Endure Capital

Endure Capital is an early-stage investment fund based in Palo Alto, California, that focuses on supporting startup teams. The fund seeks out founders who are resourceful and imaginative, particularly those addressing significant problems with the potential to create high-growth companies. By prioritizing innovative solutions that resonate with a broad audience, Endure Capital aims to foster the development of businesses that can sustain long-term success.

Tarek Fahim

Managing Partner

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Pylon

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

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.

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.

Breadfast

Series A in 2021
Breadfast is a Cairo-based company that specializes in the production and online delivery of a wide range of bread and bakery products. Established in 2017, it offers various types of bread, including white, brown, multigrain, and specialty options like baguettes and ciabatta. The company's product line also features sweet and savory pastries such as danishes, muffins in different flavors, and an assortment of croissants. Breadfast aims to provide customers with freshly baked goods delivered directly to their homes each morning, eliminating the need for freezing or defrosting bakery items.

Aingel

Series A in 2021
Aingel is an analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to identify promising startups and connect them with suitable venture capitalists. The platform features an interactive dashboard and a VC match report that assesses both startups and investors based on over one hundred criteria, incorporating historical data to enhance investment decision-making. By facilitating faster fundraising, Aingel aligns founders with investors who are most likely to provide value and show interest in their business ideas. The platform is utilized by leading data-driven venture capital firms, banks, and fintech companies through its APIs, which streamline the process of startup discovery and analysis. Established in 2016, Aingel is headquartered in San Jose, California.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2021
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform designed to enhance the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform offers personal finance management services, allowing users to track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Additionally, NowPay provides a mobile application that offers detailed insights into employees' salaries, balances, and eligible loan amounts. The company partners with employers to facilitate advance salary payments, enabling employees to access their earnings at any time during the month without incurring liabilities, and to repay these advances over multiple months.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2020
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform designed to enhance the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform offers personal finance management services, allowing users to track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Additionally, NowPay provides a mobile application that offers detailed insights into employees' salaries, balances, and eligible loan amounts. The company partners with employers to facilitate advance salary payments, enabling employees to access their earnings at any time during the month without incurring liabilities, and to repay these advances over multiple months.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2020
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform designed to enhance the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform offers personal finance management services, allowing users to track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Additionally, NowPay provides a mobile application that offers detailed insights into employees' salaries, balances, and eligible loan amounts. The company partners with employers to facilitate advance salary payments, enabling employees to access their earnings at any time during the month without incurring liabilities, and to repay these advances over multiple months.

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.

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.

Breadfast

Series A in 2020
Breadfast is a Cairo-based company that specializes in the production and online delivery of a wide range of bread and bakery products. Established in 2017, it offers various types of bread, including white, brown, multigrain, and specialty options like baguettes and ciabatta. The company's product line also features sweet and savory pastries such as danishes, muffins in different flavors, and an assortment of croissants. Breadfast aims to provide customers with freshly baked goods delivered directly to their homes each morning, eliminating the need for freezing or defrosting bakery items.

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.

Aingel

Seed Round in 2019
Aingel is an analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to identify promising startups and connect them with suitable venture capitalists. The platform features an interactive dashboard and a VC match report that assesses both startups and investors based on over one hundred criteria, incorporating historical data to enhance investment decision-making. By facilitating faster fundraising, Aingel aligns founders with investors who are most likely to provide value and show interest in their business ideas. The platform is utilized by leading data-driven venture capital firms, banks, and fintech companies through its APIs, which streamline the process of startup discovery and analysis. Established in 2016, Aingel is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Dapi

Seed Round in 2019
Dapi Ltd is a fintech company that specializes in developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate payments between consumer bank accounts and businesses. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company provides a suite of open banking APIs designed to connect customer bank accounts, initiate payments, and access financial data in real-time. Dapi acts as an intermediary between financial applications and banks, enabling developers to create solutions such as digital wallets, budget trackers, and investment applications. Its services allow fintech companies to initiate payments through banks and offer financial services based on customer bank statement data. Dapi operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Kuwait, and has demonstrated significant demand for its offerings, achieving substantial growth in annual recurring revenue.

Almentor

Series A in 2019
Almentor FZCO operates an online video e-learning platform catering to the Middle East and North Africa, providing a wide range of training videos and expert talks. Founded in 2016 and based in Dubai, the platform offers courses in various fields, including health, technology, humanities, entrepreneurship, and business management, and features content in both Arabic and English. Launched in January 2018, Almentor has established itself as a significant resource for continuous learning, boasting the largest library of high-quality Arabic video courses globally. The platform serves both individual learners and businesses, offering a mix of paid courses, free talks, crash courses, and books to meet the educational needs of Arabs worldwide.

Maxab

Seed Round in 2019
Maxab is a business-to-business e-commerce marketplace that links food and grocery retailers with suppliers in Egypt, particularly in underserved areas. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Cairo, the company utilizes data-driven technologies and advanced supply chain solutions to enhance the food and grocery market. Maxab's platform streamlines access to a diverse range of products, providing retailers with premium service and operational support. Additionally, the company has established a logistics network to facilitate the efficient distribution of goods throughout Egypt, ensuring that the right quantity of food reaches the appropriate locations at the right time.

NowPay

Pre Seed Round in 2019
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform designed to enhance the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform offers personal finance management services, allowing users to track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Additionally, NowPay provides a mobile application that offers detailed insights into employees' salaries, balances, and eligible loan amounts. The company partners with employers to facilitate advance salary payments, enabling employees to access their earnings at any time during the month without incurring liabilities, and to repay these advances over multiple months.

Mawdoo3

Series B in 2019
Mawdoo3.com is an online Arabic content platform that aims to enrich the Arabic language presence on the internet. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Amman, Jordan, it serves over 50 million unique visitors monthly. The platform functions as a digital encyclopedia, offering a wide array of written content across various subjects, including health, education, and cooking. Mawdoo3 provides users with direct answers to their queries through a library of material created by subject matter experts, making it a valuable resource for Arabic-speaking internet users seeking reliable information.

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.

RiseUp

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.

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

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.

BIOS

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.

Fakahany

Seed Round in 2018
Fakahany is an online grocery marketplace based in Cairo, Egypt, established in 2017. The company specializes in providing fresh farm products, primarily fruits and vegetables, along with other daily essentials. Fakahany offers prepacked options, including fruit baskets, and features a platform that enables customers to access daily deals and special offers. The business focuses on convenience by providing door-to-door delivery services, ensuring that customers receive high-quality fresh produce directly from its warehouses.

Mawdoo3

Series B in 2018
Mawdoo3.com is an online Arabic content platform that aims to enrich the Arabic language presence on the internet. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Amman, Jordan, it serves over 50 million unique visitors monthly. The platform functions as a digital encyclopedia, offering a wide array of written content across various subjects, including health, education, and cooking. Mawdoo3 provides users with direct answers to their queries through a library of material created by subject matter experts, making it a valuable resource for Arabic-speaking internet users seeking reliable information.

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.

Forasna

Series B in 2018
Forasna is a job listing and recruitment platform based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2015. It specializes in connecting job seekers, particularly those seeking blue-collar employment, with various companies across the Middle East. The platform enables users to search for and apply to jobs that match their skills and qualifications. As the first and most reliable recruitment service in the region, Forasna caters to individuals from diverse educational backgrounds, enhancing their access to job opportunities. The company operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC.

WUZZUF

Series B in 2018
Wuzzuf, LLC is an online recruitment platform based in Cairo, Egypt, that connects job seekers with employers across various sectors, including accounting, customer service, engineering, sales, marketing, and software development. Founded in 2009, Wuzzuf operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC, a technology firm specializing in innovative online recruitment solutions. The platform caters to a diverse range of job seekers, from highly educated individuals to those with varying levels of education. Since its inception, Wuzzuf has served over 10,000 employers and facilitated more than 100,000 direct hires. The platform has advertised over 250,000 job vacancies and attracts more than 500,000 users each month, making it a significant player in the Egyptian job market.

Shezlong

Seed Round in 2018
Shezlong is an online mental health platform founded in 2014 and based in Cairo, Egypt. It focuses on connecting patients with licensed therapists in the MENA region through video sessions accessible via mobile devices and the web. The platform facilitates communication between users and mental health professionals, providing a convenient way for individuals to seek support and therapy from qualified practitioners.

Shezlong

Convertible Note in 2018
Shezlong is an online mental health platform founded in 2014 and based in Cairo, Egypt. It focuses on connecting patients with licensed therapists in the MENA region through video sessions accessible via mobile devices and the web. The platform facilitates communication between users and mental health professionals, providing a convenient way for individuals to seek support and therapy from qualified practitioners.

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.

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.

Elkrem

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.

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.

Aspect Biosystems

Venture Round in 2017
Aspect Biosystems Ltd. is a biotechnology company based in Vancouver, Canada, specializing in 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering. Founded in 2013, the company utilizes advanced microfluidics and its proprietary 3D bioprinting platform to create physiologically relevant living tissues, which aids medical research and the development of bioprinted therapeutics. Aspect's technology enables precise control over biomaterial composition and structure during tissue fabrication, and it offers contract testing services utilizing its 3DAirwayALI human tissue model. The company collaborates with pharmaceutical firms and academic institutions to explore pathways in respiratory diseases and is actively developing internal regenerative medicine programs targeting metabolic diseases and musculoskeletal disorders. Through partnerships with industry leaders, Aspect aims to advance the commercialization of bioprinted therapeutics.

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.

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.

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.

Cambridge Cancer Genomics

Seed Round in 2017
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.

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.

WaystoCap

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.

Boom Supersonic

Series A in 2017
Boom Supersonic is focused on revolutionizing passenger air travel by developing a supersonic airliner called Overture, which is designed to achieve speeds of Mach 2.2. Founded in 2014 and based in Englewood, Colorado, the company aims to make supersonic flights accessible and affordable for business travelers, while also promoting sustainability in aviation. Overture features advanced aerodynamics and engines that support the use of next-generation sustainable alternative fuels, enhancing safety and efficiency. Boom Supersonic is committed to overcoming the challenges associated with supersonic flight, with the ultimate goal of establishing routine supersonic travel for passengers worldwide.

BIOS

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.

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.

Wright Electric, Inc.

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.

Shezlong

Seed Round in 2016
Shezlong is an online mental health platform founded in 2014 and based in Cairo, Egypt. It focuses on connecting patients with licensed therapists in the MENA region through video sessions accessible via mobile devices and the web. The platform facilitates communication between users and mental health professionals, providing a convenient way for individuals to seek support and therapy from qualified practitioners.

Aingel

Seed Round in 2016
Aingel is an analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to identify promising startups and connect them with suitable venture capitalists. The platform features an interactive dashboard and a VC match report that assesses both startups and investors based on over one hundred criteria, incorporating historical data to enhance investment decision-making. By facilitating faster fundraising, Aingel aligns founders with investors who are most likely to provide value and show interest in their business ideas. The platform is utilized by leading data-driven venture capital firms, banks, and fintech companies through its APIs, which streamline the process of startup discovery and analysis. Established in 2016, Aingel is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Port of Mokha

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.

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.

WUZZUF

Series A in 2015
Wuzzuf, LLC is an online recruitment platform based in Cairo, Egypt, that connects job seekers with employers across various sectors, including accounting, customer service, engineering, sales, marketing, and software development. Founded in 2009, Wuzzuf operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC, a technology firm specializing in innovative online recruitment solutions. The platform caters to a diverse range of job seekers, from highly educated individuals to those with varying levels of education. Since its inception, Wuzzuf has served over 10,000 employers and facilitated more than 100,000 direct hires. The platform has advertised over 250,000 job vacancies and attracts more than 500,000 users each month, making it a significant player in the Egyptian job market.

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.

WUZZUF

Seed Round in 2013
Wuzzuf, LLC is an online recruitment platform based in Cairo, Egypt, that connects job seekers with employers across various sectors, including accounting, customer service, engineering, sales, marketing, and software development. Founded in 2009, Wuzzuf operates as a subsidiary of BasharSoft LLC, a technology firm specializing in innovative online recruitment solutions. The platform caters to a diverse range of job seekers, from highly educated individuals to those with varying levels of education. Since its inception, Wuzzuf has served over 10,000 employers and facilitated more than 100,000 direct hires. The platform has advertised over 250,000 job vacancies and attracts more than 500,000 users each month, making it a significant player in the Egyptian job market.

Edfa3ly

Series A in 2013
Edfa3ly.com is an automated personal shopping platform that allows customers to purchase items from any U.S. store or website. The service facilitates the acquisition of both physical merchandise and downloadable software, ensuring that ordered items are shipped directly to the customer's doorstep or made available for download. Edfa3ly.com provides comprehensive support, including payment processing with international merchants, customs clearance, and last-mile delivery, effectively removing barriers to shopping across borders.