Top 10 Marketplace Startup Investors in Bahrain in July 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Bahrain. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Bahrain. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Marketplace Startup Investors in Bahrain in July 2025
Investor | Marketplace Bahrain investments |
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Hope Ventures | 4 |
Jahez International Company | 1 |
Abdulla Al-Mutawa | 1 |
Oqal | 1 |
Majed Alkhan | 1 |
Faith Capital | 1 |
Arzan Venture Capital | 1 |
Tenmou | 1 |
Al Watan Holding | 1 |
Hope Ventures | 1 |
Hope Ventures will empower and invest in the next generation of promising Bahraini entrepreneurs. Our mission is to identify ambitious entrepreneurs and provide them with the necessary tools, resources, and networks to scale and thrive in the region's entrepreneurship landscape.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Coffee, Restaurants
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Bahrain, Oman, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ReQahwa — ReQahwa is a coffee upcycling startup that transforms coffee waste grounds into sustainable and bio-degradable products.
- Ahlan App — Ahlan App offers users a safe and simple way to earn credit for recurrent online purchases and visits to selected merchants.
- Thiqa Tutoring — Thiqa Tutoring (TT) is Tutors Providers, by customers, for educational and teaching services. International educational and teaching methodologies and standards.
Jahez is a Saudi company that facilitates an online food delivery platform to unite stakeholders from restaurants, logistic fleet, and customers to deliver meal orders into Jahez Mobile Application. Jahez emerged to design and develop in-house software, the best-integrated solution with advanced features & functions since 2014 to matchcustomers' expectations of a perfect experience. The company launched its services in the market of Saudi Arabia in September 2016. Jahez has utilized state-of-the-art technology to embed the big data techniques with data platforms and use all artificial intelligence tools, machine learning solutions too. The ongoing information technology and network infrastructure rapid development & integration make the Jahez application more reliable to customers' trust to place orders. Automate share location, personal data access, pay online with credit or debit trusty cards, and more to be appreciated quickly. Thus, merchants or restaurants share the same enthusiasm of being part of the platform to connect their customers' desires of food types and enjoy offline dine-in service at home or office among friends and family. Meanwhile, the fleet of drivers is linked with the service to dispatch orders from each restaurant allocated kitchen on the map to the customer doorstep with the most convenient way and time.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain
Portfolio highlights
- Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
- GrubTech — An end-to-end kitchen management platform with food aggregator, online ordering, POS, ERP and 3pl integrations; to streamline online food delivery orders and create efficiencies for delivery-centric restaurants and cloud kitchens (ghost kitchens, dark kitchens, virtual kitchens).
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Abdullah Al Mutawa is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at The Taken Seat.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Bahrain
Portfolio highlights
- Parcel — The BEST delivery service in BAHRAIN! You do not need to hire a driver, register with Parcel Delivery the fastest delivery service in Bahrain for free, and pay only when you deliver! Start Delivery What is Parcel Delivery Parcel Delivery is the fastest delivery service in Bahrain, Register now to deliver to your end.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- TruBuild — AI pre-construction tool to review tenders, compare bids, and manage contracts, faster decisions, fewer errors, less admin.
Majed Alkhan is the vice chairman of Infracorp.
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Investment focus
- Furniture, Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- Bahrain
Portfolio highlights
- YAS Holding — YAS Holding is a manufacturer of Furniture and Home Furnishings.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
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- 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.
Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
- Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
- Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.
Tenmou is Bahrain´s first Business Angels Company, which provides both mentor-ship and capital to high-potential, innovative Bahraini entrepreneurs from the seed stage. Through the support and mentor-ship provided by our Angel shareholders, all of whom are established businessmen and successful entrepreneurs in their own right, we look to givethese new entrepreneurs the greatest chance of success.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
- Tajweed — Tajweed is the first Arabic-language portal that teaches young people to recite the Holy Quran and revive their Arabic language skills.
- Travilege — Travilege provides a comprehensive B2B2C ERP SaaS platform to travel agents and operators. Its technology digitizes day-to-day operations, automates reservation processes, and promotes cooperation via an e-Hub.
Al Watan Holding is a private investment company with a diverse portfolio of subsidiaries, partnerships, and strategic investments.
Al Watan Holding manages to compete in sectors with major players by fostering innovative R&D, conducting good business practices and reinforcing determination to succeed.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Big Data
- Series A
- Bahrain
Portfolio highlights
- inagrab — Inagrab is a company with a mission to bridge the gap between businesses and people by monetizing word of mouth using their core product called Dalooni. Dalooni is platform connects businesses with a sales force consisting of the everyday individual without technically paying them a salary, and helps the unemployed youth of the MENA Region getaccess to a source of income and enhance their business development capabilities gradually.
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 — Get you E-Shop online on Social Media, Own Your Business Data & Analyze it To Grow Your Business & have your marketing & Delivery sorted headache free All in Minutes
- YAS Holding — YAS Holding is a manufacturer of Furniture and Home Furnishings.
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