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Top 20 Marketplace Startup Investors in Kuwait in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Kuwait. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Kuwait. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Marketplace Startup Investors in Kuwait in January 2026

Investor	Marketplace Kuwait investments
Faith Capital	6
BNK Ventures	2
Rasameel Investment Company	2
Impact46	2
Bader Altukhaim	1
Al-Akeel family	1
Al Imtiaz Investment Group	1
Cedar Mundi Ventures	1
KISP Ventures	1
Nizar AlNusif Sons Holding	1
Hope Ventures	1
EWTP Arabia Capital	1
Mohammed Alawadhi	1
Abdullah Marafi	1
Towell Holding International	1
Takamul Capital	1
Dividend Capital	1
Desert Ventures	1
Mad'a Investment Company	1
Soor Capital	1

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
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.

BNK Ventures focuses on early-stage startups across various industries. The firm provides both capital and strategic support to help startups develop their ideas and grow their businesses. By partnering with entrepreneurs, BNK Ventures aims to drive innovation and foster the success of emerging companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, AgTech, Retail
Seed, Series B, 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

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Spoilz — Play innovative new games with Spoilz, your one-stop destination for gaming joy. From casual to strategy, experience the best in gaming today!
Holo — Find your dream home with Holo, the digital home-buying platform in the UAE. Get expert help, compare mortgages, and simplify your journey to ownership!
Starvania Studio — Starvania Studio is an indie game development studio developing fantasy games inspired by Arabian Mythology.

Bader Altukhaim

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.

Al-Akeel family is a family investment office.

Investment focus

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

Al Imtiaz Investment Group is a leading Kuwaiti Sharia'a compliant investment group.

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

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

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%.

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.

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.

Nizar AlNusif Sons Holding

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

Hope Ventures is a non-profit organization that helps marginalized and underserved people with the necessary tools and resources.

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.

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.

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.
Valuable Capital — Valuable Capital is an investment service platform for Hong Kong and U.S. stocks.

Co-Founder of MyHome App.

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.

Abdullah Marafi is the Co-Founder at MyHome. Abdullah Marafi attended Columbia University in the City of New York.

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.

Towell Holding International

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

Takamul Capital is an investment Firm.

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

Dividend Capital is an investment Firm.

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

Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.

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!

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
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
SmartCrowd — Grow your wealth by investing in Dubai real estate with MENA's first regulated crowdfunding platform. Start earning a passive income from day one - no hassle, just returns!

Soor Capital is a private equity real estate firm that provides a variety of services to properties and goods, including the creation, structuring, and delivery of strategies.

Investment focus