# Top 15 Fashion Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in June 2026 ## Manu Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Manu is the founder of Blue Lion Global VC, and was previously a founding member and Partner of Lakestar VC (>$1.4bn). He splits time between San Francisco and London. ## HV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies. ## Klaus Hommels - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, News Klaus Hommels is the Chairman of Lakestar.  Klaus previously worked at NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) as a Chairman. Klaus Hommels attended the University of Fribourg. ## Red Swan Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce Red Swan is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who delight customers, create culture, and disrupt industries.If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees,and who scare their shareholders by passing on acquisition offers. They tend to be movements as much as businesses. ## COTU Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Oskar Hartmann - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive 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. ## F6 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Knuru Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Banking, FinTech 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. ## Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD FRCPC - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD ABIM FRCPC is an Iraqi-Canadian physician-entrepreneur who specializes in endocrinology, hypertension and genetics. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, and an early-stage investor and advisor with over 10 years of clinical and business experience. He has conducted extensive researchin the field of hormones and genetics at America’s research hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and co-founded and financed several startup companies in the fintech, blockchain and healthcare sectors. Business:Fady is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of FHS Capital (fhscapital.io), a privately held early-stage investment fund focusing on real estate, express car wash services, wellness and digital assets. He serves as a strategic advisor and consultant on several healthTech and blockchain companies, focusing on strategic planning, operational skills, business support, and financing. He led several seed financing rounds, including; Ovenue Inc. (ovenue.com), a no-code AI and blockchain Platform-as-a-Service for real-world asset valuation and tokenization; Flyby (flyby.global), a technology platform connecting last mile delivery with digital out of home advertising; and Fluus (fluus.com), a web3 ramping solution. Medicine:Fady completed clinical training in internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine; adult endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the National Institutes of Health; and clinical biochemical genetics at the University of Toronto. He is board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada; and in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. He is an active staff physician and adjunct professor at Vancouver General Hospital (UBC), and Trillium Health Partners (UofT), and a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Research: Fady served the NIH (2015-2021) as a physician-scientist in endocrinology/genetics, Head of Graduate Medical Education and Associate Program Director of endocrinology fellowship program. His research interests remain on adrenal disorders including primary aldosteronism, a common cause of hypertension that is potentially reversible with early detection and treatment. He has authored over 100 original articles, book chapters and reviews on endocrine-genetic conditions (h-index 20, i10-index 42), and was the founding member and first Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Endocrine and Metabolic Science (Elsevier). ## Kinnevik - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, FinTech 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. ## Mu Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Mu Ventures is a NY pre-seed/seed venture capital firm that invests in commerce software that reduces friction in transactions. We have five sectors of interest that include infra + payments, vertical SAAS, marketplaces, retail tech, and supply chain. ## Outliers Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Predictive Analytics Backing outlier founders who build different. ## Forward Angel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fashion, Lifestyle, E-Commerce Forward Angel Investors are value-added investors who operate active co-investment funds to fund and expand early-stage enterprises in collaboration with experienced angel investor syndicates. ## Sandooq Al Watan - Type: VC Fund - Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Fashion, FinTech Sandooq Al Watan, a non-profit under Erth Zayed Philanthropies, supports programs & initiatives that promote Emirati National Identity values & economic principles. ## Rocket Internet - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.