Top 50 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Middle East (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $600k–$42M |
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Silicon Badia
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Egypt, Jordan | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $500k–$12M |
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Bank al Etihad
VC Fund
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4 | Jordan | Seed, Series A, Debt Financing | FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding | $2.3M–$6M |
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General Catalyst
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.6M–$135M |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $100k–$10M |
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Combined Growth Real Estate
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | FinTech, Real Estate, Residential | $4M–$8M |
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FMO
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy | $3M–$420M |
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $420k–$110M |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $750k–$33M |
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Samih Toukan
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$7.1M |
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Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $600k–$28M |
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Vivium Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, SaaS, FinTech | $4M–$8M |
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Raz Group
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment | $550k–$2.5M |
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Core Vision Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Internet, Blockchain | $150k–$2.9M |
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Triple Jump
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Jordan | Debt Financing, Seed, Series A | Energy, FinTech, Finance | $4M–$14M |
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Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, India, Luxembourg | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Apps | $506k–$25M |
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Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Software, Marketing, E-Learning | |
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SAT Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Series A | FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding | |
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Al Jomaih Holding
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Series A | FinTech, Real Estate, Residential | |
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N2V
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Lebanon | Seed, Pre-Seed | Marketplace, Real Estate, Crowdfunding | |
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MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $250k–$11M |
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Republic
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech | $76k–$13M |
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Acasia Group
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United States, Lebanon | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Mobile, Software | $175k–$2.6M |
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Steven Blumgart
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital | |
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Rafi Gidron
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software | $2M–$8M |
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Germany, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $1.4M–$43M |
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Ertan Aksu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Mubadala
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Series B | FinTech, Health Care, Energy | $15M–$2B |
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Jamal Fayoumi
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Jordan Kuwait Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Debt Financing | FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding | |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Egypt | Debt Financing, Seed | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $400k–$153M |
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Lama Holding
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | FinTech, Real Estate, Residential | |
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RZM Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics | $1.8M–$27M |
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United Overseas Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United States, China | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, Real Estate | $15M–$987M |
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Sawari Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United States, Lebanon | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce | $100k–$42M |
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Gate Inside Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Sports, Charity | $50k–$250k |
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Capital Bank Group
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Debt Financing | FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding | $14M–$14M |
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STV
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics | $2.1M–$54M |
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Atakan Atalar
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Rental, Software | |
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HIVOS
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Lebanon, United States | Seed, Series A | News, Events, Crowdfunding | $2.4M–$3.1M |
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States | Series A, Seed | iOS, Apps, Video | $1M–$2M |
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97212 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.3M–$21M |
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Yahya Acun
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Shipping, Shopping, Software | |
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Alpine Meridian
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $450k–$12M |
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BY Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1M–$70M |
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Edgo VC
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Series A | FinTech, Finance, Computer | |
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Robert Citron
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital | |
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $31k–$2.8M |
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Apparel Group
VC Fund
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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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Omniful — Omniful's modular platform replaces legacy systems with AI-powered OMS, WMS, and TMS. Streamline fulfillment, cut costs, and scale across channels.
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
- PostEx — Instant & upfront payments for e-commerce stores offering Cash on Delivery. Get seamless COD, growth capital, and nationwide same-day delivery with PostEx!
Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.8M; Series A $2.3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- MidLyr — MidLyr replaces the 5+ tools your operations team stitches together for disputes, KYC, compliance, and collections. AI agents investigate. Your team decides. Live in 2-6 weeks.
- Scalvy — Scalvy is a distributed power delivery company that develops modular power electronics and energy systems that enable distributed power delivery for applications such as data centers, energy storage, and electric mobility. The company replaces traditional centralized power architectures with a distributed system of “power neurons,” which convertand manage electricity closer to the point of use, improving efficiency, scalability, and system reliability. Its platform is built on software-defined, modular components that can be scaled across different power levels and use cases, allowing flexible deployment in high-demand environments. These systems support high-voltage output ranges and deliver high power density while reducing the physical footprint and complexity of conventional power infrastructure.
- Engagesoft — Create an engaged team with Engagesoft. Get real-time data, actionable insights, and tailored strategies to improve employee retention, productivity, and motivation.
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).
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
- Quassar Capital — Quassar Capital is a hedge fund with a broad presence in the United States with offices in New York and London. We are widely respected for our asset management approach globally but more importantly for our innovative operating methodology that allows us to maintain exceptional management of advanc
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1590
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$18M; Series A $6M–$70M; Series B $12M–$135M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Octane AI — Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify and Shopify plus brands, Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation. Merchants use Octane AI to connect, convert, and retain customers by personalizing the customer journey and giving customers the confidence to purchase.OctaneAI is backed by top Silicon Valley investors, including Bullpen Capital, General Catalyst, FJLabs, M Ventures, and the founders of Hipmunk, Hearsay Systems, and Articulate. The company is all-remote and employs team members in 10+ countries. It was founded in 2016 by Matt Schlicht, Ben Parr, and Leif K-Brooks.
- Orbem — Transform biological imaging with AI-powered MRI technology. Non-invasive solutions for poultry, fruits, nuts, and health. Building a sustainable future.
- Bolna — Bolna offers voice AI agents that transforms business to qualify leads, boost sales, automate customer support, and streamline recruitment.
Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.
Combined Growth Real Estate is a real estate investment company.
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- Industry: FinTech, Real Estate, Residential
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $4M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $25M–$420M; Debt Financing $3M–$178M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
- SolarSaver — SolarSaver offers customized solar photovoltaic and solar-battery hybrid solutions.
- Coris Holding —
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
- HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
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Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $750k–$11M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- OneLoad — OneLoad is an online service that enables users to easily buy prepaid vouchers for all mobile companies, pay utility bills and transfer balance to others.
- Ad-Shield — Start measuring revenue lost to ad blockers and learn how to get additional revenue through Ad-Shield Recovery today
- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Jusoor Labs — Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YNMO — YNMO is the first Arabic/English digital solution that aims to improve the quality of care and educational services for individuals with special needs by allowing service providers such as schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.
- Hazen.ai — Enhance safety with our AI-powered camera, providing real-time monitoring and precise violation detection. This technology empowers authorities to enforce traffic laws effectively, ensuring safer roads for all.
- UnitX — Automate inspection in-line for better yield
Vivium Capital is a private family office.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $4M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Evorra — Evorra is the audience intelligence platform for performance, delivering multidimensional audience profiles that grow more precise with every signal. The independent infrastructure layer the media ecosystem has been missing.
- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
Raz Group empowers entrepreneurs and helps them transform their passions into value-adding companies.
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- Industry: Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dnaneer — Dnaneer is a FinTech platform that connects online businesses with investors through crowdfunding of enterprises.
- Ebra — Ebra is leading a new era of debt recovery in the Middle East. As the region’s first AI-powered collection company, we’re redefining how businesses recover capital, making the process smarter, faster, and built on trust. We’re setting a new standard for debt collection.
- Myne — Myne offers a comprehensive platform for tracking, growing, and protecting assets. The platform integrates seamlessly with various financial tools to provide users with a holistic view of their wealth. Key features include net worth tracking, budgeting, investing, and estate planning. Myne ensures data security with multiple layers of encryption,making it a secure choice for managing financial well-being.
Core Vision Investments operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
Portfolio highlights
- krti —
- The Baby Garage — The Baby Garage is a marketplace for kids products and services in e-commerce and consumer-to-consumer platforms. The platform offers parents a shopping marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and donate. They provide products and services such as baby transport, nursing, feeding, bathing, skin care products, diapering, toys and activities,fashion, a baby room, and stationery.
- 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.
Triple Jump is an impact-focused investment manager dedicated to creating positive social and environmental change while delivering healthy financial returns. Discover how we invest in emerging markets to drive sustainable growth.
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- Industry: Energy, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Kenya, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Debt Financing $4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $13M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Candi — Combining the best of its roots in Switzerland, and extensive local presence, candi offers companies of all sizes the simplest, most efficient way to take advantage of solar power for their business.
- Ecoligo — With ecoligo's sustainable investments - you benefit twice: protect the climate & receive attractive returns.
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, India, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $506k–$3.5M; Series A $900k–$25M
- Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ELEVATUS — Elevatus is the #1 Agentic AI Hiring Operating System built for enterprise scale. Autonomous recruiting from requisition to onboarding - zero code.
- OQ TECHNOLOGY — OQ Technology is a Luxembourg-based satellite operator pioneering 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity through its direct-to-device (D2D) global satellite network.
- 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.
Nezih Sipahioğlu
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- Industry: Software, Marketing, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ideasoft — IdeaSoft is a Turkish software company founded on March 23, 2005. It provides businesses and individuals with web-based software solutions, software design, desktop software solutions, e-commerce solutions, and more.IdeaSoft's clients include MODA, Puma, TRT, Turk Hava Yollari, FEM, LOYA, Nelson, ENplus, Essenso, Bellona, Soley, BunDesign, Fonex, and more.
- 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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Real Estate, Residential
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Real Estate, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.2M; Series A $800k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2010
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.
- 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.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $663k–$13M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M; Equity Crowdfunding $76k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Ratio — Ratio is a collateralized debt position protocol on Solana, it allows depositors to make a high yield on their assets.
- The INX Digital Company — Trade securely with the INX Crypto Trading Platform, offering regulated digital asset trading, advanced tools, and trusted investment opportunities.
- SharpLink — SharpLink is an online technology company that works with sports leagues, fantasy sports sites, and sports media companies.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.6M; Angel $200k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bosta — Bosta provides an on-demand courier app with a B2C focus, allowing users to send parcels to their customers. The platform connects its users to couriers and allows them to monitor the status of the delivery of the package. Bosta was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
- Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing R&D services to the region's scientific sectors.
- Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OurCrowd — Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.
Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
- The Digital Pets Company — pay77 situs gacor yang memberikan akses lengkap dengan fitur apk mobile dapat lebih mudah menemukan dan bermain di situs pay77, ayo install aplikasunya dan manfaatkan semua fitur yang tersedia di kami
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$17M; Series B $4.2M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
- Biograil — Biograil, founded in 2019 and led by CEO Karsten Lindhardt, is using injection molding to manufacture a device contained in a standard size capsule able to deliver active substances into the gastrointestinal wall. The Biograil device avoids mechanical moving components and makes use of the body’s own peristaltic forces to facilitate the delivery ofthe biologic efficiently into the gastrointestinal wall.
- iMusician — iMusician offers music distribution, promotion, mastering, and monetization for independent musicians & labels. Get on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok & many more.
Ertan Aksu
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- Industry: Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Mubadala Investment Company
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- Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Series B $15M–$140M; Private Equity $119M–$2B
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getir — Getir combines urban logistics and mobile technology to provide instant delivery of goods in urban areas. Its application enables its users to order a range of products and pay for them through their credit cards. Once purchased, the goods will be delivered to its users. The application features live tracking, which enables its users to track thelocation of their orders.Getir was launched in 2015 by Nazim Salur, Serkan Borancili, Tuncay Tutek, Dogan Dalyan, and Mert Salur and is based in Istanbul.
- Evotec — Evotec is a global biotechnology company committed to advancing drug discovery & development together with our partners for medicines that matter.
- Reliance Jio — Jio - Indias largest 4G network offers best prepaid & postpaid plans, JioFiber broadband plans & more. Get mobile apps for your daily entertainment with great offers.
Jamal Fayoumi
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- Industry: Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Jordan Kuwait Bank is a Jordanian public shareholding company, offers employees in public & private sector loans to cover personal needs.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: India, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $400k–$153M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
- Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
Lama Holding is a private investment company.
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- Industry: FinTech, Real Estate, Residential
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
RZM Investments manages the shares of various companies that are in the field of health, education, hospitality, and tourism.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $6M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aamar — An innovative real estate platform that simplifies and automates leasing processes.
- Bonat — Bonat is a customer engagement solution that provides advanced tools to help in managing businesses.
- Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Real Estate
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Singapore, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $100M–$750M; Debt Financing $15M–$987M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BDx Data Centers — BDx Data Centers is a cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions provider that serves enterprises and hyperscalers across fast-growing markets in Asia. The BDx Data Center footprint extends across Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and China. BDx Indonesia boasts a total data center capacity deploymentpotential of 700MW. Led by a globally recognized team, BDx Data Centers operates ultra-modern colocation and edge facilities across the region for customers to accelerate their digitalization initiatives. BDx Data Centers goes beyond providing highly efficient space and power, and delivers advanced, tailor-made services, designed with renewable resources.
- Vale — Vale is a global mining company that operates with a focus on safety and sustainability. It produces iron, copper, nickel, and cobalt, which are essential for the energy transition.
- Bitlight Labs — Make Bitcoin Smart
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $100k–$8.3M; Series A $2.1M–$4.5M; Series B $2.7M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- elves — Travel safely, explore freely.
- ExpandCart — ExpandCart is the fastest growing Arabic ecommerce platform in the Middle East. Over the past couple of years, we was able to acquire hundreds of clients ranging from individuals & small companies to enterprise level corporations, creating impressive traction and success to our clients.
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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.
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- Industry: Gaming, Sports, Charity
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $50k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Debt Financing $14M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Aqaba Digital Hub — ADH connects clouds, carriers, and businesses throughout Jordan, the MENA region, and beyond with AI-ready infrastructure designed for speed, scale, and security.
STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$25M; Series A $8M–$28M; Series B $20M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $800M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- 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.
- zenda — zenda is a fintech app for families. It enables families to pay school bills with pay-now and pay-later options, unlocking rewards when ever they pay.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Rental, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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.
- BlindID — BlindID is a unique social media platform which allows users to make one hundred percent anonymous voice calls with random people for a limited time. BlindID does not use information such as user name, phone number, profile photo, and gender. Enjoyable time with BlindID spending is only left to communication ability and creativity.
- 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.
HIVOS is a Netherlands-based organization that seeks new solutions to persistent global issues.
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- Industry: News, Events, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Lebanon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar
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- Industry: iOS, Apps, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hang w/ — We leverage our 13 years of experience and innovative design practices to help our top-tier clients achieve success.
- 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 investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
We are a NY-based seed fund and day-one partner for Israeli founders building category-defining companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $3.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Medida AI — Medida is an AI virtual measuring system that provides accurate digitized measurements for home renovation companies.
- CopilotKit — CopilotKit is the full-stack framework for building user interactive agents and copilots. The company behind the AG-UI Protocol.
- Celery — Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes.
Yahya Acun
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- Industry: Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Efe Duran Sarikaya
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- Industry: Shipping, Shopping, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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.
Alpine Meridian is an advisory and investment firm with extensive experience in Internet, digital media, healthcare and e-commerce
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $450k–$4.8M; Series A $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.5M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Compyl — Mainkan game gg soft bounce ball demo gratis tanpa deposit, tanpa resiko, tanpa dipungut biaya apapun pastinya cuman di kartubet88 cokk.
- Virtualitics — Virtualitics is an AI solutions company that transforms data into impactful action with AI readiness applications for defense, government, and enterprise.
- Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.
Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $2.6M–$20M; Series B $5M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Huspy — Huspy is a proptech based in Dubai redefining the home financing process through a user friendly digital experience that puts the buyer first.
- Maket — Maket puts generative architecture at the center of a collaborative workspace where architects and clients can explore and iterate through early design concepts faster.
- Invisible Technologies — Invisible is a business process automation platform that automates repetitive digital work by managing and outsourcing recurring tasks to human agents. We call it worksharing.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Computer
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OurCrowd — Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $31k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
- Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
- Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
Apparel Group is one of the largest retailers in the Middle East, based in the UAE. Shop from more than 2200+ retail stores and more than 85+ global brands.
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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