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Investor profile

Ahmed El Alfi

Founder, Flat6Labs, Sawari Ventures

About

Ahmed El Alfi combines decades of Wall Street finance experience with early-stage tech investing since the 1980s, then returned to Egypt in 2006 to build the local startup ecosystem from the ground up. He has architected a complete capital pipeline for MENA tech by founding Flat6Labs for seed acceleration, co-founding Sawari Ventures for growth capital, and creating The GrEEK Campus as Cairo's first large-scale tech park near Tahrir Square to physically cluster startups and encourage collaboration. Ahmed El Alfi combines decades of Wall Street finance experience with early-stage tech investing since the 1980s, then returned to Egypt in 2006 to build the local startup ecosystem from the ground up. He has architected a complete capital pipeline for MENA tech by founding Flat6Labs for seed acceleration, co-founding Sawari Ventures for growth capital, and creating The GrEEK Campus as Cairo's first large-scale tech park near Tahrir Square to physically cluster startups and encourage collaboration.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
FinTech
Health
Ecommerce
Education
SaaS
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$5K - $200K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
Africa