Egypt

We’ve come out of summer fast and hard. It’s not slowing down!

Founding MENA #35

14 Sep 2026

Saudi Arabia has entered the chat 🤯

Founding MENA #34

7 Sep 2026

A week where we saw one UAE based founder rewrite the rules around scaling startups in the region ...

Founding MENA #32

24 Aug 2026

Fundraises, exits and acquisitions. No euro summer here.

Founding MENA #30

9 Aug 2026

Investors continue to deploy despite the summer break.

Founding MENA #29

3 Aug 2026

Another strong week across MENA.

Founding MENA #26

13 Jul 2026

Another week of activity across the ecosystem.

Founding MENA #22

15 Jun 2026

Three acquisitions in one week and a new fund announcement!

Founding MENA #15

27 Apr 2026

MENA startups continue to raise as the region remains resilient.

Founding MENA #13

13 Apr 2026

MENA startups continue to raise as the region remains resilient.

Founding MENA #12

6 Apr 2026

Companies (11)

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MNT-Halan

Egyptian fintech offering loans, payments and e-commerce to underbanked customers

$1.4bnValuation

Breadfast is Egypt’s leading online grocery and quick-commerce platform, with a $50 million pre-Series C round led by Novastar Ventures.

$382mValuation

EgyptProptech

Nawy

Nawy is an Egyptian proptech platform for new and off-plan residential developments, with an IFC equity investment supporting its expansion.

$260mValuation

Brimore

Egyptian social commerce platform where home sellers resold local brands to their neighbours

EgyptAI

Instabug

Mobile app observability platform, now using AI agents to find and fix app issues

Exits MENA

Exits MENA matches startups and SMEs with investors and buyers.

Connect Money

Connect Money provides embedded-finance services to other businesses.

Fawry

Egypt's largest electronic payments network for bills, cards and shop payments

MaxAB

B2B grocery ordering and embedded finance for small retailers, now merged with Wasoko

Thndr

Egyptian app for investing in stocks, bonds and funds from small amounts

EgyptFood & hospitality

Zooba

Cairo restaurant brand serving Egyptian street food such as koshari and taameya

Founders (11)

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EgyptAI

Moataz Soliman

Co-founderInstabug

Co-founded Instabug (now Luciq) with Omar Gabr after studying at Cairo University

Belal El-Megharbel

Co-founder and CEOMaxAB

Ex-Careem manager who co-founded MaxAB and now leads the merged MaxAB-Wasoko

Mohamed Abdulaziz

Co-founderBrimore

Distribution veteran who built Brimore, which had about 75,000 home sellers across Egypt by…

Ashraf Sabry

Founder and CEOFawry

Ex-IBM and Raya executive who built Egypt's biggest payments network through corner shops

Seif Amr

Co-founder and COOThndr

Former Uber operations manager and investment banker who co-founded Thndr

Mounir Nakhla

Founder, Chairman and CEOMNT-Halan

Built Egypt's first billion-dollar private tech company by lending to the underbanked

EgyptAI

Omar Gabr

Co-founder and CEOInstabug

Turned a shake-to-report bug feature into Instabug, now the AI observability firm Luciq

Ahmad Hammouda

Co-founder and CEOThndr

Ex-Uber Egypt boss who built the country's largest digital brokerage for small investors

EgyptFood & hospitality

Chris Khalifa

Co-founder and CEOZooba

Former banker who turned Egyptian street food into a restaurant brand

Co-founder and Managing DirectorExits MENA

Ayman El Tanbouly

Former EBRD investment banker matching startups and SMEs with investors and buyers at Exits…

Ayman Essawy

Founder and CEOConnect Money

Dsquares co-founder now building embedded-finance infrastructure for other businesses at…

Watch

Zooba: Chris Khalifa

TruKker: Gaurav Biswas

Fawry: Ashraf Sabry

TruKker: Gaurav Biswas

Zooba: Chris Khalifa

MaxAB: Belal El-Megharbel

Brimore: Mohamed Abdulaziz

Thndr: Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr

Fawry: Ashraf Sabry