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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in January 2026

Investor	Finance United Arab Emirates investments
Dtec Ventures	3
VentureSouq	2
STC Ventures	2
Oraseya Capital	2
Wamda Capital	2
Simile Venture Partners	2
Goodwater Capital	2
Class 5 Global	2
HALA Ventures	2
SC Ventures	2
1818 Venture Capital	1
Financial Horizon Group	1
ZEMU Venture Capital	1
Eos Venture Partners	1
Valar Ventures	1
BC29	1
Saned Partners	1
Jabbar Internet Group	1
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	1
Shunsuke Oyu	1
Fahad Hafiz	1
Hyperithm	1
Wa’ed Ventures	1
Nuwa Capital	1
FJ Labs	1
Fidelity Ventures	1
Gate Ventures	1
Rashid Alshamsi	1
Rebel Fund	1
Summer Ventures	1
Tribe Capital	1
Shuaa Capital psc	1
Global Ventures	1
Trend Investment	1
Further Ventures	1
Upsparks	1
The Spartan Group	1
Pantera Capital	1
IMO Ventures	1
Al-Wafra Al-Thanya	1
JP Morgan	1
Bond Capital Partners	1
SBI Group	1
Yes Bank	1
Undeads	1
Web3Port Foundation	1
Arzan Venture Capital	1
StarkWare Industries	1
Protofund	1
Abdullah Kurmstaji	1

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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.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Fashion, Developer APIs, Professional Services
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

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Kanjo — Kanjo is a software company offering pre-diagnosis, remote monitoring, and personalized care-matching solutions for mental health wellness.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
BloomPath — Bloompath gives engineering team leads clear visibility into project progress, team contributions, and what's gaining traction, without digging through tools. Stay aligned, spot blockers early, and keep your team moving forward.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system

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/)

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

IRL — Groups, Chats, Events - Tap to see details
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.

Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, India

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.
Furaha — Welcome to Furaha Financial, purpose driven financing. We are a financial technology business which acts as a software-based intermediary platform.
My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — MyZoi, a Standard Chartered subsidiary, aims for global Digital financial inclusion of the underbanked. Based in the UAE

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
RideTandem — Tandem turns local transport providers into smart shuttles for work, education and more. The smart way to move your community.
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) is a Family office that manages diversified investments and businesses including Consulting Services, Recruitment & Executive Search, Private Equity, Public Equity, Real-Estate, and Venture Capital.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Hong Kong, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

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.
Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.

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.

Investment focus

Insurance, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.

Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Toters — Fast & easy delivery. GET THE APP
Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
Mumzworld — Shop at Mumzworld, the leading online store for newborn and child essentials across the Middle East and worldwide. Find motherhood must-haves and shop today!

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 :-)

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

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.
invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.

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.

Investment focus

Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Water
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ZKEX — ZKEX appears to be a decentralized exchange (DEX) operating on Layer 2 (L2) technology, which aims to enhance transaction speeds and reduce costs compared to traditional Layer 1 solutions like Ethereum
Soarchain — Cars on the blockchain are the next thing. Soarchain is the single-purpose blockchain for advancing vehicles. Power every vehicle by blockchain.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hazen.ai — Enhance safety with our AI-powered camera, providing real-time monitoring and precise violation detection. This technology empowers authorities to enforce traffic laws effectively, ensuring safer roads for all.
FalconViz — FalconViz is a Saudi registered company focused on 3D surveying and mapping by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) with autonomous integration of planes, copters and 3D software solutions.
UnitX — Automate inspection in-line for better yield

A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

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.
Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Bahamas, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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 — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
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

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.

Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
Cerrion — Discover how Cerrion's video AI and industrial automation solutions can minimize unplanned downtime, reduce losses, and improve safety on your production lines.
Circleback — AI-powered meeting notes and automations. Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, and in-person conversations. Get started for free.

Summer Capital drives real-world blockchain adoption. Backed by fintech expertise and strong industry ties.

Investment focus

Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Series A
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Klickl — Klickl is a Web3 open finance platform that offers banking and online payment methods.
TONX — TONX builds institutional-grade TON infrastructure, staking, and developer tools for the Telegram ecosystem. Trusted by institutions across Asia since 2021.
Accountable — Accountable is the new standard for real-time financial verification. Prove assets and liabilities privately, powered by the Data Verification Network (DVN).

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 $1.6 billion in assets under management and has made notable investments in Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken, Instabase, Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sundial — Stop writing pipelines and complex SQL. Go from raw data to entities, metrics, visualizations and answers in just a few clicks
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Keep — Keep has higher credit limits, the highest cash back rewards in Canada, and absolutely no fees! Join the thousands of Canadian business owners making the switch to Keep.

SHUAA Capital psc is a leading asset management and investment banking platform, with c. US$14 billion in assets under management.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Fruit
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

Trend Investment is a investment firm.

Investment focus

Web3, Finance
Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Klickl — Klickl is a Web3 open finance platform that offers banking and online payment methods.

No frills, no red tape, just building great companies with people you like to work with. Join us.

Investment focus

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.

Investment focus

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Vessel Finance — Vessel Finance is a ZK-powered order book exchange, seeks to combine the dependability of DEXs with the speed of CEXs.
Merda Biopharma — Merda Biopharma is a AI-enabled drug discovery technology platform that produces small molecule drugs that helps immune metabolism.

Al-Wafra Al-Thanya is a investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Currenta — Currenta provides services in the area of chemistry, pharmacy, environment, fire technology and consulting.
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Veza — Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data.

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.

Investment focus

Web3, Finance
Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Agriculture
Debt Financing, Pre-Seed, Series C
India

Portfolio highlights

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.
J.C. Flowers Asset Reconstruction — J.C. Flowers Asset Reconstruction is an asset reconstruction company.

Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

Investment focus

Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

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.

StarkWare is using STARK proofs to bringing scalability, security and privacy to a blockchain near you

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

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.

Abdullah Kurmstaji

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.

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