Top 5 FinTech Startup Investors in Kuwait in January 2026
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Kuwait. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Kuwait. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 FinTech Startup Investors in Kuwait in January 2026
| Investor | FinTech Kuwait investments |
|---|---|
| BECO Capital | 2 |
| Vision Ventures | 1 |
| SBX Capital | 1 |
| Maqamees Holdings | 1 |
| Timothy Li | 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
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
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).
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.
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.
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