{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FWDstart","title":"Algebra AI’s Anis Harb on Raising $7M, Leaving Deliveroo After a Decade, and Why Managed AI Services Are Booming","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2154,"description":"For Anis Harb, the real barrier to enterprise AI adoption is not access to better models. It is everything that sits between a promising demo and a system that actually works inside a business.\nAfter nearly a decade at Deliveroo, where he launched and led the company’s Middle East operation, Anis left with a growing frustration: as businesses scaled, they added more headcount, which created more complexity, more process and, eventually, the need for even more headcount.\nAlgebra AI is his attempt to break that cycle.\nThe Dubai-based company emerged from stealth with $7M in funding, backed by Infinity Constellation, BECO Capital, Silicon Badia and Waseel Investments. Founded in partnership with that investor group, Algebra is targeting the more than 30,000 mid-market businesses across the GCC that sit between off-the-shelf AI software and the cost and complexity of enterprise-grade deployments.\nRather than selling businesses another piece of software or building a workflow and walking away, Algebra operates as a managed AI service. Its team works across the data layer, workflow logic, integrations, edge cases and human approvals, then stays embedded to monitor, maintain and improve the system over time.\nAs Anis puts it, Algebra wants to be the accountable operator, responsible not only for getting an AI system live, but for ensuring it continues to run as intended and delivers measurable business results.\nThe company already has engagements across financial services, food and beverage, manufacturing and distribution. While the industries may look broad, Algebra is deliberately narrow in the repeatable workflow patterns it takes on, identifying high-ROI processes that can be transformed from hours of manual work into minutes, or help businesses make decisions and take action in real time.\nWe also get into Anis’s unusual journey into Deliveroo, why he originally planned to build his own food-delivery company in the Middle East, how AI is changing the structure of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rw5tuXzSlVVTIYGhONUr8fUF7P47ZEBy7HgU8S4OYCc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iY2M5/ZDg1NjgwNzY2YzM0/ODcxOTc5MGEzOWMw/Mzk0OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}