Bashar Hamood

Forbes Top 40 Angel Investor | thought leader | Think Tank | Venture Partner at FasterCapital Incubator | Investor

📍 United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017
VC🌍 United Arab Emirates20+ investments
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2017
Fixiest offers to match the needs of clients (maintenance, breakdown or any other fixing) with suitable service providers registered in the system, instantly and efficiently, eliminating the need for any intermediary or broker. Our convenient solution offers a webpage and a free phone application (Android and iOS) to be installed on both clients and the service provider’s phone. The solution is also accessible on the web and compatible even with feature phones.
Investor
2017
a marketplace to buy/sell/rent books. It’s a solution innovated for the needs of the people searching for any sort of books and for the people who desire to offer books they have for selling or renting. The marketplace allows university/school students and book lovers to search and discover books that are nearby them. Bookthatbook offers an mobile apps on android and iphone and a website as well.
Investor
2017
A smart system that provides users with relevant suggestion based on the articles and news that they have liked or rated earlier. Also the users can share important articles with colleagues and friends to groups or individuals. News analyzers will get considerable help from NewsAnalyse since they can get the news.
Angel Investor
Sep 2014
PickTaxi is an automated location-based taxi booking service that can be access from smartphones or web. PickTaxi will use several algorithms to optimize the matching between the rider and the taxi. PickTaxi’s goal is to modernize and improve the taxi industry worldwide. We understand the challenges in this market and how each city is different from its neighbors. We develop our products on mobile and web to allow easy access for both users and drivers can communicate, negotiate and discover each other easily. PickTaxi has already developed several solutions for the taxi industry, notably one for direct user to driver relation (Packtaxi Mobile, Packtaxi Web) and the other one is for taxi fleet management Picktaxi Fleet. Both solutions can be accessed from mobile, tablet or web. There are already a mobile version for android and iPhone. Other mobiles can access HTML5 version which will get location and has the same features. Our PickTaxi Fleet solution enables taxi companies to manage its fleets, quickly respond to requests, monitor gas level in each car and know their location at any point in time. PickTaxi Fleet will record all movements and log them in its database for further analysis later.
Angel Investor
Mar 2014
Easy Creation Create a marketplace by logging online, defining the product and its features, set the layout and voila! Dedicated to one vertical Each marketplace is created with one product in mind. Usually each site is local in one country or set of countries. Social We allow users to register on the site or login with their facebook. All of their interactions will be communicated to friends on facebook as well. Product Assessment Our marketplace allow for evaluator to inspect any product and report its status and how much is it worth. Marketing & SEO Advanced marketing and SEO features help to boost your visitors from major search engines. Full Support Marketplace will be continuously supported by our staff and will be hosted at our side. Mobile commerce We will also create a mobile version of our marketplace on android and iOS phones. The marketplace is also accessible through mobile on HTML5 browsers Different Themes As a creator you have the ability to change the layout and we can supply many more innovative themes.
Investor
2014
PinProfile is a people search engine. We crawl the worldwide web and extract information about people, their profiles on many different social networks and present them to our clients for search. PinProfile enable users to pin out interesting profiles, share them with friends and colleagues and categorize them into categories. PinProfile will become the ultimate tool for any recruitment company, any company looking for sales/marketing people and for all startups where founders are trying to find a match for them.
Angel Investor
Jun 2013
PutTag is an online service that helps you and your friends tag by text, audio or video any place on the map. PutTag will be offering several mobile and web applications that allow users to easily tag places, add their audio/video comments and share those comments with friends. PutTag has already developed its core functionality that is used on its website and it can be used as a standalone product.
Investor
2013
ME2TV is a live video streaming service which allows anyone with a PC/tablet or smartphone to broadcast live video through their 3G or Wifi connections. It can be used to broadcast an event or even in life-casting case.
Investor
2013
Meetingg has extensive experience in development of teleconferencing solutions. Meetingg has already developed several customized solution for teleconferencing in several verticals such as medicine, psychology, consultation, customer service and corporation solutions. Our solutions offer smooth integration with youtube for storage or publishing of videos. Our solutions can also benefit from social graph in the discovery and recommendation of consultant and potential business partners. We have built a platform allowing consultants and seekers to meet each other and schedule online meeting to address their needs. Our platform will allow users to search for the right consultant, schedule a time suitable to both of them, keep calendar items for each user. Our team is made up of young professionals with innovative ideas and the energy to make things happen! Our aim is to serve clients worldwide (using Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox) on all operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, iPhone and Android) such that the user experience in Teleconferencing is fun, useful, and rewarding.
Investor
2013
BeamGift will change the digitized gifting/couponing industry by offering many new approaches in B2B, B2C and C2C markets. BeamGift allows customers to create gifts/coupons on the fly and send them to family and friends. The solution is offered through web or as a native application on mobile (android and iphone). It allows users to group gifts, resend them and use social networks to discover and share offers. BeamGift will build profiles about each user and allow merchant, brand owners and advertising company use this information to target offers to specific users depending on multiple parameters such as their interest, location, spending power and many more. All of this is presented in a clever dashboard with many different metrics to enable merchant to reach the right segments for their products. brand owners, merchant and advertising companies in a new way by offering a gifting/coupon solution that is B2B, B2C and C2C. BeamGift will disrupt markets of gifting, digitized coupons and targeted marketing by offering several solutions.
Investor
2013
Entablet is a technology company specialized in Tablet and Mobile enchanting portfolio of solutions and services, with an engaging service catalog and an enormous service pipeline.
Investor
Oct 2012
TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV. At TVlize we are changing the TV experience both for viewers and broadcasters. Viewers will be able to participate in shows by commenting at any time, tagging a point of time, ansewring a survey and changing the course of action of a show. TVlize can also allow people to use their desktops, tablets or smartphones to watch TV. Viewers will move from lean-backward to lean-forward experience once they feel they can read comments from friends and peers and comment back. Viewers will have their own social networks within TVlize to share comments and tags on a show either privately, in a group or publicly. Broadcasters can use TVlize solutions to get accurate statistics, know when viewers join a program and when they leave and how much they are interacting with the program. TVlize can also allow broadcaster to embed HTML content with the show being broadcasted so that viewers can get more information from the show or links pointing to deals or discounts. TVlize provide also other mining and profiling products for broadcasters enabling them to divide viewers into groups and recommend shows to them or do targeted advertising.
Investor
2012
Edunoor has developed several training and education solutions. We have built a portal allowing peer-to-peer education solutions where users can meet tutors (like private tutoring). We also have built several dedicated solutions that can be installed by universities, schools or teaching centers. Our solutions offer several components such as online sessions, scheduling, social, search and discovery. All of those components integrate seamlessly to offer exciting service. With the diversity of our products and the customization of our services we think that we can address all the issues facing online education and take it forward.
Investor
2012
abcMob is an innovator in the application business. We create applications that can be used on desktops, tablets and mobile. Our approach is to create native applications plus allowing for HTML5 access to the service. We write one code that can later be translated to native code on different platforms (native Objective-C, native Java on Android, C on Windows/Linux..etc) and then compiled to get full working application. Our technology allow us to maintain the same look/feel of application between different devices and make sure that updates are happening on all versions at the same time. abcMob applications will help businesses quickly and easily create new services for their customers. Our created solution will cover full range of handsets and devices. It is a native application that can be included in Appstore or distributed on CDs/DVDs or online. End-users will be free to choose whatever operating system or device that they want but still access the data through similar interfaces. Design of a good native UI is one of our priority and user experience will be shared on many different platforms. Security is only an important issue that we take seriously. We can also keep our service separated from your business logic or fully integrated with the databases that you are providing. Sectors covered: Banking, Insurance, Hotels, HRIS, Restaurants, Tourism, Fitness/Gym, Music, Universities and many more.
Investor
2012
MobAdv Engine: The core of MobAdv where advertisers can add advertising campaign, their priority, period and their bidding prices. Mobadv will balance the ads served depending on those criterias maximizing profits for publishers and relevancy for advertisers. MobAdv AdWrapper: will process binaries of games/apps on Java or Android and produce new binaries with our ads wrapped. There are two types of ads, either those that will appear on the main screen at the beginning of the application (SponsorAd) or Ads that will display at the bottom/top of the application during the game. A developer doesn’t need to do read any SDK or go back to their sourcecode to change. The change is totally automatic and always produce an identical working game/app.
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2017
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2017
Fixiest offers to match the needs of clients (maintenance, breakdown or any other fixing) with suitable service providers registered in the system, instantly and efficiently, eliminating the need for any intermediary or broker. Our convenient solution offers a webpage and a free phone application (Android and iOS) to be installed on both clients and the service provider’s phone. The solution is also accessible on the web and compatible even with feature phones.
Investor
2017
a marketplace to buy/sell/rent books. It’s a solution innovated for the needs of the people searching for any sort of books and for the people who desire to offer books they have for selling or renting. The marketplace allows university/school students and book lovers to search and discover books that are nearby them. Bookthatbook offers an mobile apps on android and iphone and a website as well.
Investor
2017
A smart system that provides users with relevant suggestion based on the articles and news that they have liked or rated earlier. Also the users can share important articles with colleagues and friends to groups or individuals. News analyzers will get considerable help from NewsAnalyse since they can get the news.
2014
Angel Investor
Sep 2014
PickTaxi is an automated location-based taxi booking service that can be access from smartphones or web. PickTaxi will use several algorithms to optimize the matching between the rider and the taxi. PickTaxi’s goal is to modernize and improve the taxi industry worldwide. We understand the challenges in this market and how each city is different from its neighbors. We develop our products on mobile and web to allow easy access for both users and drivers can communicate, negotiate and discover each other easily. PickTaxi has already developed several solutions for the taxi industry, notably one for direct user to driver relation (Packtaxi Mobile, Packtaxi Web) and the other one is for taxi fleet management Picktaxi Fleet. Both solutions can be accessed from mobile, tablet or web. There are already a mobile version for android and iPhone. Other mobiles can access HTML5 version which will get location and has the same features. Our PickTaxi Fleet solution enables taxi companies to manage its fleets, quickly respond to requests, monitor gas level in each car and know their location at any point in time. PickTaxi Fleet will record all movements and log them in its database for further analysis later.
Angel Investor
Mar 2014
Easy Creation Create a marketplace by logging online, defining the product and its features, set the layout and voila! Dedicated to one vertical Each marketplace is created with one product in mind. Usually each site is local in one country or set of countries. Social We allow users to register on the site or login with their facebook. All of their interactions will be communicated to friends on facebook as well. Product Assessment Our marketplace allow for evaluator to inspect any product and report its status and how much is it worth. Marketing & SEO Advanced marketing and SEO features help to boost your visitors from major search engines. Full Support Marketplace will be continuously supported by our staff and will be hosted at our side. Mobile commerce We will also create a mobile version of our marketplace on android and iOS phones. The marketplace is also accessible through mobile on HTML5 browsers Different Themes As a creator you have the ability to change the layout and we can supply many more innovative themes.
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