Loulou Khazen Baz

Building an entrepreneurship knowledge hub | Founder @ Spade Ventures | Founder @ Conversations with Loulou. Top10 Business & Entrepreneurship Podcast in MENA.

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2022
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Investor & Strategic Advisor
Feb 2022
At IDWise we supercharge your remote digital customer onboarding journey with our automated AI-based global identity verification and e-KYC solution. We are proud to be at the forefront of leveraging the latest advances in AI to help instill trust in some of the largest and fastest-growing markets globally, with a particular focus on the emerging markets of the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Headquartered in London, UK with 35 "IDWisers" working across 4 countries, we serve digitally disruptive hypergrowth tech ventures and large enterprise customers in 6 countries across multiple industry verticals, including fintech, crypto, transport, and logistics, having reached more than 3 million digital onboarding journeys through our platform within less than a year from inception.
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2022
Investor & Strategic Advisor
Feb 2022
At IDWise we supercharge your remote digital customer onboarding journey with our automated AI-based global identity verification and e-KYC solution. We are proud to be at the forefront of leveraging the latest advances in AI to help instill trust in some of the largest and fastest-growing markets globally, with a particular focus on the emerging markets of the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Headquartered in London, UK with 35 "IDWisers" working across 4 countries, we serve digitally disruptive hypergrowth tech ventures and large enterprise customers in 6 countries across multiple industry verticals, including fintech, crypto, transport, and logistics, having reached more than 3 million digital onboarding journeys through our platform within less than a year from inception.
2019
Founder & Managing Partner
Jan 2019
Spade Ventures is an angel syndicate that invests primarily in early stage technology startups operating in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan. We use our expertise and network for deal sourcing and due diligence. We democratize investing by empowering each investor to decide in which startups to invest, and how much, starting with USD 20k. Some of our investments: - Legacy (US): Founded at Harvard in 2019, Legacy is now the largest male fertility clinic in North America with Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, and FirstMark Capital as investors - HyperPay (KSA): HyperPay is the one-stop-shop regional fintech company providing businesses with an array of integrated payment solutions and financial services - Baly (Iraq): Baly is the fastest growing ride hailing, food delivery and grocery delivery with more services coming soon. Baly is on track to become Iraqs first super app. - IDWise (UK): IDWise is the MENA regions most comprehensive and agile Identity & Verification platform working with some of the regions top brands. - KASO (UAE): Kaso is digitizing the procurement and payment process for HoReCa in the UAE & KSA with more markets launching soon. Other investments include: Nomod (UAE), Baraka (UAE), Epicured (US), BlackBox (US), Kraken (US), Robbie (US - exited), Rey (UAE), SafarPass (UAE), Small Pharma (UK) and Virtuleap (Portugal).
2017
Founding Partner
May 2017
Kickstart Studio is a digital product consultancy built from a network of entrepreneurs and technology experts on a mission to help startups and growing businesses build fantastic digital products. Were engineered for growth and provide the following services: __ Strategic & Technology Consulting __ - Product & Tech Consulting - Building the right specs - Got to market Strategy - Investment & Fundraising __ Design & Development __ - Web Development - Mobile App Development - CRM & Custom Tools - UI/UX __ DevOps & Cloud __ - Infrastructure Orchestration - Deployments Automation - Continuous Integration Setup - Migration to Docker Containers Get in touch today and bring your idea to life. hello@kickstart.studio