⛵Dhow Dispatch │ A Slurry of Investment into Muslim Founders throughout November

November brought further validation to the Dhow thesis. Throughout November 2025, notable Muslim-founded teams have secured approximately $172.5 million in funding across AI, biotechnology, logistics, fintech, and industrial software, a remarkable demonstration of entrepreneurial momentum within the global Muslim community.

Led by Ali Madani, Profluent is making biology programmable through frontier AI models that design novel proteins from scratch. The round was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bezos Expeditions, with participation from Spark Capital, Insight Partners, and Air Street Capital. This brings Profluent's total funding to $150 million.​

Profluent's scientific achievements include being the first to demonstrate that large language models can generate functional proteins (published in Nature Biotechnology), creating the first AI-designed CRISPR system, and building a Protein Atlas containing over 115 billion unique protein sequences. The company's open-source gene editor, OpenCRISPR-1, is now used by thousands of commercial operations and academic researchers worldwide.​

Applications span: therapeutics, diagnostics, agriculture, and biomanufacturing.

Co-founded by Tarek Alaruri (CEO) and Miraj Mohsin, both second-time Muslim-diaspora founders, Stuut is transforming accounts receivable from tedious manual work into automated cash generation. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Activant Capital, Khosla Ventures, 1984.vc, Page One Ventures, Vesey Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, and Valley Ventures.​

Miraj Mohsin, a Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur, previously founded Pixlee TurnTo, which Emplifi acquired. Stuut's AI platform acts as an "AR coworker" that manages customer outreach, payment matching, dispute resolution, and portal interactions autonomously. Customers report collecting 40% more revenue on time and reducing overdue balances significantly. PerkinElmer saw overdue invoices drop from 50% to 15% within a year.​

Notable customers: ZoomInfo, Honeywell, PerkinElmer, Bishop Lifting

Founded by Karim Saleh and Nikolay Kobyshev, Zurich-based Cerrion has built AI video agents that transform standard factory cameras into real-time production monitors. The round was led by Creandum, with participation from Y Combinator, Goat Capital (Justin Kan), 10x Founders, Session VC, and prominent angels including Harry Stebbings (20VC) and Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face).​

Cerrion's AI agents detect process deviations, quality problems, and safety risks in real time, then autonomously intervene by slowing machines, triggering alarms, or escalating alerts. The technology is deployed across three continents at manufacturers such as Unilever, Riedel, and Schott Zwiesel, serving brands like Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, and Novartis. Customers report resolving issues 50% faster while cutting downtime and scrap in half.​

Sectors served: glass, wood, beverages, consumer packaged goods, food, and building materials

Kumeil Hosain, founder and CEO of Xenia, announced the $12M Series A led by PSG, the same growth equity firm that originally backed the company in 2021 and doubled down this round. Xenia provides AI-powered operations software for multi-location organizations, streamlining daily task execution, maintenance management, checklists, audits, and photo logs.​

Alongside the funding, Xenia launched two new AI capabilities:​

Customers include: Dave's Hot Chicken, ACE Hardware, Adidas, and over 10,000 businesses across restaurant, retail, hospitality, and convenience store sectors.​

Moin Islam and Adem Esen have raised $7M for Shipday, a delivery and logistics technology platform that helps small retailers and restaurants compete with enterprise-level logistics capabilities. The round was co-led by ECP Growth and Ibex Investors Mobility VC.​

Shipday serves over 5,000 businesses across 100+ countries, offering delivery management software available in 30 languages. The platform helps SMBs like restaurants, bakeries, and grocers streamline local delivery operations while also supporting direct delivery for large franchise brands. With the new funding, Shipday will expand AI automations through its AgentFlow system and global reach.​

Consider what these companies are building: systems for cash flow management, manufacturing intelligence, logistics automation, operational efficiency, and biotechnological breakthroughs. These are the backbone of the real economy, not trends or fads, but infrastructure.

In a few years, these names may emerge as IPO candidates, acquisition targets, or core holdings in the publically traded funds we hold. For anyone who has felt that Muslims are lagging or excluded from the venture ecosystem, this November serves as compelling counter-evidence.

The founders profiled here are not just participants. They are builders, creating the very companies that will define the next generation of technology.

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