Join the world’s leading VCs, angel investors, and industry experts in Dubai at Orbit Startups’ exclusive in-person Demo Day on Thursday, May 1.
Get an early look at breakthrough startups from MENA, Africa, LatAm, and beyond—pioneering innovation in fintech, healthtech, circular economy, HR tech, AI-powered marketing, and more. This investor-only event features live startup pitches and networking, open exclusively to Orbit mentors and vetted investors.
Orbit is a startup program with over 12 years of investing in breakthrough companies from around the world. Orbit-backed companies have raised over $728M in total, a 10x increase of our initial investment.
Participating Startups
Bekia
Bekia is a Cairo-based tech platform that simplifies waste management for individuals and businesses by streamlining waste collection and providing sustainability reporting data.
FABC
FABC is a blockchain-powered platform for fair, transparent, and bias-free skill verification and job matching in MENA. By offering skills assessment and resume validation, FABC ensures instant hiring readiness while our blockchain ensures the resumes are permanent, traceable and verifiable.
Etmana
Etmana is an e-commerce platform that helps fashion brands in Egypt grow by taking them online. The platform helps expand vendor reach and enables 24/7 sales. Brands only pay when they sell—maximizing profits and increasing market exposure.
Refurbi
Refurbi is LatAm’s trusted circular ecosystem for affordable, sustainable refurbished mobile devices—bridging value, quality, and impact.
Refurbi takes used devices, refurbishes and resells them, and develops software to optimize every part of the process. By extending device lifespans, Refurbi reduces carbon emissions, resource overuse, and e-waste, while making essential technology more accessible and affordable.
Route Money
Route Money is a fintech platform to help digitalise F&B businesses in Africa. With Route Money restaurants get an integrated platform with payments, marketing, online orders, reservations, and loyalty programs. It aggregates both online and offline consumer data, and provides business insights to optimize customer engagement and revenue growth.
Soso Care
SOSO CARE is an affordable and accessible health insurance for 200 million uninsured Nigerians—paid for with recyclables.
By allowing people to pay premiums with recyclable waste or cash, SOSO CARE removes financial and trust barriers—enabling first-time users to try insurance without fear of losing money. Its community-driven approach builds trust, drives adoption, and promotes environmental sustainability by turning trash into healthcare
Elevatix
Elevatix is an AI-powered platform to help mobile apps and games boost revenues from in-app purchases. The platform delivers smart segmentation and personalized in-app purchases tailored to each user ensuring a better user experience while complying with data privacy laws. The easy to integrate SDK and pretrained machine learning models allows publishers to see results within a week.
VenueX
VenueX is a platform that helps brands optimize their online presence and drive offline sales by attributing in-store sales to online customer engagement and measuring the offline conversion of digital campaigns.