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Phaze Ventures Invests in UAE Based Qeen.ai to make Intelligent ECommerce possible
Phaze Ventures today announced its’ investment into Qeen.ai, a UAE based generative AI startup founded in 2023 to make autonomous and intelligent e-commerce possible with no-code solutions. The $2.2 million USD pre-seed round was led by Wamda Capital, and backed by other venture and strategic investors including 10x Founders, Jabbar, and others. Qeen.ai was co-founded Read more
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Phaze Ventures Invests in Improvability.AI to Redefine Enterprise Data Insights with AI
Phaze Ventures today announced its’ investment into Improvability.AI (formally OpenESG), a generative AI startup, headquartered in the US. Improvability.AI is on a mission to unleash the power of generative AI on enterprise data for better reporting, compliance checks, insights, advisory and much more. In a world of increasingly complex and opaque supply chains – with Read more
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SpotLight Raises $6.7 Million Series-A to Accelerate the Rollout of CCS Monitoring Technology
France based SpotLight, deeptech geophysical startup, today announced a $6.7 million Series A funding round to accelerate the rollout of it’s breakthrough Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) monitoring technology. The investment round is led by Emerald Technology Ventures (Switzerland) with participation from Phaze Ventures (Oman), Industrya (Belgium), Nabtesco Technology Ventures (Japan), , and AFI Ventures Read more
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Carzaty: The Wild Ride Here
I first met Hassan Lawati and Marwan Chaar in August of 2018. We had just launched Phaze Ventures a few months prior, and they were raising their Seed round for the first online auto-retailer in the country, Carzaty. Their company was just over 1-year post-launch and was already clocking in around $500,000 of monthly sales. Read more
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Phaze Ventures Invests in UK Cyber Security Firm CyberOwl
Phaze Ventures today announced its participation in CyberOwl‘s $5.1mil Series-A financing alongside investment firms 24Haymarket, Techstars and Brookstreet Equity. CyberOwl, a UK based B2B software-as-a-service startup, provides cyber risks monitoring systems for maritime asset operators to help gain visibility on cyber risks across their fleet. The deal marks Phaze Ventures 2nd investment into maritime software Read more
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Voyager: An Inside Look at Our Largest Investment to Date
It was late 2018 when I first came across Voyager. Phaze Ventures was on the hunt for technology startups looking to transform global industries largely operating in analog, data-less environments where the potential for disruption through digitization, automation and data-driven decision making was high. Sifting through the announcement of the 2018 cohort of Techstars Energy Program Read more