The Venture Codex

Led · Seed · Jul 2026

TAP runs 16-week online educational programs that develop in-demand technical skills and power skills for talented youth in Palestine. After program completion, TAP connects participants with potential employers through its network of European companies. The organization was founded in 2018 as a Dutch/Palestinian initiative. With the newly raised $1 million seed round, TAP aims to expand its team and product capabilities and accelerate its go-to-market efforts. TAP plans to broaden its geographic reach into other countries in the MENA region in the coming years. The company positions itself as a bridge between trained remote-ready talent and European employers.

Led · Seed · Jan 2026

HeyBreez builds an operational platform for voice AI that handles retries, callbacks, follow-up logic, branching journeys, telephony and integrations to run voice agents at production scale. The platform serves four customer types: enterprises with dedicated support, agencies and resellers, self-serve developers and small businesses, and regional AI players embedding the technology. HeyBreez already handles multilingual workloads across banking, healthcare, logistics, hospitality and customer experience, and counts Arabic.ai and Xaia as integration partners reselling its platform. The company reports more than one million calls per month and campaign dialing of up to 10,000 calls a day for individual clients. Headquartered in Delaware with offices in Amman and Dubai, HeyBreez treats MENA as its commercial starting point while running workloads across Europe, the US and Latin America. CEO Karim Malhas previously served as chief innovation officer at IrisGuard.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2025

Clarity is a London-based company offering an enterprise platform that merges voice-of-customer intelligence, AI agents, and support automation into a single, secure solution. Its technology helps global organisations in banking, government, and other regulated sectors better understand and serve customers. The firm partners with OpenAI, Booking.com, Grubhub, Careem, and STC, evidencing early commercial traction. Clarity also maintains offices in New York and Riyadh to support its international client base. The newly secured capital will fuel expansion of operations and accelerate product development. By focusing on security and compliance, the company positions itself as a trusted provider for industries with stringent regulatory requirements.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2025

Hala is a Saudi Arabian fintech founded by Esam Alnahdi and Maher Loubieh that empowers more than 142,000 MSMEs with a full stack of embedded financial products. Its platform offers business bank accounts, card issuance, payment processing, domestic and international transfers, and point-of-sale solutions, collectively processing over $8 billion in annual transactions. With its latest capital infusion, the company plans to deepen its market share in Saudi Arabia, broaden its suite with new lending products tailored for MSMEs and freelancers, and commence regional expansion. Hala’s strategy centers on becoming the primary financial operating system for small businesses across the Middle East by layering credit, working-capital, and other value-added services onto its existing payments infrastructure. The company’s scale, transaction throughput, and specialized focus on underserved business segments position it to capture significant share in the Gulf’s fast-growing digital finance market. Financial performance metrics beyond transaction volume were not disclosed, but the firm’s user base and processing volume highlight rapid traction. Management intends to deploy the newly raised funds toward product development, regulatory licensing, and go-to-market initiatives across neighboring countries.

Participated · Series A · May 2025

Tarjama is a Dubai-based language solutions technology company founded in 2009 by Nour Al Hassan that provides advanced language technology across 50+ languages and 22 Arabic dialects. It serves over 700 clients globally and offers a suite of products including AMT (Arabic Machine Translation), CleverSo (translation management), T-Portal (content services), and FastScribe (transcription and translation). Recently the company launched Pronoia V2, a purpose-built Arabic-first LLM that the company says outperforms GPT-4o and Cohere on Arabic tasks. Tarjama is developing the Arabic.AI agentic ecosystem to help organizations solve complex business processes with AI agents. The company's core product focus combines machine translation, LLMs and workflow tools to target enterprise localization and Arabic-language AI use cases. It raised $15M in Series A financing in May 2025 to accelerate rollout of Arabic.AI and expand its product ecosystem.