# Top 20 Fitness Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in June 2026

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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

## Global Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## AngelHub
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Blockchain

Join the movement toward democratised private markets, where investing is open to everyone. Discover a range of vetted tech investments, embodying the spirit of innovation in Web3, FinTech, AI, and ESG. Transform your investment strategy for a smarter, more sustainable future. 

## Nuwa Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## 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.

## F6 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact.
We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Secondary Market
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Manufacturing

Established in 1976, ADIA is a globally-diversified investor that prudently invests on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi to generate long-term value.

## Embody Fitness
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Embody Fitness is a focused personal training, nutrition, and sports therapy at the personal training gym in London

## GINCO Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Education

We invest in Seed through Series B companies around the world. Our focus is to invest in companies where we can add material value through our deep relationships in UAE government as well as decades of developing successful enterprise software implementations. We invest directly and through our partners at Techstars and Human Ventures.


## Kingsway Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

## Wes Schwalje
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

## DASH Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet

At the core of our ethos is a firm belief in human potential and the promise of a better future. We forge lasting legacies by partnering with founders who are obsessed with redefining paradigms and building companies that will transcend generations.

## Plus Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...

## SC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

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.

## HP Spring Studios
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Fitness, Payments

HP Spring Studios is a venture capital firm.

## BECO Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology

BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.

## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

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.

## Ithmar Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fitness, mHealth, Software

Founded in 2005 with headquarters in Dubai and coverage across the Gulf Cooperating Council countries (GCC)
Invested and manage in excess of US $800 million in equity capital

## Oqal
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.
