Zeal, a Cairo-based startup founded in London, enhances brand-customer engagement through solutions in payments, loyalty, and AI insights. As a member of the Scale Up 7 Batch, Zeal equips merchants with tools to predict customer behavior and optimize engagement strategies, maximizing their customer base's potential while ensuring a seamless user experience.

Zeal is recognized by leaders in financial services including Barclays, Visa, the World Bank Group, and more. Their flagship product, an award-winning POS terminal plugin, enables brick-and-mortar retailers to identify customers, manage loyalty programs, and gain behavioral insights. Vendors benefit from a data analytics dashboard that tracks real-time spending and forecasts future customer behavior. 

Zeal closed a $4 million funding round led by Raed Ventures and Cur8 capital, along with strategic angel investors. This capital will help expand Zeal’s technology solutions across the EMEA region, following its recent expansion into the UK market. 

Zeal in Three:

What problem is Zeal solving? Zeal helps merchants improve customer engagement and retention by providing tools for better understanding customer behavior and optimizing strategies.

What’s innovative about Zeal? Zeal combines payments, loyalty programs, and AI-driven insights in one platform. Its POS plugin enables retailers to track customers, manage loyalty, and use behavioral data for targeted marketing.

Who can use Zeal? Zeal is designed for brands and merchants, from small businesses to large enterprises, looking to improve customer relationships and marketing.