Top 20 Startup Investors in Iraq in July 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 July 2025
Investor | Iraq investments |
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Bassam Falah | 3 |
Iraq Tech Ventures | 2 |
Rawaz Rauf | 2 |
Shwan Ibrahim Taha | 2 |
Global Founders Capital | 2 |
Kingsway Capital | 2 |
Vostok Ventures | 2 |
Majid Al Futtaim Holdings LLC. | 2 |
Al Sharqiya Television | 2 |
Subhi Khudairi | 2 |
March Holding | 2 |
Rayya Al Zubaydi | 1 |
Mohamad Ferej | 1 |
EQIQ Ventures | 1 |
Nour Sabri | 1 |
Mohammed Khudairi | 1 |
MSA Novo | 1 |
Amar Shubar | 1 |
MSA Capital | 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
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.
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.
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.
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
- Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
- Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
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
- 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.
- Roxom Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mohamad Ferej
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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.
EQIQ Ventures is a venture capital fund.It supports startups and aims to build a robust ecosystem of innovation, entrepreneurship in Iraq.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Wayl — Wayl is an e-commerce platform. It aids in the transition of social media merchants into genuine businesses. It receive online payments without having to register a business or join up with a payment gateway.
Managerial experience with wealth of knowledge in technology. Brings a unique balance of education with two master’s degrees and 17 years experience.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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