🐜 Abdo Achkar

CEO at Sowlutions - Tech for Equity

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
HAQQ is the AI operating system for the legal industry, built to deliver jurisdiction-aware legal intelligence and structured legal work at institutional standards. Founded in 2022, HAQQ unifies legal reasoning, drafting, review, and practice operations in a single, secure environment. This unified system includes AI Chat for jurisdiction-aware legal reasoning and drafting, and eFirm for end-to-end legal practice management. Lawyers and legal teams use HAQQ to produce defensible output, manage matters with precision, and operate with clarity and control. HAQQ’s Legal AI is designed for real-world legal practice. It searches before answering, grounds analysis in relevant legal sources, and produces structured, client-ready work aligned with professional standards. Legal intelligence and legal work live in one system, not across disconnected tools. The platform is built for multi-jurisdictional legal practice and supports native legal reasoning in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. It is purpose-built as legal infrastructure, not a generic AI layer or productivity add-on. HAQQ is designed for law firms, corporate legal departments, public institutions, and multi-office legal teams that require governance, auditability, and operational control by design. HAQQ is ISO 27001 and ISO/IEC 42001 certified, SOC 2 Type II compliant, GDPR compliant, and secured with enterprise-grade encryption (AES-256, TLS 1.3), built to protect confidentiality, privilege, and professional liability.
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Dec 2023
Biosapien is a late-stage pre clinical company focused on novel drug delivery platforms.
Investor/Board Member
Aug 2023
uPaint is an all inclusive painting kit, backed up by a Machine Learning and Image Processing based software, that allows anyone, even with NO PREVIOUS PAINTING SKILLS, to paint ready-made or customized Artwork through numbers.
Investor
Jan 2023
Archer is an AI-powered suite for the modern real estate investor, lender, and broker. We’ve initially started with tools for deal teams to accelerate their market analysis, deal sourcing, and underwriting processes – leading to more great deals done with less resources.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor
Dec 2022
We are a women-owned, Dubai-based, impact-driven startup that aims to create an opportunity for every food scrap to become a solution rather than a burden on our society and environment. By offering a data-focused platform, enabling simple, practical, customized nature-based solutions, and rewarding eco-friendly behavior, we will build a community of individuals and establishments that understands and practices proper organic waste sorting at source and disposal which, in turn, will be used to create healthy compost and other byproducts that benefit our local soil, local farms, local food and local jobs.
Investor/Advisor
May 2022
Lemonade Fashion is a next generation social-marketspace that builds communities around brands, products, creators and values while empowering social consumption. Our platform allows you to scroll through a curated feed of captivating videos, discover the products that you love and shop seamlessly from the content itself. Brand stories become instant sales and creators earn from authentic passion by tagging the products that they love.
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May 2022
GoBEBA is re-imagining retail in urban African cities. We are a digital retailer of household essentials, delivered rapidly through distributed micro-warehouses. In most emerging market cities, distribution of home essentials such as FMCG, water, cooking gas and fresh produce faces significant challenges. Consumers visit small fragmented stores for more than 17X a month. This happens in the midst crowded cities with traffic congestion and low penetration of modern retail. Using a network of micro-warehouses (dark-stores), GoBEBA stocks inventory to enable digitized multichannel ordering and delivery of daily essentials in less than an hour. We are one of the fastest growing quick-commerce service in Africa, based in Nairobi. We offer omni-channel retail backed by an AI-powered supply chain automation using low-cost distributed spaces to drives convenience at a lower cost, thus transforming consumer goods distribution in emerging markets.
Investor/Board Member
Nov 2021
Ur My Type is on a mission to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful by using personality types.
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Jun 2021
ONE ACT is a global startup engaged in software development and AI technology development. Headquarters in Japan, it has offices in France, India, the UK, and the US. Our main service, “PieceX”, is the world’s first AI-powered source code marketplace. By trading high-quality source code (text files of computer programs) globally, it revolutionizes the traditional software development process. Buyer companies (any business or software development companies) can purchase ready-to-use software components with a guarantee, eliminating the need to develop software from scratch, and reducing traditional software development time and costs by over 80%. Seller companies (software development companies or businesses that own the copyright to source code) can generate new recurring revenue directly from the source code itself and engage in high-profit-margin business. PieceX already has a track record of transactions in more than 200 countries and regions worldwide, and by becoming an innovative web infrastructure that enables anyone in the world to quickly develop new services, it is creating a new economy in the world. Awards: Europe ”Best Startup” at 4YFN 2022 Japan ”Annual Grand Prix Winner” at Independents Club Grand Prix 2022 Middle east & Africa ”AI Innovator Finalist” at Supernova 2022 Japan ”Winner” at Tokyo New Business Conference Startup Pitch Contest 2023 ASIA ”Startup Of The Year” at The International Prime Awards Asia 2023
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Feb 2021
Its The Easiest Lease Management Youll Ever Experience! Leasecake makes lease management and accounting a piece of cake for retail and restaurant owners and franchise operators. Our cloud-based software makes managing your portfolio of leased properties simple and accessible by organizing all lease and location details, time sensitive events, rent schedules, documents, and more into one easy-to-use platform. Leasecake simplifies lease and location management, so you can rest easy knowing you dont have to worry about late renewals, unorganized data, or unfavorable lease terms.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor (Exit)
Jun 2020
Scalefast is changing the way brands do direct-to-consumer eCommerce, by empowering them to regain the control and simplicity they need to create an exceptional shopping experience, directly from their online storefront. By joining forces through the Scalefast Commerce Cloud, brands can deliver localized and personalized direct-to-consumer shopping experiences while leveraging the volume and data of an entire brand ecosystem. Scalefast’s modern approach to eCommerce has generated award-winning success for their clients and has allowed them to become the fastest-growing eCommerce platform in the U.S. Its full-stack enterprise solution brings together a cloud-based eCommerce platform, global business services and an international footprint of logistics, payment, tax and business partners. For more information, visit www.scalefast.com. Based in Los Angeles (with offices in Paris, Vietnam, Japan, Mexico, and Madrid), Scalefast takes the complexity out of digital commerce for brands in the entertainment, consumer goods and fashion industries. For more information: www.scalefast.com. RedHerring North America 2019 winner Deloitte Technology FAST 500 North America 3x winner (2018, 2019, 2021) Inc. 5000 fastest-growing US companies 3x winner (2018, 2019, 2020) Company of the year 2018 Gold and Silver Stevie awards Enterprise Service of the Year 2017 Gold Winner by Best in Biz Best Tech Startup at the Digiworld Summit 2017
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Jan 2020
Wakilni delivers for individuals, businesses and online stores with lots of passion and fun.
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Jan 2020
Oculi® is a deep-tech, fabless semiconductor company that produces the OCULI SPU™ (Sensing & Processing Unit), a disruptive architecture and product in the world of AI and real-time video processing. The OCULI SPU™ delivers Real-Time Vision Intelligence (VI) at the edge where our price to performance increases exponentially within those constraints.
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Sep 2016
Halo derives insights from complex data to enable enterprise customers to accelerate medical advancements.
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2026
Board Member
Jan 2026
HAQQ is the AI operating system for the legal industry, built to deliver jurisdiction-aware legal intelligence and structured legal work at institutional standards. Founded in 2022, HAQQ unifies legal reasoning, drafting, review, and practice operations in a single, secure environment. This unified system includes AI Chat for jurisdiction-aware legal reasoning and drafting, and eFirm for end-to-end legal practice management. Lawyers and legal teams use HAQQ to produce defensible output, manage matters with precision, and operate with clarity and control. HAQQ’s Legal AI is designed for real-world legal practice. It searches before answering, grounds analysis in relevant legal sources, and produces structured, client-ready work aligned with professional standards. Legal intelligence and legal work live in one system, not across disconnected tools. The platform is built for multi-jurisdictional legal practice and supports native legal reasoning in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. It is purpose-built as legal infrastructure, not a generic AI layer or productivity add-on. HAQQ is designed for law firms, corporate legal departments, public institutions, and multi-office legal teams that require governance, auditability, and operational control by design. HAQQ is ISO 27001 and ISO/IEC 42001 certified, SOC 2 Type II compliant, GDPR compliant, and secured with enterprise-grade encryption (AES-256, TLS 1.3), built to protect confidentiality, privilege, and professional liability.
2024
LP
Aug 2024
Rebel (www.rebelfund.vc) aims to invest in the best 0.1% of the 40,000+ tech startups that apply each year to Y Combinator, the #1 accelerator in the world with 80+ unicorns and $600B+ in portfolio company value. The fund’s due diligence and investing decisions are made by a team of accomplished Y Combinator alumni who have founded companies now valued over $85B in aggregate, invested in 200+ startups, and generated top-decile portfolio returns. Rebel utilizes a proprietary machine-learning algorithm called Rebel Theorem to help validate and screen potential investments, building a diversified portfolio of top Y Combinator startups that is statistically powered to outperform.
2023
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Dec 2023
Biosapien is a late-stage pre clinical company focused on novel drug delivery platforms.
Investor/Board Member
Aug 2023
uPaint is an all inclusive painting kit, backed up by a Machine Learning and Image Processing based software, that allows anyone, even with NO PREVIOUS PAINTING SKILLS, to paint ready-made or customized Artwork through numbers.
Investor
Jan 2023
Archer is an AI-powered suite for the modern real estate investor, lender, and broker. We’ve initially started with tools for deal teams to accelerate their market analysis, deal sourcing, and underwriting processes – leading to more great deals done with less resources.
mid stageReal Estate
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