Top 10 Marketplace Startup Investors in Bahrain (August 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Recycling, E-Commerce, Coffee
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
Geography: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $48k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $265k–$500k
Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

Glamera — Glamera B2B2C: SaaS platform to power beauty salons, spa, Gym and barber shops, to optimize sales, booking, marketing, inventory and HR. Glamera White Label: Every service provider can create his own website, to help his customer in pre-booking his services. Glamera B2C: Mobile application for end user to book beauty and wellness appointment.
Ahlan App — Ahlan App offers users a safe and simple way to earn credit for recurrent online purchases and visits to selected merchants.
FabricAID — FabricAID collects, sorts, and redistributes second-hand clothes at micro prices to marginalized communities reducing fabric waste.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 127
Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Nqoodlet — Nqoodlet is a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance

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Majed Alkhan is the vice chairman of Infracorp.

Investment focus

Industry: Furniture, Manufacturing
Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Bahrain

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

YAS Holding — YAS Holding is a manufacturer of Furniture and Home Furnishings.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $1M–$21M; Series A $7M–$18M; Series B $15M–$50M
Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

Doos — Shop groceries, beauty, gifting, and lifestyle products from Doos Store. Fast delivery in minutes across Saudi Arabia. Discover a wide range of high-quality...
Moyasar — Moyasar is an online payment gateway that provides electronic payment solutions.
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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, SaaS, Internet
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

Total investments: 59
Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $180k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$25M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Yasmina — Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services.
yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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Suhail Al Gossaibi is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace
Stage:Seed
Geography: Bahrain

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Siin — E-commerce Marketplace

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Abdulla Al-Mutawa is based out of Kuwait and is the Founder and CEO of Get CARI. Abdulla previously worked at Carriage as a Co-Founder and CEO.Abdulla Al-Mutawa attended Tennessee Technological University.

Investment focus

Industry: Delivery, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed
Geography: Bahrain

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Parcel — Bahrain's delivery platform for instant, same-day & next-day courier service. Last-mile delivery for restaurants and e-commerce across Bahrain.

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VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

Total investments: 192
Round size: Seed $589k–$8.4M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!

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