Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

Founded in 2020 by Antoine Kanaan and Maître Abbas Kabalan, HAQQ Legal AI offers an all-in-one platform that fuses AI-native legal intelligence, practice management, payments, and institutional infrastructure. Its proprietary engine, Justinian, generates context-aware and jurisdiction-reliable legal work that the company claims surpasses general-purpose AI models in accuracy and structure. Today the platform serves more than 7,000 clients, underscoring early market traction for its SaaS offering. The firm positions itself as an AI operating system for law firms and in-house teams, aiming to digitize justice while maintaining governance and institutional trust. With fresh capital in hand, HAQQ plans to deepen its Legal AI and agent architecture, broaden enterprise deployments across the MENA region and selected global markets, and bolster security, compliance, and data-residency capabilities. The company will also scale its engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to support expansion. The recent $3 million raise brings additional resources but no prior funding totals were disclosed, leaving its broader financial history unreported.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2024

Podeo is a UAE-based podcast distribution and creator platform offering end-to-end production tools (editing, sound design, branding, mixing), hosting, and programmatic ad insertion. The app enables creators to mark notes and receive a polished, ready-for-distribution episode within 24 hours. Podeo does not charge listeners a subscription fee and plans to eliminate creator subscription packages, instead relying on advertising and exploring memberships, tipping, and tokenization as monetization paths. The company has onboarded more than 100,000 creators in under two years and reached a subscriber base of 50 million. Podeo has formed partnerships with radio stations, the Jawaker game app, and in-flight entertainment provider Anuvu to distribute content across decentralized channels. The company came to life in 2020, relocated to Dubai, and plans to expand into Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia. Podeo is a Lebanon-based mobile app that offers the largest podcast catalogue in the Arab world, localizing the audio experience with popular shows in Arabic and English. Founded in 2019, the company operates recording studios and offices in Beirut. It experienced a 48% drop in downloads and streams in 2020 but rebounded, reporting 700% growth in listens in Q2 of last year. Podeo raised an undisclosed Seed round led by Razor Capital with co-investment from Globivest VC and other investors; the funding will be used to widen accessibility to Arabic listeners. Management says the funds will strengthen Podeo's leading position in the Arab podcast industry and double down on growth. After the August Beirut explosion damaged its studios and offices, Podeo enabled listeners and creators to publish audio snippets that were heard by more than seven million people across 157 countries.