Top 20 Startup Investors in Iraq in April 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Iraq. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Iraq. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Startup Investors in Iraq in April 2025
Investor | Iraq investments |
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Bassam Falah | 3 |
Shwan Ibrahim Taha | 2 |
Iraq Tech Ventures | 2 |
March Holding | 2 |
Global Founders Capital | 2 |
Kingsway Capital | 2 |
Subhi Khudairi | 2 |
Rawaz Rauf | 2 |
Vostok Ventures | 2 |
Majid Al Futtaim Holdings LLC. | 2 |
Al Sharqiya Television | 2 |
Mohammed Khudairi | 1 |
Rayya Al Zubaydi | 1 |
Amar Shubar | 1 |
Mohammed Shaikley | 1 |
MSA Novo | 1 |
Flat6Labs | 1 |
MSA Capital | 1 |
Omar Al-Handal | 1 |
Kerem Danish | 1 |
Bassam Falah is a Founder and Managing Partner of Innovest Middle East VC.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Shwan Ibrahim Taha
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Iraq Tech Ventures provides minimum investment to approved startups in Iraq and the Middle East region.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
March Holding makes Investment in Commercial Enterprises & Management.
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Investment focus
- Public Transportation, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
- Zbooni — Customers are most receptive on social and messaging apps today. Bring the checkout experience to them, in real-time.
- Lyve Global — Lyve reimages logistics through advanced and agile solutions and technology innovations that connect organizations and opportunities.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
- Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
- Scribe Health AI — HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation tool that seamlessly integrates with 50+ EMR systems including Epic, Cerner & Athena . Automates SOAP notes and medical coding while ensuring data security. Perfect for healthcare providers seeking efficient, compliant documentation workflows
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Acki Nacki — Acki Nacki is an asynchronous blockchain technology that achieves probabilistic consensus via two communication phases. Acki Nacki is ready to support use cases such as payments, gaming economies, IoT networks, and AI applications.
- The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.
Subhi Khudairi
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Rawaz Rauf
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Vostok Ventures makes seed and early stage venture investments in IT projects from Eastern Europe. It focuses on mobile applications, e-commerce, cloud services, and the gaming industry.
Vostok Ventures was co-founded by Michael Kharenko and Svyatoslav Pogrebnoy, and is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Bakery, Mobile Apps
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Iraq, Ukraine
Majid Al Futtaim is a leading integrated lifestyle provider with brands across industries such as shopping malls, Hotels, Cinema, Hypermarket & much more.
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Investment focus
- Taxi Service, Transportation, Public Transportation
- Seed
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
Al Sharqiya TV is Iraq's first privately owned satellite channel
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Mohammed Khudairi
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Rayya Al Zubaydi
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Amar Shubar is a partner at Management Partners Consulting.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Mohammed Shaikley - Managing Partner @ Private Equity
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Zofa — Zofa provides integrated solutions that promote long-term change while improving productivity and patient care and enabling fast delivery of medical products.
- MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
- Marginplus Group — We’re creating innovative investment solution to drive Africa’s growth and transform lives through real estate and agriculture.
MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
- Shenji Changhua — Shenji Changhua is a biotechnology company focusing on neurological diseases such as ALS.
- Life Biosciences — Lingfu Bio is a service provider of the whole industry chain of experimental animals and animal models.
Omar Al-Handal is the Managing director of Al Handal International Group.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Kerem Danish
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
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