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Two AI-linked startups have raised nearly equal-sized funding rounds: AI-enabled growth marketing platform Yozo.ai and cloud ins. platform Mantas, which has just exited stealth.
#1- Yozo raised USD 1.7 mn in a pre-seed funding round, which it will use to build a go-to-market execution team and to invest in different distribution channels for merchant acquisition, Founder Hossam Ali told EnterpriseAM UAE. The funding round was co-led by Abu Dhabi-based Access Bridge Ventures and Egypt’s Disruptech Ventures, with participation from Arzan VC, Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, Suhail Ventures, Glint Ventures, and M-Empire Angels, according to a press release (pdf).
What does it do? The startup was co-founded by five industry peers, including Hossam Ali (LinkedIn) and Abdallah Moheb El‑Din (LinkedIn) — the duo behind Egypt’s B2B e-commerce marketplace Fatura, which they both exited in a sale to EFG Hermes’ Tanmeyah — in 2025. It is developing an AI-native full-stack platform that automates the work of e-commerce growth and retention teams. The platform independently manages email, WhatsApp, and SMS marketing, from content to strategy execution and automated optimization. Zeiad Haridy (LinkedIn), Salma AlBarkouky (LinkedIn), Abdallah Moheb El-Din (LinkedIn) and Taha Salah (LinkedIn) round out the founding team.
What next? The company’s initial focus is on expanding to the US, where “e-commerce operators face some of the highest acquisition costs and operational complexity in the world,” Ali said.
#2– UAE-based cloud ins. platform Mantas secured USD 1.8 mn in a seed round, according to a press release. Investors include Dubai-headquartered Nuwa Capital, Abu Dhabi-based Plus VC, and Saudi Arabia’s Suhail Ventures and Oqal Angel Syndicate, among other angels. The capital will fund product development, modeling for its risk insights, and early product rollout across MENA and North America.
A closer look: Mantas is essentially an ins. platform focusing on cloud services outages and downtime from cloud infrastructure failures. It uses specific parameters to offer automatic payouts for verified outages, as well as instant risk analysis, and targets firms using cloud systems in everyday operations like fintechs, e-commerce players, airlines, and SaaS providers.
