Dubai Angel Investors
They are a member-led investment company made up of like-minded individuals. they are passionate about entrepreneurs and teams that can take their ideas from proof of concept to customer traction to scale with drive, energy, determination and ambition.
they invest in seed and early-stage technology companies with high growth potential.
What makes us different is that they are not a fund. they are a fully-capitalized investment company and their angels range from seasoned investors, tech entrepreneurs, venture fund partners, senior executives of successful companies and one institutional investor. Together, they leverage their collective experience as well as their extensive network of contacts to add value to their investees through their ability to open doors and to mentor them.
Whenever possible they seek to invest alongside established venture funds that act as lead investor but DAI also has also acted as lead investor on various seed and bridge rounds.
Past deals in Lebanon
360VUZ
Convertible Note in 2020
360VUZ develops a 360º live video streaming mobile application. The company captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive virtual reality experiences. It supports in building the ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. 360VUZ was founded in 2017 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
ThinkSono
Seed Round in 2019
ThinkSono Ltd designs and develops a software which allows healthcare professional to diagnose deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care using a portable scanner. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
MoneyFellows
Seed Round in 2019
MoneyFellows Limited operates a lending and savings platform. The company's platform provides its user to join suitable money circle based on their credit score; then the users pay a matching monthly installment, for a pre-defined number of months, placed in a common pot; and each month, one member receives the total money in the common pot, until all members have received their Payout once, ending the Money Circle. MoneyFellows Limited was formerly known as Moneyounion Limited and changed its name to MoneyFellows Limited in February 2015. MoneyFellows Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
TARA Intelligence Inc.
Seed Round in 2018
Software should work for you, not the other way around. Yet, most software for product development is difficult to use and needs a lot of time to configure; it was not purpose-built for modern, cross-functional teams building rapidly.
At Tara, we’re designing simple yet powerful software to solve these complex problems. We've built a smart platform that's helping thousands of engineers and teams deliver on planned releases, with improved predictability.
Launched in public beta in April, 2020.
Elves Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
For consumers, Elves is a chat-based concierge service. With Elves, consumers can do anything from booking flights to delivering groceries. In the last few months, we've expanded to serve thousands of users around the world. Via chat, through our apps or on Messenger you can chat with an elf that’ll do or buy anything (legal) you want. Users are purchasing with an average ticket price of $260, with 80% of them reordering within 28 days and the top 10% using the app daily.
Zbooni
Seed Round in 2017
Zbooni develops an application that provides social merchants with a free e-commerce store and the ability to sell over WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram direct message. The company is based in Dubai, United Arab emirates. It has additional offices in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
ThinkSono
Seed Round in 2020
ThinkSono Ltd designs and develops a software which allows healthcare professional to diagnose deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care using a portable scanner. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Mamo Pay
Seed Round in 2020
Mamo Pay provides payments application intended to make money transfers accessible. It allows connecting bank account to its application and enables users to send money quickly and securely to friends and family.
It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Synkers
Seed Round in 2020
Synkers develops software that connects students seeking help in a specific subject to private tutors. The company is based in Beirut, Lebanon.
SINC BUSINESS CORPORATION
Pre Seed Round in 2019
SINC is simple to use software that makes managing a mobile workforce simple by taking care of timesheets, location tracking, staff scheduling and job tracking.
We are the boots-on-the-ground gathering the missing employee data needed to provide business owners with the critical info they need at their fingertips, increasing profits and reducing admin tasks and payroll costs significantly.
360VUZ
Series A in 2020
360VUZ develops a 360º live video streaming mobile application. The company captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive virtual reality experiences. It supports in building the ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. 360VUZ was founded in 2017 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Visage
Angel Round in 2016
Visage Inc owns and operates visage.jobs, a hiring platform that enables employers to identify and engage underrepresented talent. Its crowdsourcing recruitment platform allows to source, upload, and submit candidate profiles. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
QallOut, Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
QallOut, Inc. develops and operates a peer-2-peer social video debating and real-time broadcasting platform. It enables users to debate on various topics, such as politics, sports, ethics, college, libertarian, trump, terrorism, education, movies, democratic parties, and others. QallOut, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.
ShortPoint, Inc.
Seed Round in 2018
ShortPoint FZCO develops a web design, user interface, and user experience solution which can be used to develop enterprise web software solutions. The company offers ShortPoint, which can be added to Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, and SAP cloud portal environments to develop business websites with no coding. It provides templates for intranet, real estate, education, technology, travel, and retail segments; elements with basics, typography/ lists, layouts/boxes, and media elements; and features such as connectors, branding, inserter, copy and paste, SAP portal, icons, and cross browser features. ShortPoint FZCO was founded in 2014 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
MoneyFellows
Debt Financing in 2019
MoneyFellows Limited operates a lending and savings platform. The company's platform provides its user to join suitable money circle based on their credit score; then the users pay a matching monthly installment, for a pre-defined number of months, placed in a common pot; and each month, one member receives the total money in the common pot, until all members have received their Payout once, ending the Money Circle. MoneyFellows Limited was formerly known as Moneyounion Limited and changed its name to MoneyFellows Limited in February 2015. MoneyFellows Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
CarSwitch.com
Seed Round in 2018
CarSwitch is out to fix a fundamentally opaque and broken >$20B space, the regional used car market, by driving it into the 21st century. Used car sales is an incredibly painful process, for sellers it’s endless phone calls and low ball offers while for buyers its sketchy conversations and hidden damages!
CarSwitch takes the entire process off the seller & buyer hands employing a fleet of certified specialists and cutting edge technology to inspect, certify, and warranty every car, vet serious buyers, match them with trusted sellers and guide the two through the full transaction.
Brand Ripplr, FZ LLC
Series A in 2020
Brand Ripplr, FZ LLC develops and offers influencer marketing platform that enables brands and agencies to create campaigns and monitor the marketing ROI. The company's platform allows brands to track and measure the performance of campaigns. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Visage
Seed Round in 2016
Visage Inc owns and operates visage.jobs, a hiring platform that enables employers to identify and engage underrepresented talent. Its crowdsourcing recruitment platform allows to source, upload, and submit candidate profiles. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Mamo Pay
Seed Round in 2020
Mamo Pay provides payments application intended to make money transfers accessible. It allows connecting bank account to its application and enables users to send money quickly and securely to friends and family.
It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
GetJenny Oy
Seed Round in 2019
GetJenny is a conversational AI for customer Service. GetJenny helps customer service people focus on tasks that require life experience by enabling companies to quickly and easily teach, deploy, and maintain human-directed AI to instant messaging on live chat platforms.
Jenny’s user-friendly web application empowers nontechnical people to build chatbots for customer service live chat operations. Their mission is to help customer service people focus on tasks that require life experience by enabling companies to quickly and easily teach, deploy, and maintain human-directed AI to any communication channels without the need for programming.
TARA Intelligence Inc.
Series A in 2019
Software should work for you, not the other way around. Yet, most software for product development is difficult to use and needs a lot of time to configure; it was not purpose-built for modern, cross-functional teams building rapidly.
At Tara, we’re designing simple yet powerful software to solve these complex problems. We've built a smart platform that's helping thousands of engineers and teams deliver on planned releases, with improved predictability.
Launched in public beta in April, 2020.
PointCheckout
Seed Round in 2019
PointCheckout is the first of its kind dedicated online payment provider for loyalty and reward points allowing members of participating reward programs to pay online within the PointCheckout merchant network using their points.
PointCheckout was created in response to lack of flexibility and options in the redemption process for many of the worlds reward programs including those of banks, telecoms, and airlines. PointCheckout simplifies the process of adding redemption partners for reward programs by integrating only once to the PointCheckout online store network.
Customers can finally enjoy their rewards wherever they shop online with ease.
Rology
Seed Round in 2020
Rology owns and operates teleradiology platform that helps hospitals with radiology departments to solve the problem of latency in reporting time. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.
Loyyal Corporation
Seed Round in 2016
Loyyal Corporation provides a loyalty and rewards platform built with blockchain and smart contract technology. The company offers enterprise-grade hosting services, development tools, and other support services. Loyyal Corporation was formerly known as Ribbit.me! USA Inc. and changed its name to Loyyal Corporation in April 2016. Loyyal Corporation was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
LUNCH: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
Clara Technologies Limited
Seed Round in 2019
Clara’s goal is to make setting up and managing a robust legal structure as efficient as possible, so that founders can concentrate their limited resources on their team, product and customers.
MoneyFellows
Seed Round in 2018
MoneyFellows Limited operates a lending and savings platform. The company's platform provides its user to join suitable money circle based on their credit score; then the users pay a matching monthly installment, for a pre-defined number of months, placed in a common pot; and each month, one member receives the total money in the common pot, until all members have received their Payout once, ending the Money Circle. MoneyFellows Limited was formerly known as Moneyounion Limited and changed its name to MoneyFellows Limited in February 2015. MoneyFellows Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Volt Lines
Series A in 2019
Volt Lines operates an online platform that provides subscription based transportation services in Istanbul. The company’s platform allows users to book a seat on mini-buses for their commute to and from work. It also offers mobile application. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Rology
Seed Round in 2020
Rology owns and operates teleradiology platform that helps hospitals with radiology departments to solve the problem of latency in reporting time. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.
Wrappup
Seed Round in 2016
Wrappup uses AI to auto-summarize your meetings, declaring war on pens everywhere!
The platform uses a combination Speech Analysis, NLP, and Deep Learning models to identify important moments in discussion. Just invite lucy@wrappup.ai to your next call, and she’ll listen for keywords like “follow-up” or “next steps” to generate all the action items for you. Users can train the system with their own set of keyword triggers and vocabulary, making Lucy smarter and smarter as she grows!
Wimo App
Seed Round in 2019
WIMO is an innovative Last-Mile platform for businesses and enterprises, with customers in many vertical industries ranging from eCommerce and courier companies to banks and real-estate companies. Our solution empowers companies to seamlessly manage their last mile operations and delivery services. In parallel, we always keep the customer at the center of the entire ecosystem by creating a simple and beautifully designed customer experience.
Volt Lines
Seed Round in 2018
Volt Lines operates an online platform that provides subscription based transportation services in Istanbul. The company’s platform allows users to book a seat on mini-buses for their commute to and from work. It also offers mobile application. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Krowd Limited
Seed Round in 2019
Krowd Limited develops a platform connecting retailers and cardholders. It serves retailers, banks, and merchant acquirers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
LUNCH:ON
Seed Round in 2016
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
ThinkSono
Pre Seed Round in 2018
ThinkSono Ltd designs and develops a software which allows healthcare professional to diagnose deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care using a portable scanner. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
App4Legal
Funding Round in 2020
App4Legal legal practice management solution helps lawyers innovate and be more effective by digitizing their practice.
App4Legal is a comprehensive legal practice management solution for law firms of all sizes, corporate in-house legal departments and governmental entities.
App4Legal software is the complete solution for Law-Firms & In-House Legal Departments. App4Legal is labelled enterprise, multi-language, multi-currency and available on all platforms (Mobile, Web, Desktop) for on-Cloud, SaaS & on-Premises (on-server).
ThinkSono
Pre Seed Round in 2020
ThinkSono Ltd designs and develops a software which allows healthcare professional to diagnose deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care using a portable scanner. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.