The MENA Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the MENA 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 12 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of MENA's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the MENA program:
- ENEAGEX - Creating a digital marketplace for clean energy assets in South Africa, helping developers unlock capital and investors have exit options by asset tokenisation and offering investors access to liquid, de-risked energy assets.
- ReSource (known before as PTF) - Building small-scale pyrolysis machines that convert unrecyclable plastic waste and medical waste into usable fuel, offering a clean, decentralized solution to help communities and businesses manage waste while generating value from it.
- CAMA - Community Administration for Money Association - A digital application that enables underserved individuals to join and manage savings groups (ROSCA).
- Xpand - A simulation-based edtech platform that helps professionals and companies in the MENA region onboard and upskill faster by providing localized, interactive training experiences that solve the need for practical, job-relevant learning in Arabic.
- Omnilink Global - Providing an AI-native operating system for national supply chains, giving governments the digital sovereignty to eliminate billions in waste and replace expensive legacy consultants.
- Situation Data Technologies Pvt Ltd - Revolutionizing charitable giving by providing real-time impact tracking that ensures transparency and accountability, empowering donors to see the tangible outcomes of their contributions and driving more efficient, data-driven social impact across communities.
- B.A.T. (Better Agriculture Transformation) - Connecting surplus food with NGOs and food banks to fight waste and deliver fast, traceable aid.
- Tipper - Helping small businesses connect with their customers by transforming their offline communities into lasting digital ones.
- Fitnas - A healthy meal subscription and delivery app that connects users with healthy restaurants. We save users time, money, and help them stay consistent by offering diverse meal options.
- AI Prikshak Pvt Limited - An AI-powered platform that helps colleges conduct mock interviews and assess students’ job readiness, providing instant feedback, identifying skill gaps, and supporting placement cells in improving employability outcomes at scale.
- Babelon - Building an online platform to help writers easily reach their audience very quickly and for free and readers easily discover and engage with eBooks and related written content through a hyper-personalized feed.
- Fabritec Software Solutions - Building a real-time software for metal fabricators to replace spreadsheets, paper, and manual tracking with a one platform that streamlines production, improves visibility, and reduces operational waste.
The MENA 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
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MENA Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the MENA Founder Institute: Maher Santarissy (Managing Director , Founder Institute ), MiddleEast Admin, Mohammad Santarissy (CEO, Relatively Fund). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in MENA that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the MENA 2025 program was supported by some of MENA's top technology organizations, including:
Some of MENA’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over 1.9BN.
After Graduation, the new MENA Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next MENA Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/mena.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 1.9BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
