{"id":205482,"date":"2025-02-04T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ai-agents-for-e-commerce-startup-founded-by-google-and-deepmind-alums-raises-10m-seed"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:31:56","slug":"ai-agents-for-e-commerce-startup-founded-by-google-and-deepmind-alums-raises-10m-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ai-agents-for-e-commerce-startup-founded-by-google-and-deepmind-alums-raises-10m-seed","title":{"rendered":"AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-agents-for-e-commerce-startup-founded-by-google-and-deepmind-alums-raises-10m-seed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dubai-based <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qeen.ai\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Qeen.ai\">Qeen.ai<\/a><\/a> (stylized as <a href=\"http:\/\/qeen.ai\">qeen.ai<\/a>) is working to make this a reality in the Middle East and beyond. The startup has raised $10 million to scale its platform, which provides autonomous AI agents for e-commerce businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Prosus Ventures, a major e-commerce investor, led the seed round, which is not only one of the largest in the Middle East\u2019s AI industry but in MENA overall. The VC believes <a href=\"http:\/\/Qeen.ai\">Qeen.ai<\/a> is well-positioned to bring AI-driven automation to merchants as AI agents reshape online marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Founders <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mibrahimi\/?originalSubdomain=ca\">Morteza Ibrahimi<\/a> (CEO), <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ae.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmadkhwileh\">Ahmad Khwlieh<\/a> (CTO), and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dina-alsamhan-3a5aa024\/?originalSubdomain=ae\">Dina Alsamhan<\/a> (CBO) started Qeen after years of working on AI at Google and DeepMind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai-based Qeen.ai (stylized as qeen.ai) is working to make this a reality in the Middle East and beyond. The startup has raised $10 million to scale its platform, which provides autonomous AI agents for e-commerce businesses. Prosus Ventures, a major e-commerce investor, led the seed round, which is not only one of the largest in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}