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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Middle East (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Middle East Finance startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Finance startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Antler
VC Fund
6 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $108k–$28M
Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $600k–$30M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $14k–$1.3M
DASH Ventures
VC Fund
6 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$42M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$33M
Moneta VC
VC Fund
5 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$100M
SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $120k–$35M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Software $1.5M–$50M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$33M
Falak Startups
VC Fund
4 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$1.2M
Tamer Capital
VC Fund
4 Turkey, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sports $29k–$6M
Silicon Badia
VC Fund
4 United States, Egypt, Jordan Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $570k–$12M
First circle capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $100k–$4M
Bank al Etihad
VC Fund
4 Jordan Seed, Series A, Debt Financing FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding $2.3M–$6M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $60k–$27M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$2.6M
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $170k–$3M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
3 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $250k–$50M
StartersHub
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, Latvia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$821k
Finberg
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $244k–$20M
Samih Toukan
Angel
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$7.1M
HALA Capital
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $500k–$35M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $420k–$110M
Impact46
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $1M–$22M
Maxis
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $100k–$2.5M
BECO Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $905k–$60M
Jameel Investment Management Company
VC Fund
3 United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Software, Energy $1.5M–$1.8B
Oqal
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $336k–$31M
Derayah Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $1.6M–$27M
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
3 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $171k–$38M
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
2 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $635k–$32M
Viola Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Analytics, FinTech
Viola Credit
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services
SC Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, India Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Cubit Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Advertising, Social Media, Mobile
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Sanabil
VC Fund
2 United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology
Alameda Research
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
DAAL
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Firat Isbecer
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Sawari Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, Lebanon Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
FJ Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$65M
ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Poland, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $974k–$12M
Omar Darwazah
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $360k–$125M
Endure Capital
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $120k–$40M
Alex Angels
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Retail, Finance $28k–$1.6M
BRM Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1818
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • Visoid — Render your 3D models with ease! Quick and easy rendering software for architects, powered by AI. Try Visoid for free!
  • One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund · Dhahran, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YNMO — YNMO is the first Arabic/English digital solution that aims to improve the quality of care and educational services for individuals with special needs by allowing service providers such as schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.
  • Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
  • Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 268
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $45k–$550k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Lum!ere — Lum!ere is a designer and manufacturer of radical style brass, sterling silver, and gold plated jewelry.
  • ElSupplier.com — ElSupplier.com provides consumer goods. That product includes dairy products, olive oil, vinegar, and cheese. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers.
  • The Baby Garage — The Baby Garage is a marketplace for kids products and services in e-commerce and consumer-to-consumer platforms. The platform offers parents a shopping marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and donate. They provide products and services such as baby transport, nursing, feeding, bathing, skin care products, diapering, toys and activities,fashion, a baby room, and stationery.
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 6 investments in Middle East Finance startups

At the core of our ethos is a firm belief in human potential and the promise of a better future. We forge lasting legacies by partnering with founders who are obsessed with redefining paradigms and building companies that will transcend generations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • PostEx — Instant & upfront payments for e-commerce stores offering Cash on Delivery. Get seamless COD, growth capital, and nationwide same-day delivery with PostEx!
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Finance startups

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Zarya App — Earn without investment.
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Moneta VC
VC Fund · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel · 5 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Moneta is a venture capital firm that invests in Data Science Technology startups and operates 2 parallel funds: Seed and Growth. Moneta specializes in Fintech, Insuretech and Financial-related AI and is supporing its ventures across all stages of their capital development. Moneta is backed by world leading financial institutions in USA, Africa andAsia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $3.5M–$26M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WINN.AI — WINN.AI helps revenue teams run better sales calls and win more deals by automating admin work and guiding reps live, during the call.
  • Basis Theory — The tokenization API to build secure and compliant applications in minutes.
  • Safebooks AI — Safebooks deploys AI agents that automate finance operations end to end. Reconciliation, validation, policy enforcement, workpapers, and more. Grounded in your actual data.
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SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Finance startups

SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$525k; Series A $1.3M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
  • Squadio — Tech Teams as a service platform (TaaS) ready to take over your project and transform it digitally.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Middle East Finance startups

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Antimatter
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Shorooq Partners is the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
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Falak Startups
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 4 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $6k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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Tamer Capital
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $29k–$6M; Pre-Seed $72k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
  • Eaty AI — Eaty AI offers an AI-powered ordering platform that automates voice and digital food orders for restaurants. It enables phone and drive-thru ordering through conversational AI, handling customer interactions, order customization, and integration with existing POS systems. The platform provides analytics on customer preferences and order trends,enabling operators to optimize menus and streamline operations. It enhances efficiency by reducing manual entry and minimizing errors during order processing. Sales teams targeting restaurant technology buyers can leverage these insights to demonstrate how Eaty AI supports digital transformation in the hospitality industry.
  • Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
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Silicon Badia
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$6M; Series A $2.3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Scalvy — Scalvy is a distributed power delivery company that develops modular power electronics and energy systems that enable distributed power delivery for applications such as data centers, energy storage, and electric mobility. The company replaces traditional centralized power architectures with a distributed system of “power neurons,” which convertand manage electricity closer to the point of use, improving efficiency, scalability, and system reliability. Its platform is built on software-defined, modular components that can be scaled across different power levels and use cases, allowing flexible deployment in high-demand environments. These systems support high-voltage output ranges and deliver high power density while reducing the physical footprint and complexity of conventional power infrastructure.
  • ZeroDrift — ZeroDrift is building the AI-native enforcement infrastructure for enterprise communication. We are the first platform that enforces the rules before an AI message is ever sent, fixing violations in real time across every channel where AI speaks for the business. Everything goes out clean. Nothing dangerous comes in.As AI starts to communicate onbehalf of entire organizations, the gap between what compliance requires and what companies can actually enforce is widening fast. Every existing solution monitors after send, once the risk is already out the door. ZeroDrift enforces before send. Enforcement did not exist as a category. We created it.We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and other world-class VCs, and built by a team from Microsoft, Google, and Goldman Sachs, led by a repeat AI founder.
  • Algebra AI — Algebra AI designs, builds, and operates custom AI agents that integrate directly into a business's existing software stack to automate manual operational workflows. The company provides this infrastructure as a managed service, continuously monitoring and updating the automated workflows to align with changing business needs.
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First circle capital
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 4 investments in Middle East Finance startups

First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$780k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
  • Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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Bank al Etihad
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 4 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Bank al Etihad, previously known as Union Bank, is a Jordan-based financial and banking services institution, established in 1978 as a public shareholding company, with a paid up capital of JDs 110,000,000 and a capital base in excess of JOD 235 million and a capital adequacy ratio of 16.91%.Bank al Etihad operates a growing network of 37branches and is expected to reach 38 branches by end of 2014 in addition to 52 ATMs, a central exchange unit, in addition to one branch in Ramallah - Palestine. Bank al Etihad also fully owns a brokerage firm “Etihad Brokerage” which was established in (2006).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
  • Quassar Capital — Quassar Capital is a hedge fund with a broad presence in the United States with offices in New York and London. We are widely respected for our asset management approach globally but more importantly for our innovative operating methodology that allows us to maintain exceptional management of advanc
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $190k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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 make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
  • AlgoDriven — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
  • Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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StartersHub
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Latvia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$821k; Pre-Seed $20k–$550k; Convertible Note $25k–$30k
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides Post-Authentication Data Security (PADS) to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce TPRM. It blocks bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.
  • HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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Finberg
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $244k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Samih Toukan
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
  • Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
  • Jusoor Labs — Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions.
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HALA Capital
VC Fund · Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; Pre-Seed $550k–$730k; Series A $500k–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
  • intella — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.
  • Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Aanaab — Aanaab offers online courses in Arabic for teachers and educators to help them improve their skills in different areas including self-development, educational strategies, education techniques, and educational tools and techniques.
  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
  • OTO — OTO is SaaS company that helps retailers implement their Omni-Channel strategy by enabling them to ship their online orders directly from the physical stores with the best delivery partners in just 2 hours! Also, we provide Online Retailers and E-commerce companies access to ship packages with more than 80 delivery & carrier companies shipping domestically and internationally.
  • One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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Impact46
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • CashIn — Cashin to Lead the Digital Transformation in Petrol Stations!
  • Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
  • Hypemasters — At Hypemasters, we create legendary & genre-defining games that players all over the world enjoy for years.
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hardal — Centralize your first-party data and connect it from any source to any destination for a better performance.
  • Promake
  • Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri — Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. manufactures and exports a variety of sanitary products, including cosmetics, personal care items, and home cleaning products. The company is known for its private label wet wipes, which are produced with botanical ingredients. Sapro adapts its processes and products to meet the needs of the Earth andall living beings, emphasizing sustainability and innovation in its operations.
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BECO Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $905k–$10M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $6.8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Wisewell — Wisewell is a sustainability-driven clean water technology company developing high-quality, easily accessible drinking water solutions.
  • Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
  • Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
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Jameel Investment Management Company
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Jameel Investment Management Company is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $11M–$33M; Series B $50M–$1.8B
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Promake
  • Flextock — Discover efficient order fulfilment with Flextock. We streamline your inventory, orders, and shipping, ensuring accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
  • Ever — Shop Ever Certified EVs, get instant sell offers, and finance online with delivery or pickup.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • 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 an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 550
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $336k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Karrot Market — Karrot is the largest local community marketplace to buy, sell and trade new and used home decor, furniture, fashion and more. Join our growing community of over 10 million verified users!
  • Koala Go — Your student's favorite online classroom. 24/7 live support. Co-browser. Gamified teaching environment. Worldwide invoicing. Interactive whiteboard.
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Derayah Venture Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Derayah Venture Capital is a Venture Capital Fund That Invests in High Growth Startups across the MENA region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $7.2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Resal — Resal is Saudi-based startup was founded by Hatem Kameli ( Founder & CEO ) and Fouad AlFarhan ( Co-Founder & CTO ) , started from Jeddah – Saudi Arabia to all MENAWho we are ? Resal is leading the prepaid gift card market by offering all in one prepaid gift cards and rewards solutions for individuals and corporate in Middle East and NorthAfricaWe are here to make people and businesses smile and be delighted by developing an eGift Cards and rewards solutions to make gift cards and rewards easy to send and pleasing to receive at any time and in any place.We Are Offering End-to-end prepaid digital gift cards and rewards solutions and productsResal Store : It’s a one-stop-shop gift cards that help individuals to buy and send gift cards Resal Rewards (glee) : Corporate reward solution which help enterprise to offer employees, partners, customers gift cards as part of incentive and reward program Resal Channels : A business API and embedded technology that offer digital gift cards and rewards from over 400 brands to any 3rd party online channels and offline stores Resal Loyalty ( boonus ) : A loyalty management platform based on multiple rewarding programs that enable merchants and retailers to increase retention and customer spending Resal xCards ( gift card generator ) prepaid digital gift cards issuance solution which enable merchants to easily issue, manage digital gift card
  • OTO — OTO is SaaS company that helps retailers implement their Omni-Channel strategy by enabling them to ship their online orders directly from the physical stores with the best delivery partners in just 2 hours! Also, we provide Online Retailers and E-commerce companies access to ship packages with more than 80 delivery & carrier companies shipping domestically and internationally.
  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Finance startups

RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $171k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
  • Vimesoft — Vimesoft is a platform that offers video conferencing, enterprise video and remote learning.
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Thndr — Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform.It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, AlQahirah, Egypt.
  • Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
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Viola Ventures
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early-stage techology companies, in key market segments including FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and AgTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
  • Speedata — Speedata develops accelerated processor for big data analytics across industries. Speedata's Analytics Processing Unit (APU) was designed solely to optimize datacenter and cloud-based database and analytic workloads, dramatically improving performance by orders of magnitude while reducing costs, power consumption and space.
  • Impala AI — Impala AI is a software company that specializes in cloud computing infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and machine learning .
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Viola Credit
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Viola Credit is a global alternative asset manager that provides innovative, flexible, and tailored credit solutions to support the growth of global technology companies. Its two main credit offerings are Growth Lending and Asset-Backed Lending. With over 22 years of experience, Viola Credit currently manages more than $1.8B in various businessesacross the U.S., Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand at multiple stages of growth. It is part of the Viola Group, a leading technology-focused investment group with over $5.5B in assets under management (AUM).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Obligo — Say goodbye to traditional security deposits with Obligo's flexible deposit alternatives. Trusted by over 1 million homes, we simplify renting with no deposit options for renters and streamlined deposit management for properties.
  • Lendbuzz — Lendbuzz is an AI-based auto finance platform that helps consumers with thin or no credit history obtain financing when purchasing a car. Powered by machine learning and proprietary algorithms, Lendbuzz is able to better assess the creditworthiness of consumers with limited credit history, who are underserved by the traditional banks. By partneringwith auto dealerships, Lendbuzz is able to offer consumers attractive financing solutions and dealerships are able to close additional business opportunities and serve a more diversified client base. Lendbuzz is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2015.
  • Sweet Inn — Stay in stylish apartments in prime locations with premium amenities & 24/7 local care. Over 600 vacation apartments in 28 exciting European cities. Book Now!
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SC Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment, and venture unit. Focused on "rewiring the DNA in banking", SC Ventures aims to develop an innovation culture and mindset, deepen capabilities, and experiment with new business models through an open platform and network of people and partnerships. It runs aneXellerator innovation lab network across Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Nairobi, and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • uTu — After spending collective decades studying, building, and delivering technologies that connect enterprises to people they arrived at the conclusion that AI powered conversations are going to redefine the relationship between technology and people. They hung a shingle in fall of 2016, got the band back together, and started cranking out some badasscode. Their aim is to be part of the vanguard that charts this new world.
  • UTU Singapore — utu is a travel technology company with a mission to transform the global travel experience for tourists. By introducing utu tax free to a world of rewards with higher tax refunds, they can get the most value out of their trips.
  • My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — MyZoi, a Standard Chartered subsidiary, aims for global Digital financial inclusion of the underbanked. Based in the UAE
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
  • Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
  • Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.
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Cubit Investments
VC Fund · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Cubit Investments Limited is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed/start up, and early venture investments. The firm prefers to invest in information technology and Internet companies. It seeks to invest in Israel. The firm seeks to invest between $0.1 million and $1 million. It invests through its personal capital. CubitInvestments Limited was founded in 1998 and is based in Israel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Social Media, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Spike — Stay organized, respond faster, and boost productivity with Spike's AI-powered email platform
  • Real — One location for all Real marketing materials and media.
  • Yeloha — Yeloha provides you with energy credits that helps to reduce your electric bills to great extent. Each Yeloha panel gives a minimum amount solar energy production.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
  • A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
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Sanabil
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Sanabil Investments is a sovereign wealth fund specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. Its investments are concentrated in direct equity investments, primarily in the Kingdom, and in funds, as well as in diversified investment portfolios. These investments support the growth of the Kingdom’s economy while building internationalinvestment capability and transferring expertise to local Saudi talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
  • SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
  • HNDL Fleet Management — HNDL Fleet Management offers advanced tools to track fuel usage, reduce costs, and streamline maintenance. Improve your fleet's efficiency with real-time insights.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
  • Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
  • Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
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DAAL
VC Fund · Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Tunisia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
  • Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
  • Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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Sawari Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

The Middle East/North Africa is the next great investment opportunity. The Middle East has a collective population larger than the US, the vast majority of whom are ‘digital natives‘ (e.g.; under 30) with great appetites for consumer technology products and services. The region boasts higher per capita GDP and more disposable income than Indiaor China. In short, the Middle East is one of the technology sector’s high-growth regions, and offers tremendous potential for expansion in mobile, internet, social media and eCommerce services.Like the BRIC’s and other emerging markets, local partners are key to success. Sawari Ventures is at home in the Middle East, and knows its culture, context and business climate. They have experience and relationships working with technology and investment leaders world-wide. They know how to translate local visionaries into global hits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • elves — Travel safely, explore freely.
  • Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1119
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $11M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Double — Double combines a dedicated human assistant and the best software to help you achieve what matters most.
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups, 6 in the past 12 months

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Poland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $974k–$4.3M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Nomagic — Nomagic provides robotic systems to automate repetitive pick-and-place tasks in warehouses with efficiency, flexibility and reliability.
  • FlyFocus — FlyFocus specializes in the design and production of unmanned aerial vehicles for the civilian, military, and law enforcement markets. It provides product development and custom engineering services. They also offer mechanical CAD design, electronics, software, simulations, and aerodynamics optimization.
  • Waldo — Waldo is an AI-powered strategy engine for agencies & brands. Get audience insights, industry trends, and competitive intelligence in one powerful platform.
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Omar Darwazah
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$14M; Pre-Seed $360k–$3M; Series B $24M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
  • Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
  • Exponential DeFi — Exponential is now powering the YO Risk Engine. The risk graph that powers YO will soon be published.
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Endure Capital
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

Endure Capital is an early stage investment fund headed by entrepreneurs looking for startup teams. They look for founders who are relentlessly resourceful and imaginative, solving genuine problems that matter to a lot of people and building high growth companies that endure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$6.4M; Series A $1M–$33M; Series B $6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
  • Cash Cows — Cash Cows helps startups hone their operations and strategies so they can expand profitably and create better brands. They collaborate with customers to close the gap between traditional business practices (experience) and cutting-edge approaches (solutions), allowing companies to operate successfully.
  • TwentyToo — TwentyToo is a user-centric approach and the application of AI and ML.
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Alex Angels
VC Fund · Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $28k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Plstka — Plstka is solid waste management and recycling company that collects solid trash from gamification mobile app.
  • AgriCash — AgriCash is a financial services company that provides application for installment of agricultural production sectors.
  • Poultry Sync — Take your poultry production operation to the next level and leverage artificial intelligence to boost performance, save cost, control fraud, and increase efficiency.
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BRM Capital
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Finance startups

BRM Capital is a dynamic venture capital fund investing in early stage, Israel-related software, internet infrastructure, and communication companies. Their investment focus is on the Internet, mobile and mobile applications, digital media, online services, enterprise software, and medical device sectors and they also offer flexible, streamlinedinvestment decision making.BRM headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel enjoys a worldwide network of industry, strategic and financial experts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • V-Wave — V-Wave Ltd. is a privately held company with offices in Israel and the US. The company is focused on developing percutaneous implantable devices for treating patients with Chronic Heart Failure (HF). V-Wave’s vision is to help patients who remain with disabling symptoms or need hospitalization despite optimized medical treatment. V-Wave hasdeveloped a proprietary interatrial shunt intended to relieve symptoms, reduce hospitalization, increase exercise capacity and improve the overall quality of life.The original concept and development started in Israel with a talented team of engineers and medical scientists. The company’s senior management has decades of experience successfully developing, clinically testing and bringing to market multiple implantable cardiovascular devices.
  • ShopperAI — AI-powered shelf monitoring using your existing security cameras
  • Exceed Talent Capital — Exceed is an innovative platform to invest, earn, engage, influence, and celebrate Talent.
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