Jaafar Shop Raises Funding from Nama Ventures
Jafarshop, the largest DIY platform in Jordan, announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed funding round by Nama Ventures. The company uses video by experts and creates content in Arabic. Jafarshop provides hundreds of articles and videos in the Arabic language, a team of experts always available to answer your questions […]
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Jafarshop, the largest DIY platform in Jordan, announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed funding round by Nama Ventures.
The company uses video by experts and creates content in Arabic. Jafarshop provides hundreds of articles and videos in the Arabic language, a team of experts always available to answer your questions and provide you with the advice.
Jafarshop was founded in Jan. 2017 by Mohammad Bata, Khaled Abdo, and Samer Bata, three Jordanian entrepreneurs who have dedicated their experience to build a platform that can help house owners, professional technicians, and DIYers to find all that they need in one place, Mohammad is familiar with the tools & Hardware industry, and how it works in the MENA region. Samer has a wide experience in importing and exporting home improvement products, Khaled has more than twelve years of experience in managing products and in technology.
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“Before establishing Jafarshop, we noticed that the home improvement industry is not served adequately in our region,” said Mohammad Bata, Co-founder and CEO of Jafarshop. “We always wanted to encourage DIY projects, and deliver to the users the idea of DIY and home maintenance through articles and videos besides a wide range of products with a full description to show them that it is easy for every house owner to handle this, but all you need is knowledge and advice, our ambition is to help the Arab user to be familiar more with the home improvement and DIY, we started in Jordan, expanded into Egypt and will continue to cover all the region.
“Jafarshop for us is a milestone; it marks our first native Jordanian startup that NamaVentures makes,” Said Mohammed Alzubi, Founder and Managing Partner of NamaVentures.
