Top 45 Startup Investors in Kuwait in January 2025
A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Kuwait. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Kuwait. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Startup Investors in Kuwait in January 2025
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Investment focus
- Apps, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Kuwait, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- eat — Powerful restaurant reservation and guest management system. Flexible enough to use at both small and large restaurants. Sign up today. It's free!
- Baims — Baims is an ed-tech start-up that allows (top instructors and students anytime and anywhere at a fraction of the cost). Our courses and platform are specifically focused and organized based on each university's curriculum, catering down to the specific question student would expect to get on their own class exams.What you would get withBaims:Full Acess during the term to: 1- Fully Recorded HD content tailored based on each university's curriculum and past papers. 2- Free and paid live sessions with your courses tutor. 3- A fully solved study note for each chapter, and an unsolved note for practice. 4- Access to a chat group with the instructor, who is available to help at any time of day during the term.At a 60% discount from a normal one-to-one session from the best tutor in your area.
- Mushtari — Mushtari is a one-stop platform for business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors. Its objective is to create accessible business possibilities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors across the region.
Faith Capital is a venture capital firm investing in talented MENA founders building long-term value by developing sound operations at home and abroad.A Kuwait based venture capital fund owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience and success in the GCC.The principal focus of Faith Capital is on e-commerce businesses,based in the region, which have high growth potential for the future.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
- Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
Alwazzan Education is a privately owned business of the Alwazzan family. It is a market-leading service provider of K-12 American, British, and Arabic education in Kuwait and the Middle East region. With over 10,000 students in its operating history, Alwazzan education has owned, operated, and invested in many reputed schools and universities in Kuwait and in the Region.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Tutoring, Education
- Seed, Series A
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Baims — Baims is an ed-tech start-up that allows (top instructors and students anytime and anywhere at a fraction of the cost). Our courses and platform are specifically focused and organized based on each university's curriculum, catering down to the specific question student would expect to get on their own class exams.What you would get withBaims:Full Acess during the term to: 1- Fully Recorded HD content tailored based on each university's curriculum and past papers. 2- Free and paid live sessions with your courses tutor. 3- A fully solved study note for each chapter, and an unsolved note for practice. 4- Access to a chat group with the instructor, who is available to help at any time of day during the term.At a 60% discount from a normal one-to-one session from the best tutor in your area.
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
- Software, Information Technology, 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.
- Astra Nova — Astra Nova is a Web3 RPG that throws players into the center of an inter-dimensional conflict between godlike avatars of Chaos and Order.In our dynamic, story-driven 3rd Person Action Adventure, players explore the mysteries of their new home planet, battle to unite warring factions & rally their forces against the coming onslaught of TheAccretion.As the Final Envoy, players control their destinies, from designing their own custom character & choice of specialty skills to navigating a storyline full of twists and turns.Action Gameplay is enhanced by a unique Companion System allowing players to swap in either story-based MPCs or NFT-powered NPCs.Diplomatic Gameplay includes a Resource Management game mode further enhanced by our unique NFT-compatible Outpost System.
- Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!
KISP Ventures is a shariah compliant venture capital firm that invest in early stage technology companies in the MENA region. It is sponsored by KFH Capital, the investment arm of Kuwait Finance House (KFH). Its goal is to provide entrepreneurs with growth capital and the right strategic support to build innovative companies with acceleratedgrowth. The company’s shariah compliant ethics means it is committed to building an ecosystem in the region by encouraging ‘Founder-Friendly’ financing terms that give the portfolio companies a level playing field.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series B
- Kuwait, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
- COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
- CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
Founded in 2012, BECO Capital pioneers early-stage venture capital firms, focusing on MENA and beyond. It proudly partners with regional success stories like Careem, Kitopi, SWVL, PropertyFinder, MaxAB, Tribal, and others, shaping the tech landscape
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, United States, 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.
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- Keyper — Keyper simplifies real estate management for property owners, tenants, and partners. Manage portfolios, get market insights, apply for rent with flexible payment options, and explore partnership opportunities to earn passive income. Join Keyper today!
Maqamees Holdings is a investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Kem App — 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.
Hope Ventures is a non-profit organization that helps marginalized and underserved people with the necessary tools and resources.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Software, Furniture
- Seed, Funding Round
- Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Mushtari — Mushtari is a one-stop platform for business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors. Its objective is to create accessible business possibilities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors across the region.
- RestHero.io — Easily create your own online store and start selling today! Our platform offers a free trial and easy setup for your eCommerce needs. Start building your store now!
- YAS Holding — YAS Holding is a manufacturer of Furniture and Home Furnishings.
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).
Bader Altukhaim
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Investment focus
- Apps, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Convertible Note
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- MyHome — MyHome, the app for all of your needs, functions as a Kuwait-based mobile application that connects users to service providers and vendors. The application has a diverse products and services offering ranging from AC Maintenance and Cleaning to Groceries and Car Washes.
Timothy has been working in FinTech and Marketplace Lending industry for the past decade. He has launched various marketplace lending platforms and held c-level positions at RealtyMogul.com, loanDepot.com, Quick Bridge Funding, Think Finance and JPMorgan Chase.Timothy also co-founded LendFoundry.com, KuberFinancial.com MaxDecision.com. He alsosits on various advisory boards such as Ziero Finance, Solar Mosaic, Blinker Inc., Docitt and CreditExchange.in.Timothy holds various degrees from Harvard Business School, University of Southern California and San Jose State University.
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Verdata — Introducing Verdata,the data networkfor POS financing companies. With Verdata, identify the fraud associated with bad merchants, and avoid the fines associated with regulatory complaints.
- Kem App — 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.
EWTP Capital Arabia is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in emerging digital economies. It targets to partner with business models emerging in MENA as well as entrepreneurs from other markets keen to explore the MENA market. The firm aspires to build a true mix of cross-cultural hybrid teams, a recipe for sustained success andleadership.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Coffee, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kuwait, China
Portfolio highlights
- Leshines — Leshines offers intelligent supply chain services.
- Raha — Raha is a pure-play, fully automated e-grocery platform offering a full range of groceries, fresh produce, and household essentials.
- Xinnuo service — Signuo Service provides global after-sales service solutions for communication and electronic devices, such as inspection and maintenance of all 3C product types, management of the supply chain for spare parts, system deployment, refurbishment and recycling, and warehousing and logistics.
Doha Tech Angels provides seed funding for early stage disruptive technology startups in Qatar, the Middle East, and internationally.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Kuwait, Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jatri — Jatri is a public transport journey planner, digital ticketing and mobility marketplace, driving productivity by helping drivers to offer reliable transport to the commuters through our state-of-the-art technology.
- Sihaty — Sihaty is an integrated virtual-first primary healthcare system that focuses on prevention and the management of chronic and stigmatized conditions. Sihaty brings together the best technology with the best human resources for health under its unique digital umbrella.
- Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
Towell Holding International
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Investment focus
- Apps, Coffee, Internet
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
Nizar AlNusif Sons Holding
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Investment focus
- Apps, Coffee, Internet
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
Atyab Al-Marshoud is a multi-generational company that operates in the consumer goods, e-commerce, and retail industries. The company specializes in the production and sale of perfumes, offering a wide range of fragrances to cater to diverse customer preferences. In addition to perfumes, Atyab Al-Marshoud also provides a variety of other productssuch as burners. The company has a strong online presence, with a comprehensive e-commerce platform that allows customers to browse and purchase their products conveniently. Atyab Al-Marshoud also offers unique services like allowing customers to have any name written in the Arabic language as an artistic gift.
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- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
Abdullah Alzabin
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Investment focus
- Education
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
Wahed Invest is a financial technology and services company that delivers a ethics-driven investment platform.
Wahed Invest allows its users to invest in global stocks, market stocks, sukuk, and real estates.
Wahed Invest was established in 2017 by Junaid Wahedna in New York.
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Investment focus
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
Sirdab Lab exists to help aspiring entrepreneurs realize their dreams and build the best digital products and tech startups they can.
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Investment focus
- Education
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
15 Storey High Residential Towe, Divided into two identical and independent blocks.
Ramlet El Bayda- Beirut, Lebanon
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Investment focus
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
BNK Ventures
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, AgTech, Retail
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- South Korea, India, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
- CellMEAT — Cultured meat
- Floward — Send fresh flowers and a variety of gifts online with Floward. Browse through our numerous products and get same-day flowers delivery
Al Imtiaz Investment Group is a leading Kuwaiti Sharia'a compliant investment group.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Coffee, Internet
- Series B, Funding Round
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Beauty, Software
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Bookr — Elevate your salon or spa with Bookr: the top cloud-based solution for streamlined scheduling, invoicing, online booking, sales review, and inventory tracking. Say goodbye to outdated methods and multiple software systems. Experience the convenience of everything you need in one place. Try Bookr today!
Seeds Partners is a venture fund focused on investing in small-to-medium enterprises (SME’s).
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Tutoring, Education
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Baims — Baims is an ed-tech start-up that allows (top instructors and students anytime and anywhere at a fraction of the cost). Our courses and platform are specifically focused and organized based on each university's curriculum, catering down to the specific question student would expect to get on their own class exams.What you would get withBaims:Full Acess during the term to: 1- Fully Recorded HD content tailored based on each university's curriculum and past papers. 2- Free and paid live sessions with your courses tutor. 3- A fully solved study note for each chapter, and an unsolved note for practice. 4- Access to a chat group with the instructor, who is available to help at any time of day during the term.At a 60% discount from a normal one-to-one session from the best tutor in your area.
Joa Capital: Pioneers in financing technology and innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Investment focus
- PropTech, Real Estate, Residential
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Capifly — Capifly offers rapid, non-dilutive finance to developing technology companies in exchange for yearly recurring revenue.
- Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
Impact 46 is an asset manager and advisor that specializes in alternative investment opportunities. The firm provides innovative investment products and services to local & international institutions, family groups, endowments, and high net worth investors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman
Portfolio highlights
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- DataLexing — DataLexing is an All-in-One Data-Driven productivity platform that brings Insights, Apps, Notifications, Forms, and Sheets together in one place.
- Al Matar Group — Al Matar Group provides individuals and businesses with technical travel solutions.
Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Transportation, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Hubpay — Secure & efficient Corporate FX for UAE businesses. Competitive rates, fast transfers & expert support. Book a demo and open a forex corporate account today.
- InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
- Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
Brilliant Lab offers startups with resources and insights to develop their businesses. It facilitates BL Startup School, a mentoring program for startups and entrepreneurs; Acceleration Program that offers school graduates with space and business infrastructure, mentoring services, and capital to develop their business ideas; and BL events andconferences.Brilliant Lab is partnered with Mind the Bridge, ZaiN, Al Hamra, Gatehouse Capital, ie, and Al Sayer.Brilliant Lab was founded by Neda Al-Dihany in 2012.
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- Automotive, Customer Service
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- BnchrPlus — BnchrPlus is a car maintenance company that provide reliable and convenient services at customer location.
The Taken Seat is a venture builder that conceives, launches, and scales the next generation of disruptive ventures in the Middle East.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology
- Convertible Note
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Sihaty — Sihaty is an integrated virtual-first primary healthcare system that focuses on prevention and the management of chronic and stigmatized conditions. Sihaty brings together the best technology with the best human resources for health under its unique digital umbrella.
Dividend Capital is an investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Coffee, Internet
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
Abdullah Marafi is the Co-Founder at MyHome. Abdullah Marafi attended Columbia University in the City of New York.
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Investment focus
- Apps, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Convertible Note
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- MyHome — MyHome, the app for all of your needs, functions as a Kuwait-based mobile application that connects users to service providers and vendors. The application has a diverse products and services offering ranging from AC Maintenance and Cleaning to Groceries and Car Washes.
Aujan Group Holding (AGH) is a diversified holding company, active in a wide range of industries, including FMCG, Hospitality & Real Estate, and Packaging Materials. A family business with a history dating back over a hundred years and a deep-rooted pioneering spirit, AGH has successfully leveraged its brand building and market developmentskills along with proven industry experience to drive sustainable profitable growth within the Middle East and Africa regions.
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- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Waves — Waves is an apps service provide information and internet that entertainment and enjoyment.
Cedar Mundi Ventures specializes in the fields of venture capital and financial services. It also specializes in cross-border technology investments covering Europe & the MENA region.
It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Beyrouth, Lebanon.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Podeo — Podeo is the Arab world's largest podcasting platform, dedicated to managing, distributing, and producing audio podcasts. Podeo owns the largest Arabic podcast catalog in the world and distributes audio to millions of listeners.
- Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
- Kamea Labs — Kamea Labs is a fintech company developping tools leveraging self custody and tokenisation to liberate capital and reshape the investment landscape. A fundamental building block for the next investment infrastructure that will enable finance to better serve the economy.Kamea Labs has developped Genki, a fundraising platform entirely based onself-custody and helping entrepreneurs execute compliant fundraisings, in crypto or equity while accepting crypto and fiat currencies of all ticket sizes.Kamea Labs is registered as PSAN with the AMF and aims at offering retail investors the first ever investment platform letting them invest like the top 1%.
At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Octa — Octa is a one-click automated system for collecting invoices that ensures timely payment to business-to-business firms.
- Better — MENA's 1st Telehealth Clinic for men, delivering clinically proven treatments to your door.
- Settle Payments — SETTLE automates enterprise's payments and manages all their bank accounts in one place for better cashflow decisions.
Our vision is to invest and promote unique start-ups which we forecast to gradually grow to become successful, profitable businesses.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Tutoring, Education
- Series A
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Baims — Baims is an ed-tech start-up that allows (top instructors and students anytime and anywhere at a fraction of the cost). Our courses and platform are specifically focused and organized based on each university's curriculum, catering down to the specific question student would expect to get on their own class exams.What you would get withBaims:Full Acess during the term to: 1- Fully Recorded HD content tailored based on each university's curriculum and past papers. 2- Free and paid live sessions with your courses tutor. 3- A fully solved study note for each chapter, and an unsolved note for practice. 4- Access to a chat group with the instructor, who is available to help at any time of day during the term.At a 60% discount from a normal one-to-one session from the best tutor in your area.
Sijam Ventures is an investment company.
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Investment focus
- Education
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
Takamul Capital is an investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Coffee, Internet
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
Sharq Capital offer a total Business solution. Sharq brings the most efficient service, adhering to the highest level of customer service.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Content, Education
- Seed
- Kuwait, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
- Vitrina A.I. — Vitrina is a global cross-border content and data intelligence platform that helps content creators, publishers and distributors plan, acquire, manage and monetize their content globally.
Mad’a Investment Company is a Private Equity firm headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and a wholly owned subsidiary of Abdul Aziz Al Othaim & Sons Holding Company (ASO&SONS). We aim to assist businesses to reach their true potential by unlocking values which otherwise could not have been realized. We strive to create exceptional value tobusinesses through our team of investment and operating professionals working collaboratively with the management of our portfolio companies. We, as a Saudi Company, are committed to contributing to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and our Investment Strategy is aligned with the Vision 2030.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Teeela — Teeela is the GCC’s fastest growing and most innovative gifting platform, built to provide families with the easiest, quickest and most personalized gifting and toy buying experience
- RedBox — RedBox ships online products to the nearest smart locker for faster delivery and easy access.
- SmartCrowd — Invest in real estate and start generating a passive income with the region's first DFSA regulated real estate crowdfunding platform | Regulated by DFSA
Tether.io is one of innovation, resilience, and relentless pursuit of breaking barriers.
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- FinTech, Mobile Payments, Financial Services
- Corporate Round
- Kuwait
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- Kem Technologies — Kem Technologies a flexible P2P quick payment system. And bridges financial gap by ensuring user security.
Co-Founder of MyHome App.
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- Apps, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Convertible Note
- Kuwait
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- MyHome — MyHome, the app for all of your needs, functions as a Kuwait-based mobile application that connects users to service providers and vendors. The application has a diverse products and services offering ranging from AC Maintenance and Cleaning to Groceries and Car Washes.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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- Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
- DESAISIV — DESAISIV, a MENA based InsurTech startup specialising in health insurance which is transforming health insurance for insurers and clients through exploiting their advanced AI solutions which were developed in collaboration with top machine learning scientists from the University of Oxford. DESAISIV’s philosophy is simply to put AI at the centre ofall decision making. This AI-driven approach guarantees that clients of Groups and SMEs will get optimized insurance policies tailored to their needs, also it will make sure that insurance companies will optimise their processes using the latest AI technologies. Benefitting from access to a vast database of hundreds of millions of patient records, DESAISIV has achieved an impressive average prediction accuracy of over 95%. Demonstrating their commitment to excellence, they have set an ambitious target to exceed 99% accuracy by the end of this year. Through their AI-driven products, DESAISIV streamlines various aspects of health insurance, including automating underwriting procedures, tailoring policy's benefits and coverage, improving quality of service by predicting developing diseases, identifying high-risk behaviours, and reducing customer attrition.
- TWIG — TWIG is a Bank Agnostic Automated Savings Platform in the MENA region. Our flagship app provides Automated Saving Plans to help users save better; a Smart Budgeting tool with tailored insights; and Smart, customizable and user-specific Goals.
Wa’ed Ventures is a $500 million venture capital fund with the aim to accelerate the development of an integrated startup ecosystem by investing in local tech-based startups and incentivizing global entrepreneurs to localize their tech innovations in the Kingdom.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
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- YNMO — YNMO is the first Arabic/English digital solution that aims to improve the quality of care and educational services for individuals with special needs by allowing service providers such as schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.
- Zension — Zension is a subscription e-commerce company for consumer tech. Each and every day, we set out to create a new standard for connectivity and access to the best technology tools for all.
- Excess Materials Exchange — Excess Materials Exchange (EME) is a pioneering digital platform designed to accelerate the transition to a circular economy by facilitating the efficient reuse of materials and products.
Al-Akeel family is a family investment office.
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- Baby, Gift, Toys
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Teeela — Teeela is the GCC’s fastest growing and most innovative gifting platform, built to provide families with the easiest, quickest and most personalized gifting and toy buying experience
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm that invests and supports small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
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- Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
- Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
- AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
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