Top 20 Startup Investors in Iraq
A list of 20 angel investors and VC 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
Investor | Iraq investments |
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Bassam Falah | 3 |
Iraq Tech Ventures | 2 |
Rawaz Rauf | 2 |
Vostok Ventures | 2 |
Majid Al Futtaim Holdings LLC. | 2 |
Al Sharqiya Television | 2 |
March Holding | 2 |
Global Founders Capital | 2 |
Kingsway Capital | 2 |
Shwan Ibrahim Taha | 2 |
Subhi Khudairi | 2 |
Mohammed Shaikley | 1 |
Omar Al-Handal | 1 |
Mohamad Ferej | 1 |
Rayya Al Zubaydi | 1 |
MSA Capital | 1 |
Amar Shubar | 1 |
Flat6Labs | 1 |
MSA Novo | 1 |
Nour Sabri | 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.
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.
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
- Carv.com — Carv's AI recruiting platform is designed to take over repetitive admin tasks related to intakes and interviews, for a renewed focus on the candidate.
- Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- Harris & Trotter — H&T are chartered accountants and business advisers based in London. General Practice, Digital Assets, Music & Entertainment. 101 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6XH. Tel 020 7467 6300
- Humanity Protocol — Humanity Protocol developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
- Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.
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, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Zid زد — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
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.
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