Karim Hussein

At Yodawy, we are on a mission to help people lead healthier lives by making access to medication easier and affordable for everyone. Yodawy is your modern-day digital pharmacy, powered by technology, advanced fulfillment capabilities, and integrations with pharmacies, insurance companies, and healthcare providers. This allows Yodawy to seamlessly manage prescriptions at scale and deliver medications to patients, door-to-door, and nationwide. It’s simple, and it’s for everyone. Launched in 2018 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, Yodawy quickly became a leader in its space, partnering with 15+ leading insurance companies, 200+ corporate clients, and 2,500+ pharmacies across Egypt. With over 4 million prescriptions processed to-date, and a team of awesome people, we are reinventing the future of healthcare together, one prescription at a time.

Halan is Egypt's Leading FinTech App! We’re mission-oriented and our north star is to fulfill consumers’ everyday needs in one application through a real inclusive experience, demonstrated in: - Empowering the unbanked with our Buy Now Pay Later solution. - Supporting small and medium businesses with micro funds. - Digitizing monthly utility and service providers’ bill payments. - Securing a reliable digital wallet service for cash deposits and withdrawals and bill payments.

Contact Financial Holding is the parent company of Contact. Contact was established in 2001, Contact was the first specialized consumer financing company in Egypt. Set up as an independent, management and employee led initiative, the company has managed to secure equity financing from various sources since inception, including banks, private equity firms and individuals. Contact’s parent company, Contact Financial Holding, is the leading structured finance investment firm in Egypt. Contact works based on a collaborative business model, engaging with business partners at various levels to deliver market leading products and services. We always strive to provide clients and business partners with the highest quality service and efficiency, making the financing process seamless and achieving the best possible results. In addition to Contact’s 11 locations nationwide, our growing network includes over 1,500 points of sale covering car dealers, consumer durables merchants and sporting clubs. With our expanding client base, we are always looking to add more bright, motivated leaders to our team of more than 650 employees. We enjoy a very low employee turnover, with many of our middle and senior management having been with Contact since its inception. We believe in the importance of developing our human capital in order to reach our growth potential as individuals, as a team and as a company.

Simplex offers industrial solutions to a wide variety of regional manufacturers spanning a number of industries. Since it’s establishment in 2013, the firm has mainly manufactured CNC router machines for the Egyptian market by combining quality components with a highly personalized pre- and post-sales experience. The CNC machine allows users to cut and engrave wooden , acrylic and aluminum surfaces with a high degree of accuracy, speed, and reproducibility, which results in a stronger production process than one relying on skilled manual labor. In the first year Simplex sold its CNC router machines in 11 governorates all over Egypt

Integreight is designing smart electronic solutions, starting with a Smart Breadboard device that shortens the time taken and the effort exerted when designing electronic circuits. Engineering students use breadboards to test electronic circuits. The breadboard is platform testers insert the components of electronic circuits on it and then use wires to connect them. However, the breadboard is, considered to be an effort and time wasting tool, and the main problem of using it is the numerous wires required in the connections. What Integreight did is that it invented a new device that makes this process much easier by automating the connections through a specially designated software, so it made the process as easy & fast as the software simulation with the same reliability of hardware prototyping, the idea is now being registered as a US patent.

At Yodawy, we are on a mission to help people lead healthier lives by making access to medication easier and affordable for everyone. Yodawy is your modern-day digital pharmacy, powered by technology, advanced fulfillment capabilities, and integrations with pharmacies, insurance companies, and healthcare providers. This allows Yodawy to seamlessly manage prescriptions at scale and deliver medications to patients, door-to-door, and nationwide. It’s simple, and it’s for everyone. Launched in 2018 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, Yodawy quickly became a leader in its space, partnering with 15+ leading insurance companies, 200+ corporate clients, and 2,500+ pharmacies across Egypt. With over 4 million prescriptions processed to-date, and a team of awesome people, we are reinventing the future of healthcare together, one prescription at a time.

Award winning MENA based ed-tech creating advanced digital solutions for 100 million school-aged children in MENA to improve learning outcomes, advance skills & increase social/ cultural connectedness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv6Cz_Md22U&feature=youtu.be Our subscription based platforms are being used by over 800 schools and 400K+ users in the region and globally. Partners include GEMS, Taleem Group, MOE Jordan, UNICEF, Abdul Hamid Shoman Foundation, Vodafone Foundation, Arab Bank and many others Awards: MIT SOLVE 2022 GSV Elite 200, 2021 Access Sharjah - Sheraa Award, 2020 Queen Rania Award for Education ِِEntrepreneurship, 2019 GESS Primary Education Resource of the Year, Dubai, 2015 All Children Reading Grand Challenge for Development, 2014 Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, France, 2014 MIT Business Plan Competition, Egypt, 2014 Jordan Web Awards, Education, Jordan, 2014 Pan Arab Web Awards, Lebanon, 2011

Halan is Egypt's Leading FinTech App! We’re mission-oriented and our north star is to fulfill consumers’ everyday needs in one application through a real inclusive experience, demonstrated in: - Empowering the unbanked with our Buy Now Pay Later solution. - Supporting small and medium businesses with micro funds. - Digitizing monthly utility and service providers’ bill payments. - Securing a reliable digital wallet service for cash deposits and withdrawals and bill payments.

Contact Financial Holding is the parent company of Contact. Contact was established in 2001, Contact was the first specialized consumer financing company in Egypt. Set up as an independent, management and employee led initiative, the company has managed to secure equity financing from various sources since inception, including banks, private equity firms and individuals. Contact’s parent company, Contact Financial Holding, is the leading structured finance investment firm in Egypt. Contact works based on a collaborative business model, engaging with business partners at various levels to deliver market leading products and services. We always strive to provide clients and business partners with the highest quality service and efficiency, making the financing process seamless and achieving the best possible results. In addition to Contact’s 11 locations nationwide, our growing network includes over 1,500 points of sale covering car dealers, consumer durables merchants and sporting clubs. With our expanding client base, we are always looking to add more bright, motivated leaders to our team of more than 650 employees. We enjoy a very low employee turnover, with many of our middle and senior management having been with Contact since its inception. We believe in the importance of developing our human capital in order to reach our growth potential as individuals, as a team and as a company.

Algebra Ventures is Egypt’s leading tech Venture Capital firm. We have been partnering with bold and resilient founders building transformative companies since 2016. While our entrepreneurs are doing the heavy lifting, we support by providing multi-stage capital, assisting with strategy and operations as well as helping build star teams. We are a diverse and experienced team of founders, geeks and operators who are passionate about the positive impact of tech on people’s lives in the MEA region.