Eyewa
eyewa.com
Eyewear
Optometry & Optical Stores
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$123.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Series C · Nov 2024 · 22 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
6
500 Global, Endeavor
The money's age
Due for its next round
22 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
25/100
a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 27, 2024
Raised a round Series C $100M
Jun 27, 2021
Raised a round Series B $21M
Aug 11, 2020
Raised a round Seed $2.5M · PRNewswire
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Nov 2024 | $100M | — | arabnews.com |
| Series B | Jun 2021 | $21M | — | gulfbusiness.com |
| Seed | Aug 2020 | $2.5M | — | PRNewswire |
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500 Global 
Endeavor 
Sheraa 
Khwarizmi Ventures 
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Overview
Eyewa is a leading omnichannel eyewear retailer in the Middle East, offering a wide selection of prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses. Founded in 2017, the Dubai-headquartered company operates both an e-commerce platform and a physical network of over 100 retail stores across the GCC region. It combines top global brands with its own affordable private-label collections, using modern digital tools to make quality eye care accessible and stylish.
News
Light Code, Not Heavy Glass: OptikosPrime and Eyewa Bring Clinical AI Vision Care to Smartphones
OptikosPrime and Eyewa bring clinical-grade AI vision care to smartphones across the Gulf, delivering instant eye prescriptions from a single photo.
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MENA Digest: Eyewa led fundraising; VC firm Flat6Labs invests in 10 Saudi startups
Middle East's leading eyewear retailer Eyewa led the fundraising activity this week, securing a three-digit late-stage growth capital to scale its...
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Eyewa now has 150 stores selling eyeglasses in the Middle East and just raised $100M to add 100 more
Eyewa sees super-fast growth as the Middle East's Warby Parker, has new $100M from investors including General Atlantic to keep expanding.
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Eyewa raises $21m in latest Series B funding round
Eyewa has announced its latest Series B funding round of $21 million, which will support the company with its ambitious expansion plans, further investment...
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eyewa raises US$2.5million pre-series B bridge round
/PRNewswire/ -- UAE-based eyewear e-commerce player eyewa, has raised a pre-series B bridge round of US$2.5million from Wamda Capital, EQ2 Ventures and Nuwa...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Eyewa over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Frameworks & libraries
CrewAI
LangChain
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Hallucination
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LLM Evaluation
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
0
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
32 days
faster than 38% of the market
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
50% ▼
Early Careers
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Cairo
Oct 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Aug 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Cairo
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Dubai
United Arab Emirates
HQ
1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Cairo
Egypt
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Early Careers