# Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Middle East in June 2026

## Edventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Training, Online Portals

EdVentures is a corporate venture capital that invests in startups specializing in education, culture and innovative learning solutions in SEED and Pre-Series A rounds focusing on Egypt, Africa, and the Arab World. The corporate VC was launched in 2017 by Nahdet Misr Publishing House. It provides technical and financial support to startups in orderto ensure success and continuity in the market by providing investment according to the needs and maturity level of each company.

## Oqal
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

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.

## Vision Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

## F6 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact.
We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

## Flashpoint
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

## Israel Innovation Authority
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

The Israel Innovation Agency, the Innovation Authority, was established in 1965 as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and was designed as a body that supports R & D conducted in the framework of government research institutes. Industrial development in order to increase industrial exports of high-techproducts. The Chief Scientist focused on reducing the risk by participating in financing the project, which the private companies chose and led.

## RTP Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

## Maxis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

## Wa’ed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dhahran, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Training, Internet, Education

Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is the Egyptian house of expertise. It brings together outstanding Egyptian scientists and experts from universities, research institutions, private sector, NGOs, policymakers, and prominent Egyptian scientists in Diaspora to deliberate country problems, propose and carry out scientific studies andfuture strategic basic plans to tackle these problems.

## Hanaco Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Hanaco Venture Capital is a technology company with visionary and passionate entrepreneurs. Hanaco was founded by Alon Lifshitz, Lior Prosor, and Pasha Romanovski in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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

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

## Alesta Yatırım
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Firstime Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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

## Falak Startups
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps

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

## Good Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Social Impact, Software, Recruiting

Good Company Fund is investing in early-stage companies that leverage deep technologies to solve the world’s biggest problems. The firm is constantly seeking bold entrepreneurs who are building frontier technology solutions. Good Company Fund is generally looking to invest in innovative, hyper scalable, software solutions. It is especially excitedabout: Future of Energy, Future of Work and Education, Future of Work, Circular Economy, Precision Farming, and Digital Health. However, it is constantly learning and looking for additional opportunities in other verticals and aiming to invest in the "Operating System of the New, Sustainable World".Good Company's studio brings together multinational corporations, entrepreneurs and capital, in order to solve the world’s biggest problems. Good Company Studio is a home for entrepreneurs who want to create businesses with a purpose. The Studio is a pre-seed platform that provides entrepreneurs with capital, network, go-to-market, mentoring, and support.

## Founder One
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Software, Health Care

Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.

## Algebra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

## Access Bridge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce

Access Bridge Ventures (ABV) is a leading early stage venture capital fund. tha invests across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and on a case by case basis outside these regions. We currently have investments in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and aggressively expa

## Hillsven Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

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## Cerca Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ra'anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology

A leading follow-on VC fund with a sustainable advantage of unique insights and access to the best Israeli startup investment opportunities.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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

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

## Mindshift Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Education

Investing in global, female entrepreneurs. 

## Two Lanterns Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Two Lanterns Venture Partners invests in early-stage software startups in the US and Israel. 2L.vc lists our team members (fund partners), our advisors, and our portfolio companies, and provides access to our blog and other insights.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

## Genesis Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile

Genesis Partners is a leading early stage Israeli venture capital firm that manages over $600 Million across four funds, and focuses on seed and early stage investments in the ICT sectors.

## Kaedan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Kaedan Capital is a private investment group active for over 15 years. We are entrepreneur centric investors with co-founder mentality, focused on Israeli related, seed to early stage ventures in diverse technology areas.

## Inimiti
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glil Yam, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, iOS, Apps

Inimiti makes seed-stage New Media investments. They bring extensive experience in fund and company management from being entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors. Their focus is Software platforms and services in the New Media space (Internet, Mobile and anything in between).Its Name Inimiti, is a derivative of “inimitable” which means “somethingthat is beyond imitation, something surpassingly excellent, unrivaled and exceptional.” We like to feel that way but more important, it keeps us on edge and reminds us every day about the high level of performance we are expected to deliver.The company is at the beginning of a revolution in the way people communicate, consume content, shop, do business and manage their lives. The usage of Internet and mobile today, and their connectivity presents a tremendous opportunity to create successful companies that bring new platforms and services to the space. Combine that with today’s rapid development and deployment technologies and our start-up companies are getting to the market faster with less capital, and grow quickly into profitable businesses.

## COTU Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

COTU stands for Champions Of The Underdog. We are on a mission to reinvent how seed investing is done in the Middle East by backing extraordinary founders and showing them how to believe in themselves when they are at the loneliest, earliest, and most challenging parts of their journeys.

## APY Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

## GSV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.

## Boğaziçi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

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.

## Aleph
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Early-stage VC fund managing $850M+ and partnering with Israeli entrepreneurs to build impactful global brands, like Lemonade and Melio.

## Cresson Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, EdTech

Cresson Management

## AlWazzan Education
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Tutoring, Education

Alwazzan Education is a privately owned business of the Alwazzan family. It is a market-leading service provider of K-12 American, British, and Arabic education in Kuwait and the Middle East region. With over 10,000 students in its operating history, Alwazzan education has owned, operated, and invested in many reputed schools and universities in Kuwait and in the Region.

## NFX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

## Insight Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.

## Geometry Venture Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

## Oraseya Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Emerge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Emerge is an early stage, Tel-Aviv based Venture Capital firm, partnering with exceptional tech-innovators and helping them do whatever it takes to win.

## Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dhahran, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Apps

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.

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Venture capital and technology investments

## AUC Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Retail

What is AUC Angels?

AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region. Angel investors are individuals who are interested in investing in early-stage startups with growth potential which in turn supports the growth of a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt.

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

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

## TÜBİTAK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.

## Rami Lipman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Software

Rami Lipman is an angel investor.

## Delta Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

## TechOne VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.

## BY Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

BYVP invest in high impact founders building market transforming and category-leading companies

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