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Top 35 Startup Investors in Lebanon

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 35 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Lebanon. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Lebanon. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Startup Investors in Lebanon

Investor	Lebanon investments
Phoenician VC	13
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	8
BY Venture Partners	5
Kafalat iSME	4
B&Y Venture Partners	3
Hala Fadel	2
Saned Partners	2
Abdo Achkar	2
BeryTech Fund	2
IM Capital	2
Cedar Mundi Ventures	2
BLC Bank	1
Mr. Tarek Jallad	1
BluePeak Private Capital	1
iSME	1
Wamda Capital	1
Draper University Ventures	1
Fadi Ghandour	1
Cairo Angels	1
Alfanar	1
Dr. Lama	1
THE WORLD BANK	1
Walid Hanna	1
Flat6Labs	1
Dalia Al Sulaiman	1
Seeders Angel Group	1
Crescent Capital	1
HIVOS	1
EQ2 Ventures	1
Mulcan International Investments.	1
Maersk Growth	1
BackBone Ventures	1
Sawari Ventures	1
N2V	1
Sente Ventures	1

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Founded in 2015, Phoenician Funds is at the heart of thriving capitals of digital innovation and startup ecosystems in the Middle East and North Africa ...

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Go Rise — Go Rise is a start-up building a financial services platform for migrants.
Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Clinicy — Clinicy provides medical institutions and patients with simple and automated solutions to manage daily operations and appointments through its cloud-based HCRM platform. They solve complex challenges for healthcare providers.
Keyper — Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

BYVP invest in high impact founders building market transforming and category-leading companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.

The iSME Programme is a USD 30 million initiative funded by the Government of Lebanon and the World Bank.

Investment focus

Education, Grocery, Internet
Series A, Seed
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Shelvz — Shelvz is an all-in-one Retail Execution solution aimed at streamlining the field data collection process to provide CPG stakeholders with real-time analytics
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Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.

B&Y Venture Partners started with a vision: to create the go-to venture capital fund for early-stage technology start-ups. We do this by investing in great entrepreneurs and by providing them with value beyond just money, in exchange for a minority share in their business.We aim to partner with world-class entrepreneurs who want to buildthe next big technology success stories. We look for highly-driven teams with a “get it done” attitude, who can achieve exceptional execution of their ideas. We believe that founding teams are the most important component of start-up success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance

Hala is a partner at leap ventures, a late-stage venture capital firm based in Beirut and Dubai, and the founder and chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the pan-Arab region, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship and organizes among other things the MIT Arab startup competition. She is also an Angel investor in start-up companies inthe Middle East and Europe, and has launched a co-working space in Beirut called Coworking+961. She recently founded MIT Technology review Arabic, the Arabic edition of the MIT Technology review Magazine, that covers science and innovation in the Arab region.Hala was previously for 12 years a portfolio manager for European Equities at Comgest, a euro Equity 20bn fund. She graduated from HEC in France in 1997 with a Masters in Financial Economics and attended the Berkeley Haas School of Business, she holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. While at MIT she participated and won part of the MIT 50K business plan competition with Booleo, a telecom software business, later acquired as an internal solution by a client.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Social Media
Seed, Angel
Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

eTobb — eTobb is the Quora for Health & Medicine. It was founded in 2012, eTobb is the first premium, online, medical Q&A platform connecting patients and doctors in the Arab World. Their mission is to improve access to healthcare. They are building the largest network of top doctors in the region and making it accessible to the public.
Foodlve — Making Cooking Fun & Easy for Busy People, Dads & Dudes Simple-To-Follow & Tasty Food Prep Tips We are Cooking Experts with 30 years of combined experience. This space is a tribute to our better-halves who do a lot of the heavy lifting but are constantly lost in the kitchen :). We realized there is
Sohati — Sohati provides information on health and medical care according to the best international medical standards. It aims to shed light on health and medical topics including diseases, medicines, beauty, fitness, motherhood, psychology, and sexual problems.The site also provides a forum for discussion, which means areas for listening and dialogue,where anyone can express their concerns, problems and benefit from the experiences of participants and exchange of experiences; While his identity is always kept secret.

Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

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Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
Mumzworld — Mumzworld.com is the largest e-commerce portal in the Middle East dedicated to all things mother, baby, and child. The Company serves over 2 million mothers in the MENA region and ships to more than 20 countries. Mothers can now shop faster and easier than ever before and find products not available anywhere else in the region.Mumzworld.com is acompany built by mumz for mumz, with the ultimate vision of becoming an indispensable online extension of a mother’s life. Mumzworld.com was created by the same team of Bayt.com (Alexa rank# 1,700), the largest job site in the Middle East. As a result, Mumzworld.com has:• Established the largest catalog of products for mothers in the region, bringing more than 200,000 products online from over 2,000 global and regional brands • Shipped over 60 tons of products to over 20 countries • Pioneered the e-commerce experience for mothers in the Middle East, being called the “Amazon for moms” by CNN. • Partnered with giant FMCGs, such as P&G and DANONE • Acquired exclusivity to a large selection of products, as well as exclusive distribution rights for a growing number of global brands

Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Lebanon, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.

Berytech Fund II is a 51 million US Dollar Beirut-based Venture Capital Fund that invests in Innovative Lebanese startups with high-growth potential

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Training
Seed, Series A, Series B
Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cherpa — Cherpa is an online platform that teaches robotics and electronics to youth in a fun and interactive way. From building and coding projects to interacting with virtual missions, Cherpa is introducing a new dimension that reshapes the world of robotics. They are preparing students for the jobs of tomorrow. Start learning today with robotics, coding,artificial intelligence and many more courses to come.
BSynchro — BSynchro is a Business and Information Technology service firm powered by a passionate team of experts. The company was founded in 2005 by a group of IT and business professionals with one main focus: Synchronizing Company’s People and Technology.Our main mission is to advise and to deliver to customers instrumented, innovative, and intelligentIT and operational solutions; aiming to enhance the customer experience, improve process efficiency and increase profitability.BSynchro is active in the design, development, and deployment of a range of software solutions aiming to synchronize and link knowledge to people, workflows to contents, transactional systems to smart interfaces and revolutionize the way people interact with their business.With more than 20 years of expertise in the financial services sector and Information Technology field, our team offers innovative IT services and solutions to a variety of customers in the Gulf, Levant, North Africa, Africa and North America regions.
scriptr.io — The scripting engine for your IoT projects. The easiest way to connect your devices to the cloud. No hosting, no server management, no deployments, create your own APIs with JavaScript in minutes.

IM capital provides investment tools and support to companies for equity guarantee.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Furniture
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shelvz — Shelvz is an all-in-one Retail Execution solution aimed at streamlining the field data collection process to provide CPG stakeholders with real-time analytics
Moodfit — Moodfit is the first online interior design platform in the MENA region that offers a hassle-free online home furnishing and decoration service from carefully selected professional interior designers
scriptr.io — The scripting engine for your IoT projects. The easiest way to connect your devices to the cloud. No hosting, no server management, no deployments, create your own APIs with JavaScript in minutes.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, B2B, Medical
Series A, Series B, Seed
Lebanon, United Kingdom, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Proximie — Proximie enables healthcare organizations, surgeons, and medical device companies to improve patient safety, scale training efforts, and accelerate device adoption, all while driving substantial savings in cost and time.
Roadie Music by Band Industries — Tune all types of guitars, ukuleles, banjos, mandolins & more in just seconds.
Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

BLC Bank provides a wide variety of financial and non-financial services while focusing on the support for the community. It does not only provide the community with loans, accounts, and cards but also deliver one-to-one services to businesses and entrepreneurs to expand and improve through training, roadshows, and awards.It was founded in 1950and is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care
Series A
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Sohati — Sohati provides information on health and medical care according to the best international medical standards. It aims to shed light on health and medical topics including diseases, medicines, beauty, fitness, motherhood, psychology, and sexual problems.The site also provides a forum for discussion, which means areas for listening and dialogue,where anyone can express their concerns, problems and benefit from the experiences of participants and exchange of experiences; While his identity is always kept secret.

Mr. Tarek Jallad

Investment focus

Internet, Education
Series A
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Kamkalima — Arabic e-Learning platform that provides high-tech & interactive educational content in line with the modern academic systems.

BluePeak Private Capital is an alternative asset management firm based in Tunisia.

Investment focus

Service Industry, Telecommunications
Private Equity
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

i engineering Group — i engineering Group provides end-to-end engineering infrastructure solutions to the telecommunications and power industries across Africa.

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Investment focus

Furniture, E-Commerce, Home Decor
Seed
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Moodfit — Moodfit is the first online interior design platform in the MENA region that offers a hassle-free online home furnishing and decoration service from carefully selected professional interior designers

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.

Upon graduation of the Hero Program at Draper University, alumni get a chance to pitch their business ideas for venture capital. Submit your business plan.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Argentina, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

paydece — Paydece is a decentralized P2P platform that enables users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Fiat without intermediaries, offering privacy, and security, and always preserving decentralization, in other words, Paydece is a decentralized Fiat On/Off ramp.
LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
VeGrow — VeGrow is an automated vertical farming system for greener, healthier, and fresher produce.

Fadi Ali Ghandour is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Executive Chairman of Wamda Capital. He previously worked at Aramex as a Chief Executive Officer. Fadi Ali Ghandour attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Kenya, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Onfleet — Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University.
Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
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The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

Alfanar is the Arab region's first venture philanthropy organisation. We support social enterprises in the Arab region by helping them to become sustainable.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Recycling
Seed
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

FabricAID — FabricAID collects, sorts, and redistributes second-hand clothes at micro prices to marginalized communities reducing fabric waste.

Dr. Lama

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer
Seed
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.

With 189 member countries, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership fighting poverty worldwide through sustainable solutions.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Internet
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, China, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Panda Selected — Panda Star Kitchen is affiliated to Beijing Lianchuang Juxing Technology Co., Ltd., established in 2016 and headquartered in Beijing. It is a catering-oriented life service operator, providing commercial real estate, operation management, supply chain and brand promotion for catering enterprises.
Masdar — Masdar is a renewable energy manufacturer that develops utility-scale renewable energy projects. At Masdar, they are staunch backers of the UAE's shift towards a knowledge-intensive economy. The company's goal is to exemplify the commercial adoption of clean technologies and to represent the UAE’s broader dedication to sustainablepractices.
Olam — Olam SVI is a food & beverages company that provides onion, garlic, spices, herbs, tomatoes, and capsicums.

Walid Hanna is Founder and CEO at Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

Investment focus

Search Engine, Billing, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Lebanon, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

ARAMOZ — Optimized for the Arab world, Aramoz ® is a powerful job search engine that provides exceptionally extensive, accurate and relevant results. Using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Aramoz provides users with unmatched effectiveness. But don’t take our word for it. Just try and compare for yourself…
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INFOGRAPHIQS — Infographiqs ® is a powerful infographic search engine that provides an exceptional degree of extensiveness, accuracy and relevance. Optimized for infographics only using a unique blend of sophisticated search technologies and precious human input, Infographiqs provides unmatched effectiveness. Try it and compare for yourself…

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.

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.

Dalia Al Sulaiman

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer
Seed
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.

Seeders Angel Group

Investment focus

Furniture, E-Commerce, Home Decor
Seed
Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Moodfit — Moodfit is the first online interior design platform in the MENA region that offers a hassle-free online home furnishing and decoration service from carefully selected professional interior designers

Crescent Capital is a Belfast based venture capital fund manager

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Medical, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.
PayHalal — Islamic Fintech in internet payments gateway space and ewallet issuing space . Services include merchant acquiring. We are licensed by Malaysian Central Bank for merchant acquiring. PayHalal offers PSaaS for Islamic Digital Banks and payment gateways in the halal space.
Right Revenue — Right Revenue's hotel revenue management system is user-friendly, flexible & accurate. Maximise your hotel's revenue & add profit straight on the bottom line. Book your free demo today!

HIVOS is a Netherlands-based organization that seeks new solutions to persistent global issues.

Investment focus

News, Events, Crowdfunding
Seed, Series A
Egypt, Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Plstka — Plstka is solid waste management and recycling company that collects solid trash from gamification mobile app.
Zoomaal — Zoomaal is the leading crowdfunding platform in the Arab world.Zoomaal went live in July, 2013. Semi-finalist in the MIT Arab Enterprise Forum business plan competition, backed by four Middle Eastern venture capital firms and featured on CNN, Wamda, the International Herald Tribune and more, Zoomaal is at the forefront of Arab crowdfunding: helpingpeople empower Arab creativity and culture.
News Deeply — Founded in 2012, News Deeply is an innovative network of theme-driven information and community platforms, convening engaged, knowledgeable and passionate audiences.Led by an award-winning team of domain-expert journalists, our topical platforms combine real-time storytelling, investigative reporting and data, and expert-driven insights withonline and offline community interactions. Our readers and our partners include leaders from the private sector, government, civil society, and academia and research, as well as members of the engaged public.In an increasingly complicated information environment, we surface the vital insights and stakeholder connections that help to advance conversations and inform decision-making on the issues that matter, deeply, to the state of our world today.

EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Hala — I hope my experience will help you make an informed decision when choosing car insurance in the UAE. Keep an eye on my blog for more travel and car tips! Safe driving!

MULCAN is the ideal partner for businesses seeking liquidity, growth capital or recapitalization.

Investment focus

Education, 3D Printing, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.
Mecuris — Mecuris strives to be the key enabler for digitally manufactured O&P solutions worldwide. They empower O&P professionals to co-create customised O&P products and enrich wearer’s lives within 24 hours.To reach this goal, they team up with O&P professionals to co-create - with users and wearers - customised O&P products. Theirdigital mindset and 3D printing know-how synergise in the Mecuris Solution Platform, which simplifies the work of O&P professionals and enriches wearers’ lives.The Mecuris Solution Platform uses patient data and scans to semi-automatically individualise 3D designs of patient aids. It makes them ready-to-print at a local 3D printing hub. This enables a 100% customised fit, functionality and look. They thereby cut production times by 75% for the medical practitioners and wearers.

Integrated logistics company and global leader in container shipping.

Investment focus

Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Boxbot — Dynamic storage and retrieval platform that adapts to varying cubic dimensions and eliminates manual pick stations.
WasteFuel — WasteFuel produces renewable fuels using proven technologies to address the climate emergency and revolutionize mobility.
Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.

BackBone Ventures' focus are early-stage investments, primarly in the area of innovative ICT, FoodTech and disruptive technologies in DACH & Israel. Committed to achieve a positive impact for the next generation by empowering access to proficient ventures investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Aepsy — Aepsy is a mental health care located in Zürich,Switzerland and part of the Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services Industry.
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Adon Health — Adon Health is to create a future where innovation, compassion, accessibility, and high-quality medicine revolutionize men's healthcare.

The Middle East/North Africa is the next great investment opportunity. The Middle East has a collective population larger than the US, the vast majority of whom are ‘digital natives‘ (e.g.; under 30) with great appetites for consumer technology products and services. The region boasts higher per capita GDP and more disposable income than Indiaor China. In short, the Middle East is one of the technology sector’s high-growth regions, and offers tremendous potential for expansion in mobile, internet, social media and eCommerce services.Like the BRIC’s and other emerging markets, local partners are key to success. Sawari Ventures is at home in the Middle East, and knows its culture, context and business climate. They have experience and relationships working with technology and investment leaders world-wide. They know how to translate local visionaries into global hits.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
Pearl Semiconductor — Pearl Semiconductor has been developing for the past few years reference clocks and clock generators based on piezoelectric MEMS resonators that are built on top of CMOS

N2V - National Net Ventures, is one of the largest Internet holding groups in Arabia, focused on value creation through building and investing in Arabic consumer web & mobile ventures (e-commerce, digital publishing, social media, Games, mobile apps, web forums, and user generated content), with over 200 employees spread in offices arounddifferent Arab countries and the USA.N2V also continually launches innovative and exciting initiatives focused on fostering digital entrepreneurship in Arabia.A few of their current initiatives include: connecting entrepreneurs together, educating and maturing the market, promoting an Arabic digital ecosystem, and promoting Digital Arabia regionally and globallyN2V is a member of National Technology Group (NTG), the region's largest ICT conglomerate and key provider of financial information and solutions for streaming real-time stock market feeds.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Real Estate, Crowdfunding
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Aqarmap — Aqarmap is a real estate marketplace that specializes in providing real estate management services. It features an online-based platform that allows users to buy, sell, and search for their ideal apartments and houses. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Al Qahirah, Egypt.
Zoomaal — Zoomaal is the leading crowdfunding platform in the Arab world.Zoomaal went live in July, 2013. Semi-finalist in the MIT Arab Enterprise Forum business plan competition, backed by four Middle Eastern venture capital firms and featured on CNN, Wamda, the International Herald Tribune and more, Zoomaal is at the forefront of Arab crowdfunding: helpingpeople empower Arab creativity and culture.

Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

KFOBIX — KFOBIX offers nano-composite materials to prevent freezing and contamination of solar panels, wind turbines, and automobile glass.
DRONEQUBE — DRONEQUBE provides an innovative SaaS solution that empowers drones to monitor and defend vineyard health autonomously, addressing pressing concerns brought about by the climate crisis and increasing labor challenges.
Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions

Investors by industry

FinTech

Consumer

Gaming

Media (entertainment)

EdTech

Artificial intelligence