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

Past deals in 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.