Oasis500

Oasis500 is the leading seed investment company and business accelerator in the Tech and Creative Industry spaces based in Amman, Jordan. We enable great entrepreneurs to transform their viable ideas or creative talents into scalable businesses. That includes finding those entrepreneurs, investing in their startups, bridging their know-how gap, and eventually helping them get follow-on funding. In the process, we have become one of the most influential players in advancing the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Jordan and the MENA region in general. It all starts with reaching out to those people with the entrepreneurial drive, compelling them to embrace it and submit their startup ideas to Oasis500. Successful applicants are invited to attend our intensive Business and Entrepreneurship workshop aimed at building their entrepreneurial capacity and maximizing their potential of securing funding. Those with more mature pitches may go to the investment stage directly and skip the workshop. Startups that are successful at securing funding from Oasis500 will be accelerated at our facilities for 180 days where the focus will be on driving growth. Startups will have access to the tremendous cumulative know-how of Oasis500 staff, and our wonderful network of mentors. Not to mention the vibrant community that will help them come to terms with their maturing entrepreneurial identity. They will also be introduced to our investors network at a later stage as part of our focused efforts to help them get follow-on funding when needed.

Luma Fawaz

CEO

Walid Tahabsem

Co-Founder and Board Member

Past deals in Gulf Cooperation Council

Trteeb

Seed Round in 2017
Trteeb operates an online platform for customized tailor clothing for Arab traditional thobes connecting users to tailors. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

SocialDice

Seed Round in 2017
SocialDice Inc. is a company that specializes in developing and operating recruitment software and applicant tracking systems as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Its primary product, SocialDice, allows employers to streamline their hiring processes by advertising job openings across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn and Bayt, with just a few clicks. The software employs advanced artificial intelligence and semantic algorithms to analyze candidate qualifications and match them with job requirements, providing insights into key metrics such as loyalty and career gaps. Additionally, SocialDice facilitates effective collaboration among hiring teams through a centralized dashboard, enabling users to manage candidate communications, create professional job descriptions, and track the entire hiring process from a single interface. Founded in 2013, SocialDice is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with an additional office in Ramallah, Palestine.

Little Thinking Minds

Seed Round in 2017
Little Thinking Minds Company, LLC. produces educational Arabic content for children. It offers its educational content on various platforms, such as DVDs, CDs, activity books, flash cards, video and audio downloads, apps, and online games. The company sells its products through retail outlets, bookshops, play areas, and mega stores, as well as online in the United States, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Singapore, and Australia. Little Thinking Minds Company, LLC. was founded in 2004 and is based in Amman, Jordan with additional locations in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Crowd Analyzer

Seed Round in 2016
The 1st fully automated social web monitoring platform that support Arabic language with it's different dialects as well as supporting English. The innovation comes from the ability to automatically understands Arabic text in terms of relevance, dialect and sentiment.

SocialDice

Seed Round in 2015
SocialDice Inc. is a company that specializes in developing and operating recruitment software and applicant tracking systems as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Its primary product, SocialDice, allows employers to streamline their hiring processes by advertising job openings across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn and Bayt, with just a few clicks. The software employs advanced artificial intelligence and semantic algorithms to analyze candidate qualifications and match them with job requirements, providing insights into key metrics such as loyalty and career gaps. Additionally, SocialDice facilitates effective collaboration among hiring teams through a centralized dashboard, enabling users to manage candidate communications, create professional job descriptions, and track the entire hiring process from a single interface. Founded in 2013, SocialDice is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with an additional office in Ramallah, Palestine.

MadfooatCom

Pre Seed Round in 2012
MadfooatCom is the first e-payments company in Jordan, established in 2011 with an investment by Oasis500, aiming to disrupt the cash payments in the emerging markets. In 2014, MadfooatCom won the bid for the Central Bank of Jordan’s project to build and operate eFAWATEERcom; the national electronic bill presentment and payment service in Jordan. Today, it is connected to 100% of the banks and more than 300 billers including all telecom, utilities, private and government sector billers (Customs dept., e-Gov, ministry of Finance, social security, traffic tickets, etc...), and has processed till date, more than 48 million bills paid worth of more than 32 billion USD. The government of Jordan decided to use eFAWATEERcom for all its payments. By the end of 2017, more than 10 government services stopped using cash and transfer to ePayments using eFAWATEERcom in a government plan to digitize all government services and payments by 2020. MadfooatCom expanded to Oman and Palestine with more MENA countries in the pipeline (Algeria, Kenya, …), and is an active member of Endeavor Entrepreneurs’ global network and EO network. MadfooatCom was recently licensed by the Central Bank of Jordan as an e-wallet operator, to build and operate an electronic wallet in Jordan to help the unbanked people with managing their financials online. MadfooatCom’s CEO and Founder (Nasser Saleh) received the award of excellence from his majesty King Abdullah II for the company service: eFAWATEERcom which made the people life easier by introducing ePayments for most of their payments. In January 2018, Mr. Nasser also received the Mohammad bin Rashid Award at Dubai for the best Service Company in the Arab World. In 2019 MadfooatCom was selected as one of the top 100 startups that are shaping the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" in the MENA region and in 2020 was ranked by Forbes magazine in the top 10 Best regional technology companies in the Middle East Customers are wasting a lot of time and effort in paying their bills forcing them to stand in long queues for extended periods of time s they can pay their bills online, anywhere and anytime. Our platform, eFAWATEERcom, streamlines the billing and collection process for businesses and consumers alike. It runs on a scalable, microservices-based architecture that accommodates billers, banks and payment service providers. The system uses RTGS (Real Time Gross and Settlement System) to enable real time settlements that can be configured to handle multiple sessions.

Little Thinking Minds

Pre Seed Round in 2011
Little Thinking Minds Company, LLC. produces educational Arabic content for children. It offers its educational content on various platforms, such as DVDs, CDs, activity books, flash cards, video and audio downloads, apps, and online games. The company sells its products through retail outlets, bookshops, play areas, and mega stores, as well as online in the United States, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Singapore, and Australia. Little Thinking Minds Company, LLC. was founded in 2004 and is based in Amman, Jordan with additional locations in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

First Bazaar

Seed Round in 2011
First Bazaar is online retail store in UAE, which will take you through the best and most sophisticated deals on women fashion and accessories. The online fashion store in UAE gives you experience to shop and buy from traditional women apparels. First Bazaar has emerged as a comprehensive online retail shop in UAE.

Tadreesna

Seed Round in 2011
Company تدريسنا com is a Jordanian company with limited liability established in 2011 with the contribution of Oasis 500 company funded by the King Abdullah II Fund for Development The services began in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and تدريسنا is one of the leading companies in the provision of student services interactive

Manzil.me

Seed Round in 2011
E-commerce

Brick2Click

Seed Round in 2011
Brick2Click offers a range of digital marketing, m-commerce, and advertising services. It develops market-centric applications on QR codes; and engages online and offline readers with a brand. Its solutions also include mobile website creation, QR design, full tracking and reporting, shortened URLs, barcode readers, e-ticketing solutions, and more. Brick2Click is based in Dubai, UAE.

Run2Sport

Seed Round in 2011
Run2sport.com was established by a group of sports and IT specialists to be the first online sports shop in the Middle East region. This new and unique website aims to cater to the demands of all sports lovers across the region by providing them with a wide variety of premium sports brands at competitive prices. . run2sport.com not only offers an exceptional shopping experience through its state of the art & user-friendly interface, but also provides a simple one-step checkout in order to cater to both novice and savvy Internet users. Fulfilling its promise to place customers first, run2sport.com supports several payment methods including Cash on Delivery as well as 24/7 customer service support and a professional delivery system. run2sport.com aspires to be the main shopping destination for sports enthusiasts in the MENA region.

Little Thinking Minds

Pre Seed Round in 2011
Little Thinking Minds Company, LLC. produces educational Arabic content for children. It offers its educational content on various platforms, such as DVDs, CDs, activity books, flash cards, video and audio downloads, apps, and online games. The company sells its products through retail outlets, bookshops, play areas, and mega stores, as well as online in the United States, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Singapore, and Australia. Little Thinking Minds Company, LLC. was founded in 2004 and is based in Amman, Jordan with additional locations in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.