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Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia in October 2024

Last updated: Oct 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia in October 2024

Investor	Marketplace Saudi Arabia investments
Vision Ventures	13
Impact46	11
Oqal	8
Raed Ventures	7
RZM Investments	6
Saudi Venture Capital Company	5
Shorooq Partners	5
Elm	5
Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures	5
Khwarizmi Ventures	5
Arzan Venture Capital	5
SEEDRA Ventures	5
Derayah Financial	4
Graphene Ventures	4
VentureSouq	3
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF)	3
HALA Ventures	3
BECO Capital	3
Wa’ed Ventures	2
Elm	2
Saudi Aramco	2
Musaab Hakami	2
Direct Influence	2
Abdulaziz Alyabis	2
Knollwood Investment Advisory	2
Sadu Capital	2
Derayah Venture Capital	2
STV	2
EQ2 Ventures	2
Inspire Ventures	2
MSA Capital	2
Wamda Capital	2
AgFunder	2
Abercross Holdings	2
Alsulaiman Group	1
Global Ventures	1
Abhishek Sharma	1
Dual Gate Investment Holding	1
Ithraa Capital	1
Siraj Holding	1
Jahez International Company	1
Sky Horizon Investment	1
Mist Ventures	1
Plus Venture Capital	1
Ali Aziz	1
Omar Rebhan	1
Mad'a Investment Company	1
DASH Ventures	1
Mentors Fund	1
Class 5 Global	1

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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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
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!

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

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.

A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wafeq — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

RZM Investments manages the shares of various companies that are in the field of health, education, hospitality, and tourism.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Athir — Athir Information Systems Technology offers a cloud-based Healthcare Information System for managing and automating medical services.
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.

SVC has backed 31 VC and PE Funds and 5 Angel Groups that supported 525 Startups and SMEs via $1.6 Billion AUM INVESTMENTS 1.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
BALLURH — A SaaS platform that provides predictive analytics with smart recommendations for Retailers to enhance decision-making, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.
Settle Payments — SETTLE automates enterprise's payments and manages all their bank accounts in one place for better cashflow decisions.
Zyp Technologies — Zyp Technologies produces electric motorcycles intended to accelerate a net-zero carbon emission world. The business provides consumers with electric vehicle models and a broadened battery swap network that makes the switch to electric motorcycles simple.

Elm offer a wide range of ready-made and customized digital solutions in many areas. The company provides products that are seemingly tailored to customers' needs and aspirations.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Reachware — Reachware is the top IPaaS in the Middle East, connecting systems for a unified ecosystem. Trusted by global enterprises. Learn more.
Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.

Wa’ed Ventures is the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center (Wa’ed), established by Saudi Aramco with the vision of igniting the spirit of entrepreneurship in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Wa’ed has deployed a suite of programs over the years to assist entrepreneurs in establishing, enhancing, or expanding their ventures. Theseprograms comprise development and financial support including business incubation, coaching and training to guide and nurture entrepreneurs along different business stages, seed funding, non-collateral loans, venture capital (equity/debt) investment, and business development. These programs support the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) capable of localizing industries and diversifying the Kingdom’s economy. Wa’ed also collaborates and engages with key players in order to create an effective entrepreneurship ecosystem.Wa’ed aspires to provide leadership in promoting entrepreneurship to support economic growth, diversification, and social development in Saudi Arabia, in alignment with the Kingdom’s strategic thrust into moving towards a knowledge-based economy. The organization aims to turn innovative ideas into successful projects, create and support sustainable SMEs, and develop entrepreneurs into successful business owners.Wa’ed Ventures aims to fuel the growth of high potential companies, thereby promoting economic development in Saudi Arabia with job creation for Saudi nationals, technological improvement, knowledge transfer, economic diversification, and economic growth within the Kingdom. The firm focuses on seed, early, and growth-stage businesses across a diverse range of sectors including information and communication technology (ICT), energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and services – from mobile application platforms and technologies to industrial equipment manufacturing to advanced software solutions.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Apps
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, India, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

ELEVATUS — Automate the entire recruitment cycle from creating job requisitions to onboarding new hires - with the #1 AI recruitment software.
OQ TECHNOLOGY — OQ Technology's Satellite 5G IoT - The world's first global satellite 5G operator, that can collect data from more than 1000 sensors, and so providing cellular coverage for assets and machines anywherer in the world.
MANAFA Capital — MANAFA is an online marketplace for investing equity into innovative, early-stage companies. It provides sophisticated investors free access to direct investment opportunities, diligence tools and industry data insights for an asset class that was previously very difficult to access. For entrepreneurs, MANAFA offers an efficient way to access anetwork of sophisticated investors as well as leading partners.

Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms. .

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Yalla Plus — Yalla Plus offers QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants, featuring integrated payments and easy menu management.
Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.
Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

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

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.
Gameball — Gameball is a one-stop platform to market your products and keep your customers engaged, leading to boosted conversion and increased RoI with a data-driven success strategy.
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.

Investment focus

Predictive Analytics, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
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.
Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

Derayah Financial is a financial services firm that has built and operates the first mutual fund supermarket in Saudi Arabia.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Eat App — Powerful restaurant reservation and guest management system. Flexible enough to use at both small and large restaurants. Sign up today. It's free!
Sary — Sary is a B2B marketplace that connects small businesses with suppliers seamlessly. The company's mission is to empower organizations with smarter ways to operate and grow efficiently. Sary was founded in early 2018 by Careem ex-General Manager, Mohammed Aldossary, and his partner Khaled AlSiari, to fix the broken supply chain in thewholesale industry. Today, Sary operates in 12 major cities, where customers can order wholesale items ranging from a box to a truckload in a few clicks to be delivered as fast as 24 hours. Sary served 40,000+ customers, worked with 1700+ brands and wholesalers.
Speero — Speero is an automotive spare part market place.

Graphene - venture fund for innovative startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series F
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Datalogz — Datalogz is a BI Ops solution that enables teams to bridge the gaps in their business intelligence environment.
Start Careers — Start Careers offers Publicize the vacancies in a practical way to the best universities in the country.
Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
LayerPixel — LayerPixel uses a modular design to overcome TON's asynchronous limitations and leverage its sharding benefits.
PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.

Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) is a venture capital fund investing in early stage technology companies around the globe. The fund is interested in post-revenue Seed through Series-B opportunities. RTF was founded by Riyad Capital Co. and TAQNIA and is backed by leading Saudi institutional investors.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Haseel — The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age.
TruKKer — TRUKKER is one of the leading names of logistics & transportation companies in UAE, KSA, Egypt & across the GCC. We offer logistics & transport & truck rental services in the MENA Region. Call us on +971 600-524642.
Eureka — Eureka temp site description

Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
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.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
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!

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Athir — Athir Information Systems Technology offers a cloud-based Healthcare Information System for managing and automating medical services.
Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

Elm

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SMS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Zid زد — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
Cura — Cura Healthcare is a Saudi leading telehealth provider that provides digital health and telemedicine software and services. The company has developed state-of-the-art technologies to empower health communications, changing the way patients and doctors interact, diagnose, prescribe, give second opinions, manage chronic diseases, and provide primaryhealth care and well-being therapy sessions. For more information: https://cura.healthcare/en/
Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.

At Aramco, our behavior is what defines us - as a company, as employees, as people. Everything we do is anchored by our corporate values: citizenship, safety, accountability, excellence and integrity.

Investment focus

Energy, Oil and Gas, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

TipRanks — TipRanks stock market research and analysis, lets you see the track record and measured performance of any analyst or blogger, so you know who to trust!
Rongsheng Petrochemical — Rongsheng Petrochemical produces, markets, and sells petrochemicals, chemical fibers, and other related products in China and internationally. It offers synthetic fibers and films, including fiber and film grade polyester chips, bottle grade polyester chips, polyester pre-oriented yarns, draw textured yarns, fully drawn yarns, and PET films;synthetic raw materials, such as purified terephthalic acids, ethylene oxides, triethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, and P-xylene; and synthetic resins comprising ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, high density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene, and polypropylene. Rongsheng Petrochemical also provides olefins consisting of butene-1, hexene-1, butadiene, propylene, and ethylene; aromatics and phenols, including cumene, acetone, phenol, styrene, ethylbenzene, xylene, mixed aromatics, methylbenzene, and purified petroleum benzine; and acrylonitrile and special chemical products, such as dimethyl carbonate, methyl methacrylate, polycarbonate, bisphenol A, acetonitrile, and acrylonitrile. Moreover, it offers intermediate and chemical raw materials comprising iso-butane, n-butane, petroleum cokes, liquid argons, liquid ammonia, methanol, liquid petroleum gas, isooctane, methyl tert-butyl ether, industrial hexane, pentane foamer, industrial aromatic hydrocarbons, high-flash aromatic naphthas, ethylene bottom oils, splitting decomposition C9 and C5, and sulphur; and oil products, such as jet fuels, diesel, and gasoline. Rongsheng Chemical Fiber Group that began operation in 1995 became Rongsheng Petrochemical in September 2007. It has its headquarters in Hangzhou in China as a subsidiary of Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group.
Geely-Renault Powertrain Co. — Geely-Renault Powertrain Co. develop and supply hybrid and internal combustion engines (ICE). It's a joint venture between Geely and Renault.

GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Pluto (getpluto.com) — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community

Direct Influence is a growth hacking company, working with passionate professionals, influencers and entrepreneurs to influentialy hack growth for the good of all.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.

Abdulaziz Alyabis

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Electronics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Rewaa | رواء — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.

Knollwood Investment Advisory is focused on financing companies in the internet security sector.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, India

Portfolio highlights

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
Hypernative — Detect attacks in progress & prevent loses in real time by proactively monitoring on and off chain data sources and help mitigate security, governance and financial risks with early warnings & actionable insights.
Linx Security — The Linx Identity Security platform enables identity, security, and IT ops teams to finally control the whole identity lifecycle. A radical departure from legacy identity security solutions, Linx untangles the complex, ever-evolving web of identity security. Integrating smoothly with your IAM stack, Linx pulls together all your organization’sidentity data—organizing it neatly to reveal the hidden links between your employees, their digital identities, and the apps, software, platforms, and programs they have access to. Enabling you to continuously reduce your identity attack surface and swiftly close gaps in compliance.

Sadu assist pre-seed, seed, and series A businesses in reaching the stage when they may get growth financing. Founded in 2021.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Scalers — Scalers is a one-stop shop for Saudi youth to enter the job market, through enhancing their skills for modern employment, as well as connecting them to employers both within and outside its network.
Reachware — Reachware is the top IPaaS in the Middle East, connecting systems for a unified ecosystem. Trusted by global enterprises. Learn more.
OTO — OTO is SaaS company that helps retailers implement their Omni-Channel strategy by enabling them to ship their online orders directly from the physical stores with the best delivery partners in just 2 hours! Also, we provide Online Retailers and E-commerce companies access to ship packages with more than 80 delivery & carrier companies shipping domestically and internationally.

Derayah Venture Capital is a Venture Capital Fund That Invests in High Growth Startups across the MENA region.

Investment focus

Predictive Analytics, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Eat App — Powerful restaurant reservation and guest management system. Flexible enough to use at both small and large restaurants. Sign up today. It's free!
Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
Sanad Cash — faster reconciliation and books closing

STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.
Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.

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.
Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Venture Capital Company based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that Invests in Seed & Early-Growth stage companies

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
WakeCap Technologies — WakeCap Technologies RTLS is an IoT-based enterprise solution designed to support the digitization process of work sites, Construction, Oil and Gas, Industrial, Manufacture.

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
DP Technology — DP Technology is a global leader in the "AI for Science" research paradigm, where AI learns scientific principles and data, then tackles key challenges in scientific research and industrial R&D.DP's commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to the creation of the DP "Particle Universe", an array of pre-trainedlarge science models designed to bridge foundational research with practical industrial applications. DP's software suite includes the Bohrium® Scientific Research Space, Hermite® Computational Drug Design Platform, RiDYMO® Dynamics Platform, and Piloteye® Battery Design Automation Platform. Together, these platforms form a robust foundation for industrial innovation and an open ecosystem for AI in science, fostering advancements in key areas such as drug discovery, energy, material science, and information technology.
DP Technology — Deep Technology uses a new generation of molecular simulation technology to tackle micro-scale industrial design difficulties. Founded in 2018 and is based in Beijing China.

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.

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

BioDefense — BioDefense presents Bioshield, which is made from food to protect your food, and it maximizes safety, freshness, and self-life for any fresh produce.
Wittaya Aqua — A better approach to aquaculture management
Cargill Hong Kong — Cargill Hong Kong is an agricultural technology service provider dedicated to optimizing food production and supply chain management with sophisticated agricultural technologies, resulting in increased sustainability and efficiency in agricultural production.

Investing in privately owned, profitable, high growth, medium sized UK companies.

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Software
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
Saudi Arabia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
Complete Business Solutions — Complete Business Solutions provides affordable business solutions for accounting, payroll, human resource, and personnel needs.

Here you will find an in-depth review of our company and its subsidiaries, reflecting our pride in our ongoing growth and success.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, Real Estate
Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Salasa — offer total solutions for your e-commerce needs and manage your complete logistics value chain. Our fulfillment services offer a cost-effective way to store your products without adding to overhead costs.Salasa provides superior pick-up and pack services with multiple shipping options that keep your products moving fast while reducing operationalexpenses. Salasa provides you with the peace of mind to focus on the task ahead: taking your e-commerce to the next level.
Deal App — Deal App operates as an real estate app. Deal App designs an intricate digital solution by adopting the 'request-oriented business model', in which property seekers submit their requests through the app to receive appropriate offers directly from the active agents in the neighborhoods they are targeting.

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.

Abhishek is the Co-Founder and COO of Fashinza, a global tech-enabled manufacturing company helping Fashion brands source apparel using data and cloud that is more sustainable, ethical, inclusive, fast, and efficient. Fashinza is funded by leading VCs, Accel Partners, Elevation Capital, Prosus Ventures (Naspers), Westbridge, and ADQ UAE.He hasextensive experience in product & technology, building start-ups like Flipkart (India’s leading eCommerce platform acquired by Walmart), LimeRoad, Curofy (acquired by RoundGlass USA) & BharatPe. He is also a writer and guest author for ProductSchool, Hackernoon, Prototypr, and Noteworthy

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
Produze — AI assistant that understands the relationships among hundreds of Amazon sub-metrics and identifies the root cause of sales fluctuations in minutes.
Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.

Dual Gate Investment Holding

Investment focus

B2C, SaaS, Beauty
Seed
Saudi Arabia

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.

Ithraa Capital is a company that specializes in Investment services.

Investment focus

B2C, SaaS, Beauty
Seed
Saudi Arabia

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.

Siraj Holding invests in financial, industrial, property development, general trading and oil & gas sectors.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.

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

E-Commerce, Software, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain

Portfolio highlights

Bonat — Bonat is a customer engagement solution that provides advanced tools to help in managing businesses.
Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
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.

Saudi Arabian business culture is largely influenced by the collectivist nature of Saudi society. The most important social unit is the group, a close family, extended family, or extended relationships, to which loyalty and respect is due. Thus, Saudi Arabian Business community will prefer doing business with those they know and trust.

Investment focus

Fruit, E-Commerce
Series A
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Haseel — The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age.

They invest in the pre-seed/seed stages of scalable technology-based companies aiming for large international markets. The business shall be able to operate long term, with a core of future-proof technologies.Mist Ventures invests in technology-based companies (deep tech) based on proprietary technology superior to to competition.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
IntuiCell — IntuiCell develops a fundamentally new recursive computing architecture and associated technology platform.
Oktogrid — Electrification is taking place at a rate, where conventional methods for inspection, maintenance, and congestion management no longer match the new energy scenario. Distribution transformers are ageing blind spots today with no access to online, real-time performance data. This is because getting access to data is hard. We have solved this problem.

Plus VC is regulated by ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority for the provision of Managing a Collective Investment Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Hayi — Hayi is a free, private social network for neighbourhoods in the UAE. The mobile application provides neighbours with an exclusive platform to connect, share information and befriend those in close proximity.
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.
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!

Ali Aziz is a Founder and CEO at XStak Inc. He attended Free University of Brussels.

Investment focus

B2B, EdTech, Retail
Pre-Seed, Angel
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nearpeer.org — Nearpeer is Pakistan's first largest online learning platform providing students with ease of learning at very reasonable prices. Register today.
Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
Grandeur — One platform to rule all of IoT. Grandeur is message broker, auth, storage and app builder in a single package.

Early Stage Angel Investor, Market Entry & Growth Strategist

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Coffee
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Coffinado — Coffinado is an e-Commerce platform providing a variety of coffee beans to customers & coffee shops from self-owned roasters.
PerchPeek — PerchPeek is the easiest way to relocate your employees to hundreds of destinations around the world. With support globally from the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, AND MORE!
Space Nation — Otherworldly Missions in a rising community of Universal Citizens

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

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 — Don't wait for drivers to deliver your packages! Instead, use RedBox lockers to ship your packages and collect them at your convenient time. No human contact!
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

At the core of our ethos is a firm belief in human potential and the promise of a better future. We forge lasting legacies by partnering with founders who are obsessed with redefining paradigms and building companies that will transcend generations.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Jordan, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.

Mentors Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in capital-efficient startups that aim to digitally disrupt traditional businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Pakistan, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
PartnerSlate — PartnerSlate is an online platform that helps food and beverage brands make the right strategic partnerships to get their next product to market. Brands can discover, connect and build relationships with contract manufacturers and other food industry partners across North America.
PartnerSlate — PartnerSlate is an online platform that helps food and beverage brands make the right strategic partnerships to get their next product to market. Brands can discover, connect, and build relationships with contract manufacturers and other food industry partners across North America.

Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
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
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

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