Calo is a direct-to-consumer food tech company offering personalized meal subscriptions. Its app automatically calculates users' caloric and macronutrient needs, delivering ready-to-eat meals portioned to fit their fitness goals. The app matches users with chef-prepared meals, ensuring high-quality food convenient for busy lifestyles.
FineDine
Seed Round in 2020
FineDine is a technology company that provides an AI-powered SaaS growth platform designed to enhance the operations of restaurants, cafés, bars, and hotels. The platform facilitates a seamless omnichannel experience by streamlining various aspects of restaurant management, including digital marketing, reservations, orders, payments, loyalty programs, and retargeting campaigns. By analyzing customer behavior, FineDine offers actionable insights that enable restaurateurs to optimize their operations and make informed, data-driven decisions. The platform features an error-free ordering process, promotes menu items, and collects customer feedback, ultimately helping establishments increase sales while lowering operational costs.
Cupmena
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cupmena operates in the agri-tech and waste-management space, collecting spent coffee grounds to create a soil substitute for cultivating mushrooms and to maximize value from waste in the agri-sector. The company pursues research and development to create new mushroom strains and additional agri-solutions derived from spent coffee grounds, with activities focused in Egypt and the broader MENA region.
Sprout makes wholesome, ready-to-eat food for children, crafted based on nutrition science and loved by children and busy parents in the UAE.
CUP builds a waste collection system to collect the spent coffee grounds and reuse them to develop solutions for the agri-sector.
Blink Ultimate Delivery
Seed Round in 2019
Blink Ultimate Delivery is an online on-demand ordering and delivery platform that connects consumers with local merchants, allowing them to order goods and receive them within an hour. The platform enables users to track their orders and pay cash upon delivery. Blink also offers a merchant application designed to enhance demand forecasting and revenue management, helping businesses expand their market reach. The company operates by linking businesses with nearby freelance drivers, utilizing advanced technologies to streamline the delivery process. Currently, Blink is operating in stealth mode as it develops its services and expands its presence in the delivery market.
Sprouting Journey
Seed Round in 2019
Sprouting Journey produces and sells frozen, nutritious meals designed specifically for babies, toddlers, and kids. Their recipes are made from wholesome grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, and animal proteins, ensuring a balanced diet free from preservatives, additives, and added sugars.
Thawaaq
Seed Round in 2019
Thawaaq is a developer of an online marketplace specializing in food products. It connects food suppliers and distributors with restaurants, hotels, cafes, and caterers, enabling buyers to search for preferred products and order them online efficiently. The platform aims to enhance procurement processes, increase transparency, and improve operational efficiency within the food supply chain.
Yacob
Venture Round in 2019
Yacob is a nutrition management platform focused on improving health behaviors related to nutrition and physical activity among children and their families. The company facilitates communication and operational flow between children, parents, schools, and food vendors. Yacob uses holistic data, including health levels, eating habits, physical activity patterns, sleep, and screen time, correlated with WHO standards, to develop an adaptive gamified framework. This framework combines physical, digital, and phygital tools such as fitness tests, healthy food tastings, online challenges, and competitions based on wearable data. The goal is to create a seamless experience that encourages children to adopt healthier lifestyles across various environments where they spend their time.
GoodsMart
Venture Round in 2019
GoodsMart is a mobile application developed to facilitate the online shopping of groceries and household products. Founded in 2013 and based in Cairo, Egypt, the company aggregates local grocery stores within its platform, allowing users to purchase a range of items including groceries, personal care, and home care products. GoodsMart offers a premium shopping experience with next-day delivery, enabling consumers to enjoy fresh products delivered directly to their homes. By streamlining the grocery shopping process, GoodsMart helps users save both time and money, making daily errands more manageable.
Foodics is a cloud-based restaurant management platform that runs on an iPad, offering point-of-sale transactions, inventory management, employee scheduling, loyalty programs, e-commerce, and a management dashboard. The system integrates an iPad kitchen display, menu management, notifications, call center, and inventory and supply chain capabilities to provide a holistic view of operations. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia, Foodics serves restaurants, food trucks, cafes, and quick-service chains in the Middle East, with thousands of customers and real-time operational insights. The platform supports English and Arabic, offers various add-on apps, and aims to streamline sales, logistics, and customer relationships to help clients increase revenues and enhance dining experiences.
FineDine
Seed Round in 2019
FineDine is a technology company that provides an AI-powered SaaS growth platform designed to enhance the operations of restaurants, cafés, bars, and hotels. The platform facilitates a seamless omnichannel experience by streamlining various aspects of restaurant management, including digital marketing, reservations, orders, payments, loyalty programs, and retargeting campaigns. By analyzing customer behavior, FineDine offers actionable insights that enable restaurateurs to optimize their operations and make informed, data-driven decisions. The platform features an error-free ordering process, promotes menu items, and collects customer feedback, ultimately helping establishments increase sales while lowering operational costs.
ReserveOut
Venture Round in 2019
ReserveOut is a company that provides online restaurant reservation services across Amman, Beirut, and major cities in the Middle East. Headquartered in Amman, Jordan, it operates a web and mobile application that allows users to search for and reserve tables at various venues, including restaurants and spas, within its network. The platform enables diners to make real-time reservations, while also offering venue owners tools to efficiently manage their resources and track reservations. By bridging the gap between hospitality, entertainment, and dining services, ReserveOut enhances the dining experience for users and helps businesses optimize their operations.
OneKitchen
Venture Round in 2019
OneKitchen is a Dubai-based company that operates a network of shared kitchens designed for delivery-only restaurants. Founded in 2018, it provides chefs, restaurants, and entrepreneurs with the necessary space, equipment, and technology to establish new culinary ventures with minimal investment and quick setup, typically within 48 hours. By streamlining operations, OneKitchen allows users to manage all aspects of their restaurant, including purchasing, sales, and accounting, through a single portal. The company's focus on reducing operational costs and facilitating rapid market entry enables culinary professionals to launch and optimize their businesses efficiently, enhancing their ability to adapt menus and maximize sales on delivery platforms.
Ngwah is an online food delivery service founded in 2017, operating primarily in Riyadh. The company utilizes advanced technologies developed by local Saudi engineers, incorporating machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance user experience. Ngwah's platform allows customers to place multiple orders simultaneously without a minimum charge and provides real-time order tracking on a map. Its intelligent menu system helps customers find the best food and restaurant options tailored to their preferences, ensuring timely deliveries across the city.
L'Atelier du Miel
Seed Round in 2018
L'Atelier du Miel is a boutique based in Beirut, Lebanon, specializing in the production and retail of honey and honey-based products. Founded by a team of individuals with backgrounds in architecture, management consulting, and engineering, the company is dedicated to crafting pure honey using natural methods. This involves relocating beehives annually to ensure that bees feed exclusively on the nectar of flowers and honeydew from trees, resulting in honey that is free from artificial ingredients. The product range includes over 30 varieties of honey, such as acacia and cedar honey, as well as honeydew and nectar honeys. Additionally, L'Atelier du Miel offers a selection of honey-infused products, including jams made with fresh fruits, nougat, cakes, and marrons glacés. The company shares its passion for beekeeping and quality craftsmanship through its store in Tabaris, Achrafieh, where it showcases its commitment to natural and healthy sweeteners.
V-licious
Seed Round in 2018
V-licious produces nutritious bakery and snack products designed for children. Their offerings combine kid-friendly shapes and flavors with hidden fruits and vegetables, ensuring high nutritional value without compromising taste.
Mix & Muesli
Seed Round in 2018
Mix & Muesli is the first custom-made muesli service in the UAE, specializing in providing personalized muesli mixes for home and office delivery. The company offers a diverse range of flavors and caters to various dietary requirements, ensuring that customers can create their own unique muesli combinations. All products are natural and free of preservatives, making them suitable for gluten-free, sugar-free, and organic diets. By focusing on customization and quality, Mix & Muesli aims to meet the individual preferences of health-conscious consumers.
Viavii is a travel technology company that empowers travelers with a hyper-personalized platform for discovering and booking authentic, on-demand experiences worldwide. By leveraging local communities' expertise, Viavii enables immersive, flexible travel itineraries, aiming to serve over 1.46 billion travelers and fostering 'people-to-people' connections.
AklaBaity
Seed Round in 2018
AklaBaity is a peer-to-peer dining platform based in Cairo that specializes in the delivery of homemade food. The platform allows users to order a variety of homemade dishes, including burgers, pasta, stuffed meals, chicken curry, grilled kofta, and tandoori chicken. By connecting home cooks with customers seeking authentic, homemade meals, AklaBaity facilitates a unique dining experience that emphasizes quality and traditional cooking. The service enhances the local food scene by enabling home chefs to share their culinary creations while providing consumers with convenient access to diverse and flavorful home-cooked options.
KeepEATreal
Seed Round in 2018
KeepEATreal is a nutrition and lifestyle consultancy founded in 2015, based in Dubai, UAE. The company addresses the increasing demand for healthier food options in the Middle East, where it recognized a gap in business-level nutritional support beyond individual counseling. As a recognized authority in nutrition and wellness, KeepEATreal collaborates with various sectors, including food, healthcare, hospitality, and education, to implement healthier food initiatives for their clients and communities. Their comprehensive services encompass recipe development, marketing communications, nutrition analysis, food and health policy analysis, and strategy development, all designed to help customers optimize their menus and foster healthier lifestyles. The company works with a diverse range of clients globally, offering customizable programs tailored to meet their specific needs.
Organic Press
Seed Round in 2018
Organic Press is dedicated to provide its customers with 100% raw, organic cold pressed juices designed to invigorate the body and mind for all.
BulkWhiz
Venture Round in 2018
Bulkwhiz is the first hassle-free online bulk grocery shopping in the UAE, powered by the next generation artificial intelligence. It is the first local startup in its sector to develop its own proprietary AI-enabled technology that offers a personalized, simple online shopping experience for households and small businesses. Through its homegrown tech solution, Bulkwhiz delivers value and is designed to save time, money and effort for the busy working moms and dads, city dwellers and small businesses. Its one-click order offers door-to-door delivery service of branded bulk, shelf stable, household staples and office products. Carefully curating leading regional and international brands, Bulkwhiz allows shoppers to create a one-time smart and flexible shopping list that makes the arduous shopping of bulk products simple and easy.
ReserveOut
Venture Round in 2018
ReserveOut is a company that provides online restaurant reservation services across Amman, Beirut, and major cities in the Middle East. Headquartered in Amman, Jordan, it operates a web and mobile application that allows users to search for and reserve tables at various venues, including restaurants and spas, within its network. The platform enables diners to make real-time reservations, while also offering venue owners tools to efficiently manage their resources and track reservations. By bridging the gap between hospitality, entertainment, and dining services, ReserveOut enhances the dining experience for users and helps businesses optimize their operations.
BulkWhiz
Seed Round in 2017
Bulkwhiz is the first hassle-free online bulk grocery shopping in the UAE, powered by the next generation artificial intelligence. It is the first local startup in its sector to develop its own proprietary AI-enabled technology that offers a personalized, simple online shopping experience for households and small businesses. Through its homegrown tech solution, Bulkwhiz delivers value and is designed to save time, money and effort for the busy working moms and dads, city dwellers and small businesses. Its one-click order offers door-to-door delivery service of branded bulk, shelf stable, household staples and office products. Carefully curating leading regional and international brands, Bulkwhiz allows shoppers to create a one-time smart and flexible shopping list that makes the arduous shopping of bulk products simple and easy.
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PantryBee
Seed Round in 2017
PantryBee is run by a group of Kuwaiti entrepreneurs with a love for cooking and a desire to share it. The founders met in the winter of 2015 over hot coffee and nibbles, and decided then and there to embark on a new culinary journey together, that journey became PantryBee.
Eila is a software-as-a-service platform that helps merchants set up ChatShops and automate sales through AI-powered chat. The solution functions as a sales chatbot, managing conversations, products, variations, and inventory to streamline shopping experiences and facilitate direct sales. By handling product data and customer interactions within chat, Eila aims to save merchants time and expand channels for selling, enabling more efficient and frictionless commerce.
Solo TACOS
Seed Round in 2017
Solo Tacos is a restaurant chain dedicated to delivering authentic Mexican cuisine, focusing on the vibrant flavors of traditional street fare. With a particular emphasis on their signature tacos, the establishment features grilled meats and freshly made guacamole crafted from Mexican avocados, complemented by a selection of four homemade salsas. In addition to their renowned tacos, Solo Tacos offers protein and regular bowls, as well as decadent quesadillas and baked chips, appealing to a diverse range of customers. The restaurant aims to recreate the authentic culinary experience found in the streets of Tijuana, providing patrons with a genuine taste of Mexico in Kuwait.