Yozo.ai raises $1.7M Pre-Seed to Build an AI-Native Revenue Engine for E-commerce
Yozo.ai, a UAE-based startup founded in early 2025, has announced the successful closure of a $1.7 million pre-seed funding round to build an AI-native Revenue Engine that automates the work traditionally handled by e-commerce growth and retention teams.
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.
In just three months since launch, Yozo has already helped its clients reach more than 250,000 customers through auto-pilot flows and highly targeted campaigns across Email, WhatsApp, and SMS.
The founding team consists of second-time entrepreneurs who previously built and exited Fatura, an e-commerce and fintech platform acquired by a leading regional investment bank in 2022. Their experience highlighted a core industry challenge: the gap between shopper intent and completed purchases—often referred to as demand leakage.
Today, most e-commerce brands convert less than 3% of their traffic, leaving the majority of potential revenue unrealized due to the complexity of lifecycle and retention marketing.
“Conversion and retention marketing involves endless moving parts—data, timing, segmentation, experimentation—far more than most teams can realistically manage,” said founder Hossam Ali.
Rather than offering more tools, Yozo is building an autonomous operator that behaves like a full growth team—designing campaigns, running experiments, measuring incrementality, and optimizing performance automatically.
“Gen AI has made a completely new category possible,” Ali added.
The platform is already being used by tens of paying brands, ranging from small online stores to fast-growing regional players.
“This is a team we’ve worked with closely for four years,” said Mohamed Okasha, Managing Partner at Disruptech Ventures.
“At Access Bridge Ventures, we’re focused on the opportunity emerging from application-layer AI,” added Issa Aghabi.
Yozo plans to expand aggressively beyond the Middle East, aiming to become the default revenue engine for digital merchants worldwide.
