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Souq
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Founded 2005
Souq mafia
Startups founded by Souq alumni
Former Souq employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
vishal chopraIndia
Mohammed SleimanUnited Arab Emirates
Ahmed OmarUnited Arab Emirates
Saygin YalcinUnited Arab Emirates
Fodhil BenturquiaUnited Arab Emirates
Omar RifaiUnited Arab Emirates
Asif KeshodiaPakistan
Amir ShenoudaEgypt
Nehul MalhotraIndiaGlobal footprint
Where Souq has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Souq's talent
Dealroom maps Souq'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.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Capital deployed
Souq's 8 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Souq appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2024. 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.
8 deals across Souq's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Souq'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”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Souq
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Souq 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
See Souq on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.