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Access Bridge Ventures

1602, 16th floor, Tamouh Tower, Tamouh, Abu Dhabi, Reem Island, United Arab Emirates

Overview

Access Bridge Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital fund. Investing in entrepreneurs across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and on a case by case basis outside these regions. We look for exceptional leaders with an aim to support their journey as early as the first institutional investor. When we invest, we like to lead the round and support our partners throughout their journey.

Total investments
6
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
3
Active investors
3
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Investment portfolio

  • RemotePass

    Participated · Series B · May 2026

    Founded in 2021, RemotePass provides a single platform for hiring, paying, and supporting workers across borders, covering EOR, contractor management, payroll, and compliance. The company has built an embedded fintech layer that offers workers access to USD accounts, global cards, and health insurance, and in late 2025 launched SpendCards to integrate corporate expense cards into its payroll and payments stack. RemotePass has also rolled out AI agents to automate workflows across onboarding, compliance, and support. The business scaled to more than 35,000 workers in 150+ countries and has facilitated over $800 million in cross-border payroll while reaching profitability in early 2025. After becoming profitable, RemotePass elected to reinvest in expansion and product depth, targeting growth in Europe and the US and deeper financial and compliance capabilities. Customers named in the company release include Logitech, Tata Group, InDrive, and Careem.

  • Flextock

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

    Flextock is an Egypt-founded startup building what it calls an “operating system” for e-commerce across Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Its single platform lets online merchants manage warehousing, fulfilment, last-mile delivery aggregation, cross-border shipping, multi-channel sales access and working-capital financing. By unifying these typically fragmented services, the company aims to eliminate service gaps, improve visibility and boost operational efficiency for small and mid-sized merchants. The embedded finance module leverages logistics data to underwrite and collect repayments, turning fulfilment volumes into a credit-distribution advantage. Management believes the modular suite can increase revenue per customer as merchants adopt additional features over time. Proceeds from the latest round will fund expansion of operational infrastructure, enhancement of the end-to-end product suite and accelerated merchant acquisition in its core markets. No public operating metrics such as revenue or user counts were disclosed in the article.

  • Yozo.ai

    Led · Seed · Feb 2026

    Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Yozo.ai is building an AI growth agent that autonomously designs, executes, tests, and optimizes marketing workflows for online retailers. Merchants simply connect their sales channels and approve campaigns, after which the platform handles ongoing retention and conversion efforts across email, WhatsApp, and SMS without manual oversight. The system is positioned as an all-in-one revenue engine intended to recapture sales often missed because of fragmented tools or limited in-house capacity. Yozo.ai’s technology focuses on boosting customer lifetime value through data-driven communication and continuous experimentation. The company has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed capital, its first disclosed funding, to accelerate product development and expand its engineering team. Proceeds will also support international expansion beyond the MENA region. Although operating metrics such as revenue or user counts have not been disclosed, the fresh capital provides runway to refine the product and enter new markets.

  • Scalers

    Led · Equity · Dec 2023

    Scalers offers an online, SaaS‑based recruitment platform that proactively sources candidates from dozens of channels, qualifies them with tests, and presents pre‑qualified, data‑rich profiles to employers. The product handles matching, interview scheduling, job‑offer guidance, and talent‑to‑employer communication to streamline the entire hiring workflow. The company emphasizes speed and quality, claiming it fills roles up to 10x faster using profiles curated from hundreds of data points and thousands of successful placements. Engagement metrics cited include 3x quarterly growth, a 10x year‑over‑year increase, and the majority of monthly active users being weekly active users, alongside strong shortlisting rates. Scalers positions itself as a recruitment copilot for hiring managers and is focused on expanding its vertical coverage and automation capabilities. The recent financing will be used to further develop product solutions, broaden hiring offerings, and accelerate market expansion into new job verticals.

Team

  • Issa Aghabi

    Founder & Managing Partner

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  • Rakan Alrashed

    Director and Partner

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  • Imad Ghandour

    Member of Investment Committee

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