Khazna is a mobile application platform designed to enhance financial services for Egyptians, particularly targeting the 50% of the population who are active smartphone users but lack access to traditional banking. The company offers a range of services, including General Purpose Credit, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), bill payment, savings, and insurance. Additionally, Khazna enables employers to provide cash advances to employees for unforeseen emergencies and facilitates seamless transfers and withdrawals without transaction fees. By focusing on digitizing cash transactions, Khazna aims to provide convenient, effective, and secure smartphone-based financial solutions, thereby improving the overall financial landscape in Egypt and potentially beyond.
Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that provides payments infrastructure technologies to expand access to financial services in the MEA region. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, the company focuses on bridging the financial inclusion gap by enabling businesses of all sizes to accept and process electronic payments and money transfers. Its online payments software converts cash into electronic value through integrated services while reducing fraud, loss, theft, and costs associated with cash handling and printing. By offering adaptable payment solutions, Paymob aims to empower customers with diverse electronic payment options and faster money circulation across communities and markets.
FlapKap
Seed Round in 2024
FlapKap is a company that offers a revenue-based financing solution tailored for e-commerce and SaaS businesses. It focuses on enabling these companies, particularly in consumer-facing sectors such as retail and restaurants, to enhance their inventory and digital advertising capabilities through quick access to funding. The platform evaluates businesses using a comprehensive approach, analyzing data from various sources including e-commerce sites, advertising metrics, online reviews, payment gateways, point of sale systems, bank accounts, and enterprise resource planning platforms. Additionally, FlapKap employs AI to provide insights that optimize advertising spending, allowing businesses to manage their expenditures effectively while benefiting from flexible repayment terms.
OneOrder streamlines food procurement for Egyptian restaurants by offering a single platform for purchasing high-quality produce, meats, seafood, and imported foods. This platform enhances efficiency, ensures reliable quality and pricing, facilitates secure delivery, and ultimately boosts restaurant profitability.
Mozare3
Venture Round in 2024
Mozare3 is an agricultural-fintech platform that serves smallholder farmers, connecting farming communities to local and global demand. It provides periodic field visits, reports, recommendations, and training to build farmers’ capacity, enabling them to access deals from agricultural service providers and nurseries and to obtain basic inputs such as pesticides, fertilizers, seedlings, or seeds through flexible payment terms. The platform serves over 20 million underserved, unbankable smallholder farmers and their families.
OneOrder
Seed Round in 2022
OneOrder streamlines food procurement for Egyptian restaurants by offering a single platform for purchasing high-quality produce, meats, seafood, and imported foods. This platform enhances efficiency, ensures reliable quality and pricing, facilitates secure delivery, and ultimately boosts restaurant profitability.
Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain company focused on modernizing the distribution of medical products across Africa. It operates a managed marketplace that integrates artificial intelligence and machine learning to empower independent pharmacies and enhance their operational efficiency. By collaborating with various stakeholders, including manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers, Grinta aims to create a data-driven and reliable supply chain. This platform provides pharmacies with a user-friendly experience, allowing them to access a comprehensive range of traceable and trackable pharmaceutical and medical products from multiple vendors. Through its innovative approach, Grinta seeks to improve the overall effectiveness of the pharmaceutical value chain.
FlapKap
Seed Round in 2022
FlapKap is a company that offers a revenue-based financing solution tailored for e-commerce and SaaS businesses. It focuses on enabling these companies, particularly in consumer-facing sectors such as retail and restaurants, to enhance their inventory and digital advertising capabilities through quick access to funding. The platform evaluates businesses using a comprehensive approach, analyzing data from various sources including e-commerce sites, advertising metrics, online reviews, payment gateways, point of sale systems, bank accounts, and enterprise resource planning platforms. Additionally, FlapKap employs AI to provide insights that optimize advertising spending, allowing businesses to manage their expenditures effectively while benefiting from flexible repayment terms.
Partment
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Partment is an online platform that enables co-ownership of vacation homes. It operates by using a special purpose vehicle to own the asset and provides end-to-end property management, removing traditional barriers to second-home ownership. Through a managed booking system and shared ownership structure, the service aims to optimize property utilization and give access to second homes in local and international markets.
Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that provides payments infrastructure technologies to expand access to financial services in the MEA region. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, the company focuses on bridging the financial inclusion gap by enabling businesses of all sizes to accept and process electronic payments and money transfers. Its online payments software converts cash into electronic value through integrated services while reducing fraud, loss, theft, and costs associated with cash handling and printing. By offering adaptable payment solutions, Paymob aims to empower customers with diverse electronic payment options and faster money circulation across communities and markets.
Khazna is a mobile application platform designed to enhance financial services for Egyptians, particularly targeting the 50% of the population who are active smartphone users but lack access to traditional banking. The company offers a range of services, including General Purpose Credit, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), bill payment, savings, and insurance. Additionally, Khazna enables employers to provide cash advances to employees for unforeseen emergencies and facilitates seamless transfers and withdrawals without transaction fees. By focusing on digitizing cash transactions, Khazna aims to provide convenient, effective, and secure smartphone-based financial solutions, thereby improving the overall financial landscape in Egypt and potentially beyond.
Lucky is a financial services company operating an app that offers credit products, discounts, and cashback rewards. It enables users to search, find, coordinate shopping, payments, and savings. Since its inception, Lucky has connected over six million users in the Middle East and North Africa.
Money Fellows operates a digital platform facilitating collaborative group lending and savings. It leverages social networks to provide interest-free credit and enhance saving capabilities, promoting financial inclusion.
Nawy is a real estate platform that facilitates property transactions by connecting users with hundreds of listings in gated communities. It digitizes the buying and selling process, providing agents with technology resources to enhance search experiences and empower customers with essential information for informed decisions.