Complex tech that still hasn’t figured out the right product.
A blueprint of the precise solution to a big problem.
A notion of a brilliant product that is still being teased out.
We know great things start out messy. Call us before you think you’re ready.
DASH Frontier, a pre-seed vehicle investing in the earliest projects globally
Haya is the MD of DASH Frontier. She takes founders from concept to product, and from pitch deck to first raise, and excels at finding the magic in the mess. Friends and founders alike call Haya when their thoughts are not fully formed, or whenever they want good advice and no judgment.
DASH Frontier is the pre-seed arm and sister company of DASH Ventures, a seed-to-series A venture firm founded in 2010 with $100M+ deployed across 40+ companies in MENA and beyond.
The DASH Ventures team adds fuel to DASH Frontier and to its portfolio companies. The team can take discussions to the next level with their knowledge base, decades of experience in investments, and their stellar network. They’ve seen start-ups in all stages and every interaction with them will make you raise your bar. DASH Ventures provides the capital for follow-on funding and the right connections to support your future growth.
DASH Ventures is backed by Said Darwazah and Ali Al-Husry. Said and Ali are two friends who have built and grown large organizations. They know what real growth takes and that it doesn’t happen alone.
Relationships sit at the center of who we are. That’s given us a rich, global network, spanning London, MENA, Toronto and beyond. It’s full of good people who back each other. When you work with us, you become part of that community.
Good technology, put in the right context, can reshape a whole industry. We look for companies that have exceptional technology or a deep understanding of context. These are some founder personas:
The technophile
From the outside it may seem a technology is seamless, but you intuitively know there’s a fault or a technical gap that limits its applications. You know that if one thing is addressed it will solve an issue many developers struggle with and unlock new use cases and applications. You see technical gaps others miss, and you know how to address them.
Industry veteran
You know your industry inside out, you’ve worked in it and have connections and friends. More importantly, you know exactly which issues are keeping them up at night.
The fortune teller
You see the trends of where things are going. You are building a solution for a problem that will inevitably exist tomorrow. People may not see it now, but you KNOW it is there.
AI sees us and hears us, what will it take so that it can sense us and anticipate our needs?
Ambient and edge AI · Robotics tooling, physical and world models · Highly personalized AI · Context models
Labor markets are shifting, hiring trends are changing and one-person billion dollar companies are becoming a reality. What do we need to build today to prepare for the world of tomorrow?
Agile hiring · Plug and play AI services · Organizational memory · Agent orchestration and enablement
How do we fix the lack of transparency and reliability of LLMs to make them enterprise grade? What infrastructure do large organizations need to leverage AI to its fullest capabilities?
AI interpretability · AI for high-context environments · AI built on domain-specific data
We want to understand your vision and who you are.
We reach out to people who know things far better than we do. They help us assess the solution, and they help you validate your assumptions (and maybe become your next investors/customers!)
If we decide to invest, we are ready to move forward swiftly.
Whether we invest or not, we are a part of the ecosystem- keep us posted, and let us know what you build next.
