{"id":56927,"date":"2026-01-28T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=56927"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:48:31","slug":"yozo-raises-1-7m-pre-seed-to-build-an-ai-revenue-engine-for-e-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2026\/01\/yozo-raises-1-7m-pre-seed-to-build-an-ai-revenue-engine-for-e-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Yozo Raises $1.7M Pre-Seed to Build an AI Revenue Engine for E-Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Yozo.ai announces raising $1.7 million in a Pre-Seed funding round to develop AI-powered solutions for the e-commerce sector<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The round was co-led by Access Bridge Ventures and Disruptech Ventures, with participation from Arzan VC, Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, Suhail Ventures, Glint Ventures, and M-Empire Angels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Yozo.ai, a UAE-based startup founded in early 2025, has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI-native Revenue Engine that automates the work traditionally done by e-commerce growth and retention teams. In just three months since launch, Yozo has already reached more than 250,000 customers for its clients through auto-pilot flows and targeted campaigns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The round was co-led by Access Bridge Ventures and Disruptech Ventures, with participation from Arzan VC, Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, Suhail Ventures, Glint Ventures, and M-Empire Angels<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The founding team includes second-time entrepreneurs who previously built and exited Fatura, an e-commerce and fintech platform acquired by a leading regional investment bank in 2022.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Their experience revealed a universal e-commerce issue: the gap between shoppers who show intent and shoppers who actually buy. This \u201cdemand leakage\u201d leaves a staggering amount of revenue uncaptured.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, most e-commerce brands convert less than 3% of their traffic.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">That means 97% of shoppers who already know the brand and show intent never complete a purchase.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">While this represents billions in untapped revenue, the heavy lifting required to run lifecycle and retention marketing keeps most brands from acting on it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hossam Ali founder of Yozo.ai said :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cConversion and retention marketing involves endless moving parts\u2014data, timing, segmentation, experimentation\u2014far more than most teams can realistically manage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAs 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead of giving brands more tools, Yozo is building an autonomous operator.The system behaves like a full growth team; analyst, copywriter, and experimentation specialist in one. Yozo designs and launches Email\/WhatsApp\/SMS programs, runs multivariate experiments, measures incrementality, and optimizes results automatically.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ali added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cGen AI has made a completely new category possible,\u201cIt lets us encode the judgment, creativity, and experimentation of an entire growth team into a single system that works 24\/7, That simply wasn\u2019t achievable before.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Only three months after launch, the product is already used by tens of paying brands\u2014from small online stores to fast-growing regional players. In that short time, Yozo has reached more than 250,000 customers for its clients through auto-pilot flows and targeted campaigns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;This is a team we&#8217;ve worked with closely for four years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mohamed Okasha, Managing Partner at Disruptech Ventures said :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;They\u2019ve already delivered one of the region\u2019s notable success stories, and we saw firsthand how they execute&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">HE add:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Now they&#8217;re tackling a global e-commerce problem with a world-class product that simply wasn&#8217;t possible a few years ago.We bet on them once, and we are betting on them again.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAt Access Bridge Ventures, we\u2019re focused on the opportunity emerging from application-layer AI across the region,\u201d said Issa Aghabi from Access Bridge Ventures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYozo\u2019s 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\u2019re pleased to support the team as they scale&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Yozo plans to expand aggressively beyond the Middle East, targeting global e-commerce markets where growth teams are either too expensive, too manual, or too difficult to hire.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The startup aims to become the \u201cdefault revenue engine\u201d for digital merchants worldwide.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">About Yozo<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Yozo (https:\/\/yozo.ai) is a UAE-based AI growth agent for e-commerce stores founded in early 2025 by second-time entrepreneurs who previously built and exited Fatura, a B2B e-commerce marketplace for SMEs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Through Yozo, merchants connect their accounts, approve campaigns, and the agent autonomously executes email, WhatsApp, and SMS marketing\u2014from strategy to copy to optimization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yozo.ai, a UAE-based startup founded in early 2025, has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI-native Revenue Engine that automates the work traditionally done by e-commerce growth and retention teams. In just three months since launch, Yozo has already reached more than 250,000 customers for its clients through auto-pilot flows and targeted campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":56923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850,1809],"tags":[5352,8711,7675,5171,5258,9602],"class_list":["post-56927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","category-e-commerce","tag-disruptech-ventures-en","tag-glint-ventures-en","tag-m-empire-angels-en","tag-oraseya-capital","tag-plus-vc","tag-suhail-ventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56929,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927\/revisions\/56929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}