Hayi — Hayi is a free, private social network for neighbourhoods in the UAE. The mobile application provides neighbours with an exclusive platform to connect, share information and befriend those in close proximity.

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• Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
• Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
• Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

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• H3 Dynamics — Hydrogen Propulsion from Drones to Passenger Aircraft | Solutions for Digitized Maintenance, Emergency Services & Parcel Delivery
• May Mobility — May Mobility is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. With more than 275,000 autonomous rides to date, May Mobility is committed to delivering safe, efficient and sustainable shuttle solutions designed to complement today's public transportation options. The company's ultimate goal is to realize a worldwhere self-driving systems make transportation more accessible and reliable, the roads safer, and encourage better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant, and livable spaces.
• EneCoat Technologies — EneCoat Technologies is working on materials development for perovskite solar cells and the commercialization of modules.EneCoat Technologies will create the future of energy through thin-film solar cells with the aims of protecting the environment and effectively utilizing natural energy sources.

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• Anyword — The AI writing solution trusted by 1M marketers, built to help you scale on-brand content that drives business results.
• Tonara — We believe in using technology to move music education forward. Tonara's products empower music teachers and their students, worldwide.

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• WinPlan — WinPlan is specialized in enterprise digital intelligence and management. It helps in making planning, analysis, and decision-making through big data and AI capabilities.
• SpacemiT — SpacemiT is a computing chip company developing natively integrated cloud-edge-device architecture. It focuses on building RISC-V high-performance CPUs and providing computing solutions with integrated hardware and software optimization. The company's mission is to be the cornerstone of computing power in the digital age, driven to become asignificant global computing powerhouse.
• First Automation — First Automation is an autonomous and controllable general-purpose high-end CNC system research and development company.

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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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• Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
• N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
• Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

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• Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
• Yoocan — Yooocan is an internet company developing the collaborative community-driven marketplace for people with disabilities. The company offers a global collaborative community and technology hub created for and by people with disabilities and their families to share experiences and knowledge. With Yoocan, a person with disabilities or the parent of achild with disabilities can share stories and tips easily explore and find activities, products, services, and innovations; and connect with others to make their lives easier and better.Yoocan is also an assistive technology hub, providing early-stage funding and support for start-ups in the disability-focused ecosystem, with more than 900 organizations, thousands of users from more than 100 countries, and hundreds of partners. They believe that shared experiences and knowledge from around the world can inspire people with disabilities and change their lives, so no one feels alone.Yoocan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.

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• HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. 
e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
• LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
• Quantrol Ox — QuantrolOx is building automated machine learning-based control software for quantum technologies to tune, stabilize, and optimize qubits.