BY Venture Partners

B&Y Venture Partners is a venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology startups in the MENA region. The firm aims to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs by investing in their businesses in exchange for a minority share. B&Y Venture Partners seeks to provide value beyond financial support, emphasizing the importance of strong founding teams in achieving startup success. The firm is particularly interested in high-impact founders who are dedicated to building transformative and category-leading companies. By prioritizing teams with a proactive approach, B&Y Venture Partners aspires to nurture the next generation of technology success stories in the region.

Fadi Bizri

Partner

Rami Jisr

General Partner

Ghaith Yafi

General Partner

Past deals in Dubai

Stake

Seed Round in 2022
Stake is a digital real estate investment platform that allows individuals to invest in income-generating rental properties quickly and transparently. By breaking down properties into smaller, more affordable shares, Stake enables users to purchase stakes in residential real estate, making investment opportunities accessible to a broader audience. The platform aims to modernize real estate investment, providing a straightforward approach to generating returns from property ownership.

Huspy

Series A in 2022
Huspy is a technology company based in Dubai, UAE, that specializes in simplifying the mortgage process for home buyers. Founded in 2020, Huspy offers an online platform designed to streamline the home buying and selling experience, making it more accessible and cost-effective. By removing the need for paperwork, the platform allows families to secure home loans easily through its web and mobile applications. Huspy aims to reimagine the home buying journey, prioritizing the needs of buyers and celebrating the achievement of obtaining a mortgage.

Pemo

Seed Round in 2022
Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform. Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accounting integration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.

GrubTech

Series A in 2021
GrubTech is an end to end SaaS platform enabling the digital transformation of restaurants and cloud kitchens. It’s scalable and flexible operating system is the 'Shopify' of the food service industry. We offer an omnichannel POS capable of accepting orders from all the popular food aggregators, direct online channel, dine-in, and takeaway. In addition, our platform is AI-powered to provide unparalleled insights into demand forecasting, smart appliance optimization, dynamic order routing, customer profiling, and inventory management. We also offer online payment, mobile-ready web storefronts, and social commerce integrations to ensure our merchants meet their online demand successfully. Through our open APIs and app store, we invite the developer community to create innovative solutions to help our merchants succeed online.

Seez ApS

Series B in 2021
Seez is a data-first automotive platform. The Seez mobile app for car shoppers offers a smart search engine for online car listings, as well as proprietary, AI-powered tools, and services that make the car shopping journey faster, easier and more efficient. App available in UAE, KSA, Kuwait, South Africa, and Pakistan.

Arrow Labs

Series A in 2021
Arrow Labs is a mobility software manufacturer specializing in niche applications and mobility solutions. Arrow Labs MIMS is a state of the art mobility platform designed for todays modern workforce. Based in Dubai, they provide their products & services to various size clients across their operational area. Their experience in designing and architecting critical medium and large scale solutions is paramount. Their obective is to provide advanced innovative mobility solutions that address specific niche requirements in today's demanding environment.

Mamo

Series A in 2021
Mamo Pay is a financial technology company that specializes in a peer-to-peer payments application, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The application allows users to transfer, receive, track, and split payments with family, friends, and businesses without incurring any fees. Mamo Pay enables users to connect their bank accounts, facilitating quick and secure money transfers. Additionally, the platform supports global payments in multiple currencies, offers virtual card issuance, and integrates with e-commerce platforms. This functionality helps businesses optimize their financial operations and gain insights into spending patterns.

Huspy

Seed Round in 2021
Huspy is a technology company based in Dubai, UAE, that specializes in simplifying the mortgage process for home buyers. Founded in 2020, Huspy offers an online platform designed to streamline the home buying and selling experience, making it more accessible and cost-effective. By removing the need for paperwork, the platform allows families to secure home loans easily through its web and mobile applications. Huspy aims to reimagine the home buying journey, prioritizing the needs of buyers and celebrating the achievement of obtaining a mortgage.

iKcon

Series A in 2021
iKcon – Innovative Kitchen Concepts – utilizes a network of smart kitchens in prime locations to quickly “extend the reach” of amazing F&B brands. Our modern kitchen spaces are kitted with the latest equipment utilizing smart tech solutions and staffed by highly trained chefs & customer service teams. Our infrastructure is supported by Procurement & Storage Facilities, Central Production Units, and Customer Service Centers.

Seez ApS

Series A in 2020
Seez is a data-first automotive platform. The Seez mobile app for car shoppers offers a smart search engine for online car listings, as well as proprietary, AI-powered tools, and services that make the car shopping journey faster, easier and more efficient. App available in UAE, KSA, Kuwait, South Africa, and Pakistan.

Washmen

Series B in 2019
Washmen is an application for dry cleaning and laundry service that picks up and delivers straight to your doorstep. They provide top quality service for all your laundry, dry clean and pressing needs. Every item is examined and cleaned according to its care-label instructions. It also allows you to schedule pickups through their mobile app. They offer deliveries as fast as next day credit card payment in-app. Washmen was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Zbooni

Venture Round in 2019
Zbooni is a Dubai-based company that offers a social commerce application designed for merchants to facilitate online sales through popular messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram. The application provides users with a free e-commerce store and simplifies the process of connecting with customers by allowing merchants to manage transactions and create invoices directly within the messaging apps they already use. By enhancing social interactions and streamlining the purchasing process, Zbooni aims to improve sales figures for merchants while providing a more personalized shopping experience for consumers.

MUNCH:ON

Series A in 2019
MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for its restaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders

HolidayMe

Series C in 2018
HolidayMe is an online portal offering offering on-the-fly customized travel solutions to customers across the Middle East. This includes the ability to design holiday packages, hotels, sightseeing activities and transfers for destinations all over the world. The website through its unique user experience allows the customer to choose from hundreds of curated itineraries created by experts for worldwide destinations and further personalize it according to one’s preferences. The customer can also book a completely customized package from scratch using the website’s simple user friendly platform. All packages can be booked instantly using multiple payment methods. The website offers over 300,000 hotels and over 8,000 activities to choose from. It also has airport pick up and drop facility across 300 cities globally. It has offices in Dubai, Riyadh, and Pune, with a team of over 200 employees across these locations. HolidayMe is published and maintained by Traveazy DMCC, Dubai (“Traveazy”).

Seez ApS

Seed Round in 2018
Seez is a data-first automotive platform. The Seez mobile app for car shoppers offers a smart search engine for online car listings, as well as proprietary, AI-powered tools, and services that make the car shopping journey faster, easier and more efficient. App available in UAE, KSA, Kuwait, South Africa, and Pakistan.