Yozo.ai is a UAE-based startup that has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI-powered revenue engine that automates tasks usually handled by e-commerce growth and retention teams. Just three months after launching, Yozo has already helped its clients reach over 250,000 customers using automated workflows and targeted campaigns.
The funding round was co-led by Access Bridge Ventures and Disruptech Ventures. Other investors include Arzan VC, Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, Suhail Ventures, Glint Ventures, and M-Empire Angels.
Yozo’s founding team consists of experienced entrepreneurs who earlier built Fatura an e-commerce and fintech platform that was acquired by a major regional investment bank in 2022.
Based on their experience, the founders identified a common problem in e-commerce: many shoppers express interest but never complete a purchase. This gap costs businesses significant revenue.
“Conversion and retention marketing involves endless moving parts—data, timing, segmentation, experimentation—far more than most teams can realistically manage,” said founder Hossam Ali. “As a result, even strong platforms like Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and Omnisend depend heavily on human bandwidth, which means much of their real potential never gets realized.”
Instead of just giving brands more tools, Yozo acts like a complete growth team. It works as an analyst, copywriter, and experimentation expert all in one.
Yozo can create and run Email, WhatsApp, and SMS campaigns, test different ideas to see what works best, measure results, and improve performance automatically.
“Gen AI has made a completely new category possible,” Ali added. “It lets us encode the judgment, creativity, and experimentation of an entire growth team into a single system that works 24/7. That simply wasn’t achievable before.”
“This is a team we’ve worked with closely for four years. They’ve already delivered one of the region’s notable success stories, and we saw firsthand how they execute,” said Mohamed Okasha, Managing Partner at Disruptech Ventures. “Now they’re tackling a global e-commerce problem with a world-class product that simply wasn’t possible a few years ago.We bet on them once, and we are betting on them again.’’
“At Access Bridge Ventures, we’re focused on the opportunity emerging from application-layer AI across the region,” said Issa Aghabi from Access Bridge Ventures.
“Yozo’s team combines strong execution with a practical approach to embedding AI into everyday eCommerce workflows, and we believe they are well-positioned to build a meaningful platform in this space. We’re pleased to support the team as they scale.”
Yozo is a UAE-based AI growth assistant for e-commerce stores, started in early 2025 by experienced entrepreneurs who previously built and sold Fatura, a B2B e-commerce platform for small businesses. With Yozo, store owners just connect their accounts and approve campaigns, and the AI handles everything—planning, writing messages and automatically improving Email, WhatsApp, and SMS marketing.
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