# Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in June 2026 ## Dtec Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps 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. ## Simile Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps 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/) ## Goodwater Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Burlingame, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good. ## Further Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain No frills, no red tape, just building great companies with people you like to work with. Join us. ## Oraseya Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority. ## HALA Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages. ## Wamda Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services 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. ## VentureSouq - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software 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. ## Class 5 Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs. ## STC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A - Focus: Fashion, FinTech, Finance 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. ## Bond Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Web3, Finance 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. ## SBI Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## Web3Port Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Digital Entertainment Web3Port Foundation is an international multi-stage technology investment platform. ## Arzan Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS 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. ## StarkWare Industries - Type: VC Fund - Location: Netanya, HaMerkaz, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services StarkWare is using STARK proofs to bringing scalability, security and privacy to a blockchain near you ## Protofund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Protofund is an early-stage venture fund founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We invest in passionate teams building blockchain/web3 and consumer products. ## V2 capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Web3, Finance V2 capital is a investment firm. ## Hang Feng - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Web3, Finance Hang Feng is a investment firm. ## ZEMU Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, FinTech ZEMU Capital is dedicated to investing in decentralization, artificial intelligence, and ground-breaking technologies. ## Eos Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Insurance, Financial Services, Information Technology 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. ## Valar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking 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. ## Shunsuke Oyu - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment 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. ## Fahad Hafiz - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Water 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 ## Fidelity Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet 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. ## Rashid Alshamsi - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Rashid Alshamsi ## Tribe Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Shuaa Capital psc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Fruit SHUAA Capital psc is a leading asset management and investment banking platform, with c. US$14 billion in assets under management. ## Global Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world. ## IMO Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US. ## Al-Wafra Al-Thanya - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Finance Al-Wafra Al-Thanya is a investment firm. ## Yes Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy 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. ## Abdullah Kurmstaji - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Abdullah Kurmstaji ## Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage 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. ## Polar Light Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Finance Polar Light Ventures provides early stage capital to technology firms in Europe ## n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault ## Viola Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## The Community Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Women's, Health Care, Beauty The Community Fund is a $5 million early-stage fund investing in community-driven companies through an investment partner team. The investment team consists of operators, founders, and investors that bring a wide range of complementary functional and industry expertise. The Community Fund is led by Lolita Taub and Jesse Middleton. ## Ashneer Grover - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. He previously worked at PC Jeweller Ltd as a Head Of New Business. Ashneer Grover attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. ## Oskar Hartmann - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## Trampoline Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Apps, Blockchain Trampoline Ventures is an investment firm. ## Henry Helgeson - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Payments Henry Helgeson is the current CEO of BlueSnap. He previously worked at Cayan LLC as a CEO and Founder. Henry Helgeson attended Marist College. ## Jura Investment Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Finance, Payments, Risk Management Jura Investment Group is a premier family office founded in 2021, dedicated to strategic investments in the financial sector, IT solutions for finance, and real estate. Operating across Europe and the GCC region, we empower innovative companies with capital and expertise. Our portfolio boasts over 20 active projects, spanning fintech, banking,advisory services, specialized IT software, and premium properties. Our consultancy arm identifies and accelerates promising ventures, ensuring sustainable growth. ## Aptos - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Building products, applications, and tooling on the Aptos blockchain. Bringing the benefits of decentralization to the masses. ## Heritage Horizon Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Web3, Finance Investing in Tommorrow. Today ## Elevation Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce Elevation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on consumers, enterprises, logistics, and B2B. ## Undeads - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse! ## 1818 Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: St. Peter Port, NA - Guernsey, Guernsey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software 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. ## Financial Horizon Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Finance 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. ## BC29 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz ## Jabbar Internet Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet 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 :-)