Omar Darwazah

Managing Director & General Partner at AAF Management | Kauffman Fellow | Wharton 40 Under 40

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 40 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
40
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11
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Seed Investor
Oct 2025
Power Instant Receivables, Payables & Money Transmission on your bank using 5 lines of code with real-time settlements, enterprise-grade reliability & world-class security. No intermediaries, no delays and no hidden fees.
Seed Investor
Aug 2025
Munify is the cross-border Neobank for the Middle East and its diaspora
Investor
Jan 2025
ClearGrid is reshaping debt resolution with AI-driven, customer-first solutions. We empower lenders to maximize recovery while giving borrowers tailored, flexible options that prioritize financial stability and trust. Committed to transparency and regulatory compliance, ClearGrid is the go-to digital platform for smart, efficient debt collection in today’s fast-evolving financial landscape.
Investor
Oct 2024
Taxo builds agents to take on administrative workflows in healthcare, allowing clinicians to focus on their patients.
Investor
Sep 2023
Fuze is a full-stack, digital assets infrastructure platform, enabling MENA businesses to integrate embedded experiences for their customers. Fuze is a fast-growing tier A VC-backed startup partnering with leading global and regional banks, fintech, financial institutions, and super apps, to offer innovative crypto and digital asset products through its API infrastructure in a regulatory and compliant way.
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Sep 2023
Powered by machine learning, we help grocery retailers accurately forecast demand and optimize inventory ordering. With our industry-leading demand prediction algorithm, food waste and empty shelves are no longer an inevitable cost for grocery. Backed by Y Combinator, 1984 Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and angels from Instacart, Jane Street, Citadel Securities
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Sep 2023
We are Africa and Middle East’s first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
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Dec 2022
Revolutionising the integration of climate action into everyday business, making sustainability the standard for a healthier planet.
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Oct 2022
Exponential is an investment platform that makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in DeFi yield opportunities. We believe that by simplifying DeFi investing, anyone can access high-yield opportunities previously reserved for banks. Exponential has officially launched with a $14 million seed round led by Paradigm.
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Sep 2022
Dr. Treat is a pet health & wellness startup headquartered in San Francisco and as the name suggests, a happy place to work. Our mission is to help pets live their healthiest, happiest, and longest lives by using technology and data in a way that’s never been done before. By using technology and data in a way that’s never been done before, we are building the best-in-class veterinary clinics by rethinking processes, workflows, and services that will make the lives of companions, providers, and care providers better.
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Jul 2022
Cartona is one of the fastest growing B2B e-commerce marketplaces in Egypt. Streamlining the distribution process, we directly connect retailers with suppliers, wholesalers, and producing companies. Through Cartona, retailers can browse, compare, and order their merchandise, saving time, money, and effort in their daily operations.
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May 2022
The smartest company cards that automate expenses for MENA businesses. We help businesses grow with our all-in-one spend management platform that includes corporate cards, expense management, accounting automation, invoice payment and more.
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May 2022
Rabbit is a micro-mobility platform offering rides and day rentals via electric vehicles such as scooters, bikes and other light vehicles.
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Apr 2022
The Same-Day / Next-Day Delivery Carrier for Businesses operating in all major cities in Canada.
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Apr 2022
Binance.US is Americas home to buy, trade, and earn digital assets. As a licensed and regulated U.S. crypto platform, Binance.US offers some of the lowest fees in the industry and provides secure and reliable access to more than 170 of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies. We’re on a mission to empower people to do more with their money. The new economy has arrived and we’re committed to helping everyone access the world of blockchain and crypto.
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2025
Seed Investor
Oct 2025
Power Instant Receivables, Payables & Money Transmission on your bank using 5 lines of code with real-time settlements, enterprise-grade reliability & world-class security. No intermediaries, no delays and no hidden fees.
Seed Investor
Aug 2025
Munify is the cross-border Neobank for the Middle East and its diaspora
Investor
Jan 2025
ClearGrid is reshaping debt resolution with AI-driven, customer-first solutions. We empower lenders to maximize recovery while giving borrowers tailored, flexible options that prioritize financial stability and trust. Committed to transparency and regulatory compliance, ClearGrid is the go-to digital platform for smart, efficient debt collection in today’s fast-evolving financial landscape.
Limited Partner
2025
We partner. From 0 to 1. With African tech founders.
2024
Investor
Oct 2024
Taxo builds agents to take on administrative workflows in healthcare, allowing clinicians to focus on their patients.
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