Shift EV, an Egypt-based electric mobility startup, has raised a total of USD 9 million in finance, putting it on track to revolutionize the EV landscape not only in Egypt, but across emerging countries, using home-grown battery technology. According to CEO and co-founder Aly Eltayeb, Shift’s Series A round was joined by current investors Union Square Ventures, Algebra Ventures, and Wamda, as well as first-time investment Oman Technology Fund, bringing the company’s total funding raised to date to USD 9 million .

Union Square, a tier-one US venture capital investor, is making its first investment in the Middle East and North Africa.

A Look At What The Company Does

Aly Eltayeb and Amr Helmy, two young PhDs with global industry experience who formed the company in 2020, have created a retrofitting procedure based on patented Lego-like, locally built batteries that can convert any conventional vehicle into an EV. Shift, on the other hand, isn’t interested in converting any old car. Its plant employs an assembly-line approach to convert fleets of minivans and tricycles into EVs, and it will soon convert pickup trucks and microbuses, which are the backbone of Egypt’s last-mile delivery and passenger fleets, into EVs. The changeover takes less than a few hours per vehicle, which Eltayeb said is “dropping quickly.”

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