Top 5 Financial Services Startup Investors in Kuwait in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Financial services startups based in Kuwait. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Kuwait. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Financial Services Startup Investors in Kuwait in July 2025

Investor	Financial Services Kuwait investments
BECO Capital	2
Timothy Li	1
Tether.io	1
SBX Capital	1
Vision Ventures	1

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Founded in 2012, BECO Capital pioneers early-stage venture capital firms, focusing on MENA and beyond. It proudly partners with regional success stories like Careem, Kitopi, SWVL, PropertyFinder, MaxAB, Tribal, and others, shaping the tech landscape

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
Mala Inc. — This is meta description
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.

Timothy has been working in FinTech and Marketplace Lending industry for the past decade. He has launched various marketplace lending platforms and held c-level positions at RealtyMogul.com, loanDepot.com, Quick Bridge Funding, Think Finance and JPMorgan Chase.Timothy also co-founded LendFoundry.com, KuberFinancial.com MaxDecision.com. He alsosits on various advisory boards such as Ziero Finance, Solar Mosaic, Blinker Inc., Docitt and CreditExchange.in.Timothy holds various degrees from Harvard Business School, University of Southern California and San Jose State University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Verdata — Introducing Verdata,the data networkfor POS financing companies. With Verdata, identify the fraud associated with bad merchants, and avoid the fines associated with regulatory complaints.
Kem — Kem was started with the idea of achieving a simple goal, to make it easy to send money to your friends. Millions of people in the Gulf were facing this issue, and we built Kem for the purpose of removing the pain from peer-to-peer payments.Today, Kem is the fastest growing payments app in Kuwait & the GCC. Pay anyone instantly, receiveeverywhere, spend anywhere. Join the thousands already using the Kem app.The Kem App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Kem’s bank partner(s). Kem Company for Electronic Payment & Settlement Systems W.L.L is a service of Kem Technologies Holding Ltd.
Truv — With Citadel, users can easily connect their payroll account and instantly share the information you need to run verifications—and we make it more affordable and faster than your manual verifications.

Tether.io is one of innovation, resilience, and relentless pursuit of breaking barriers.

Investment focus

FinTech, Mobile Payments, Financial Services
Corporate Round
Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Kem Technologies — Kem Technologies a flexible P2P quick payment system. And bridges financial gap by ensuring user security.

At SBX, we invest in transformative technologies, and the companies and communities leveraging them, through capital, media, and education.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Kuwait, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
SOKNA — SOKNA is Egypt’s first end-to-end funeral service providing your loved ones with care and respect at the completion of their life’s journey.
DLC.link — We are building a bridge that will let Clarity contracts settle on Bitcoin, unlocking a trillion dollars of Bitcoin to be used for DeFi (Decentralized Finance).

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