SOURCE: Zawya
Falcon Network, a group of emerging markets-based angel investors, have today announced the successful conclusion of their inaugural round with the completion of six investments in high-growth and impact-focused start-up enterprises.
In total, the Network’s members invested over USD 450,000 in the following businesses:
- Aion Sigma, a Finland-based fintech platform with sizeable presence in Africa that provides financial inclusion and empowerment of individuals;
- Caravan, a value-added aggregator of privately operated buses in UAE with the mission of helping employees find the best private bus for their work commute;
- Saaya Health, a Tech company providing emotional/mental health solutions to organisations and corporations;
- Teacherly, a UK-based collaborative planning and peer to peer edtech platform with growing presence in the Middle East;
- Virtual i, a DIFC based insurtech platform that provides fast, affordable and reliable risk engineering services to insurers and insured and brings visibility to insurance transactions; and
- WorkAround, provides a scalable data tagging and verification platform for artificial intelligence / machine learning applications, delivered by skilled displaced people.