Yasser Mannoufi

Venture Capital Investor at FasterCapital | LION | Open Networker

📍 Peru, Nebraska, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017
VC🌍 United States
10
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9
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1
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19y
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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.
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.
VentureCapital Investor
2015
FasterCapital is a global venture builder and online incubator dedicated to co-funding and co-founding innovative startups. Established in 2014, we are now #1 venture builder in terms of number of startups that we have helped, money invested and money raised. We have supported over 1129 startups in raising more than $2.5 billion, while directly investing over $696 million in 288 companies. Our comprehensive support system includes a worldwide network of mentors, investors, and strategic partners, allowing us to transform ideas into scalable, market-ready businesses. 🚀 What We Do We co-build and fund startups through our key programs: Raise Capital: Connect founders with global investors and support fundraising, valuations, and negotiations. Tech Cofounder: Build MVPs and full-scale products, turning ideas into market-ready solutions. Grow Your Startup: Drive marketing, sales, and business expansion for sustainable growth. Franchise Program: Help businesses scale by replicating successful models into new markets. Real Estate Program: Enable innovation and investment in prop-tech and real estate ventures. IP Program: Protect, manage, and monetize intellectual property for startups and entrepreneurs. UAE Company Creation: Guide founders to start and establish businesses in the UAE with full legal and operational support. FasterCapital’s online presence is massive — with 40 million visits monthly, and a domain authority of 80. 📚 LearnHub — Our Knowledge Powerhouse FasterCapital proudly presents LearnHub, our comprehensive learning platform covering capital raising, investment, business, and entrepreneurship. LearnHub houses: 5+ million articles 7 million topics 1 million keywords 1.5 million Q&A entries 100 million images & infographics LearnHub is regularly cited across leading business media — featured on outlets like Wikipedia, Investopedia, Nasdaq, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Time, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Forbes, Inc., and many more.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Investor
2011
Mobayle is an instant AppStore creator and customizer. Any user can go online, create an AppStore, change its theme, choose target countries, platforms to be covered, populate it with mobile content (games, applications, ringtones, wallpapers, videos and themes) and voila! You are ready to sell. Mobayle will minimize the time to market and reduce the technical complexity attached in creating an appstore. Mobayle will also allow any company to totally rebrand the appstore. Features: We distinguish ourselves not only by automatic creation of the appstore but also by the other features that we provide. Those features are essential in letting get the most out of the new created appstore with the least efforts from your side: The appstore will be ready with all the content that you want The appstore will be hosted on the cloud. This is especially necessary in case of fast expansion of user base The appstore will be localized in all languages that you need The appstore will be available to you immediately after you fill some forms. You dont need to worry about any technical issues; we will be taking care of that. We can also link our appstore with any payment platform that you have. The appstore will have content available for all platforms. The appstore is viewable on all devices. The appstore will detect the handset type and will filter the products viewed to those only compatible with the handset and many more! visit our website to see them!
Investor
2007
Nakkeb (verb) نقب: in Arabic means to Mine. Nakkeb is an innovative software company working in areas such as: Data-mining, Enterprise search, Vertical search, Search Algorithms, Data Discovery, Internet search, Intranet search, Federated Search, Big Data, Automatic data extraction from Website, Deep Web Discovery, Deep Web Search, Search algorithms, data analysis, SEO, SEM, Lead generation and classification. Through our five years in our business, we created many different products in the search area especially vertical search and enterprise search. We also did several products in Web mining and extraction of data from web such as NakkebWeb. We have also many search solutions for enterprises, and businesses. Solutions such as ESearch, VSearch, DSearch.
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2017
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.
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.
2015
VentureCapital Investor
2015
FasterCapital is a global venture builder and online incubator dedicated to co-funding and co-founding innovative startups. Established in 2014, we are now #1 venture builder in terms of number of startups that we have helped, money invested and money raised. We have supported over 1129 startups in raising more than $2.5 billion, while directly investing over $696 million in 288 companies. Our comprehensive support system includes a worldwide network of mentors, investors, and strategic partners, allowing us to transform ideas into scalable, market-ready businesses. 🚀 What We Do We co-build and fund startups through our key programs: Raise Capital: Connect founders with global investors and support fundraising, valuations, and negotiations. Tech Cofounder: Build MVPs and full-scale products, turning ideas into market-ready solutions. Grow Your Startup: Drive marketing, sales, and business expansion for sustainable growth. Franchise Program: Help businesses scale by replicating successful models into new markets. Real Estate Program: Enable innovation and investment in prop-tech and real estate ventures. IP Program: Protect, manage, and monetize intellectual property for startups and entrepreneurs. UAE Company Creation: Guide founders to start and establish businesses in the UAE with full legal and operational support. FasterCapital’s online presence is massive — with 40 million visits monthly, and a domain authority of 80. 📚 LearnHub — Our Knowledge Powerhouse FasterCapital proudly presents LearnHub, our comprehensive learning platform covering capital raising, investment, business, and entrepreneurship. LearnHub houses: 5+ million articles 7 million topics 1 million keywords 1.5 million Q&A entries 100 million images & infographics LearnHub is regularly cited across leading business media — featured on outlets like Wikipedia, Investopedia, Nasdaq, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Time, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Forbes, Inc., and many more.
2014
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
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.
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