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Top 50 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Middle East in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Crowdfunding startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Crowdfunding companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Middle East in November 2024

Investor	Crowdfunding Middle East investments
DASH Ventures	5
Bank al Etihad	4
Silicon Badia	4
FMO	2
Samih Toukan	2
Vivium Capital	2
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	2
Combined Growth Real Estate	2
Yahya Acun	1
Mishaal Alireza	1
Wa’ed Ventures	1
Cairo Angels	1
MVI (MENA Venture Investments)	1
Ertan Aksu	1
Sawari Ventures	1
Lama Holding	1
SAT Capital	1
Al Jomaih Holding	1
Shorooq Partners	1
Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures	1
Gate Inside Ventures	1
HIVOS	1
Rafi Gidron	1
Triodos Bank NV	1
Steven Blumgart	1
Wamda Capital	1
97212 Ventures	1
United Overseas Bank	1
Republic	1
Edgo VC	1
Capital Bank Group	1
Alpine Meridian	1
Triple Jump	1
Kültepe Investment	1
N2V	1
Verve Ventures	1
RZM Investments	1
Atakan Atalar	1
Saudi Venture Capital Company	1
Proparco	1
BY Venture Partners	1
Mubadala	1
STV	1
Nezih Sipahioğlu	1
Oqal	1
Efe Duran Sarikaya	1
Core Vision Investments	1
Robert Citron	1
Jordan Kuwait Bank	1
Jamal Fayoumi	1

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At the core of our ethos is a firm belief in human potential and the promise of a better future. We forge lasting legacies by partnering with founders who are obsessed with redefining paradigms and building companies that will transcend generations.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Jordan, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.

Bank al Etihad, previously known as Union Bank, is a Jordan-based financial and banking services institution, established in 1978 as a public shareholding company, with a paid up capital of JDs 110,000,000 and a capital base in excess of JOD 235 million and a capital adequacy ratio of 16.91%.Bank al Etihad operates a growing network of 37branches and is expected to reach 38 branches by end of 2014 in addition to 52 ATMs, a central exchange unit, in addition to one branch in Ramallah - Palestine. Bank al Etihad also fully owns a brokerage firm “Etihad Brokerage” which was established in (2006).

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.

Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Jordan, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

mtion interactive — Redefine play, shape new worlds, and unleash your story. mtion empowers anyone to build interactive experiences and share their creativity.
Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, The Netherlands, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Trans-Oil Group of Companies — Trans-Oil Group of Companies deals in vegetable oil, oilseeds crushing, grain storage, handling, commodities trading, and logistics.

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.

Vivium Capital is a private family office.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Evorra — Evorra is a SaaS marketplace for brands and agencies to simply build and scale the most valuable audiences in the world while respecting privacy and providing data-source transparency.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

Combined Growth Real Estate is a real estate investment company.

Investment focus

FinTech, Real Estate, Residential
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

Yahya Acun

Investment focus

Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Video
Series A, Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hang w/ — Hang w/ was developed by MEDL Mobile: http://www.crunchbase.com//organization/medl-mobileMeet Hang w/ – the first and only app where you can Hang w/ your favorite people in live real-time video – captured on their phone and played on yours – from anywhere at anytime for any reason. At the push of abutton, you instantly get to see, hear and experience everything your favorite people do – uncut, as it happens, unfolding before your eyes.Hang w/ features cutting-edge technology that empowers you to stream and broadcast live high-quality video to hundreds– thousands– even millions of other phones – using only your standard wireless service.When you go live, Hang w/ lets your viewers text-chat with you and each other. When the people you follow go live, you’ll get a push notification with the message: “______ wants to Hang w/ you!”New features include live streaming to Facebook, longer broadcast, new celebrities, custom push messages, and chat messaging during a live broadcast. Hang w/ recently released their new Web Platform which allows users to watch and chat on live broadcasts without needing a mobile device as well as share archived or live broadcast via facebook, twitter, or SMS. Users also now have the ability to download videos that they have archived. Hang w/ has been featured in Billboard, CNBC, USA Today, Mashable, The Guardian, The OC Register, TNW, Mactrast, and many more. There is no way to fake it on Hang w/, whether you’re already a star or one download away from becoming one, Hang w/ is real and cannot be faked or “managed” by a “social media team.” No ghost posts or dummy profiles – stars can Hang w/ their fans face-to-face, and Hang w/ even gives you the chance to become a celebrity yourself!
Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

Wa’ed Ventures is a $500 million venture capital fund with the aim to accelerate the development of an integrated startup ecosystem by investing in local tech-based startups and incentivizing global entrepreneurs to localize their tech innovations in the Kingdom.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Athir — Athir Information Systems Technology offers a cloud-based Healthcare Information System for managing and automating medical services.
Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
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The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

Mena Venture Investments (MVI) is an angel fund that invests in early stage startups with strong growth potential in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and beyond. We work with entrepreneurs to build solid, scalable businesses and ensure access to capital at early stages of a venture to fuel their growth. Beyond financial investment,MVI offers support through mentorship, access to markets, networks, and clients, as well as cross-border operational support.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
Connecterra — Remove data silos across your systems, quantify your decisions with data, get insights and analysis powered by advanced AI delivered to your inbox and to your wider team.

Ertan Aksu

Investment focus

Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.

The Middle East/North Africa is the next great investment opportunity. The Middle East has a collective population larger than the US, the vast majority of whom are ‘digital natives‘ (e.g.; under 30) with great appetites for consumer technology products and services. The region boasts higher per capita GDP and more disposable income than Indiaor China. In short, the Middle East is one of the technology sector’s high-growth regions, and offers tremendous potential for expansion in mobile, internet, social media and eCommerce services.Like the BRIC’s and other emerging markets, local partners are key to success. Sawari Ventures is at home in the Middle East, and knows its culture, context and business climate. They have experience and relationships working with technology and investment leaders world-wide. They know how to translate local visionaries into global hits.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Axis — With axis, you can send money to friends instantly and for free, buy anything online, request money from anyone, earn rewards and cashback, and understand your spending habits so that you can budget.
Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
Pearl Semiconductor — Pearl Semiconductor has been developing for the past few years reference clocks and clock generators based on piezoelectric MEMS resonators that are built on top of CMOS

Lama Holding is a private investment company.

Investment focus

FinTech, Real Estate, Residential
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

A investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
Series A
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.

Al Jomaih Holding is an investment conglomerate dedicated to enhancing shareholders' interests by capturing rewarding long-term investments and harnessing synergies throughout the group's portfolio.

Investment focus

FinTech, Real Estate, Residential
Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Corgea — Corgea is an AI-powered security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
PRYPCO — We are building the region’s leading real estate ecosystem, providing Real Estate Freedom for all.We open the doors to the entire real estate ecosystem, enabling everyone to access all things real estate without restrictions, hassles, or financial barriers. We empower our partners with the information and tools they need to succeed, ensuring theyhave everything required to navigate the market and achieve their goals.Real Estate Freedom is not just a concept—it's our promise.Our verticals include:- PRYPCO Mortgage - PRYPCO Exclusives - PRYPCO Golden Visa - PRYPCO Blocks
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.

Wa’ed Ventures is the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center (Wa’ed), established by Saudi Aramco with the vision of igniting the spirit of entrepreneurship in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Wa’ed has deployed a suite of programs over the years to assist entrepreneurs in establishing, enhancing, or expanding their ventures. Theseprograms comprise development and financial support including business incubation, coaching and training to guide and nurture entrepreneurs along different business stages, seed funding, non-collateral loans, venture capital (equity/debt) investment, and business development. These programs support the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) capable of localizing industries and diversifying the Kingdom’s economy. Wa’ed also collaborates and engages with key players in order to create an effective entrepreneurship ecosystem.Wa’ed aspires to provide leadership in promoting entrepreneurship to support economic growth, diversification, and social development in Saudi Arabia, in alignment with the Kingdom’s strategic thrust into moving towards a knowledge-based economy. The organization aims to turn innovative ideas into successful projects, create and support sustainable SMEs, and develop entrepreneurs into successful business owners.Wa’ed Ventures aims to fuel the growth of high potential companies, thereby promoting economic development in Saudi Arabia with job creation for Saudi nationals, technological improvement, knowledge transfer, economic diversification, and economic growth within the Kingdom. The firm focuses on seed, early, and growth-stage businesses across a diverse range of sectors including information and communication technology (ICT), energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and services – from mobile application platforms and technologies to industrial equipment manufacturing to advanced software solutions.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Apps
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, India, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

ELEVATUS — Automate the entire recruitment cycle from creating job requisitions to onboarding new hires - with the #1 AI recruitment software.
OQ TECHNOLOGY — OQ Technology's Satellite 5G IoT - The world's first global satellite 5G operator, that can collect data from more than 1000 sensors, and so providing cellular coverage for assets and machines anywherer in the world.
MANAFA Capital — MANAFA is an online marketplace for investing equity into innovative, early-stage companies. It provides sophisticated investors free access to direct investment opportunities, diligence tools and industry data insights for an asset class that was previously very difficult to access. For entrepreneurs, MANAFA offers an efficient way to access anetwork of sophisticated investors as well as leading partners.

Founded by successful entrepreneurs to help new comers. Gate Inside developed a new model of startup funding. Twice a year they invest a small amount of money. The startups move to their incubation center for 3 months. Founders get required help from mentors and other entrepreneurs like themselves in a unique working environment.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Charity
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fitmap — A unique marketplace where people meet trainers and coaches from various branches of sport and health all around the world.
Jib Games — We are a venture-backed game studio based in Istanbul, developing & publishing MMORPGs since 2009. Our games have been played by 25 million players in 8 countries.We believe that a good education brings self-awareness which drives happiness. Our mission is to dream, design, create and develop better and happy ways to get educated.Currentlyworking on Polity, a gaming platform where players can choose to excel in various professions as a citizen in an open virtual world. These professions derive from popular casual games. We target worldwide (esp. Tier 1) 16+ years old lifelong gamers.
Zonetix Market Research — Zonetix is a zero-party data market research company operating in emerging markets.

HIVOS is a Netherlands-based organization that seeks new solutions to persistent global issues.

Investment focus

News, Events, Crowdfunding
Seed, Series A
Egypt, Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Plstka — Plstka is solid waste management and recycling company that collects solid trash from gamification mobile app.
Zoomaal — Zoomaal is the leading crowdfunding platform in the Arab world.Zoomaal went live in July, 2013. Semi-finalist in the MIT Arab Enterprise Forum business plan competition, backed by four Middle Eastern venture capital firms and featured on CNN, Wamda, the International Herald Tribune and more, Zoomaal is at the forefront of Arab crowdfunding: helpingpeople empower Arab creativity and culture.
News Deeply — Founded in 2012, News Deeply is an innovative network of theme-driven information and community platforms, convening engaged, knowledgeable and passionate audiences.Led by an award-winning team of domain-expert journalists, our topical platforms combine real-time storytelling, investigative reporting and data, and expert-driven insights withonline and offline community interactions. Our readers and our partners include leaders from the private sector, government, civil society, and academia and research, as well as members of the engaged public.In an increasingly complicated information environment, we surface the vital insights and stakeholder connections that help to advance conversations and inform decision-making on the issues that matter, deeply, to the state of our world today.

Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
GlossAI — Detect, analyze, and monitor every brand-related video with GlossAi's Social Watching platform. Enhance your brand protection, get video insights, real-time marketing, and influencer selection. Monitor and analyze videos to elevate your brand's online presence today!
The Digital Dogs Company — A cross-app personal AI Digital Dogs platform for VR worlds,Social apps,Games and more. Digital Dogs are driven by powerful artificial intelligence technologies and nurtured by your voice, gestures, emotions, and a digital environment. You can train your Digital Dog to do tricks and perform in competitions, care for them and breed them. AllDigital Dogs are secured as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain and can be sold, swapped, and shared with other users.

We make money work for positive change. We are more than a bank. We are a community.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, CleanTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round
Spain, Israel, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
IGNIS Energía — IGNIS Energía is a company specialized in the management and representation of cogeneration plants.

Steven Blumgart is an investor in, and board member of, a number of privately-held businesses. Until January 2012, Mr. Blumgart was Co-director of the aluminum division at Glencore International plc, one of the largest commodity trading firms in the world, valued at $40bn. Mr. Blumgart joined Swiss based Glencore in October 1998, where he served inthe coal commodity department, responsible for its industrial assets, before moving to the aluminum division. Prior to joining Glencore, Mr. Blumgart worked for three years at Grant Thornton in Johannesburg. Mr. Blumgart completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Tax Honours) degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a South African Chartered Accountant. In addition, Mr. Blumgart holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Investment focus

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

OurCrowd — Access exclusive venture capital angel investment deals in pre-vetted startup companies. Create your free OurCrowd investor account today!

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.

We are a NY-based seed fund and day-one partner for Israeli founders building category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Crowdfunding
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

GlossAI — Detect, analyze, and monitor every brand-related video with GlossAi's Social Watching platform. Enhance your brand protection, get video insights, real-time marketing, and influencer selection. Monitor and analyze videos to elevate your brand's online presence today!
Paraspot AI — Paraspot enables companies in the field of real estate to conduct automatic inspections free of human error, by using computer vision. Moving the physical visits, online.
Beti — Beti is an advanced, cloud-based platform designed to allow construction companies to easily and efficiently supervise and coordinate workflows and worker safety on the site.

United Overseas Bank ("UOB") was incorporated on 6 August 1935 as the United Chinese Bank. Founded by Datuk Wee Kheng Chiang, the Bank catered mainly to the Fujian community in its early years. The change of name was effected in 1965. Over the past 78 years, UOB has grown from strength to strength. Through a series of acquisitions, it isnow a leading bank in Asia. Besides Far Eastern Bank in Singapore, UOB’s major banking subsidiaries in the region are United Overseas Bank (Malaysia), United Overseas Bank (Thai), PT Bank UOB Indonesia and United Overseas Bank (China). Today, the UOB Group has a network of more than 500 offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Western Europe and North America.United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is committed to providing quality products and excellent customer service. Founded in 1935, UOB has a well-established regional presence, particularly in Asia where they have banking subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and China.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Real Estate
Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Singtel — The Singtel Group, Asia's leading communications group provides a diverse range of services including fixed, mobile, data, internet, TV, infocomms technology (ICT) and digital solutions.
Academic Labs — Academic Labs develops an AI web 3 education platform that uses its native token ACAD to incentivize content developers.
Echelon Data Centres — Welcome to Echelon Data Centres. We are committed to the concept of Green Data, by aiming to move to 100% renewable, green energy in the future.

Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a globalteam in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Pentagon Games — Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.
Sentient Labs — Creatify is a minimalist, dark-themed Webflow template designed specifically for design agencies and creative studios. It features a timeless design, subtle animations, a fully functioning CMS, and everything you need to elevate your online presence to the next level.

Edgo VC is the venture capital arm of Edgo, under which the group’s direct and indirect venture capital activities are consolidated. Edgo VC takes an opportunistic approach to venture capital investing and is sector, stage, and region agnostic.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Computer
Series A, Funding Round
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
POSRocket — Traditional cash registers are a thing of the past. POSRocket modernizes this near-obsolete system by providing business owners with an intuitive, user-friendly, cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) platform.

Capital Bank of Jordan they are specialized in serving corporate, SME, and high-end retail customers, combining the service range of commercial and investment banking.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
Debt Financing
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.

Alpine Meridian is an advisory and investment firm with extensive experience in Internet, digital media, healthcare and e-commerce

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Micruity — Micruity powers lifetime income products in retirement plans by enabling all stakeholders to share data through a single secure connection
Virtualitics — Explore the cutting-edge technology of data visualization and analytics with Virtualitics. Transform your data into actionable insights today!
Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.

Triple Jump is an investment manager that focuses on small and medium enterprises, agricultural finance, microfinance, and housing. It also provides meaningful and responsible investment opportunities in developing countries. They improve access to appropriate financial services for entrepreneurs at the bottom of the pyramid. In addition, The aimof this fund is to build clean infrastructure and ensure affordable and sustainable utility services(such as electricity, heat or clean water) for households, SMEs and communities. Triple Jump was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
India, Jordan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ecoligo — Mit den nachhaltigen Investitionen von ecoligo profitieren Sie doppelt: Klimaschutz leisten & attraktive Rendite erhalten.
Dvara KGFS — Dvara KGFS is building and supporting local, geographically focused community financial services institutions called Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services (KGFS).
Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Medialyzer — Measure, analyze and increase the online impact of TV advertising.
artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce
Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.

N2V - National Net Ventures, is one of the largest Internet holding groups in Arabia, focused on value creation through building and investing in Arabic consumer web & mobile ventures (e-commerce, digital publishing, social media, Games, mobile apps, web forums, and user generated content), with over 200 employees spread in offices arounddifferent Arab countries and the USA.N2V also continually launches innovative and exciting initiatives focused on fostering digital entrepreneurship in Arabia.A few of their current initiatives include: connecting entrepreneurs together, educating and maturing the market, promoting an Arabic digital ecosystem, and promoting Digital Arabia regionally and globallyN2V is a member of National Technology Group (NTG), the region's largest ICT conglomerate and key provider of financial information and solutions for streaming real-time stock market feeds.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Real Estate, Crowdfunding
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Aqarmap — Aqarmap is a real estate marketplace that specializes in providing real estate management services. It features an online-based platform that allows users to buy, sell, and search for their ideal apartments and houses. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Al Qahirah, Egypt.
Zoomaal — Zoomaal is the leading crowdfunding platform in the Arab world.Zoomaal went live in July, 2013. Semi-finalist in the MIT Arab Enterprise Forum business plan competition, backed by four Middle Eastern venture capital firms and featured on CNN, Wamda, the International Herald Tribune and more, Zoomaal is at the forefront of Arab crowdfunding: helpingpeople empower Arab creativity and culture.

Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
Somagenetix — Somagenetix is a new firm that wants to be a leader in gene therapy by developing first-in-class treatments for phagocyte-related illnesses. Somagenetix's mission is to use genetically modified phagocytes to treat patients suffering from immunodeficiency, neurodegeneration, and cancer with brain metastases.

RZM Investments manages the shares of various companies that are in the field of health, education, hospitality, and tourism.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Athir — Athir Information Systems Technology offers a cloud-based Healthcare Information System for managing and automating medical services.
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.

Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Financial Services, Information Technology
Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
StartupFon — StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.

SVC has backed 31 VC and PE Funds and 5 Angel Groups that supported 525 Startups and SMEs via $1.6 Billion AUM INVESTMENTS 1.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
BALLURH — A SaaS platform that provides predictive analytics with smart recommendations for Retailers to enhance decision-making, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Energy, Finance
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Sonatel — The Sonatel group offers global telecommunications solutions in the fields of fixed, mobile, Internet, television and data serving individuals and businesses. Leader in Senegal, present in Mali since 2002, in Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau since 2007, Sonatel is the global and sub-regional operator of reference.Sonatel has built a modernnetwork, fully digitized by transmission loops and international connections using high-speed optical fiber submarine cables. Sonatel has one of Africa's largest Internet bandwidths of 6.5 Gbps.Sonatel is a structuring company for the economy of his country and has made Senegal a hub of traffic and a major player in the development of telecommunications in Africa and in the world.Through its Orange brand, the Sonatel Group provides its millions of consumers with the best opportunities for convergence between mobile, internet and television technologies.
Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.

Mubadala Investment Company

Investment focus

Health Care, Energy, Pharmaceutical
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series C
United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yondr — We are Yondr, a global developer, owner and operator of hyperscale data centers. Our mission is: global capacity responsible delivery.
Flink Food — Flink is a developer of an online platform used to offer and deliver multi-category grocery products. Its application offers a wide selection of convenience items like fresh herbs, fruits, bread, essentials, and home supplies among others that enable people to get necessaries delivered to the door within ten minutes while saving transit costs.Thecompany was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Transportation Equipment Network — Transportation Equipment Network is the combined name of Star Leasing, CTL, Cooling Concepts, and NETS Leasing. Transportation Equipment Network provides industry-leading, comprehensive trailer solutions.

STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.
Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.

Nezih Sipahioğlu

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Edurey Eğitim, Danışmanlık, Bilişim ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş — A Learning Experience Platform where you can include users' experience and participation in processes while offering a social learning environment with different features. You can include the learner experience in all your training processes with EDUREY LXP. Or You can choose Edurey LMS which is The training management system, where you canmake your training management processes in the corporate or academic field, offers a unique experience to the users.

A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.

Efe Duran Sarikaya

Investment focus

Shipping, Shopping, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.

Core Vision Investments operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Grocery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARKTECH — Ark is a real estate platform that creates a variety of investment channels and streamlines real estate operations while achieving sustainability. Ark Structured investment contracts in prestigious real estate that have fixed returns and produce income on a regular basis for a chosen time frame.
Regards — Regards is a company specializing in premier experience gifting within local and international brands, and provide experiences and services as gift with smart system and instantly.
Zetta Technologies — Zetta Technologies is a Device as a Service (DaaS) provider with a unique business model. With us you get a complete service that enables sustainability, increases your flexibility, simplifies your operations, gives financial control, and decreases the total cost of ownership.

Robbie Citron brings to OurCrowd over 25 years of experience in financial management, including over a decade of working with start-ups through his role as Partner and CFO of Jerusalem Global Ventures, a leading Israeli venture capital fund. He also serves as consulting CFO for several independent Israeli biotech and medical start-ups, mostrecently with Izun Pharmaceuticals and Molecular Detection, Inc. Earlier in his career, Robbie was Financial Controller and Company Secretary of the Israeli branch of Hanson PLC and worked as a public accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Israel and BDO Stoy Hayward in London. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England & Wales. Robbie received an honors degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and sets aside part of his spare time to work with several Jerusalem-based charitable institutions.

Investment focus

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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Jordan Kuwait Bank is a Jordanian public shareholding company, offers employees in public & private sector loans to cover personal needs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
Debt Financing
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.

Jamal Fayoumi

Investment focus