Who is actually building AI in Lebanese hands.

A legal AI operating system rather than a chat wrapper. Its engine, Justinian, produces jurisdiction specific output from a single prompt, and the platform carries practice management, payments and institutional workflow on top of it.

Beirut. Antoine Kanaan, co-founder and CEO. Abbas Kabalan, co-founder and Chief Legal Officer.

Evidence. Wamda and L'Orient Today both reported a 3 million dollar round in February 2026, led by Sowlolutions Ventures. Company reporting puts it at more than 7,000 clients across law firms, enterprise legal teams, bar associations and courts. Both founders are named on the company's own team page.

Funding. 3 million dollars, February 2026, led by Sowlolutions Ventures

A live map of world events, built from more than 450 verified sources. A rules based engine ranks events by severity, algorithms scan for escalation patterns, and a language model refines the classification. Open source, and built by its author in a single day because he wanted it for himself.

Beirut. Elie Habib, founder. Co-founder of Anghami, LAU computer engineering.

Evidence. LAU News profiled the build in 2026. Arabian Business and L'Orient Today both reported the traffic independently: more than four million visitors from 174 countries within weeks of launch. Habib is a matter of public record as co-founder of Anghami, listed on NASDAQ as ANGH.

Funding. Side project, no round reported

The region's music streaming platform, and the only Lebanese founded company on this page listed on a US exchange. It belongs in an AI directory for the same reason Spotify does: the recommendation and personalisation layer is the product, not a feature bolted onto it.

Founded in Beirut, now headquartered in Abu Dhabi. Eddy Maroun and Elie Habib, co-founders.

Evidence. Listed on NASDAQ as ANGH. Founded in Beirut in 2012 by two Lebanese engineers, one of whom went on to build World Monitor. We file it as Lebanon origin rather than Lebanon based, because the headquarters moved and pretending otherwise would be the exact sort of thing this page exists to stop.

Funding. Public company, NASDAQ: ANGH

A legal platform built by lawyers and engineers together, connecting people to legal information and to the lawyers who can act on it. One of the earliest Lebanese attempts at applied AI inside a regulated profession, and the road HAQQ is now driving down.

Beirut. Rami Alame, Nadine Imad and Magda Farhat, co-founders.

Evidence. Founded 2 February 2017. Incubated at the Nucleus, finalist at the HiiL Innovating Justice Award in 2017, backed by 500 Startups. Around 150,000 dollars raised, which Tracxn records as the highest of any Lebanese legal services company. We have not independently confirmed current trading activity, and we would rather say that than imply it.

Funding. Around 150,000 dollars

AI training in three published levels, Foundations, Practitioner and Mastery, plus corporate programmes and consulting across the region. The closest thing Lebanon has to a dedicated AI school with a curriculum you can read before you pay for it.

Beirut. Community founded, with a publicly listed team.

Evidence. Public curriculum, named instructors and a working site, all opened and read by hand. Listed here as infrastructure rather than as a startup, because that is what it is.

Funding. Not disclosed

The community behind AI Weekend and the meetup series run with Berytech. Not a company, and we do not dress it up as one, but leaving it out of a record of Lebanese AI would make the record wrong.

Beirut. Volunteer run community.

Evidence. Runs a public events programme with Berytech, and appears on our own calendar with its source link. Classed as an organisation, not a company, and it carries no funding claim.

Funding. Not a company

A marketplace where the freelancers are AI agents. A client posts a task with a price and verification criteria, agents claim it, and the money held in escrow is released only once the result passes. Bounty takes 10 percent.

New York. Rayan Dabbagh, co-founder. Grand Lycee Franco Libanais in Beirut, then Georgia Tech, then AWS. Co-founders Aashna Doshi, formerly of Google, and Shivam Patel.

Evidence. L'Orient Today reported the launch and traced Dabbagh's route out of Beirut at seventeen, from the Grand Lycee to Georgia Tech to AWS. Backed by a 1 million dollar investment from Andreessen Horowitz.

Funding. 1 million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz

Turns lab results and medical data into something a patient can actually read, sold to diagnostic labs and health insurers. More than 35 million patients across 18 markets since 2016.

Founded in Dubai, headquartered in Vienna. Offices include Beirut.. Nadine Nehme, co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Lebanese, PhD supervised by Professor Jules Hoffmann. Co-founders Baher Al Hakim and Makram Saleh.

Evidence. Routinely listed elsewhere as a Lebanon based company. It is not. The company's own about page records the founding in Dubai in 2015 and the move to Vienna in 2016, with Beirut as one of five offices. The Lebanese connection is real, but it runs through a founder rather than a headquarters, and it is filed accordingly.

Funding. Series A and beyond. Forbes Middle East lists it among the region's most funded startups

Corporate cards with software that automates expense management, bill payments, procurement and accounting. Here because it is the largest company any Lebanese born founder currently runs, and because the automation layer genuinely is the product.

New York. Karim Atiyeh, co-founder, born and raised in Lebanon, now Co-CEO. Previously co-founded Paribus, backed by Y Combinator and sold to Capital One in 2016.

Evidence. Atiyeh was born and raised in Lebanon, holds a BA and an MS from Harvard, and is named on Ramp's own site as co-founder and Co-CEO. Most Lebanese coverage still calls him CTO, which is out of date. This is a diaspora entry, not a Lebanese company, and the difference is not blurred here.

Funding. Private, multi billion dollar valuation