# Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in June 2026

## Maniv Mobility
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

## Next Gear Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles

Focused investments in entrepreneurs who pioneer sustainable, smart mobility.

## MizMaa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

MizMaa Ventures is a principal investment firm that specializes in investments in technology companies in Israel.

## F+ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Manufacturing

F+ Ventures is Fark Labs’ venture capital arm, which invests in late seed and Series A startups within the smart mobility ecosystem that provide disruptive solutions through superior technologies and/or unique business models.

## Aslanoba Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

## Keiretsu Forum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.

## Entrée Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.

## OurCrowd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.

## Grove Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Grove Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Israel. It partners early with exceptional Israeli founders who believe th...

## Phoenician VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Founded in 2015, Phoenician Funds is at the heart of thriving capitals of digital innovation and startup ecosystems in the Middle East and North Africa ...

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

## Champel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care

As a young and dynamic company with a spirit of entrepreneurship, we look first and foremost at the vision leading the entrepreneur. We believe that we should be investing in people, before everything else. We want to be investing in companies led by entrepreneurs who are capable of envisioning and growing great companies with products and/or services meeting real market needs in large and growing markets.

## EIT Urban Mobility
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Information Technology

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.

## Firstime Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.

## Dtec Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps

Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.

## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

## Oraseya Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.

## Vertex Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Vertex Ventures US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

## J-Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Machine Learning

J- Ventures is a Silicon Valley based group of VC funds with over $60m under management. Backed by 400+ leading Investors ( 140+ Serial founders, 100+ VCs, 170+ Fortune 500 Executives) as LPs. Our active-LP  venture fund brings the power of this connected & intellectual capital to add real value to the companies we invest in and create aremarkable difference by helping our founders grow and scale to markets quicker. Based in Silicon Valley with investors from 15 communities - Tel Aviv, NYC, LA, London, Miami, Boston, and more.
Since 2016 the group made over 50 investments, 4 unicorns and over 10 exits.

## iAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Invest in groundbreaking startups with iAngels. Discovercutting-edge technology and join a community of forward-thinking investors shapingthe future of entrepreneurship.

## BY Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.

## Sente Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software

Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.

## Istanbul Startup Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Local, Hardware

Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs.

## Falak Startups
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt. 

## Mirai Creation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Information Technology, Manufacturing

The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.   

## Impact46
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Impact 46 is an asset manager and advisor that specializes in alternative investment opportunities. The firm provides innovative investment products and services to local & international institutions, family groups, endowments, and high net worth investors.

## Maven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

Maven is a seed stage venture firm investing in tech companies addressing emerging consumer behavior and trends. The Maven team identifies and backs bold founders with a vision worth fighting for, then helps founders unlock their potential to change the world, building iconic brands like Zoom and Cruise. Maven maintains a concentrated investmentstrategy, making only 6-8 core investments each year. 16% of Maven companies have achieved an exit or valuation at $500M or more, 10x industry average.

## Finberg
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.

## Vertex Ventures Israel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We partner early with global-minded entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt large markets

## Elm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Elm offer a wide range of ready-made and customized digital solutions in many areas. The company provides products that are seemingly tailored to customers' needs and aspirations.

## Hedef Filo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kagithane, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Public Transportation

Hedef Filo is the leading fleet leasing company.

## Hyundai Motor Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Software, Information Technology

The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.

## Syndicate Group of Companies
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Pharmaceutical, Medical, Food and Beverage

The Syndicate Group of Companies offers comprehensive support and a collaborative approach to its portfolio of brands. Leveraging its industry expertise, the company identifies potential opportunities across various growth stages. With a commitment to long-term prosperity, The Syndicate Group is dedicated to expanding its portfolio businesses andcreating value for its stakeholders.

## iArgento
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Parking, Software, Automotive

iArgento operates as a Multi-Family Office specializing in wealth management and investment banking with its main focus on alternative investment management platforms.



## Raed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

## IDO Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Muscat, Masqat, Oman
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

IDO Investments partners with strategic emerging funds in specific sectors and geographies. Through its shareholders, the company has a truly extensive global reach and is able to significantly accelerate growth for its portfolio companies. IDO Investments is actively participating in the development of its portfolio companies and aims to generatesignificant value for them as well as the shareholders of IDO Investments.
Our investment strategy is dynamic, adjusting to the needs of Oman. Our primary focus is solutions in the Life Sciences, Energy and Water, Food and Agriculture sectors as well as other related technologies; with the aim of delivering tangible benefits to the people and industry of Oman through knowledge transfer, technology advancement, and socioeconomic development, all while allowing the founders to achieve their ambitions, whether it be locally or in their respective geographies.

## Canaan Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

## Alesta Yatırım
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

## Avis Budget Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Parsippany, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Mobile

Avis Budget Group, Inc. (Avis Budget) operates two brands in the global vehicle rental industry through Avis and Budget. Avis is a rental car supplier positioned to serve the commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry and Budget is a rental car supplier focused primarily on more value-conscious segments of the industry. It operates inthree segments: North America, consisting of its Avis and Budget car rental operations in the United States and its Avis and Budget vehicle rental operations in Canada; International, consisting of its Avis and Budget vehicle rental operations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, central America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand, and Truck Rental, consisting of its Budget truck rental operations in the United States. On October 3, 2011, the Company acquired Avis Europe plc. In July 2013, Avis Budget Group Inc acquired Payless Car Rental.`

## EQ2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising

Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.

## VectoIQ LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning

VectoIQ is an advisory firm helping new companies in the smart transportation space. Reverse merger with Nikola Motor in June 2020.

## Connetic Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Covington, Kentucky, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology

Connetic Ventures is an investment firm that provides its services to early stage startup companies.The firm participates with venture capital firms and angel syndicates for companies that are in the seed stage. It focuses on developing core investment strategies and deploying them on startups to build up their portfolios. Connetic Ventures wasfounded by Brad Zapp in 2015. It is headquartered in Covington, Kentucky.

## TA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments.
We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.

## Trucks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles

Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation.

## Global Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

## B&Y Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.

## Maxfield Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Venture fund investing in global information technology companies.

## YL Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cyber Security, Network Security, Security

YL Ventures funds and supports brilliant Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to lead. Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages over $300 million and accelerates the evolution of portfolio companies via strategic advice and U.S.-based operational execution, leveraging a powerful network of CISOs and global industry leaders.

## Fraser McCombs Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software

We are an investment firm dedicated to creating value for our investors, entrepreneurs and the
communities in which we live. We identify trends and partner with teams who are both
reinventing the movement of people and goods as well as redefining how transportation
services are delivered & consumed.

## GoAhead Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

GoAhead Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley. As a startup ourselves, we are always looking to innovate and break the Venture Capital mold. We are a people-first fund and as such we like to cover a lot of ground and meet talented founders from across the globe. Check out our website to submit your pitch to ourmanaging partners, this is the first step for all founders that we meet. All 3 of our managing partners review every submission, and from there we give founders a NEXT DAY decision after a partner pitch! We have begun deploying from our new fund and we lead ~40 deals per year.

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