Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2026
Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2026
| Investor | Finance United Arab Emirates investments |
|---|---|
| Dtec Ventures | 3 |
| Goodwater Capital | 2 |
| Wamda Capital | 2 |
| VentureSouq | 2 |
| Oraseya Capital | 2 |
| HALA Ventures | 2 |
| STC Ventures | 2 |
| Class 5 Global | 2 |
| Simile Venture Partners | 2 |
| Further Ventures | 1 |
| Upsparks | 1 |
| The Spartan Group | 1 |
| Pantera Capital | 1 |
| Bond Capital Partners | 1 |
| SBI Group | 1 |
| Undeads | 1 |
| Web3Port Foundation | 1 |
| Arzan Venture Capital | 1 |
| StarkWare Industries | 1 |
| Protofund | 1 |
| V2 capital | 1 |
| Hang Feng | 1 |
| 1818 Venture Capital | 1 |
| Financial Horizon Group | 1 |
| ZEMU Venture Capital | 1 |
| Eos Venture Partners | 1 |
| Valar Ventures | 1 |
| BC29 | 1 |
| Jabbar Internet Group | 1 |
| Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) | 1 |
| Shunsuke Oyu | 1 |
| Fahad Hafiz | 1 |
| Hyperithm | 1 |
| Nuwa Capital | 1 |
| Fidelity Ventures | 1 |
| Gate Ventures | 1 |
| Rashid Alshamsi | 1 |
| Tribe Capital | 1 |
| Shuaa Capital psc | 1 |
| Global Ventures | 1 |
| IMO Ventures | 1 |
| Al-Wafra Al-Thanya | 1 |
| JP Morgan | 1 |
| Yes Bank | 1 |
| Abdullah Kurmstaji | 1 |
| Greylock | 1 |
| Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF) | 1 |
| Polar Light Ventures | 1 |
| n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault | 1 |
| Viola Ventures | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman
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.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
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- Posh — Event marketing made easy.
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
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- qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- BloomPath — Purpose-built AI for your organization's workflows. Embedded in your systems. Fine-tuned to your processes. Deployed inside your environment.
- Penny Software — Penny is a Procurement AI platform for enterprises that streamlines RFQs, POs, approvals, and payments in one unified source-to-pay system.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
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- Inovat — Travellers have to stand hours in the queues and get charged hidden fees to receive Tax refund that they are entitled to. They change that. With Inovat, get the best Tax Free experience that you deserve.
- Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.
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- Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
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- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
- yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.
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- FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
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- Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
- Omniful — Omniful's modular platform replaces legacy systems with AI-powered OMS, WMS, and TMS. Streamline fulfillment, cut costs, and scale across channels.
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
STC Ventures is an independently managed venture capital fund whose anchor investor is the Saudi Telecom Company. Our goal is to empower entrepreneurs to create market leading technology businesses. We are focused on equity investments that will help to build leading companies in the information technology, telecommunications, and digitalmedia/entertainment sectors. One of the key objectives of our fund is to support the development of innovative technology companies in the GCC, wider MENA region and Turkey, in addition to funding globally minded international companies seeking capital and access to the MENA region.
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- Fashion, FinTech, Finance
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Modanisa — Modanisa is an online fashion retailer for women's Islamic clothing, dresses and accessories. The site offers clothing and accessories to women of all ages and offers shipping and delivery all over the world. The site also trends latest hijab styles for women along with fashion tips for the Muslim regions. Designer abayas and jilbabs, Kayra,Armine, Aker and Tekbir are also sold online.
- Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
- yallacompare — Compare the best car insurance, credit card and personal loan providers in Dubai & the UAE with yallacompare
Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
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- PAYZE — PAYZE is a tech-enabled API-based payment gateway that instantly onboards online merchants and provides online marketplaces capability to define any number of relevant split schemes. PAYZE provides an environment for online marketplaces to define payment split schemes once and never again worry about additional accounting or risks with taxes. This“automated ecosystem” enables marketplaces to scale their products without worrying about a settlement between all actors on their platforms nor checks from relevant tax authorities.
- Telda — The easiest way to send, spend and save money. Open your account for free directly from your phone and start dealing with your money the easy way
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Simile Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focusing on internet, mobile and technology startups across the world. It was founded by a team with domain expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Its priority markets are in Europe, South-East Asia, India, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.For more information, visit:www.simileventure.com (http://www.simileventure.com/)
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- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, India, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
- slice — slice is a one-stop payment app for all spending needs. Their goal is to make money management simpler & faster for their users. It is backed by leading investors such as Tiger Global, Insight partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.
- Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.
No frills, no red tape, just building great companies with people you like to work with. Join us.
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- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- KAIO — The first protocol purpose-built for RWAs, ensuring seamless movement, compliance, and liquidity in DeFi through a sovereign AppChain.
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- BridgePort — SaaS, Fintech, Middleware, Trading Infra
Upsparks is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in technology startups and providing the needed support throughout a startup early growth. We invest in people first and are committed to creating value by leveraging our interpersonal networks, strategic partnerships, and deep industry experience. We collaborate and invest in forwardthinking entrepreneurs who work at the frontiers of digital innovation. Upsparks is devoted to early-stage investments and to building tomorrow's market leaders.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Flam — Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform.
- Quicklend — Instant loan against Mutual Funds. Lowest interest rate guaranteed. Raghuram Trikutam Co-founder @ Quicklend.
- Cava Athleisure — Discover the latest athleisure trends with Cava. Our trendy range of clothing is perfect for a relaxing day out, and our stylish designs will have you experiencing your wardrobe in a whole new way.
We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- CLST — Buy & sell Bitcoin and cryptos with our easy and seamless Uncollateralized lending. Tust the world's finest crypto borrowing, trading or exchange platform
- Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
- Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
- Filament — Automating vehicle usage history and vehicle payments for Automakers, OEMs and Enterprise Fleets.
- FunFair Technologies Ltd — FunFair is a decentralised gaming platform powered by Ethereum smart contracts. Thanks to our breakthrough technology, it is the first platform to solve the big challenges that have made other blockchain casinos unplayable.Our vision is a limitless universe of transparent, secure casinos that can be easily created by anyone, anywhere, where gamesare fun, fast and fair. That’s why we’re called FunFair.
Bond Capital Partners (BCP) is an independent, Singapore-based investment holding company. The core values and vision of BCP are to identify opportunistic investments through strong partnerships, utilizing and leveraging on diversified investment strategies globally.
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- Web3, Finance
- Series A
- United Arab Emirates
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- Klickl — Klickl is a Web3 open finance platform that offers banking and online payment methods.
SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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- Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
- UBX Philippines — UBX Philippines is a fintech company passionate about creating opportunities and access for all by building solutions.
- Preferred Networks — Preferred Networks (PFN) was established in March 2014 in Tokyo with the goal to develop practical, real-world applications of deep learning, robotics and other latest technologies. PFN is currently focused on three priority areas – transportation systems, manufacturing and bio-healthcare – and also exploring the use of deep learning in personalrobots, plant optimization, materials discovery, sports analytics and entertainment. PFN has a U.S. subsidiary in Burlingame, California.
Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!
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- Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!
Web3Port Foundation is an international multi-stage technology investment platform.
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Digital Entertainment
- Seed
Portfolio highlights
- Klickl — Klickl is a Web3 open finance platform that offers banking and online payment methods.
- Wave — Wave is a US blockchain SUI ecosystem that offers DeFi and GameFi products.
- Coral Finance — Coral Finance is a decentralized marketplace for trading premium derivatives that offers dependable, long-term liquidity solutions.
Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
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- Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
- Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
- Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.
StarkWare is using STARK proofs to bringing scalability, security and privacy to a blockchain near you
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, France
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- Gevulot — Internet scale compute network for zero-knowledge proofs.
- Cartridge — Build, ship and play provable games and Autonomous Worlds
- Symbiotic — Symbiotic is a generalized shared security system enabling decentralized networks to bootstrap powerful, fully sovereign ecosystems.
Protofund is an early-stage venture fund founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We invest in passionate teams building blockchain/web3 and consumer products.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, Argentina
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- tanX.fi — Reliable, self custodial and high performance liquidity network for traders, institutions and exchanges.
- Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
- Payman AI, Inc — The orchestration layer for agentic banking. Deploy AI agents that can safely move money - built on your existing core systems with compliance, guardrails, and spending controls banks require.
V2 capital is a investment firm.
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- Web3, Finance
- Series A
- United Arab Emirates
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- Klickl — Klickl is a Web3 open finance platform that offers banking and online payment methods.
Hang Feng is a investment firm.
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- Web3, Finance
- Series A
- United Arab Emirates
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- Klickl — Klickl is a Web3 open finance platform that offers banking and online payment methods.
1818 Venture Capital is proud to invest in portfolios of tech startups that aim to generate wealth for our investors and do good in the world.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States
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- Currensea — Currensea is a creator of a travel debit card that connects customers to a high street bank account and reduces fees.The company's product links to any UK bank account and reduces exchange rates and transaction fees abroad without setting up and managing a new bank account to get better rates. It also allows users to top up prepaid cards,allowing them to make payments while traveling without opening a new bank account and at a lower cost.Currensea was established in June, 2018 by James Lynn, and Craig Goulding in London, England.
- Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Financial Horizon Group (FHG) specializes in financial consulting, executive recruitment, and business setup services designed for Saudi Arabia's dynamic market. Discover how our expert solutions can help your business thrive and succeed.
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- Software, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Saudi Arabia
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- Magnitt — Magnitt is a startup directory that connects investors, mentors, and emerging companies in the Middle East. The discovery platform is a database with over 5,500 MENA startups and over 200 investors.
- Telfaz11 — Telfaz11 is a creative media studio from Saudi Arabia specializing in locally-relevant entertainment content
- POSRocket — Traditional cash registers are a thing of the past. POSRocket modernizes this near-obsolete system by providing business owners with an intuitive, user-friendly, cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) platform.
ZEMU Capital is dedicated to investing in decentralization, artificial intelligence, and ground-breaking technologies.
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- Software, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Hong Kong, The Netherlands
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- GPT360 — GPT360, your platform for integrating Web3 and Web2. We offer a super app with tools for Web3 project owners, including the Chaterium Network to boost community visibility and engagement, innovative AI solutions for news and moderation, and a hub for affiliate networks and marketing services. Our mission is to simplify the mass adoption ofcryptocurrency and blockchain by creating active, informed, and connected digital communities.
- Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
- Solidus Ai Tech — Solidus AI Tech provide access to artificial intelligence services to governmental authorities, megacorps, SME’s and professionals. It has constructed an environmentally friendly 8,000-square-foot high-performance computing (HPC) Data Centre in a highly secure European location. They are launching the world's first deflationary ArtificialIntelligence token (AITECH), which will be used as a payment gateway to license AIaaS, Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), and rent HPC power through their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform.
Eos Venture Partners is a Strategic Venture Capital Fund focused on insurance. Eos invests in early and growth stage insurance technology businesses whilst working closely with our Limited Partners to accelerate their innovation strategy.
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- Insurance, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Champ — CHAMP delivers secure, cloud-based solutions that modernize government title and registration operations, reduce processing times, and replace outdated legacy systems.
- Just Move In — Just Move In makes home moving easy. We help you save time, hassle & money on your move by allowing you to easily manage the admin. You can set up utilities, find great deals on broadband, arrange removals & insurance and more.
- DPL Financial Partners — DPL connects advisors, clients, and consumers with modern, commission-free annuities and insurance solutions.
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
- Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz
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- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Israel
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- Al Dana — Al Dana is an Algo Trading Firm.
- Sunstar Space & Tech Corp. — Defence Tech, Space, Tech, UCAV.
- The Syndicate Investment Group (SIG) — Syndicate Investments is an investment company that invests in companies and provides them with the equity capital and support necessary to scale up from early-stage startups to successful businesses. With a presence in more than 16 locations globally and with $500M assets under management, Syndicate Investments is a recognized top-rankinginvestment company. It has a proven track record of finding the next big thing in a variety of industries and sectors.
The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
- qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- Keyper — Keyper simplifies real estate management for property owners, tenants, and partners. Manage portfolios, get market insights, apply for rent with flexible payment options, and explore partnership opportunities to earn passive income. Join Keyper today!
MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
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- HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
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- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, United States
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- Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Fahad Hafiz is a prominent serial entrepreneur. Hafiz has a wealth of expertise in a wide range of industries, including finance, oil and gas, travel, automotive, cryptocurrencies, and fintech
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- Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Water
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, United Arab Emirates, United States
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- BC29 — Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz
- Al Dana — Al Dana is an Algo Trading Firm.
- The Syndicate Investment Group (SIG) — Syndicate Investments is an investment company that invests in companies and provides them with the equity capital and support necessary to scale up from early-stage startups to successful businesses. With a presence in more than 16 locations globally and with $500M assets under management, Syndicate Investments is a recognized top-rankinginvestment company. It has a proven track record of finding the next big thing in a variety of industries and sectors.
A premier digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
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- Soarchain — Cars on the blockchain are the next thing. Soarchain is the single-purpose blockchain for advancing vehicles. Power every vehicle by blockchain.
- Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
- Hamilton Treasury — Bitcoin isn’t just digital gold—it’s the new foundational layer of capital markets. Hamilton leverages Bitcoin’s unmatched security and decentralization to tokenize real-world assets (RWA), providing global access to institutional-grade financial products.
A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
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- Aydi — We are more than a platform. We are a global voice of modern agriculture, built with growers, powered by innovation, and driven by the responsibility to feed the future with dignity and confidence.
- Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.
- 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.
Fidelity Ventures brings resources to portfolio companies that go far beyond the capital. Their experience, track record, and unique business relationships propel new products and services into the marketplace.They leverage their relationship with Fidelity Investments, one of the pre-eminent early adopters of technology, to engage its activenetwork of over 6,000 IT executives and business leaders with an annual IT budget of over $2.5 billion.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, China
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- Akeana — Akeana is a venture funded RISC-V startup founded in early 2021 by leaders in our industry. Our semiconductor IP offerings include low end microcontroller cores, mid-range embedded cores, high end laptop/server cores along with coherent and non-coherent interconnects and accelerators.
- Safe Security — Incubated from IIT Bombay in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, Lucideus has over 200 customers worldwide with an average NPS of 73.Backed by John Chambers and senior executives from SoftBank, Sequoia, PayPal, Adobe and McKinsey & Co., it was also one of the Top 5 Contributors to the NVD of the U.S. Government in 2019.Its platform, SAFE,allows an organization to get an Enterprise-Wide, Objective, Consistent & Real-Time Visibility of it’s overall Cyber Risk Posture. Built on supervised machine learning engine, SAFE gives an output both in the form of a breach likelihood score (between 0-5) and the $ value Risk the organization is sitting on, along with providing prioritized actionable insights based on technical cybersecurity signals, external threat intelligence, and business context of what and where are the "weakest links" across people, process and technology.The company, since 2018, has also been working with MIT for a joint research and development on the SAFE Scoring Algorithm and has received several awards including the Morgan Stanley CTO Innovation Award 2019.
- Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
Gate.io providing various forms of funding, we are able to help promising teams and startups.
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- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Bahamas, Singapore
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- BAC Games — BAC Games is a video game company that focuses on the Web3 platform. The company's software is based on blockchain technology and employs token-based digital game economics, allowing players to stake cryptocurrencies and gain financial rewards while playing.
- Bitlight Labs — Make Bitcoin Smart
- Lava Foundation — Lava Foundation is a newly founded non-profit dedicated to the development of the modular blockchain network. It is the entity that sells tokens and decides on the network's roadmap.
Rashid Alshamsi
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Namara — Namara is facilitating the dream by equipping individuals with access to superior borrowing, saving, and side jobs products. Namara harnesses advanced analytics and machine learning-powered technology to achieve a comprehensive understanding of its customers' financial situations, resulting in custom-tailored advice and underwriting. Itsreward, point, and incentive system encourages sound financial decision-making and improves overall financial outcomes. Namara is headquartered in Dubai and maintains offices in Abu Dhabi. For further details, please visit www.namara.ae or obtain the app at https://bnc.lt/E1yh/DNjAQCAwrD.
Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. The team is made up of investors, engineers and scientists who use artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data science to model venture-backed private companies.Beyond investment capital, Tribe deploys these AI tools toseparate signal from noise, helping our companies understand their businesses better. Our data-informed strategy includes an underwriting infrastructure and a quantitative analysis tool called the “Magic 8-ball.” We leverage these tools to provide deep insight on factors driving growth and how to accelerate sustainable growth, honed through years of developing similar products at major tech and finance players like Lyft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Bridgewater Associates. Our team uses these tools to measure quantitative product-market fit, so we can more effectively assess and accelerate what Tribe refers to as “N-of-1” companies - companies with the potential to be 10-100x growth opportunities, while minimizing loss ratio by a large degree. Tribe Capital has $2.2 billion in assets under management and has made notable investments in Apollo.io, Kraken, Carta, SpaceX, OpenAI, and xAI.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
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- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Conta Simples — Conta Simples is the all-in-one finance plataform. The union of checking account, expense management software and corporate cards in one place. We bring peace to finance teams and entrepreneurs. Control, visibility, autonomy and decentralization of payments for SMBs in Latam.
- Diadia Health, Inc — An AI medical reasoning platform that helps clinicians analyze the root causes of symptoms and create personalized protocols that drive better outcomes.
SHUAA Capital psc is a leading asset management and investment banking platform, with c. US$14 billion in assets under management.
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- Apps, SaaS, Fruit
- Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Switzerland
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- Yabi — Yabi by souqalmal is a fintech company that develops saas mobile application that provides financial education and empowers users in making financial decisions.
- Anghami — All the music you love, all the freedom you need. Arabic and International in one place
- SkyCell — SkyCell is a Swiss-based, award-winning provider of temperature-controlled container solutions with a special focus on serving global pharma companies and sustainability. They are driven by their mission to supply the safest pharma containers worldwide. This is achieves through their unique combination of hardware, software and service, whichenables us to master logistical challenges and eliminate temperature excursion.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
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- Zension — Zension is a subscription e-commerce company for consumer tech. Each and every day, we set out to create a new standard for connectivity and access to the best technology tools for all.
- PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
- Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.
IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, China, Singapore
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- BlueOcean Pay — BlueOcean Pay is a cross border payment solution provider for brands & merchants to acquire and engage Chinese customers.
- Regenerative Bio — Regenerative Bio is the world's first anti-aging biotechnology company driven by artificial intelligence and cloud supercomputing, Regenerative Bio combines AI pharmaceutical-related technologies with biology to explore ingredients, formulations and therapies with anti-aging effects, and solve the problems caused by aging.
- Red Dot Analytics — Red Dot Analytics (RDA) award-winning digital twin solution is optimising energy consumption up to 40%, working with operators in the APAC market, ranging from hyperscale to colocation and enterprise data centres.
Al-Wafra Al-Thanya is a investment firm.
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- FinTech, SaaS, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Yabi — Yabi by souqalmal is a fintech company that develops saas mobile application that provides financial education and empowers users in making financial decisions.
- 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
- Mafhoom — Gain clarity and take control of your financial journey.
JP Morgan is a financial institution. It offers asset management, commercial banking, investment banking, merchant services, securities services, treasury and payments, and wealth management services.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- ROLLER — ROLLER offers all-in-one cloud software for attractions. From bookings to ticketing, POS to waivers, we enhance the guest experience & modernize your business.
- Aily Labs — Empowering business with meaningful ai. Empowering business with meaningful ai. Our digital ai products are beautifully designed and easy to integrate.
- Menlo Security — Menlo Security provides a cloud-based isolation platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks by eliminating the threat of malware from websites, documents, and emails.Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, NeubergerBerman, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Yes Bank is a private sector bank that offers comprehensive banking and financial solutions to its customers. Yes Bank is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra and was founded in 2004.
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- Financial Services, Finance, Mobile
- Debt Financing, Pre-Seed, Series C
- India
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- ACME Solar — Acme Solar Energy is a company that specializes in the generation of solar power. The company is involved in the design, construction, and operation of solar power plants. Its services include the development of solar projects from inception to completion, including site identification, feasibility studies, project design, engineering, procurement,construction, and operation and maintenance. Acme Solar Energy also offers solutions for grid-connected solar power plants, off-grid solar applications, and solar thermal applications.
- Serentica Renewables — Serentica Renewables is an end-to-end energy management solution company enabling large scale energy intensive industries to make a clean energy transition.
- GPS Renewables — Green Power seeks to solve the urban waste problem by utilising local technologies and business models. In India, 25% of the 75,000 tonnes of biodegradable waste produced comes from mass kitchens in tier I cities. This market, which is estimated at USD 3 bn, is the market that Green Power Systems focuses on. Green Power Systems has developed awaste-to-energy reactor called BioUrja (pending patent), a highly compact design producing 7 kg worth of LPG for every 100 kg bio-waste. Green Power Systems have also developed a GPS shredder, designed specifically for wet waste and GPS dewatering systems, separating solids from mixtures.
Abdullah Kurmstaji
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Namara — Namara is facilitating the dream by equipping individuals with access to superior borrowing, saving, and side jobs products. Namara harnesses advanced analytics and machine learning-powered technology to achieve a comprehensive understanding of its customers' financial situations, resulting in custom-tailored advice and underwriting. Itsreward, point, and incentive system encourages sound financial decision-making and improves overall financial outcomes. Namara is headquartered in Dubai and maintains offices in Abu Dhabi. For further details, please visit www.namara.ae or obtain the app at https://bnc.lt/E1yh/DNjAQCAwrD.
Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Caavo — Caavo is an entertainment obsessed hardware and software company. Our mission is to bring the art of TV viewing up to the level of today’s sophisticated audiences by uniting all of their entertainment into a single, elegant, voice controlled experience. Our products allow audiences to seamlessly move between linear TV, streaming services and webcontent, using voice or a single remote – to control it all.
- Roblox — At Roblox, our mission is to bring the world together through play.
- Silver Peak Systems, Inc. — Silver Peak products give you the power to quickly migrate to an enterprise-grade WAN that leverages the Internet, while dramatically improving application performance and lowering networking costs.Silver Peak software unifies the cloud, the Internet and the enterprise WAN on a single fabric. This provides IT with complete visibility and controlover the new cloud-driven network while ensuring consistent performance for every enterprise and Software as a Service (SaaS) application. Silver Peak solves network bandwidth, distance and quality challenges, which helps customers backup and recover more data in less time, gain faster access to cloud and enterprise applications, and safely migrate enterprise apps from costly, complex private links to the Internet. Unlike traditional WAN optimization, Silver Peak correlates information about cloud services and Internet weather to intelligently route traffic over a secure, optimal path. Silver Peak deploys quickly and easily on any hypervisor and can save customers up to 80% in WAN optimization costs by switching to a Silver Peak software subscription.
The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (“ISSF”) is a private sector managed fund making investments in innovative startups and early stage SMEs. The World Bank has invested USD 50 million in the Fund which was complimented by the Central Bank of Jordan with an additional USD 48 million bringing the total working capital of the ISSF to USD 98million.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States
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- gamiphy — GAMIPHY is a user engagement and retention platform that equips brands in different industries with tools proven to increase customer reach and loyalty such as branded mini games, playable Ads and digital loyalty programs. The tools and techniques offered by GAMIPHY can be either integrated into existing websites and apps, or can be used to createplatform-independent solutions. The available solutions are diverse, fully customizable, DIY, and are guaranteed to improve each customer journey, thus shorten the path to earn the loyalty sought after.
- Kitchefy — The all-in-one restaurant management system & POS to streamline your operations, manage inventory, order online and boost sales.
- Kader — Kader is an on-demand mobile application that connects pre-vetted quality workers with businesses in the hospitality, retail and service sectors using an advanced matchmaking technology based on location, experience and qualifications.
Polar Light Ventures provides early stage capital to technology firms in Europe
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Parabel — Parabel Nutrition operates in the U.S. through its subsidiary, Parabel USA Inc. in Florida. Parabel's proprietary technology enables the company to grow, harvest, and process water lentils –Latin name Lemnaceae – to create feed and food products for global markets in a consistent and profitable manner. The company delivers quality products atcompetitive prices due to sustainable growth, high product yields, and high quality.Parabel has developed a highly scalable and flexible solution, based on replicable growth increments, enabling phased construction and production of LENTEIN protein. LENTEIN received the innovations award from the highly regarded Institute of Food Technology in Chicago. The food industry is constantly looking for ways to source allergen-free plant proteins and LENTEIN is a complete solution. It is the only plant protein ingredient with an amino acid score of 1.0 which is the definition of a complete protein by WHO.Parabel provides a sustainable solution for food security, through a unique production process resulting in a protein ingredient with estimated neutral water and carbon footprint without the need for arable land.With successful testing and validation completed in USA, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Parabel is now fully commercial in Florida, USA.Parabel presents the opportunity to invest profitably in a new sustainable technology designed to meet the substantial and rapidly growing demand for food and feed.
- AUTO1 Fintech — AUTO1 Fintech is a digital platform offering instant financing and insurance products to automobile dealerships buying and selling used vehicles via AUTO1.
- Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault
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- Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!
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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- Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- Tenna Systems — Tenna Systems develops a platform that supports real-time monitoring, geolocation, and mitigation of radio-frequency interference to help maintain dependable connectivity for mission-critical systems. Its technology is informed by extensive experience in electromagnetic warfare and is designed to enhance awareness of RF activity across complexoperational environments. Tip&Cue supports defense, aerospace, and mobility organizations by enabling detection and analysis of interference sources and by strengthening the resilience of systems that depend on spectrum availability.
- 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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