Top 50 Fashion Startup Investors in Middle East (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Turkey, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $175k–$30M |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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5 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $15k–$11M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $15k–$1.3M |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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3 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $100k–$10M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$3M |
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Burak Divanlioglu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes | |
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace | $150k–$30M |
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, China | Series C, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $14M–$139M |
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Abdo Achkar
Angel
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2 | United States, Lebanon, Japan | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS | $150k–$3M |
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212
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $250k–$27M |
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APY Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming | $100k–$2.5M |
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Joa Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, PropTech, Information Technology | $1M–$35M |
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Angel Effect
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $20k–$996k |
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A15
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $50k–$8M |
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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–$30M |
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Point72 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $3M–$112M |
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$75M |
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Alfanar
VC Fund
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2 | Lebanon | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, Fashion, Recycling | |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$37M |
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PipelBiz.com
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Equity Crowdfunding, Seed | Software, Health Care, Medical | $150k–$2.8M |
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Oskar Hartmann
Angel
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2 | Germany, India, Russian Federation | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive | $125k–$52M |
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AUC Angels
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Software, Retail | $40k–$1.2M |
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Egypt Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United States, The Netherlands | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $28k–$120M |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$31M |
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology | $600k–$59M |
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Impact46
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Gaming | $1M–$22M |
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Saned Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals | |
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Knuru Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Spain, Kenya | Series C, Series A | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation | |
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Caglar Erol
Angel
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1 | Jordan, Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Travel, Fashion | |
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Turki Al Rajhi
Angel
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1 | Saudi Arabia | Seed | Fashion, E-Commerce | |
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Sarona Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning | |
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Emre Kurttepeli
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps | |
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Karim Kawar
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Seed | Retail, Fashion, Shopping | |
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Sarona Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, Mexico, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, iOS | |
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Acasia Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Sunny Side Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Morocco | Seed | Fashion, Shipping, Logistics | |
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Light Ray Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel | Seed | Fashion, Shopping, E-Commerce | |
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Runet Labs
VC Fund
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1 | India, Turkey, Pakistan | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Apps, AgTech | |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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CVentures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Fashion, Internet, Payments | |
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Jamil Ahmad
Angel
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1 | Saudi Arabia | Seed | Fashion, E-Commerce | |
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Raz Group
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Convertible Note | Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment | |
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LU Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Egypt, Denmark | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology | |
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HIMAngel
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing | |
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Foundation Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Jordan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Retail, Internet | |
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Volkan Bicer
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates | Seed | Online Games, iOS, Mobile | |
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Kinnevik
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Sweden | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet | |
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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | |
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Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- obilet.com — Obilet.com, founded in 2012, is an end-to-end ticketing platform listing hundreds of bus operators, airlines and ferry companies as well as offerings from hotels and car rental companies. Obilet also provides bus operators with its best-in-class Inventory Management System (IMS) as a SaaS.Obilet is the indisputable market leader in Turkey both inB2B and B2C segments with 400+ bus carriers using its IMS software, 25 million visitors per month, and 15 million app downloads.Obilet is projected to sell more than 40 million tickets annually in 2024, making it one of the top-3 bus ticketing platforms in the world. Obilet also set its vision to be the one-stop-shop for whole needs of users regarding the tourism and travel products by expanding its category offerings with the addition of hotel booking and car rental services. Moreover, Obilet has launched its international expansion project in H2 2022, has one of the largest coverage of markets globally.
- Meal Box — Meal Box is both on-demand and subscription based meal delivery player of Turkey; getting orders only by online channels (web, mobile, phone); serving healthy, delicious, everyday food in award-winning presentation with affordable prices in delivery service format.
- StratiFi — An AI-powered client investment workflow software for wealth managers
Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 306
- Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $45k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- lululittle — lululittle combines storytelling with cultural themes to create empowering personalized books where your children are the heroes. We use the power of personalized storytelling to create inspiring and engaging reading experiences, placing your kids at the center of these stories. Our stories are inspired by relevant cultural themes that aim toempower kids in their diverse cultural environments. Our first story is inspired by the Arab world's rich culture and is suited for kids age 0-10. lululittle's easy to use online platform lets you personalize, preview, and order their book in just a few minutes.
- Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
- Ouda W Dar — Ouda W Dar is an online platform that helps hosts and guests book unique short-term accommodations.
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: 127
- 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 a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
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- Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
- Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
- ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
Burak Divanlıoglu is the Founder of UZMANTV and he was a Founder at GittiGidiyor. He attended Istanbul Technical University.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh, and healthy food for both cats and dogs.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $400k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
- Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series C, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 816
- Round size: Series B $14M–$139M; Series C $20M–$136M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Mister Spex — Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.
- Cytecare Hospitals — Cytecare is a network of speciality cancer hospitals in Bengaluru that provides personalised cancer care with an organ-site focused approach.
- Venus MedTech — Venus MedTech (HangZhou) Inc. is located in Hangzhou National High-tech Industrial Development Zone (Binjiang), with its products positioned in the development and industrialization of international advanced interventional artificial cardiac valve system, filling up the blank in China.Interventional artificial aortic valve products researchedand developed by the company takes the lead in finishing clinical tests in China. In reference to the development and promotion conditions of coronary stents at home and abroad, interventional artificial cardiac valve, as a revolutionary treatment means, has been increasingly recognized by experts, and will take on an explosible increase of clinical needs in the foreseeable next few years.
Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Lebanon, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
- uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
- Lemonade Fashion — Lemonade Fashion is an online designer platform that combines technology innovation and designers to bring the latest trends and designs in fashion. They provide foundation and luxury designs to customize every outfit. They make custom-made and made-to-measure designer outfits accessible anytime and anywhere.
We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $280k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $250k–$27M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
- Wellbees — Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
- Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
- Spektra Games — We create the most realistic simulation/racing games for mobile!
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.
We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $250k–$755k; Pre-Seed $20k–$996k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
- & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
- Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
A15 is an entrepreneurial company that invests in digital products and technology brands. They aspire to empower the human race to overcome its limits and expand its capabilities by creating real products for real people. They help them scale by providing them with investment, the support of our ecosystem, and act as their launchpad for expansion.It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $100k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iVoiceUp — iVoiceUp is the first whistleblowing platform in MENA for anonymous reporting, case management, and compliance analytics. Detect fraud, protect reporters, and build defensible compliance.
- Byit — Byit is a technology platform developed to empower independent real estate brokers and freelancers.
- KNOT Technologies — AI-powered solutions designed to untangle event ticketing inefficiencies
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: 102
- Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- 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.
- THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 283
- Round size: Seed $3M–$12M; Series A $9M–$54M; Series B $15M–$112M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Antares — Factory-produced, deployable fission microreactors to provide strategic energy for mission-critical systems across Earth, space, and underseas.
- Valar Atomics — Valar Atomics is scaling nuclear energy for heavy industrial power and clean hydrocarbon fuel production.
- Range Media Partners — Range Media Partners provides artists, directors, writers, professional athletes, and others with management and representation services.
Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 364
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$34M; Series B $6M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
- TrillerTV — FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live streaming service for combat sports. The platform is specializing in broadcasting professional wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing events. FITE streams a rich array of live pay-per-view events, subscription packages and thousands of hours of live and on-demand free programs to millions of fans aroundthe world.FITE's mission is to help fans discover and watch premium live events, and help programmers to distribute and monetize them. While FITE's beachhead market is combat sports, the product is designed to serve over time a much wider range of premium live programming.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Uniondale, New York, United States.
- Neuracore — The robot skill creation engine: collect demonstrations, curate datasets, train imitation and reinforcement learning policies, and deploy them on real robots, all on one platform.
Alfanar is the Arab region's first venture philanthropy organisation. We support social enterprises in the Arab region by helping them to become sustainable.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FabricAID — FabricAID collects, sorts, and redistributes second-hand clothes at micro prices to marginalized communities reducing fabric waste.
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, United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- 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
- HeyBreez AI — Conversational Al, for Everyone. Real phone calls. Real-time automation. Built for real operations.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- Anecdote —
Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms. .
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.5M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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Browse database — It's Free!PipelBiz enables companies to raise capital from an unlimited number of investors without the need of a prospectus
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M; Equity Crowdfunding $152k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable
- Pickspace — Run rent collection, accounting, leasing, maintenance and owner reporting on one AI-native platform. Book a demo today.
- Nina Medical Ltd. — World's first truly non-invasive treatment for enlarged prostate (BPH). Safe, precise, and liberating care for millions of men. Treat early with dignity.
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, India, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $300k–$52M; Pre-Seed $125k–$200k; Series A $7.4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- MoonAI Inc — MoonAI enables businesses to deploy no-code AI agents—referred to as “AI salespersons”—within one day, with no installation cost. These agents automate lead qualification, escalate warm leads to managers, schedule meetings, and integrate with CRMs, messaging platforms.The solution operates 24/7, supports multiple languages (includingRussian, English, and informal Kazakh), and processes customer interactions in just seconds. It has helped companies double the volume of processed inquiries, reduce response times from minutes to seconds, and even autonomously close a portion of leads—all while reducing sales team workload and improving customer satisfaction.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Egypt, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Angel $100k–$230k; Pre-Seed $40k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
- InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
- UNLOCK — Companies looking to outsource certain department functions should look no further than Unlock EPN. A complete and diverse business directory of agencies and companies in Egypt. All are available with direct contact information for your convenience.
Egypt Ventures is an investment firm that empowers the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Columbia.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Pre-Seed $28k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flend — Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses.
- D OCC Hub — Smart Incident Management Solutions
- InfiniLink — Empowering Hyperscale Datacenters Building Energy-Efficient Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Solutions
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 872
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
- RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
- Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $4M–$20M; Series B $11M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Tastewise — Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage
- Zero Networks — Zero Networks delivers automated microsegmentation, securing assets on-prem, in the cloud, and OT/IoT. Deploy in 30 days with set-and-forget simplicity.
- ORION Security — ORION detects and prevents data loss across SaaS, email, cloud, AI tools, and endpoints using intelligent, context-aware, proprietary AI agents.
Impact 46 is an asset manager and advisor that specializes in alternative investment opportunities. The firm provides innovative investment products and services to local & international institutions, family groups, endowments, and high net worth investors.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- CashIn — Cashin to Lead the Digital Transformation in Petrol Stations!
- Ash Games Studio — Ash Games Studio develops and publishes interactive video games. Available materials indicate a focus on original titles alongside contract game development services for partners. Work typically spans concept, design, prototyping, programming, art, and testing, followed by content updates and live support. Offerings may include co-development andcontent production for mobile and PC releases, along with community and analytics support.
- Majestic Mind Games — Majestic Mind Games is a game studio creating strategic, mind-engaging video games.
Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Toters — Fast & easy delivery. GET THE APP
- Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
- Mumzworld — Mumzworld.com is the largest e-commerce portal in the Middle East dedicated to all things mother, baby, and child. The Company serves over 2 million mothers in the MENA region and ships to more than 20 countries. Mothers can now shop faster and easier than ever before and find products not available anywhere else in the region.Mumzworld.com is acompany built by mumz for mumz, with the ultimate vision of becoming an indispensable online extension of a mother’s life. Mumzworld.com was created by the same team of Bayt.com (Alexa rank# 1,700), the largest job site in the Middle East. As a result, Mumzworld.com has:• Established the largest catalog of products for mothers in the region, bringing more than 200,000 products online from over 2,000 global and regional brands • Shipped over 60 tons of products to over 20 countries • Pioneered the e-commerce experience for mothers in the Middle East, being called the “Amazon for moms” by CNN. • Partnered with giant FMCGs, such as P&G and DANONE • Acquired exclusivity to a large selection of products, as well as exclusive distribution rights for a growing number of global brands
Based out of Dubai, Knuru pursues equity and credit opportunities in fintech and marketplaces across the GCC, Africa and Southern Europe. The management is led by a team of investors and entrepreneurs bringing to venture capital extensive cross-asset class experience dedicated to supporting high growth businesses.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation
- Stage:Series C, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Spain, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Amitruck — Meet your digital logistics partner in Africa. Click here to learn more about our end-to-end smart digital logistics solution.
- Savana — Transform EMR into Deep-Real World Evidence with a scientific methodology that applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to EMR free-text.
- The Giving Movement — Sustainable Activewear & Streetwear Clothing | Made in UAE | $4 per item donated to charity | Gym Clothing & Workout Clothes
Caglar Erol is the co-founder of cember.net, a Turkish online business networking platform acquired by XING AG in January 2008.Erol is an angel investor and serial entrepreneur in Turkey. His first investment after cember.net was doktorsitesi.com, a health site in Turkey. He also invested in Tasit.com, Gelirortaklari affiliate network, andCivicSolar.Erol currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Enuygun.com, a service comparison site on bank loans, insurance, flight tickets, ADSL, and mobile phone tariffs.
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- Industry: Retail, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Jordan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
- Wingie Enuygun Group — Wingie Enuygun Group is a technology company helping modern consumers save time and money, mostly in travel, but in insurance and financial products too. Located in Istanbul and Berlin, WEG currently serves customers in 6 languages, 10 countries.
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Browse database — It's Free!Turki Al Rajhi is the Partner at Al Rajhi Holdings.
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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Founded in 2019, Sarona Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The firm is a "people-first" investor, seeking founding teams with strong execution capabilities. The firm's investment scope focuses on enterprise software, and most of their deals concentrate on building the future of business with AI, helpingcompanies operate more efficiently, save money, and drive revenue.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Visitt.io — Come to Visitt and see why CRE & multifamily property management, tenant experience and building operation teams all love our easy to use tools & tenant apps
- Yuzu Health — Automating health plan administration
- Crowded — Banking for Greek Life that allows you to seamlessly pay dues, P2P transfers, deposits, and make payments with your virtual debit card. Tailored tools for events, ticketing, chat organizational management and more.
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.
Karim Kawar is the president of Kawar Group, and the former ambassador to the United States and Mexico from Jordan. He is also chairman of Kawar Energy and of IrisGuard. As ambassador to the United States, Kawar led the EDAMA Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a green economy and was appointed by Royal Decree to the Board of Trustees of theKing Abdullah II Fund for Development. Previously, Kawar was appointed to the Economic Consultative Council by His Majesty King Abdullah II. He is the architect of the REACH Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a knowledge economy, founder and chairman of the Information Technology Association of Jordan, former president of the Jordan Computer Society, and a founding member of several business associations and NGOs, including AmCham and the Jordan Intellectual Property Association.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Shopping
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
We invest and scale-up extraordinary founders, across B2B, B2E, B2D and B2SMB sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, iOS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, Mexico, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- enshift — Streamlining local clean energy for large-scale real estate.Easily simulate, plan and realise your buildings’ journey to energy independence and ‘net zero’. With just an address, instantly discover the financial and environmental returns your building can generate by transitioning to clean energy. Once you’re ready select and contract your idealconstruction and financing partners and reduce transition risks.
- Salvador Technologies — Salvador Technologies provides the world's fastest recovery from cyber-attacks and software/hardware malfunctions. Our innovative solution ensures the continuous operation of critical workstations and servers, eliminating downtime. Back to work in 30 seconds based on offline air-gapped sotrage.
- Spinframe Technologies — Spinframe developing cloud-base technologies for the automotive industry and provides an interactive visual user experience that increases the engagement & conversion.
Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Menthum — Saving Made Simple
- Bluworks.io — bluworks is a mobile-first HR system, automates HR tasks to save time, cuts costs, and boosts workforce performance with compliance and real-time insights.
Sunny Side Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Fashion, Shipping, Logistics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
At Light Ray Ventures, we leverage experience and capital gained from the successful development of innovative businesses to support scaling the growth stage companies that bring fundamental value to the economy and society. The investment focus lies in the growth stage opportunities in Smart Cities Infrastructure, Mobility, CleanTech, Wellness andFood with the emphasis on the cutting edge enabling technologies in both software (AI, big data, machine learning) and hardware.
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- Industry: Fashion, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Ole Shop — Ole is a designer and shops explore the top global brands and local designers from the best shops in town. Try and buy Try different styles, sizes at home, and their courier will wait for 10 min so customers can decide. Free and immediate returns by courier, schedule instant returns in a click and with no additional cost.
- Synapticon — Synapticon is reshaping the world of motion control for robotics and machinery at the point of motion. The company introduces an entirely new approach to motion axes by integrating formerly discrete components, such as motors, drives, sensors and gearboxes into seamless units and digitalizing performance and quality factors that are so fardependent on costly mechanical manufacturing. Innovation leaders in robotics, automation and machinery around the world choose to work with Synapticon to path their way into the future of intelligent, motion control-related systems.
- Quantum Light — The world of Quantum Pigments
Runet Labs is a 3 month entrepreneurs program.
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- Industry: B2B, Apps, AgTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Turkey, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bijak — Bijak | Online Agri Commodity Trade & Mandi Rate App for Buyers, Loaders
- Tapzo. — Tapzo was an all-in-one app that was acquired by Amazon Pay in India. On Tapzo, you could book flights, hail cabs, order food, recharge your phone etc. with a unified payment experience.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Swypex — The all-in-one financial platform empowering businesses with control, visibility, and efficiency. Swypex simplifies business finances, freeing you to focus on growth.
- Kera — We are on a mission to connect health ecosystems and enable healthy lives for all communities. Starting in Senegal.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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Browse database — It's Free!SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1482
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
We invest in bold entrepreneurs creating meaningful change in financial services. We favor fast moving, forward thinking teams with deep market insights and an unquenchable appetite for growth. We back groundbreaking businesses with fundamentally distinguishable characteristics and disruptive business models. CVentures is geography agnostic. Weinvest in technology leaders across local and cross-border startup ecosystems.
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- Industry: Fashion, Internet, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
- MagicCube — MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers.
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
Jamil Ahmad Co-Founder & CBO at Fashinza. He attended MBA from Global University during 2008-2010.
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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Taffi — We help fashion retailers drive more sales with agentic solutions that personally inspire and support shoppers
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, Convertible Note
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
- Autobia — Autobia is a B2B marketplace leveraging the data to solve the infrastructure and after-sales challenges in the automotive industry. The company bridges the gap between wholesalers and resellers by offering in-between digital, operational and logistical integrated solutions. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
- Dnaneer — Dnaneer is a FinTech platform that connects online businesses with investors through crowdfunding of enterprises.
LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. They work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society.Their goal and mission is to contribute to increased growth in Sweden by ensuring knowledge and research from Lund University benefit society.By supporting anddeveloping research findings with researchers and students they work to lead more ideas to company formations and/or licensing deals.Services for all researchers and students:- Business advice – support and advice - Verification support – VFT- Market and IP screening – comprehensive survey of markets, competitors and patent situationThe services are freely available to researchers and students at all faculties at Lund University.An important part of the work of LU Innovation is providing commercialisation support to individual researchers or students. As well as business developers with many years of experience from both research and business, they have patent engineers, a communications officer and a lawyer who can help with the process. LU Innovation has two sections: one a part of the public authority and the other a holding company, which function as one unit with a joint mission and joint management.LU Innovation is led by the board of the holding company and the steering group of the public authority section. The members of the two bodies are identical - see board members. The operations are led by Director of Innovation Linus Wiebe, who is both MD of the holding company and head of the public authority section.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Egypt, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Quritis — Quiritis offers an automated tool to help harden the security for cloud-based applications that runs within containerized software, such as Docker. Quiritis has a patented methodology to automatically generate security profiles based on customers solutions that protect and minimizes attack surfaces
- Bifrost security — bifrost security offers an automated tool to help harden the security for cloud-based applications that run within containerized orchestrated services such as Kubernetes. bifrost has a patented methodology to automatically generate security profiles based on customers' solutions that protect and min
- Selcis BioPharma — Selcis BioPharma is developing a technology where short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) can be delivered to the colon.
HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments. HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
- GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
- FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.
Foundation Ventures is an investment firm that backs exceptional teams building industry defining companies in Egypt and the MENA region.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kenzz — Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA.
- OpenFi — OpenFi's goal is to provide consistent, responsible, and exceptional conversational AI. The market-leading conversational AI enables the customers to safely harness the potential of Generative AI to automate client interactions and set new benchmarks.
- Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.
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- Industry: Online Games, iOS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rollic Games — Rollic is a game developer and publisher focused on free-to-play hyper-casual games for iOS and Android. Games released by Rollic include Go Knots 3D, Flipper Dunk, Onnect – Pair Matching Puzzle, Pixel Shot 3D, Picker 3D, Repair Master 3D, Tangle Master 3D, Water Shooty, and Wheel Smash.
- Ontrail Store — Ontrail Store offers a wide range of clothes and accessories.
- Evolution Group — Evolution Group is an operator of mobile advertising services.
Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Habyt — Habyt is an easy way to find a fully furnished, private room or apartment in Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Lisbon. All costs are included in the rent, no surprises.
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.
3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
- Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
- Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.
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