AI
Companies
UAEAIAppliedAI
AppliedAI builds Opus, an agentic AI workflow platform for regulated industries, headquartered in Abu Dhabi and backed by G42 and Mubadala.
Saudi ArabiaAILucidya
Lucidya is a Saudi AI-native customer experience management platform serving clients across 13 countries, with a $30 million Series B.
UAEAIBase
Base is building AI infrastructure for business operations that connects a company's tool stack and resolves it into one queryable company brain, built on a knowledge graph.
EgyptAIInstabug
Mobile app observability platform, now using AI agents to find and fix app issues
TunisiaAIInstaDeep
AI company building decision-making systems for biology, logistics and industry
OmanAISampo Pricing
Sampo Pricing offers competitor price monitoring, pricing recommendations and automated repricing for e-commerce retailers, with integrations including Shopify, WooCommerce, Salla and Zid.
Saudi ArabiaAIGovernata
Governata is a Riyadh startup whose platform helps local organisations meet Saudi data regulations while using AI for decisions.
JordanAICortad
Cortad is building the intelligence infrastructure for the next generation of AI agents.
TurkeyAIInsider
AI platform that personalises marketing and customer engagement across channels
Founders
EgyptAIMoataz Soliman
Co-founded Instabug (now Luciq) with Omar Gabr after studying at Cairo University
TurkeyAIHande Çilingir
Built Insider into Turkey's first woman-founded unicorn after selling a language school
EgyptAIOmar Gabr
Turned a shake-to-report bug feature into Instabug, now the AI observability firm Luciq
TunisiaAIKarim Beguir
Left banking to start InstaDeep in Tunisia, then sold it to BioNTech in 2023
UAEAICaroline Hazlehurst
Scaling executive; former Moove President and Calo COO, now Co-Founder and CEO of Base, AI…
Saudi ArabiaAIDjamel Mohand
Former Foodics COO building Arabic-language data-governance software for Saudi…
JordanAIMohammad Alsufi
Sold AI learning platform NoNerds to JoAcademy, now co-founding Cortad, intelligence…
OmanAIKhalifa Manaa
Repeat founder and startup mentor who co-founded Sampo, an Oman-born e-commerce pricing…
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