Ziad Mokhtar

Ziad Mokhtar is Co-Founder and CEO of Oliv.finance and Founding Partner of Algebra Ventures. Oliv was founded in 2024 and is Egypt's first digital factoring company. It offers invoice financing services that help small and medium businesses bridge their financing gaps. It is on a mission to grow the reach of factoring services in Egypt by 10x. Before oliv, Ziad had been one of the leading Venture Capital investors who shaped tech investment in Egypt since 2010. He started his venture capital career at Ideavelopers which managed one of Egypt's first venture capital funds. Its investments included fawry (acquired), siware, and vezeeta (exited) among others. He then cofounded and co-led Algebra Ventures which launched its first VC fund in 2016 and has been one of the leading VC firms in Egypt since then. Algebra's Investments include MNT-Halan, Dsquares, elmenus, Khazna, trella, Yodawy, Lucky, Eventtus (acquired), Posrocket (acquired), and Shift EV. During his career in investing Ziad served as a board member of over 15 different technology companies and served on the investment committees of different VC funds. He managed relationships with a range of local and international investors that included financial institutions, family offices, and public corporations. Before Venture Capital, Ziad worked as a management consultant at Mckinsey & Co. During his time at Mckinsey he worked on a range of public sector studies that covered economic development, healthcare, education, and urban planning. Ziad had started his career by co-founding and leading eSpace, a software company based out of Alexandria. eSpace' flagship product was SalesBuzz which by the time Ziad departed from eSpace had become the leading Mobile Sales Force Automation product in the Middle East with clients that included Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Nestle, and Cadbury-Adams. Ziad is a Stanford MBA graduate and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the School of Engineering at Alexandria University.