UAE-Based Yozo.ai Raised USD 1.7 Million in Pre-Seed Funding to Develop an AI-Powered E-Commerce Revenue Engine

UAE-based startup Yozo.ai raised USD 1.7 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-powered revenue engine for e-commerce sellers. The round was co-led by Access Bridge Ventures and Disruptech Ventures, while a number of regional venture capital funds and angel investors also participated in the round.

Founded in early 2025, Yozo.ai develops an AI agent that autonomously manages email, WhatsApp, and SMS campaigns for online retailers. The company announced that it will use the new investment to support product development and its goals of expanding into markets outside the Middle East.

Investors Supported the AI-Native Approach

The investment round was completed under the co-leadership of Access Bridge Ventures and Disruptech Ventures. Arzan VC, Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, Suhail Ventures, Glint Ventures, and M-Empire Angels also participated in the round.

Issa Aghabi of Access Bridge Ventures stated that the Yozo.ai team demonstrated strong execution capability and stood out with its approach of practically integrating artificial intelligence into daily e-commerce workflows. Aghabi expressed that the company has the potential to build a scalable and meaningful platform in this field.

The strong interest from regional investors revealed growing demand for AI-based commerce solutions developed for sellers operating in digital markets characterized by fragmentation and intense competition.

An Autonomous Growth Agent Is Being Built

Yozo.ai positions itself as an “AI growth agent” rather than a traditional marketing software. After sellers connect their e-commerce accounts to the system, they approve campaigns, and the system autonomously carries out marketing activities across email, WhatsApp, and SMS channels.

The company stated that its technology takes on tasks such as segmentation, timing, experimentation, and performance optimization, which are typically handled by growth and customer retention teams. In this way, it aims to reduce the need for specialized teams that are costly or difficult to find, particularly for small and medium-sized e-commerce businesses.

Yozo.ai founder Hossam Ali said that conversion and retention marketing involves many variables such as data, timing, and continuous optimization, and that most teams struggle to manage this complexity in a sustainable way. Ali emphasized that Yozo.ai was designed to take on this complexity and operate continuously without manual intervention.

Yozo.ai’s Global Growth Targets

With the new investment it has received, the company aims to build an AI-native revenue engine that automates customer retention and revenue growth processes in a scalable manner. Yozo.ai identified global e-commerce markets where growth teams are expensive, overly manual, or difficult to hire as its primary targets.

Initially focusing on the Middle East, Yozo.ai announced that it has international expansion plans to also serve sellers in other regions facing similar operational challenges. The company aims to become the “default revenue engine” for digital sellers by closing the gap between users who show purchase intent but do not complete a transaction and actual buyers.

Yozo.ai argues that this gap leads to a significant amount of revenue remaining uncaptured in the e-commerce sector. By establishing automated customer engagement at the right time and through the right channel, it states that conversion and customer loyalty rates can be increased in a meaningful way.

The pre-seed investment round is considered an important milestone in Yozo.ai’s transition from the product development stage to broader market adoption. While the company did not share details regarding revenue or customer numbers, it stated that the investment will be used primarily for engineering, data infrastructure, and expansion into new markets.