Top 25 Digital Media VC Funds & Investors in United Arab Emirates (July 2026)
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $420k–$110M |
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FHS Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Marshall Islands | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Blockchain, SaaS | $600k–$2.5M |
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Faith Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $100k–$50M |
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $400k–$33M |
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $180k–$25M |
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VN2 Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Advertising, Digital Media | $1M–$1M |
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Northzone
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Sweden, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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Bonnier Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Finland, Germany | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Digital Media | |
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Tech Invest Com
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Predictive Analytics, Software, E-Commerce | $2M–$29M |
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Inbox Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Service Industry | |
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Creades AB
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, United States, Luxembourg | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, E-Commerce | |
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KAAF Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Private Equity | Apps, Audio, FinTech | |
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Morningstar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.4M–$25M |
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Cur8 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $500k–$19M |
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Joa Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, PropTech, Information Technology | $1M–$35M |
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Aquarius 1
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Analytics | |
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Malta | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Information Technology | $50k–$2M |
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $155k–$15M |
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Futurecraft Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Malaysia, Lithuania | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Cryptocurrency, Information Technology, Banking | $2M–$200M |
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HALA Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $500k–$35M |
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps | $170k–$3M |
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North Base Media
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising | $75k–$23M |
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising | $1.1M–$15M |
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GINCO Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, India | Seed, Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Education | $120k–$1.2M |
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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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Aanaab — Aanaab offers online courses in Arabic for teachers and educators to help them improve their skills in different areas including self-development, educational strategies, education techniques, and educational tools and techniques.
- HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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:Seed, Series A, 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.
- OTO — OTO is SaaS company that helps retailers implement their Omni-Channel strategy by enabling them to ship their online orders directly from the physical stores with the best delivery partners in just 2 hours! Also, we provide Online Retailers and E-commerce companies access to ship packages with more than 80 delivery & carrier companies shipping domestically and internationally.
- One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Marshall Islands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $600k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FLUUS — FLUUS is an aggregator of fiat to crypto gateways with a crypto ramping network covering emerging. FLUUS allows users to buy, sell, or swap cryptocurrencies and tokens. They aggregate cryptographic services into a single software development kit, connect ramping, exchanging, transactions, and payments, and create a money experience.
- Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
- Homecare Hub — Homecare Hub assists persons with caregiving needs, such as those with dementia, disability, accident, fall risk, or chronic illness, in avoiding huge institutional nursing facilities, by offering a superior experience in a secure, individualized, inexpensive, small shared care and co-living environment. To help people locate home care servicesthat are reasonably priced, it offers home health care services. With the help of the company's services, customers may locate reliable care for their loved ones in the areas of personal care, companion care, live-in care, home support, and many more.
Faith Capital is a venture capital firm investing in talented MENA founders building long-term value by developing sound operations at home and abroad.A Kuwait based venture capital fund owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience and success in the GCC.The principal focus of Faith Capital is on e-commerce businesses,based in the region, which have high growth potential for the future.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $100k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
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.
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- Zarya App — Earn without investment.
Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $180k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Carseer — Carseer is a vehicle history reporting platform that offers vehicle history reports, enabling its users to make an informed decision when buying a new/used car.
- yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
A fund investing in the blockchain, crypto & web3 ecosystem as well as disruptive technology. Offices in London & New York.
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- Industry: Advertising, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
- Tana — Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
- Berry Street — Nutrition therapy by registered dietitians covered by insurance.
Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies of various sizes.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Airmee — Airmee provides a new last mile delivery solution. Whether you want to integrate Airmee into your webshop or simply book a local delivery today, we’ve got you covered. Airmee gives customers more – a great deal more – choice and convenience. Items when you want them. Where you want them. In as fast as an hour.
- MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
- Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
Saudi technology investment company established in 2005. We invest in growth stage tech startups in Saudi Arabia & Middle East North Africa (MENA) region
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- Industry: Predictive Analytics, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $3.5M–$29M; Series B $12M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anecdote —
- Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
- VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
- Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
KAAF Investments is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Apps, Audio, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: Nigeria, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $1.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Itheum — As we enter the web3 and metaverse era; Itheum unlocks data silos and generates new value for your data.
- OP_NET —
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.9M; Series A $6.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
- Tewke — Tewke is a London based company that was founded in 2020 developing technology to deliver energy savings through AI enabled home automation. Tewke's mission is to reduce energy consumption in homes whilst elevating everyone's living experience.Tewke's first product, Tap, is an intelligent light switch that can be installed into anyhome without rewiring. This acts as the backbone of Tewke's energy control and home automation platform, and has already won international awards, such as the Red Dot Design Award.
- ODIN Space — ODIN Space provides mission-critical intelligence for the entire Space sector,
Joa Capital: Pioneers in financing technology and innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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- Industry: FinTech, PropTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.4M; Series A $6M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
- InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
- Safqah Capital — Safqah Capital is an innovative fintech and proptech company headquartered in Riyadh. We specialize in structuring and distributing Sharia-compliant Sukuk for small and medium-sized real estate developers. Safqah's digital investment platform enables secure participation from both retail and institutional investors, backed by rigorous duediligence, transparency, and smart governance. Safqah operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and real estate, positioning itself as a key enabler of Vision 2030’s housing and development goals.
A group of Angel investors from Egypt
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crowd Analyzer — The 1st media and digital crowd monitoring, analytics and activation by which brands and agencies can understand people's opinions on social, analyze their content, ask them questions, and incentive them to do digital actions.
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Malta
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $90k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
- NDG Studio Yazılım —
- Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $155k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
- MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Information Technology, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Switzerland, Malaysia, Lithuania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brighty App — Discover Brighty - a fintech platform uniting crypto and traditional banking for secure digital finance
- Holiday Swap — Holiday Swap is an app-based platform for home exchanges during vacation.
- Islamic Coin — Shariah-compliant digital money
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; Pre-Seed $550k–$730k; Series A $500k–$35M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
- intella — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.
- Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!
Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $170k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- AlgoDriven — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
- Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.
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- Industry: Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Majarra — Majarra is an Arabic online content provider in the region.
- Rappler — Rappler is the Philippines' leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action.
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coraly — Coraly is a real estate growth platform that unifies listings, leads, transactions, marketing, and compliance in one AI-powered system for agents and teams.
- Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
We invest in Seed through Series B companies around the world. Our focus is to invest in companies where we can add material value through our deep relationships in UAE government as well as decades of developing successful enterprise software implementations. We invest directly and through our partners at Techstars and Human Ventures.
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
- Nestrom — An all around EHS platform, Gather Observations, Inspections, Audits & Data and Action work-orders from one platform through a mobile app and web
- Three Wheels United — Three Wheels United is a tech-enhanced financier for light electric vehicles in India, starting with the auto rickshaws.
Digital Media VC funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance
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