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Azal / Technology venture studio

Real problems.
Working software.

We turn everyday complexity into products people use. Built with care. Improved through real use. Made to last.

01—02

El-Fakahany & Taahud
Already serving real users.

Inside the workIn use
CommerceالفكهانيEvery order has a story.

A storefront built for fresh produce.

Browse the catalog, explore offers and bring a basket together.

CatalogOffersShopping cart

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Built to outlast time.Owned SaaS Selective equity partnerships

Selected work / 01—02

Out of the studio.
Into everyday life.

Two domains. Real users. Software that connects the details behind the experience.

01El-Fakahany brand surrounded by fresh fruit and vegetables
Commerce & operationsIn use

El-Fakahany

الفكهاني

Fresh produce. A connected retail experience.

A digital storefront and operations platform connecting fresh-produce shopping with the work behind every order.

What’s inside El-Fakahany
  • Product catalog, offers and shopping cart
  • Orders, payments and delivery workflows
  • Inventory, store availability and reporting

For shoppers and store teams

02

تعاهد

حيث يبدأ الأثر

LearnReviseGrow
Quran educationIn use

Taahud

تعاهد

Learning circles. Connected by care.

A Quran learning-circle management platform bringing administrators, teachers, students and guardians into one connected workflow.

What’s inside Taahud
  • Learning circles, students and teacher assignments
  • Session records, memorisation and revision tracking
  • Guardian access and invoice management

For Quran learning communities

How we work

Launch is
a beginning.

Azal brings product thinking and engineering together. We build our own SaaS products and work with selected venture partners, staying involved as the products grow.

Care in the details. Commitment over time.

  1. 01

    Understand the work.

    Start with the people, the problem and the details that slow them down.

  2. 02

    Build what matters.

    Turn that understanding into a focused product with a useful first release.

  3. 03

    Stay for what’s next.

    Learn from real use. Improve the product. Keep the engineering dependable.

Engineering, with purpose

Every layer.
One connected product.

The capabilities behind our SaaS products and equity partnerships.

01Product experiences

The part people use.

Web and mobile experiences shaped around real workflows: discovering products, placing orders, managing a learning circle or following progress.

02Operational systems

The work behind the screen.

Orders, inventory, role-based access and reporting. We connect the everyday details that make a product useful to the people running it.

03Product foundations

Room for what comes next.

Architecture, data models and integrations that support maintainable SaaS products. Automation is added where it solves a clear operational need.

The Azal model

Built to own. Built to stay.

We build and operate our own software products, and enter carefully selected equity partnerships. Product thinking and engineering support both paths.

We stay involved beyond launch, learning from real use and building for what comes next.

Owned SaaS

We identify recurring operational problems, build focused products and keep improving them with the people who use them. Restaurant operations is our current development priority.

Technology-for-Equity

We selectively partner with founders and domain experts, contributing product engineering and technical leadership for an agreed ownership stake. Every partnership must fit our focus and capacity.

Board & leadership

Business sense.
Builder instincts.

Enterprise experience, product thinking and hands-on engineering. Our board brings these perspectives together to build software that makes sense in the real world.

Enterprise perspective

Grounded in operations.

Sameh Mohammed

Chairman

An IT leader with experience across food, retail and restaurant businesses. Sameh brings the perspective of the organisations our products are built to serve.

Professional background

IT Director, Dina Farms · Previously at Burger King and Americana Restaurants

Product & business

From opportunity to product.

Ali Hossam

Chief Executive Officer

A software engineer and startup builder working at the intersection of business and product. Ali brings hands-on engineering and a competitive problem-solving mindset to building Azal.

Technical foundation

Software Engineer & 2× ICPC Regional Finalist

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Engineering direction

From product to system.

Mahmoud Atef

Chief Technology Officer

Mahmoud leads Azal’s technical direction, connecting product decisions with the software behind them. His focus at Azal is turning what a product needs to do into how it is built.

Professional background

Software Engineer & Teaching Assistant

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Three perspectives. One shared responsibility for what we build.