Top 20 Social VC Funds & 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.
• Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
• Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
• DeepChecks — Continuous validation for machine learning. Validate and monitor your data and models during training, production and new version releases.

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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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• Boxbot — Dynamic storage and retrieval platform that adapts to varying cubic dimensions and eliminates manual pick stations.
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Flambu — Share what you own to earn passive income and borrow what you have to save money with Flambu.
• iShence AgTech — iShence AgTech provides affordable and effective solutions combine agronomic knowledge with cutting edge technology.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
• Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.