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Careem

Transportation · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Founded 2012

Mobile platform enabling users to book rides, order food or groceries, and perform digital payments across cities

Valuation $2.5–5B
Headcount 5–10k
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier
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Investors

21 investors on Careem's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
STC Ventures
Series A 1 investor entered at this stage
IRIS
Series B+ 19 investors entered at this stage
Coatue Management
Endure Capital
Saudi Telecom Company
STV
DiDi
Rakuten Capital
BECO Capital
Elsewedy Electric
DCM
Daimler Technology and Venture
Kingdom Holding Company
Lumia Capital
Kuwait Investment Authority
Abraaj Group
Rakuten
Wamda Capital
SQM Frontier Management
Al Tayyar Travel Group
Greyhound Capital

Careem mafia

Startups founded by Careem alumni

Former Careem employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

PostExEst. 2020
Adil NaseemPakistan
Signal score95
BostaEst. 2017
Khaled KandilEgypt
Signal score94
Magma MathEst. 2015
Arvid GilljamSweden
Signal score94
Valeo HealthEst. 2021
Ankur MajumderUnited Arab Emirates
Signal score91
AbwaabEst. 2019
Sabri HakimJordan
Signal score89
spiderSilkEst. 2019
MHMossab HusseinUnited Arab Emirates
Signal score88
FENIXEst. 2020
Jaideep DhanoaUnited Arab Emirates
Signal score86
Penny SoftwareEst. 2020
iyad aldaloojSaudi Arabia
Signal score86
TaagerEst. 2019
Ismail OmarEgypt
Signal score86
OrderEst. 2020
AAAbdulaziz AlSaeedSaudi Arabia
Signal score86
Merit IncentivesEst. 2016
Thrishan PSaudi Arabia
Signal score85
NorthLadderEst. 2017
SSSandeep ShettyNetherlands
Signal score85

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Global footprint

Where Careem has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
49 countries with
team presence
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates30%
🇵🇰 Pakistan26.2%
🇪🇬 Egypt16.3%
🇯🇴 Jordan10%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia6.8%
Top 5 of 49 shown
Web traffic by country
630K monthly visits
across markets
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates34.7%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia16.8%
🇯🇴 Jordan16.7%
🇪🇬 Egypt6.7%
🇮🇳 India3.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Careem's talent

Dealroom maps Careem's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

9 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
28 AI specialistsincl. 4 core researchers
6,452 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Capital deployed

Careem's 10 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Careem appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2023. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

10 deals across Careem's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Careem's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        10 of 10 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Careem

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Careem on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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