Top 20 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Arab Emirates in May 2026
Top 20 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Arab Emirates in May 2026
| Investor | Digital Media United Arab Emirates investments |
|---|---|
| Wamda Capital | 3 |
| Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) | 2 |
| Northzone | 2 |
| FHS Capital | 2 |
| Arzan Venture Capital | 2 |
| VN2 Capital | 2 |
| Raed Ventures | 2 |
| Faith Capital | 2 |
| Morningstar Ventures | 1 |
| Cur8 Capital | 1 |
| Joa Capital | 1 |
| HALA Ventures | 1 |
| Tech Invest Com | 1 |
| EQ2 Ventures | 1 |
| Bonnier Ventures | 1 |
| Boğaziçi Ventures | 1 |
| North Base Media | 1 |
| Aquarius 1 | 1 |
| GINCO Investments | 1 |
| Dtec Ventures | 1 |
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
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- qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- BloomPath — Purpose-built AI for your organization's workflows. Embedded in your systems. Fine-tuned to your processes. Deployed inside your environment.
- Penny Software — Penny is a Procurement AI platform for enterprises that streamlines RFQs, POs, approvals, and payments in one unified source-to-pay system.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
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- 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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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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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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- Blockchain, SaaS, Sales
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Marshall Islands
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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
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- Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
- 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.
A fund investing in the blockchain, crypto & web3 ecosystem as well as disruptive technology. Offices in London & New York.
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- Advertising, Digital Media
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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- 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.
- Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
- Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
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- 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 are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aark — An all-in-one Crypto Derivatives Exchange: Perpetuals, Futures, Options, Margin, and Exotics.
- Itheum — As we enter the web3 and metaverse era; Itheum unlocks data silos and generates new value for your data.
- Fanable — Fanable is a Web3 marketplace specialized in Pokémon, comic books, and collectibles, allowing users to purchase, sell, and engage with their favorite products in both physical and digital forms.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- ThinkSono — ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology.
- ODIN Space — ODIN Space provides mission-critical intelligence for the entire Space sector,
- Adia Thermal — Smart heat pump control that works with your existing radiators. Auto-balances heating, tracks flexible tariffs, and saves money on every bill.
Joa Capital: Pioneers in financing technology and innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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- FinTech, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
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- Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
- Markopolo ai — Markopolo is a complete paid marketing suite that helps you launch targeted ads in seconds. Generate the perfect creative and AI-powered copy, schedule posts ahead of time to save time and get real-time analytics on how well they perform! If you’re looking for a smarter, faster way to create ads and automate the boring parts of ad management,there’s a tool you need to meet.We have built the software for cookieless era. We use server side pixel to gather lossless data from each and every attribution point. Business that adopt Markopolo see 34% reduction in Cost per click, 41% increase in Conversion rate and 30% increase in Budget spending efficiency within first few campaigns. These are the benchmarks achieved with the algorithms behind Marokopolo, and we have just started! We provide an end to end solution in Paid Marketing, which is critical for a modern marketing team manager to improve efficiency. Finding the right audience to target is a complicated science that we have cracked at Markopolo. We have a patent pending status in USPTO on it. Lastly getting real-time analytics from all these platforms and actionable suggestions from Markopolo algorithm completes the whole user journey.Features: - Integrates with Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads and YouTube - Built in Campaign Manager for scheduling and managing all the ads from one place - Ad Engine that monitors and optimises all the Ads 24/7 - Suggestion Engine that guides like a professional marketer - Get a holistic overview of all the metrics from all the campaigns in one dashboard - Ad Maker that comes with AI Generated Copy and Creatives - Targeting AI generates custom Audience presets - GDPR Compliant1,000+ businesses use Markopolo to automate their campaign creation and management in Social and Search Ad platforms.Try us out- https://www.markopolo.ai/Watch our product demo- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VExF-j9sdg&t=87sWatch this how to get started video series- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFsYkb4YvQ&list=PLG1FKDs4H_wGH0NfxNflJgr0WVzn6m8Pj
- medIQ — Do you need stress-free employee healthcare funds management services? Then MedIQ is here to provide you with the best cost-effective services. Reach us Today!
Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.
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- FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
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- Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
- Omniful — Omniful's modular platform replaces legacy systems with AI-powered OMS, WMS, and TMS. Streamline fulfillment, cut costs, and scale across channels.
- 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.
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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- Predictive Analytics, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
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- Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
- 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!
- 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.
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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- E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan
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- 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.
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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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Digital Media
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Germany
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- 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
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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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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
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- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- 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.
- Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
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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- Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
- Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
A group of Angel investors from Egypt
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- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
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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- Big Data, Software, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Arab Emirates, India
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- 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.
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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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman
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- 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.
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