Top 5 Financial Services Startup Investors in Kuwait in January 2026
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 January 2026
| Investor | Financial Services Kuwait investments |
|---|---|
| BECO Capital | 2 |
| Timothy Li | 1 |
| Maqamees Holdings | 1 |
| Tether.io | 1 |
| SBX Capital | 1 |
BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Tim is the Co-Founder and CEO of LendAPI, a venture backed B2B SaaS company that's helping Banks and Fintechs to launch their products in minutes. He has has 20 years of banking and technology experience and has founded multiple fintech companies with successful exits.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Verdata — Verdata develops a data and insight platform intended to empower POS financing companies to mitigate merchant risk. The company's platform offers underwriting, notifications, and portfolio health check, enabling POS financing companies to avoid fraudulent and poorly behaving merchants. It was headquartered in Richmond, Virginia in 2020.
- 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.
Maqamees Holdings is a investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Tether.io is one of innovation, resilience, and relentless pursuit of breaking barriers.
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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.
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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).
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