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Since 2019, AUC Venture Lab has backed 5 African startups across 5 disclosed funding rounds totaling $890,000, most heavily in Egypt and AI & Analytics.
AUC Venture Lab (V-Lab) is Egypt’s first university-based startup accelerator, hosted at the American University in Cairo’s School of Business in New Cairo, Egypt. It focuses on helping entrepreneurs launch, grow and scale innovative startups while also serving as a learning and research platform for the AUC community. In Africa, AUC Venture Lab is active as an accelerator and early stage investor, with a clear focus on Egyptian startups. According to available investment records, it has participated in at least three seed rounds between August 2020 and December 2023, all in Egypt, backing Velents in AI and analytics, Roboost in logistics and supply chain, and Elgameya in fintech. These activities indicate a concentration on technology enabled solutions at the seed stage within the Egyptian market. AUC Venture Lab has supported more than one thousand founders and hundreds of startups, and has been recognized with multiple international awards for its impact and the quality of its services in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It leverages AUC’s network of faculty, alumni, mentors and investors to connect startups with knowledge, capital and market access, contributing to innovation, economic growth and job creation.
Data updated · Jul 29, 2026
AUC Venture Lab has backed 5 African startups across 5 disclosed funding rounds tracked on Liners, totaling $890,000 since 2019.
Mostly Seed: 5 of its 5 tracked rounds are at that stage.
AUC Venture Lab's tracked rounds are concentrated in Egypt (5).
Its tracked rounds lean toward AI & Analytics (1), Logistics & Supply Chain (1), Marketing & CRM (1), and 2 more sectors.
AUC Venture Lab most often shares rounds with Falak Startups (2 shared deals), F6 Ventures (2 shared deals), AUC Angels (2 shared deals).
AUC Venture Lab is a university-based startup accelerator and early stage investor hosted at the American University in Cairo’s School of Business. It is based at AUC New Cairo in Egypt.
AUC Venture Lab has invested in several Egyptian startups, including Velents, which builds Arabic native AI agents for enterprise automation, Roboost, which automates dispatch and delivery performance, and Elgameya, which digitizes group savings cycles.