Yozo.ai is a United Arab Emirates startup that wants to replace the patchwork of disconnected marketing tools most online stores stitch together with a single, AI-native revenue engine. The core product is an autonomous growth agent: merchants connect their sales channels, the agent proposes retention and conversion campaigns, the merchant approves, and the AI then executes, A/B tests, and continuously optimizes those campaigns across email, WhatsApp, and SMS. The aim is to recover the revenue that slips away because small teams lack the time, tooling, or expertise to run sophisticated lifecycle marketing.
The company positions itself against the reality that growth and retention talent is expensive and hard to hire, especially for small and mid-sized merchants. By packaging that capability into software that operates with minimal human intervention, Yozo offers merchants the equivalent of a growth team that works continuously. A unified inbox brings customer conversations across channels into one place, while the agent handles segmentation, campaign creation, and optimization in the background.
Yozo was founded in early 2025 by Salma AlBarkouky, Abdallah Moheb El-Din, Taha Salah, Hossam Ali, and Zeiad Haridy, and is headquartered in Abu Dhabi. The team's bet is that e-commerce automation built around an agent, rather than a dashboard, is the natural next step for merchants already overwhelmed by manual execution across multiple messaging and email tools.
In January 2026 Yozo.ai raised 1.7 million US dollars in pre-seed funding, co-led by Access Bridge Ventures and DisrupTech Ventures, with participation from Arzan VC, Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, Suhail Ventures, Glint Ventures, and M-Empire Angels. The capital is being used to deepen the product, strengthen the engineering team, and expand beyond the Middle East into global e-commerce markets where the same fragmentation and talent constraints apply.