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MENA ANGEL INVESTORS SUMMIT 2026

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Where angel investors, selected founders and the region’s investment community come together to exchange perspectives and explore opportunity.

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18
NOVEMBER
2026
THE DIPLOMAT HOTEL,
KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

The platform
behind the promise

2025 EDITION

250+

attendees on site

100+

startups applications

50+

investors in attendance

01 / The Summit

REGIONAL REACH.
HUMAN PROXIMITY.

Early-stage investment starts with people willing to listen, question and see what others might miss.

The MENA Angel Investors Summit brings capital, founder opportunity and ecosystem experience into one concentrated environment. Convened by Tenmou in Bahrain, it creates space for informed discussion and relationships across the region.

Meet Tenmou, the Summit’s convenor ↗

02 / Participation

FIND YOUR PLACE
IN THE ROOM.

Different perspectives give the Summit its value. Explore the route that fits your role.

01

INVESTORS

Bring your investment perspective into conversation with founders and fellow investors.

  • Explore early-stage ventures
  • Exchange regional market insight
  • Build relationships across the community
Register as an investor↗
02

STARTUP FOUNDERS

Apply to the selection process for an opportunity to pitch your venture to investors at the Summit. Early-stage and pre-traction startups may apply where they can demonstrate a credible solution and meaningful validation.

  • Applications close 25 October 2026
  • Attendance and pitching are separate routes
Applications closed
03

ATTENDEES

Take part in the wider conversation around founders, capital and regional opportunity.

  • Learn from different perspectives
  • Engage with the startup community
  • Explore the Summit programme
Register to attend↗

PARTNERSHIPS

Representing an organisation?

Explore partnership ↗

MEDIA ENQUIRIES

Covering the Summit?


Contact the media team ↗

MENA Angel Investors Summit 2026 — Programme with photo

03 / The programme

One afternoon.
Perspectives that move forward.

Explore startup products, hear investor perspectives and meet the founders building across the region.

  1. –

    Registration & Startup Product Showcase

    Live product demonstrations / Partner activities / Welcome snacks

  2. –

    Opening Remarks

    Suhail Algosaibi · Chairman, Tenmou

  3. –

    Minister’s Address

    HE Mr. Abdullah bin Adel Fakhro · Minister of Industry and Commerce

  4. –

    Interactive Panel Hosted by Alex Angels

    From Investor Networks to Cross-Border Co-Investment

    • Tarek El kady · Founder & Chairman, Alex Angels
    • Motaz Abuonq · Founder, VMS
    • Hasan Haider · Founder & Managing Partner, +VC
    • Ali Abussaud · Founder & CEO, HALA Capital
  5. –

    Coffee & Prayer Break

  6. –

    Startup Pitching — Session 1

  7. –

    Networking Coffee & Reset

  8. –

    Startup Pitching — Session 2

  9. –

    Fireside Chat: Tenmou × SIIN

    • Suhail Algosaibi · Chairman, Tenmou
    • Hesham Al Saati · Founder, SIIN
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04 / People & ventures

THE PERSPECTIVES
BEHIND THE PROGRAMME.

Meet the panelists and selected startups bringing experience, insight and opportunity into the room.

INTERACTIVE panel discussion

From Investor Networks to Cross-Border Co-Investment

The panel will explore how angel networks, venture capital firms, and other investment funds can collaborate across markets, co-invest in promising opportunities, and build partnerships that go beyond individual deals.From aligning investment strategies to sharing due diligence and building trust across ecosystems, the discussion will look at what it takes to turn cross-border connections into meaningful, long-term investment partnerships

Hasan Haider

Founder & Managing Partner · +VC

Hasan Haider is the Founder and Managing Partner of +VC, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in tech and tech-enabled startups in the MENA region and its diaspora.

Hasan was previously Managing Partner, MENA at 500 Startups and led the firm’s growth in the MENA region, turning 500 Startups into the most active VC fund in the MENA region, raising and deploying the 500 Falcons fund, building partnerships and running programs in the region to help build the regional ecosystem. Hasan has invested in more than 285 startups in the region

over more than 15 years.

Ali Abussaud

Founder & CEO ·  HALA Capital

Ali Abussaud is a seasoned investor and investment executive with a career spanning more than two decades across private capital, institutional banking, and principal investing. He holds a B.S. in Finance from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM).

In 2014, he founded Financial Horizon Group, a diversified investment and advisory platform spanning investment management, financial and management consulting, HR advisory, and executive recruitment. That same year, he co-founded the Financial Horizon Corporate Fund, marking a transition from advisory to structured principal investing. 

Driven by a deep conviction in venture capital as a transformational asset class, Ali co-founded HALA Ventures in 2018, which later evolved into HALA Capital — a CMA-regulated investment management company focused exclusively on alternative investments. Since its inception, HALA Capital has expanded its platform to include private equity, private credit, and other alternative investment strategies, reinforcing its position as a comprehensive alternative asset manager.


His investment philosophy is rooted in disciplined underwriting, strategic patience, and the belief that venture capital is not merely about funding innovation — but about building enduring institutions.

Motaz Abuonq

Founder · VMS

Motaz Abuonq is a Saudi entrepreneur, investor, and venture builder, recognized for his role in shaping the startup ecosystem in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. He is the Founder of Value Makers Studio (VMS), a venture studio that partners with startups to drive growth, product development, and real market traction.
 
Beyond VMS, Motaz is a Board Member at Metaspaces, a pioneering venture studio dedicated to building real estate technology startups with global ambitions. His contributions help guide the ideation, validation, and scaling of innovative proptech companies that enhance efficiency and value across the sector.
 
Motaz also serves as Chairman of several companies in healthcare, contracting, logistics, and consulting, and sits on the boards of DailyMealz, Nature Care Company, and Adwaa Alkhalil Contracting. As an active angel investor and advisor to national initiatives such as Biban Forum, Waai Association, and Waqaya, he combines capital investment with hands-on mentorship.
 
Passionate about building both businesses and ecosystems, Motaz Abuonq continues to empower founders and create sustainable impact across industries.
 

Tarek El Kady

Founder & Chairman, Alex Angels 

Tarek El Kady is an entrepreneur, angel investor and ecosystem builder from Alexandria, now based in Riyadh.

Over more than two decades, he has built companies, investment networks and innovation platforms across MENA, the GCC, Africa and the Mediterranean. He is CEO of KD Group, Managing Director of EZEXPO, and Founder and Chairman of Techne. 

Since 2015, Techne has connected founders with capital, corporations, markets and knowledge, while Techne Drifts has taken that access to more than 16 cities beyond the usual entrepreneurship capitals.

Through Alex Angels and Investors of the Mediterranean, he mobilizes early-stage capital and cross-border opportunity for founders, angel investors, venture firms and family offices.

FIRESIDE CHAT

Building a venture. Backing its potential.

Suhail Algosaibi, Chairman of Tenmou, joins Hesham AlSaati, Co-Founder & CEO of SIIN, for a conversation bringing together investor and founder perspectives on building a business and engaging with capital.

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Suhail Algosaibi

Chairman ·  Tenmou

An award-winning entrepreneur and innovation strategist, serving as Chairman of Tenmou, Bahrain’s first Business Angels Company.

He also chairs Ryalize, a financial wellness FinTech operating across the GCC and Singapore. With experience featured in The Financial Times, The Economist, and Al-Jazeera International — and executive training from Harvard and MIT — Suhail brings deep insight into early-stage investing and ecosystem development.

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Hesham AlSaati

Co-Founder & CEO · SIIN

Siin is MENA’s fastest-growing live shopping marketplace, operating across 7 markets and expanding. 

With a career spanning consumer marketplaces, private equity and strategy consulting, he held senior leadership roles at Delivery Hero, scaling Talabat and Hungerstation across MENA. 


His expertise lies in building and scaling category-defining consumer marketplaces that delight customers and sellers.

STARTUP PROFILE

Explore the ventures selected to present at the Summit.

Enterprise software · Bahrain

Sirati

Shift is an enterprise AI platform that brings powerful AI models, autonomous agents, and productivity tools into one workspace. Built for banks, governments, and regulated enterprises, Shift supports cloud and on-premises deployment, with fully offline, air-gapped capabilities in development.

 

Founder:  Yousif Sabba

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Fintech · Bahrain

StackUp

 

StackUp is a Bahrain-based fintech building an automated savings and micro-investment platform that helps people across the GCC build long-term wealth effortlessly. Through round-ups, recurring contributions, and curated investment portfolios, StackUp makes saving and investing simple, accessible, and seamlessly integrated into everyday financial behaviour.

Co-Founder: Muhammad Shahbaz Saeed 

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sustainability · Bahrain

Wajba

Wajba is a marketplace app that lets restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and hotels sell their surplus food at discounted prices. Vendors recover revenue they would otherwise lose, customers get quality meals for less, and good food is not wasted.

Founder: Ghassan Esfahani

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Enterprise software · Bahrain

Vivid Algorithms

Vivid helps companies anticipate customer behaviour by deploying predictive models within their enterprise environments, enabling them to send the right message to the right customer at the right time.

Co-Founder: Omar Saba

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Enterprise software · uae

Lansy

Lansy is an AI that analyses every frontline conversation in retail, hospitality and education and turns it into personal coaching for each employee and clear insights for managers. It helps businesses improve service quality and grow sales across every location.

Co-Founder: Anton Spiridonov

Link Linkedin

healthtech · Saudi arabia

Carevision

Carevision is transforming mobile cameras into powerful Cardiac and metabolic scanner, using proprietary AI and advanced computer vision to turn a simple 30-second face scan into actionable cardiometabolic intelligence.

Founder: Dr. Amani Amin Abulaban

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e-commerce · Saudi arabia

Maison Safqa

Maison Safqa is a tech-enabled platform supporting premium and luxury brands to turn their excess inventory into revenues through a brand-safe approach.

CEO: Lea Mehaweg Testa

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logistics · saudi arabia

FOR WHEELZ

For Wheelz is building a device-agnostic vehicle intelligence layer that turns existing vehicle data into crash, safety and operational intelligence for fleets and insurers, with no new hardware and no cameras. 
 
The platform is evolving into an AI runtime for legacy and connected vehicles, enabling smarter, safer mobility on the hardware already on the road.

Founder: Tamer Abdellatif
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Enterprise software · SAUDI ARABIA

PerfAi

PerfAI is an AI-powered B2B performance and affiliate marketing platform built for MENA. It connects enterprise brands such as noon, Talabat, NAMSHI and DAMAC with a network of 870+ publishers, and it delivered $2.49M in 2025 revenue with 87% client retention and roughly 120% net revenue retention. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City with operations in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, PerfAI is raising a $4M Fund A to advance its AI product and expand into Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt.

Founder & CEO: Rima Hani 

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logistics · Saudi arabia

VIERO

Viero is an AI operating system that sees, plans, and runs the day-to-day operations for fleet-dependent businesses, from order arrival to delivery.

Founder & CEO: Khaled Osama Al Dagag

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healthtech · Saudi arabia

Edronic technologies

AYNI is a Moroccan deep-tech startup developing AI-powered smart glasses designed to empower blind and visually impaired people with greater independence and accessibility. Combining artificial intelligence, computer vision, and offline capabilities, AYNI transforms the surrounding environment into real-time audio guidance, helping users navigate obstacles, recognize objects and faces, and read text in multiple languages.

CEO: El Mehdi mahir 

 

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healthtech · UAE

Your Social Smile

A patient engagement and conversion platform using proprietary AI treatment simulations which connects clinics at every touch point with patients.  Making treatment easier to see….and easier to accept.

Founder & CEO: Dr. Shuaib Khaderi

Link Linkedin

Enterprise software · SAUDI ARABIA

Workplaced

Workplaced is an AI-powered Workplace Decision Intelligence platform that helps organizations analyze, plan, and manage workplaces through a unified model. It includes business objectives, employee needs, and organizational culture in its analysis to quantify the impact of workplace decisions on cost, productivity, and retention.

Chief Partnerships Officer: Oliver Baxter

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heALTHTECH · BAHRAIN

Saleem

Saleem is an NHRA-licensed, doctor-led medical travel platform in Bahrain. We help GCC patients get treatment at trusted hospitals abroad, from the first consultation to recovery back home.

CEO: Khalid Sater

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sustainability · Saudi arabia

PLANTAFARM

PLANTAFARM builds fogponic farms that grow berries year-round in the desert, for a Gulf that imports almost all of them today. Landowners own and fund the farms, while we supply and sell their harvest, earning from every farm, every year.

Co-founder & CEO: Alberto Aguilar

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sporttech · UAE

SPORSHIP

SPORSHIP is the growth infrastructure turning health & wellness practitioners into scalable businesses. 

Co-Founder & CEO: Ahmed Sobhy Mohamed

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e-commerce · Bahrain

Caro

CARO is your personal AI Jeweler, making it effortless to turn any idea, inspiration, or meaningful memory into custom fine jewelry. From exploring designs with AI to bringing them to life in real gold, Caro is making moments wearable.

Founder: Hanan Merza

 

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fintech · Saudi arabia 

FEDDI

Feddi is a retail intelligence platform that gives GCC retailers a branded closed-loop wallet, turning anonymous in-store payments into identified customers and first-party data. On top of that data, Feddi’s AI runs the campaigns, dead-stock promotions, and attribution that bring customers back and grow revenue through the wallet.

Founder & CEO: Aashish Pandav

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consumer · bahrain

Selano

Selano is Bahrain’s pocket event planner. From corporate gatherings to birthdays and weddings, it brings trusted caterers, venues, photographers, décor and more into one place, so planning finally feels effortless. People discover, compare and book in minutes, while vendors get simple tools to manage bookings and grow their business.


Founder: Ramsha Khalid

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Enterprise software · saudi arabia

Deqa AI

See every moment. Understand what matters.

Deqa AI turns existing cameras into an AI operations assistant that monitors safety, checks compliance and helps businesses understand and investigate incidents.


Founder & CEO: Ahmed Mohamed Saber

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05 / A proven gathering

THE VALUE OF
BEING THERE.

The Summit’s tenth edition attracted 615 registrations from 20 countries in 2025, bringing investors, founders and ecosystem participants together in Bahrain.

The archive offers a closer look at the people, presentations and conversations behind the platform.

Explore the 2025 archive

MENA Angel Investors Summit · Bahrain, 2025

06 / Partnership

A RELEVANT ROLE.
A SHARED CONTRIBUTION.

Organisations contribute to the Summit through participation support, programme contributions and other relevant forms of involvement.

CONFIRMED PARTNERS

Partner identities will be added following confirmation.

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strategic partners

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ecosystem partners

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Become a partner

LET US DEFINE
THE RIGHT ROLE.

Support the Summit through a contribution that connects your organisation’s priorities with the community and the experience.

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07 / Plan your visit

MEET US
IN BAHRAIN.

Location

Kingdom of Bahrain

Date

18 November 2026

Venue

The Diplomat Hotel

Attendance

2026 registration details and terms to follow

BEFORE YOU JOIN.

Choose Register as an investor, Apply to pitch or Register to attend in the participation section. 

No. Pitching participation is subject to selection. The 2026 eligibility requirements, application process and deadlines are available at the Apply to pitch page.

Participation in the MENA Angel Investors Summit is FREE for everyone – investors, attendees or startup founders

Any travel or accommodation support is subject to specific written confirmation. Applying to pitch does not itself secure funded travel or accommodation.

Contact the Summit team to explore a partnership role that fits your organisation’s objectives and the Summit programme. Email menasummit@tenmou.me.

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