Syrian healthtech Alo Hakeem raises $165,000 pre-seed led by EBLA Ventures
The Aleppo-based company connects patients with licensed professionals for at-home care and plans to reach seven Syrian governorates.
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Alo Hakeem, a Syrian health technology company based in Aleppo, has closed a $165,000 pre-seed round led by EBLA Ventures. The startup did not disclose its valuation, and the other investors who joined the round were not named.
The company runs a digital platform that links patients and their families with licensed healthcare professionals for care delivered at home. Users can arrange medical consultations, nursing, physiotherapy and elderly care, along with laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging. Appointments are coordinated through the platform, and patients reach providers either via the website or through customer support operations.
Alo Hakeem currently serves patients in Aleppo, Damascus and Hama. It plans to enter four additional Syrian governorates by the end of 2027.
Abdullatif Al-Baroudi and Albaraa Abdulsalam founded the company in 2025. It financed its own operations at the start, built a minimum viable product, and tested its service model by engaging directly with patients and medical professionals.
Before the raise, the founding team worked through several support programmes. Alo Hakeem took part in ScaleUp 2025 and received mentorship through ChangeMakers, a programme run by Maynger Ventures, and through Thimar, an initiative that supports Syrian startups in preparing for investment. EBLA Ventures, which invests in and backs Syrian entrepreneurs, worked with the company during its early development and its investment preparation.
The new funding is earmarked for several areas: strengthening the platform's technology infrastructure, expanding the network of licensed providers, developing the team, and entering new markets inside Syria. The company frames the money as the bridge from its minimum viable product to a fully developed digital platform. An official mobile application is scheduled to launch publicly in November 2026.
The round comes as technology startups look to close gaps in Syria's healthcare system, particularly access to services outside hospitals and traditional medical facilities. Alo Hakeem's premise is that the hard part of home care is not clinical capacity alone but coordination: matching a patient with a licensed professional, scheduling the visit, and making the same process repeatable in a new city. It also aims to give healthcare professionals a more structured system for delivering services, which gets harder to maintain as a provider network spreads across governorates.
That makes the next stage a test of execution rather than of concept. The company's stated plan is to build a platform capable of coordinating home healthcare across a wider geographical area, and it has attached two dates to the effort: the public app launch in November 2026 and the expansion into four more governorates by the end of 2027.
