Endure Capital

Endure Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and startup companies. The firm prefers to invest in tech enabled and tech startups from all industries. The firm make seed stage investments primarily whether led VCs from the diverse network in USA, Europe and the MENA(Middle East and North America) region. The firm also prefers to invest in Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Silicon Valley, United Kingdom and Canada. Endure Capital is headquartered in California with the additional office in New Cairo, Egypt and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Tarek Fahim

Managing Partner

55 past transactions

Pyka, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Pyka is building the future of autonomous electric aircraft. We develop autonomous aircraft to provide people with an affordable and compelling alternative to ground transit using hyper-short takeoff and landing aircraft. Our planes utilize state the art obstacle detection, path planning, electric motors, and batteries propulsion systems, autonomous control systems to navigate their environments and take off and land from almost anywhere. Today, our planes are serving the agriculture industry and are the first certified electric autonomous airplane flying commercially.

Shezlong

Convertible Note in 2018
Shezlong develops an online mental health platform. Its web-based platform enables users to find and speak to psychiatry therapists and provides online contact with professionals and therapists through video sessions. Shezlong was founded in 2014 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Sourceress

Seed Round in 2017
Sourceress is an AI recruiter that is reinventing how people find jobs. With tailor-made machine learning models, they rigorously define what a company is looking for in a role, identify great candidates, and engage candidates with highly personalized introductions. Their process creates a stream of interested candidates that hiring managers are excited about more than 85% of the time. Their mission is to accelerate human progress by helping people work in jobs that matter. They raised $3M from Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners and OpenAI researchers.

Fat Llama

Seed Round in 2017
Fat Llama is the platform that lets you rent out your belongings to others nearby. Everyday, they connect people who need things, with others in their neighborhood that have it to lend. They believe in getting people to work together to make the world a more efficient place for everyone. So they are making it quick and easy for people to share their belongings. Their dream is a platform where all goods - from the everyday to the abstract - can be borrowed within minutes.

Brimore

Series A in 2022
Brimore Holding B.V. owns and operates an online retail and distribution platform. The company offers fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). It offers detergents, perfumes, skin, canned food, upholstery, skin care, lips, spices, mixes, and beans, men wear, personal care, hair care, eyes, women wear, baby and kids wear, appliances, make up, textiles, home care, food and beverage, and wellness products. The company connects and serves manufacturers and customers. Brimore Holding B.V. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2021
NowPay, Inc. develops and operates online fintech platform that helps to improve financial wellness of corporate employees. The company’s platform provides personal finance management services that allows users to manage and track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. It also develops mobile application. The company’s application provides detailed information on employees’ salary, balance, and the maximum eligible loan amount. The company collaborates with employers to provide advance salary to staff at any time of the month and pay back over multiple months with zero liabilities, using a mobile application. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Aingel Corp.

Series A in 2021
Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs who have built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.

Shezlong

Seed Round in 2018
Shezlong develops an online mental health platform. Its web-based platform enables users to find and speak to psychiatry therapists and provides online contact with professionals and therapists through video sessions. Shezlong was founded in 2014 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2020
NowPay, Inc. develops and operates online fintech platform that helps to improve financial wellness of corporate employees. The company’s platform provides personal finance management services that allows users to manage and track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. It also develops mobile application. The company’s application provides detailed information on employees’ salary, balance, and the maximum eligible loan amount. The company collaborates with employers to provide advance salary to staff at any time of the month and pay back over multiple months with zero liabilities, using a mobile application. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Pylon

Seed Round in 2022
Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure.

Mawdoo3.com

Series B in 2018
Mawdoo3.com operates an online Arabic content platform to provide Internet users with Arabic content. Its platform is a comprehensive online Arabic language digital encyclopedia that delivers what people are searching for on search engines and provides direct answers via its library of content by subject matter experts. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Amman, Jordan.

Bios Health

Seed Round in 2017
BIOS is developing a full-stack neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from to the body, to treat chronic health conditions. BIOS began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom and an R&D office in Montreal, Canada.

Thndr

Series A in 2022
Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform. It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

Breadfast

Series A in 2021
Breadfast produces bread and bakery products and operates an online delivery store. The company's bread offerings include white toast, brown toast, baguette, half baguette, multigrain, black seeds, rye, ciabatta, focaccia, soft, and baladi. It also produces cherries danish and burger, mini burger, brioche, and petit pain buns. Furthermore, the company provides muffins with plain, chocolate, and cherry flavors. In addition, it produces plain, pain au chocolat, cheese, zaatar, and pain au fromage croissants. Breadfast was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

almentor.net

Series A in 2019
almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high quality continuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.

WaystoCap Sarl

Seed Round in 2017
WaystoCap is a B2B marketplace where businesses in Africa can buy and sell products. Beyond just product discovery and verification, WaystoCap helps businesses in obtaining financing and insurance, managing their shipments, and ensuring payments security. WaystoCap facilitates the whole trading operation so that its buyers can find the most competitive products and obtain financing; and its suppliers can access new markets and trade in a secure environment.

Elk

Seed Round in 2018
Elk is a development board for the blockchain and the decentralized web. It combines the simplicity of Arduino along with native support for decentralized networks. With only a few lines of code you can build IoT that interfaces with Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper, and more.

Just Appraised

Seed Round in 2017
Just Appraised Inc. develops property appraisal software. The company uses machine learning technology to streamline residential property valuation for tax assessors and to evaluate public and private data, which enables it to build proprietary dataset. It caters to the local governments along with the real estate industry. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Caelum Health

Seed Round in 2017
Caelum Health Incorporated develops application software to improve people’s health without prescribing drugs. The company through its software helps improve digestive health and IBS symptoms through physician-recommended FODMAP diet. It provides behavioral health treatments by providing digital coaching, directory of food, information and lessons, and health tracking solutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bios Health

Seed Round in 2018
BIOS is developing a full-stack neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from to the body, to treat chronic health conditions. BIOS began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom and an R&D office in Montreal, Canada.

RiseUp

Seed Round in 2018
Rise Up is a platform that connects startups to the most relevant resources, worldwide.RiseUp has grown over the years from a grass-root movement to a global momentum. The purpose behind RiseUp has remained the same: to connect startups to the most relevant resources worldwide. They act as the glue that fuses ecosystems together to help them realize their ultimate potential. By connecting stakeholders to local & global networks, and fusing diverse talents & resources, ecosystems are enabled to accelerate, innovate, and grow. Their mission is accomplished through their four products: Summit, Connect, Explore, and Meetup.

Nawah Scientific

Convertible Note in 2018
Cutting edge research is available exclusively to those with high tech equipment in their labs. Nawah is a core hub of advanced equipment specialized in natural and medical sciences. Nawah's online platform receives experiments requests, Nawah's scientists carry them out and return results online. Thus, researchers can do much advanced research regardless of their location and available facilities in their labs. In 3 years, we analyzed 10K+ samples for 25 universities and companies in the MENA, Malaysia, UK and Switzerland.
Cambridge Cancer Genomics Limited offers diagnostics tests for cancer patients using liquid biopsy, artificial intelligence, and genomics. It uses artificial neural networks and machine learning algorithms to design personalized tests for tracking treatment response in patients. The company enables cancer clinics, academic institutes, biotech startups, and pharmaceutical companies to make use of the tools and therapies. Cambridge Cancer Genomics Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Breadfast

Series A in 2020
Breadfast produces bread and bakery products and operates an online delivery store. The company's bread offerings include white toast, brown toast, baguette, half baguette, multigrain, black seeds, rye, ciabatta, focaccia, soft, and baladi. It also produces cherries danish and burger, mini burger, brioche, and petit pain buns. Furthermore, the company provides muffins with plain, chocolate, and cherry flavors. In addition, it produces plain, pain au chocolat, cheese, zaatar, and pain au fromage croissants. Breadfast was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

BasharSoft

Series A in 2015
BasharSoft LLC develops Web-based online recruitment software solutions in Egypt. It offers WUZZUF, a job board for various job seekers and employers, including companies ranging from small startups to multinational corporations; a talent management and job board engine to develop custom job boards for niche segments and industries; WiseRec, an online recruitment tool for small and medium enterprises; and workforce planning software systems. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Boom Supersonic

Series A in 2017
Boom Technology is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They're making a supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone. Boom Supersonic is redefining what it means to fly in a commercial aircraft by building Overture, its Mach-2.2. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Englewood, Colorado.

Shezlong

Seed Round in 2016
Shezlong develops an online mental health platform. Its web-based platform enables users to find and speak to psychiatry therapists and provides online contact with professionals and therapists through video sessions. Shezlong was founded in 2014 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Brimore

Seed Round in 2019
Brimore Holding B.V. owns and operates an online retail and distribution platform. The company offers fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). It offers detergents, perfumes, skin, canned food, upholstery, skin care, lips, spices, mixes, and beans, men wear, personal care, hair care, eyes, women wear, baby and kids wear, appliances, make up, textiles, home care, food and beverage, and wellness products. The company connects and serves manufacturers and customers. Brimore Holding B.V. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

BasharSoft

Series B in 2018
BasharSoft LLC develops Web-based online recruitment software solutions in Egypt. It offers WUZZUF, a job board for various job seekers and employers, including companies ranging from small startups to multinational corporations; a talent management and job board engine to develop custom job boards for niche segments and industries; WiseRec, an online recruitment tool for small and medium enterprises; and workforce planning software systems. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

WUZZUF

Series A in 2015
Wuzzuf, LLC operates an online recruitment site in Egypt. Its platform allows visitors to find jobs in the areas of accounting/finance, customer service, engineering, sales, marketing/PR, art/design/creative, human resources, software development, and others; and employers and recruiters to advertise their jobs. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Cairo, Egypt. Wuzzuf, LLC operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC.

MaxAB

Seed Round in 2019
MaxAB is a B2B e-commerce marketplace that connects food and grocery retailers to suppliers in Egypt’s most under-served geographies. It re-engineers the food and grocery market, using data-driven technologies and state of the art supply chains. Its mission is to empower the Egyptian retailers, by availing access to a wide range of products, premium service, and operational support. Its technology-enabled supply chain is helping put the correct amount of food at the right place at the right time. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

Careem

Series B in 2014
Careem designs an online booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. Its platform offers a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their selected credit card, which helps passengers have access to affordable and advantageous transportation. Abdulla Elyas, Magnus Olsson, and Mudassir Sheika founded Careem on June 15, 2012, with its headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Fakahany

Seed Round in 2018
Fakahany owns and operates an online platform and mobile platform which offers fresh farm products like fruits and vegetables. The company offers door to door delivery services and stores fresh products in its ware houses. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Forasna

Series B in 2018
Forasna owns and operates a job listing and recruitment platform. The platform lists blue-collar jobs from various companies in Middle East and allows job seekers to search and apply for jobs. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Cairo, Egypt. Forasna operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC.

Aingel Corp.

Seed Round in 2016
Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs who have built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.

Aspect Biosystems Ltd.

Venture Round in 2017
Aspect Biosystems Ltd., a biotechnology company, engages in 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering. The company offers engineering physiologically relevant 3D living tissues through its 3D bioprinting platform technology; provides Lab-on-a-printer technology that enables control over biomaterial composition and structure during tissue fabrication; and offers contract testing services on 3DAirwayALI human tissue model. Its customers include pharmaceutical firms and academics engaged in defining pathways in respiratory diseases. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2020
NowPay, Inc. develops and operates online fintech platform that helps to improve financial wellness of corporate employees. The company’s platform provides personal finance management services that allows users to manage and track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. It also develops mobile application. The company’s application provides detailed information on employees’ salary, balance, and the maximum eligible loan amount. The company collaborates with employers to provide advance salary to staff at any time of the month and pay back over multiple months with zero liabilities, using a mobile application. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

RiseUp Moments

Seed Round in 2018
RiseUp offers a platform that helps users make good financial decisions. It aims to translate the complexities of the financial world into a simple and actionable WhatsApp messages, empowering users to make calm, informed decisions, and save for their future.

WUZZUF

Series B in 2018
Wuzzuf, LLC operates an online recruitment site in Egypt. Its platform allows visitors to find jobs in the areas of accounting/finance, customer service, engineering, sales, marketing/PR, art/design/creative, human resources, software development, and others; and employers and recruiters to advertise their jobs. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Cairo, Egypt. Wuzzuf, LLC operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC.

Wright Electric Airplanes

Seed Round in 2016
Wright Electric, Inc. is building technologies for large commercial airplanes. The company is currently developing their flagship Airplane, the Wright 1, which will be a 186-seat single aisle airliner with an 800 mile range. The company hopes to achieve entry to service for the Wright 1 by 2030 and is working with commercial airlines including easyJet and VivaAerobus. In addition to the newly announced U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E funding, the company is funded by Y Combinator, the Clean Energy Trust and venture funds.

Aingel Corp.

Seed Round in 2019
Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs who have built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.

WUZZUF

Seed Round in 2013
Wuzzuf, LLC operates an online recruitment site in Egypt. Its platform allows visitors to find jobs in the areas of accounting/finance, customer service, engineering, sales, marketing/PR, art/design/creative, human resources, software development, and others; and employers and recruiters to advertise their jobs. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Cairo, Egypt. Wuzzuf, LLC operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC.

Mawdoo3.com

Series B in 2019
Mawdoo3.com operates an online Arabic content platform to provide Internet users with Arabic content. Its platform is a comprehensive online Arabic language digital encyclopedia that delivers what people are searching for on search engines and provides direct answers via its library of content by subject matter experts. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Amman, Jordan.

Dapi

Seed Round in 2019
Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.

Thndr

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform. It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

ElCoach

Seed Round in 2020
ElCoach is the fitness app for the Middle East. Any app can get you to sign up and play for a day—ElCoach builds better bodies for life. Your current stats, fitness level, and personal goals are used to craft hyper-customized diet and workout programs. Whether you're at home, in the gym, or on the go, your trainer is always in your pocket. And it'll guide you to your ideal shape every step of the way.

Edfa3ly

Series A in 2013
Edfa3ly.com is a personal shopper offering its customers to shop from any US Store/website, and have their ordered items shipped right to their doorstep in the case of physical merchandise, or downloaded to their computer in the case of any software.

Careem

Series D in 2016
Careem designs an online booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. Its platform offers a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their selected credit card, which helps passengers have access to affordable and advantageous transportation. Abdulla Elyas, Magnus Olsson, and Mudassir Sheika founded Careem on June 15, 2012, with its headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Careem

Series E in 2017
Careem designs an online booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. Its platform offers a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their selected credit card, which helps passengers have access to affordable and advantageous transportation. Abdulla Elyas, Magnus Olsson, and Mudassir Sheika founded Careem on June 15, 2012, with its headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Abwaab

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students in MENA to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outside the classroom.

NowPay

Pre Seed Round in 2019
NowPay, Inc. develops and operates online fintech platform that helps to improve financial wellness of corporate employees. The company’s platform provides personal finance management services that allows users to manage and track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. It also develops mobile application. The company’s application provides detailed information on employees’ salary, balance, and the maximum eligible loan amount. The company collaborates with employers to provide advance salary to staff at any time of the month and pay back over multiple months with zero liabilities, using a mobile application. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Nawah Scientific

Seed Round in 2018
Cutting edge research is available exclusively to those with high tech equipment in their labs. Nawah is a core hub of advanced equipment specialized in natural and medical sciences. Nawah's online platform receives experiments requests, Nawah's scientists carry them out and return results online. Thus, researchers can do much advanced research regardless of their location and available facilities in their labs. In 3 years, we analyzed 10K+ samples for 25 universities and companies in the MENA, Malaysia, UK and Switzerland.

The Mednet

Seed Round in 2017
The Mednet is a community of physicians helping each other treat patients with cancer.Their Mission is Improve knowledge sharing between physicians so that patients get high quality care wherever they are treated.They help physicians get answers to questions where there is no clear answer in guidelines or published research and expert opinion is necessary. All answers are indexed and searchable so that every physician can quickly access expert knowledge to provide their patients with high quality care.

Elkrem, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Elkrem, Inc. develops software and hardware tools that connects makers to the blockchain and other decentralized technologies. It provides hardware and software tools for developers to build blockchain connected IoT products. The company's products allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build Internet connected products that accepts cryptocurrencies and communicates with different blockchain and decentralized protocols, such as bitcoin, ethereum, swarm, whisper, and others. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Port of Mokha, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Implementing industry-leading best practices and social impact measures across the entire coffee supply chain in the most genetically diverse coffee origin, to bring out the very best of Yemen's raw potential. Needless to say, the resulting coffee is the best the world has ever seen.