AI Companies in Egypt

Swvl

Cairo

Swvl is an Egypt-based mobility company providing end-to-end transportation solutions for businesses and individuals. They leverage AI-powered route optimization and fleet management technology to deliver efficient and reliable shared commuting services, including corporate shuttles and school transportation. Swvl targets organizations seeking to improve employee commutes and logistics providers aiming to optimize transit operations within densely populated urban environments.

Paymob

Cairo

Paymob provides a comprehensive digital payment infrastructure for businesses across the Middle East and Africa, offering solutions like the “Paymob Accept” platform, payment gateways, POS systems, and “Paymob Sync” – an end-to-end cashless ecosystem enabler. The company leverages AI and machine learning for real-time fraud detection and merchant risk assessment, processing millions of transactions daily. Targeting SMEs and large enterprises, Paymob facilitates both online and in-store payments, as well as mass payouts, with a focus on simplifying integration through robust APIs.

Instabug

Cairo

Instabug, operating out of Egypt, provides a mobile observability platform called Luciq that leverages agentic AI to automate bug detection, diagnosis, and resolution. Luciq moves beyond traditional monitoring by proactively identifying and fixing issues before users report them, reducing development overhead and improving app stability. Their target market is mobile app development teams seeking to enhance app quality and accelerate release cycles through AI-driven automation.

Intella

Cairo

Intella is a Cairo-founded speech-intelligence startup specializing in Arabic-first AI. Its proprietary speech-recognition models support transcription, analytics and conversational tools across more than 25 Arabic dialects. It raised a $12.5M Series A led by Prosus in 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $16.9M.

DXwand provides conversational AI that automates customer service and employee assistance for enterprises and governments across the Middle East, understanding both Arabic and English slang. Its platform serves text and voice interactions across call centers, social media, and web.

WideBot

Cairo

WideBot is a Cairo-based conversational-AI company that built the MENA region's first Arabic-focused chatbot-building platform, enabling enterprises to deploy Arabic-language virtual assistants across messaging channels. It is developing AQL Mind, an Arabic large language model, to deepen its dialect coverage.

Nanovate

Cairo

Nanovate builds Arabic-native AI agents for businesses across the Middle East and North Africa, providing chat and voice assistants spanning 22 Arabic dialects, automation workflows and a no-code dashboard for enterprises to deploy their own Arabic-speaking AI. It targets expansion into Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Velents

Cairo

Velents is an Egyptian-Saudi enterprise AI company building Arabic-language AI agents that handle calls, messaging, customer service and quality assurance for businesses and government entities across the Middle East. Founded in 2021 by Mohamed Gaber and Abdulaziz Almuhaydib, it launched Agent.sa, a fully Arabic-speaking AI agent, after raising USD 1.5M.

Proteinea

Cairo

Proteinea is an Egyptian TechBio startup that applies AI and computational models to protein engineering and biotherapeutic discovery, focusing on antibody Fc-domain engineering to improve half-life and immune function. The founders describe their goal as building a domain-specific AI platform for drug discovery. It is backed by investors including Shorooq Partners and has been supported by IndieBio and KAUST.