Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in United Arab Emirates (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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19 | United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps | $170k–$3M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $14k–$1.5M |
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BECO Capital
VC Fund
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9 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology | $905k–$60M |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $750k–$33M |
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $570k–$15M |
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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8 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $420k–$110M |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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7 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $100k–$10M |
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $60k–$27M |
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BY Venture Partners
VC Fund
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6 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1M–$70M |
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
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6 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Internet | $284k–$25M |
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising | $1.1M–$15M |
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B&Y Venture Partners
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $753k–$70M |
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $180k–$25M |
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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $550k–$5.6M |
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Chalhoub Group
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Apps, Retail | |
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Faith Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $100k–$50M |
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SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics | $120k–$35M |
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Global Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$50M |
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Phoenician VC
VC Fund
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3 | Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $700k–$8.4M |
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Class 5 Global
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $300k–$23M |
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AMK Investment Office
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $655k–$41M |
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Signal Peak Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.3M–$25M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$33M |
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $400k–$33M |
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software | $100k–$12M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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3 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $104k–$29M |
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $5.3M–$250M |
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Enabling Future
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | $500k–$2M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $250k–$50M |
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COTU Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $300k–$37M |
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Presight Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services | |
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Joa Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Information Technology, Apps | |
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VentureFriends
VC Fund
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2 | Greece, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $105k–$25M |
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce | $600k–$42M |
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Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$126M |
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Knollwood Investment Advisory
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $2M–$50M |
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Valia Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Egypt, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $750k–$30M |
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Prosper global
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Convertible Note | SaaS, Payments, Logistics | $285k–$715k |
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6G Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Convertible Note | Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants | |
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STC Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey | Series C, Series B, Series A | Fashion, FinTech, Finance | $2.4M–$175M |
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Saned Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals | $550k–$20M |
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MSA Novo
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | |
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AngelSpark
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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AlRajhi Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Series A, Seed | SaaS, Travel Agency, Subscription Service | |
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Simile Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, India, Spain | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Apps | $240k–$5M |
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Knuru Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Spain, Kenya | Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Banking, FinTech | $2.5M–$15M |
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STV
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics | $2.1M–$54M |
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Enhance Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | B2B, Logistics, E-Commerce | |
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NB Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce | $500k–$12M |
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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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Eyewa — Eyewa is the first dedicated online eyewear store for the Middle East. We have thousands of different eyeglasses, sunglasses, color contact lenses and prescription contact lenses for you to choose from. On Eyewa, you’ll find quintessentially cool brands like Ray-Ban and Emporio Armani, heritage brands like Burberry and Persol, high-fashion brandslike Fendi, Dolce & Gabbanaand Prada sporty brands like Nike and Lacoste and everything in between. Discover their brands portfolio with thousands of styles here.
- Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $170k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- AlgoDriven — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
- Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $14k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $32k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Emonovo — Best Study Abroad Partner in MENA to Find programs and universities around the world Emo was the 1st international student, now it is your turn to study abroad. Emonovo used to be named Marj3 which was highest reach scholarship portal in the MENA region.
- Brimore — Brimore is a social commerce platform connecting emerging brand owners with a network of resellers who market and sell their products using social media.
- Let'sGrant — Let’sGrant is a point of sale lending platform, partnering with lenders and consumer goods stores to make the lending process fast, simple and flexible for everyone. With a vision to be internationally recognized as a driving force in personal and consumer loans in the MENA region, Let’sGrant will soon be launching the first online peer to peerlending platform for personal loans in the MENA region which connects individual investors directly to potential borrowers in search of funding through debt.
BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $905k–$9.5M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $6.8M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019
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
- Abwaab — Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outsidethe classroom.
- BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $750k–$11M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Virtualness — Track and grow your brand's visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot. OptimizeGEO measures AI share of voice, citations, sentiment, and AI search visibility.
- Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
- 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.
Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $570k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
- Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
- Silkhaus — Silkhaus makes living comfortable and convenient through 24/7 mobile support and a digital concierge.
MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
- HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
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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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- 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 an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
- Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
- Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $2.6M–$20M; Series B $5M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Huspy — Huspy is a proptech based in Dubai redefining the home financing process through a user friendly digital experience that puts the buyer first.
- Maket — Maket puts generative architecture at the center of a collaborative workspace where architects and clients can explore and iterate through early design concepts faster.
- Invisible Technologies — Invisible is a business process automation platform that automates repetitive digital work by managing and outsourcing recurring tasks to human agents. We call it worksharing.
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Browse database — It's Free!The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $284k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.5M; Series A $800k–$25M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
- Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- 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!
Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coraly — Coraly is a real estate growth platform that unifies listings, leads, transactions, marketing, and compliance in one AI-powered system for agents and teams.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $753k–$9M; Series A $2.5M–$20M; Series B $5M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
- Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
- Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $500k–$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
- Carseer — Carseer is a vehicle history reporting platform that offers vehicle history reports, enabling its users to make an informed decision when buying a new/used car.
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
- Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.
At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
Discover the world of Chalhoub Group, the leader in luxury retail and innovative solutions. Explore our collection of luxury brands, services and initiatives shaping the industry today
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zbooni — Customers are most receptive on social and messaging apps today. Bring the checkout experience to them, in real-time.
- Wethenew — Acquistate le vostre autentiche sneakers prodotti streetwear in edizione limitata in modo sicuro e protetto su wethenew.com!
- WILLY CHAVARRIA — WILLY CHAVARRIA Official Online Store.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $100k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
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.
SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$525k; Series A $1.3M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- 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.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
- Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.
- Tarjama — Translation services, certified translation agency, legal translation, medical translation, website translation, video translation, and subtitling.
Founded in 2015, Phoenician Funds is at the heart of thriving capitals of digital innovation and startup ecosystems in the Middle East and North Africa ...
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Go Rise — Go Rise is a start-up building a financial services platform for migrants.
- Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.
- TWIG — TWIG is a Bank Agnostic Automated Savings Platform in the MENA region. Our flagship app provides Automated Saving Plans to help users save better; a Smart Budgeting tool with tailored insights; and Smart, customizable and user-specific Goals.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$5M; Series A $8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- PAYZE — PAYZE is a tech-enabled API-based payment gateway that instantly onboards online merchants and provides online marketplaces capability to define any number of relevant split schemes. PAYZE provides an environment for online marketplaces to define payment split schemes once and never again worry about additional accounting or risks with taxes. This“automated ecosystem” enables marketplaces to scale their products without worrying about a settlement between all actors on their platforms nor checks from relevant tax authorities.
- Telda — The easiest way to send, spend and save money. Open your account for free directly from your phone and start dealing with your money the easy way
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
AMK Investment Office is a generation private family office.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $655k–$10M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $7.5M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.
- Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
Backing early-stage SaaS and tech breakthroughs.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $7.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $16M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Hubpay — All-in-one global payments platform for UAE businesses. Sign up for free or talk to our specialists to open a business account today & expand your business globally.
- Pronto — Hit Labs is a technology company that develops applications designed to connect people to those who will help them succeed in school, in work, and in life.
- Syxsense — Revolutionize your endpoint and vulnerability management with Syxsense. Get real-time visibility & control over all your endpoints.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 824
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
- Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
- Zarya App — Earn without investment.
Founded in 2010, Orbit is the Emerging Markets VC investing in tech companies that digitize traditional industries and help people raise their living standards all in a more sustainable way. Orbit provides a lifetime program with hands-on support for partnerships, business development, fundraising, growth, and an initial investment package andfollow-on funding. The firm focuses on digitalization across e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics sectors.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $100k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$500k; Series A $7.3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
Portfolio highlights
- esportsXO — esportsXO is a tournament discovery platform with largest pool of esports content creators and professional esports players. It owns several tournament IPs and country's largest, first of it's kind gaming house callee XOspace.
- TradeTogether — TradeTogether Home Page 2022
- Umrah Companions — Umrah Companions is a booking portal that offers Pilgrimage packages to meet a variety of needs and budgets.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1206
- Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qeeper — On-demand property maintenance across London, Edinburgh and Brighton
- Twisty — Use our character engine to make your message come alive
- EnterMeme — meme.market is where you coin the best meme
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 361
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$40M; Series B $10M–$90M; Series C $15M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Dataroid — Enterprise-level digital analytics and customer engagement platform that helps enhance every customer interaction with data-driven insights.
- Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
- Kumu Holdings — kumu is a pinoy community platform where you can just hang out, explore the many livestreams the Kumunity has to offer, meet and chat with fellow Filipinos all around the world
Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
- Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
- Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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 — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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Browse database — It's Free!COTU stands for Champions Of The Underdog. We are on a mission to reinvent how seed investing is done in the Middle East by backing extraordinary founders and showing them how to believe in themselves when they are at the loneliest, earliest, and most challenging parts of their journeys.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $3.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $12M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
- Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
- Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.
A simple static landing page for Presight Capital.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
Joa Capital: Pioneers in financing technology and innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
- Markopolo ai — Markopolo is a complete paid marketing suite that helps you launch targeted ads in seconds. Generate the perfect creative and AI-powered copy, schedule posts ahead of time to save time and get real-time analytics on how well they perform! If you’re looking for a smarter, faster way to create ads and automate the boring parts of ad management,there’s a tool you need to meet.We have built the software for cookieless era. We use server side pixel to gather lossless data from each and every attribution point. Business that adopt Markopolo see 34% reduction in Cost per click, 41% increase in Conversion rate and 30% increase in Budget spending efficiency within first few campaigns. These are the benchmarks achieved with the algorithms behind Marokopolo, and we have just started! We provide an end to end solution in Paid Marketing, which is critical for a modern marketing team manager to improve efficiency. Finding the right audience to target is a complicated science that we have cracked at Markopolo. We have a patent pending status in USPTO on it. Lastly getting real-time analytics from all these platforms and actionable suggestions from Markopolo algorithm completes the whole user journey.Features: - Integrates with Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads and YouTube - Built in Campaign Manager for scheduling and managing all the ads from one place - Ad Engine that monitors and optimises all the Ads 24/7 - Suggestion Engine that guides like a professional marketer - Get a holistic overview of all the metrics from all the campaigns in one dashboard - Ad Maker that comes with AI Generated Copy and Creatives - Targeting AI generates custom Audience presets - GDPR Compliant1,000+ businesses use Markopolo to automate their campaign creation and management in Social and Search Ad platforms.Try us out- https://www.markopolo.ai/Watch our product demo- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VExF-j9sdg&t=87sWatch this how to get started video series- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFsYkb4YvQ&list=PLG1FKDs4H_wGH0NfxNflJgr0WVzn6m8Pj
- medIQ — Do you need stress-free employee healthcare funds management services? Then MedIQ is here to provide you with the best cost-effective services. Reach us Today!
VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $424k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $105k–$3M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
- Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.
- Proportunity — Proportunity is a technology-driven mortgage lender. The company pushes the edge on real estate data-driven investment insights. It uses machine learning to accurately forecast house prices and up-and-coming areas, providing loans to buyers looking to purchase homes in forecasted high-growing areas.Vadim Toader and Stefan Boronea startedProportunity in 2016, which is headquartered in London, England.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
- PostEx — Instant & upfront payments for e-commerce stores offering Cash on Delivery. Get seamless COD, growth capital, and nationwide same-day delivery with PostEx!
Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $5M–$21M; Series B $3.7M–$126M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Neuron Factory — Neuron Factory is an AI technology company specializing in the development of advanced AI coworker platforms designed for complex enterprise environments, with an initial focus on the construction industry. The company’s platform leverages a proprietary enterprise task graph, enabling AI agents to intelligently coordinate, delegate tasks, andfacilitate real-time decision-making across large organizations.
- Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.
- Dandelion Health AI — Dandelion Health AI develops a clinical data and artificial intelligence platform that enables life sciences companies and researchers to analyze real-world patient data and accelerate drug development and clinical research. The company provides a precision medicine platform that aggregates multimodal healthcare data, including clinical notes,medical images, and physiological waveforms, into a unified dataset representing patient journeys over time. Its platform applies validated AI models to transform large volumes of unstructured clinical data into structured, research-ready datasets, allowing researchers to uncover insights into disease progression, treatment effectiveness, and patient outcomes. This capability enables more comprehensive analysis compared to traditional datasets that rely primarily on structured records such as claims or diagnostic codes.
Knollwood Investment Advisory is focused on financing companies in the internet security sector.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $7.1M–$33M; Series B $7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
- Zafran Security — Zafran Risk Mitigation Platform defuses threat exploitation by mobilizing existing security tools
- Empower Semiconductor — Empower's integrated voltage regulators deliver ultrafast transient response, high power density and vertical power delivery for AI & HPC processors.
Valia is a venture capital firm backing founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Egypt, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $2M–$17M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1.6M; Series A $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Shield Bio — At Shield, we’re ensuring that antibiotic resistance doesn’t become more deadly than cancer.In 2050 more people will be dying of antibiotic resistant pathogens than cancer. Infections that were once treatable with a simple oral antibiotics are now requiring complex, painful treatments and resulting in serious health complications for patients.Gonorrhea is one such infection, having become resistant to over 10 different antibiotics, they have only one treatment that is still effective and resistance to this has already begun to emerge. With 820,000 new infections every year in the US, antibiotic resistance will spread quickly, which is why the CDC has resistant gonorrhea at an urgent threat level, the highest level available.Shield's novel genomic testing platform enables STI clinics to identify the antibiotic resistant strains of gonorrhea and other pathogens that their patients have, so they can select the correct antibiotics and halt the spread of antibiotic resistance.
- Eloquent AI — Eloquent AI is the first AI Operator built specifically for financial services to automate complex, regulated customer service operations beyond frontline support. Our AI Operator learns to securely navigate your existing systems simply by observing your standard operating procedures—automating up to 96% of tasks without any engineering effort.
- Mecha Health — Mecha Health is a healthtech company that develops digital tools for remote injury assessment, monitoring, and treatment plans.
Venture capital, M&A, Real-Estate, Pharma
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- Industry: SaaS, Payments, Logistics
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Convertible Note $285k–$715k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.
6G Capital is the family office arm of the Allana Group, which invests in diverse sectors ranging from retail, healthcare, and fintech.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ChatFood — ChatFood is a commission-free ordering platform that enables restaurants to take back control of their online business and sell via Instagram, WhatsApp, social media, and websites with built-in online payments solutions, third-party logistics integration, and marketing tools.
- BuyAnyAutoPart — BuyAnyAutoPart agggregates the market prices for all the parts a garage needs and at any moment allows theme to see those prices.
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Browse database — It's Free!STC Ventures is an independently managed venture capital fund whose anchor investor is the Saudi Telecom Company. Our goal is to empower entrepreneurs to create market leading technology businesses. We are focused on equity investments that will help to build leading companies in the information technology, telecommunications, and digitalmedia/entertainment sectors. One of the key objectives of our fund is to support the development of innovative technology companies in the GCC, wider MENA region and Turkey, in addition to funding globally minded international companies seeking capital and access to the MENA region.
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- Industry: Fashion, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$5.5M; Series B $3.5M–$12M; Series C $5.4M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Modanisa — Modanisa is an online fashion retailer for women's Islamic clothing, dresses and accessories. The site offers clothing and accessories to women of all ages and offers shipping and delivery all over the world. The site also trends latest hijab styles for women along with fashion tips for the Muslim regions. Designer abayas and jilbabs, Kayra,Armine, Aker and Tekbir are also sold online.
- Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
- yallacompare — Compare the best car insurance, credit card and personal loan providers in Dubai & the UAE with yallacompare
Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $550k–$1.3M; Series A $800k–$11M; Series B $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
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- Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
- Mumzworld — Shop at Mumzworld, the leading online store for newborn and child essentials across the Middle East and worldwide. Find motherhood must-haves and shop today!
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
Originating from the dynamic hub of Dubai, AngelSpark is revolutionizing the angel investment landscape. More than just an investment group, AngelSpark is a confluence of community-driven collaboration, flexibility in investment, and a genuine desire to uplift founders from the get-go. Our mission is straight forward: to cultivate an environmentwhere founders, especially those in their earliest stages, can thrive, innovate, and scale with the right resources and backing. We invest from $100K and lead larger syndicates in exceptional founders at the earliest stages to help them launch new ideas, create new companies, go to market, and win first customers.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HeroGo — HeroGo is a provider of subscription service for reclaimed food produce.
- Retailhub — Retailhub is a platform that allows merchants and aggregators to connect directly.
- MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
AlRajhi Partners is a leading multi-asset class investment firm. We are prudent ethical investors with a diversified portfolio of assets across the world.
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- Industry: SaaS, Travel Agency, Subscription Service
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mamo — Experience the ease of sending and receiving money with Mamo. No beneficiaries. No fees. No IBANs. Money is made for living. Move your money, at your pace.
- invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
- FlyAkeed — FlyAkeed is the only app that enables you to browse fully-booked flights and waitlist to issue your ticket once your seat becomes available again.
Simile Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focusing on internet, mobile and technology startups across the world. It was founded by a team with domain expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Its priority markets are in Europe, South-East Asia, India, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.For more information, visit:www.simileventure.com (http://www.simileventure.com/)
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, India, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1M; Series A $240k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- slice — slice is a one-stop payment app for all spending needs. Their goal is to make money management simpler & faster for their users. It is backed by leading investors such as Tiger Global, Insight partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.
- Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.
Based out of Dubai, Knuru pursues equity and credit opportunities in fintech and marketplaces across the GCC, Africa and Southern Europe. The management is led by a team of investors and entrepreneurs bringing to venture capital extensive cross-asset class experience dedicated to supporting high growth businesses.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Spain, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series C $3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savana — Electronic Health Records reuse, with Clinical Natural Language Processing.
- Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.
- The Giving Movement — Sustainable Activewear & Streetwear Clothing | Made in UAE | $4 per item donated to charity | Gym Clothing & Workout Clothes
STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$25M; Series A $8M–$28M; Series B $20M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $800M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- 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.
- zenda — zenda is a fintech app for families. It enables families to pay school bills with pay-now and pay-later options, unlocking rewards when ever they pay.
Enhance is already live in 7 countries and can rapidly develop vertical marketplaces across Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey with a higher chance of success.
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- Industry: B2B, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Right Farm — right farm is a B2B eCommerce and supply-chain company that sources food from farmers for foodservice businesses, addressing global challenges in the procurement and supply chain of fresh produce. right farm was created with one mission in mind, to improve the food supply chain. We are here to make it simpler, smarter, and more sustainable - allthrough the use of data and technology. Our control of the supply chain and our use of predictive technology facilitates routing, operations, and purchasing, designed to provide a seamless and convenient end-to-end process from farm to table. Our mission doesn't stop there, we have built our business model with the environment in mind, which means we are committed to reducing waste across our supply chain, lessening carbon footprint by supporting local farmers, and building a restorative and regenerative value chain.
- Blue Terra — Blue Terra is membership-based organic and sustainable online grocer.
NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $2.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WickedGud — WickedGud is to make eating guilt-free, and change the way the world consumes comfort foods for the better by using indigenous, high nutrition ingredients.
- Bigspoon — We are an omni-channel multi-brand Cloud kitchen start-up, operational since September 2019 and headquartered out of Ahmedabad. Our main focus is on tier-2 markets, with a vision to minimize the delta between fine-dine and home-delivery experience for the customer and make great food accessible to all. Currently we have six live brands under theBigspoon umbrella - Makhni Brothers (Authentic North Indian Cuisine), Meals101 (Chinese and Global Meals-for-one), Oven & Grill (American Fast-food) and our latest offering, Thali Central (Thali meals ), The Wrap Co. (Roomali Wraps Brand) and The Monkey Fries (Fries brand) and have presence in 10 cities across Gujarat, MP, Maharashtra, Telengana, UP and RajasthanFounded by INSEAD and WGSHA alumni, with leadership experience at Uber, GoJek and ITC, we are on a mission to create the finest cloud kitchen start-up of Asia at scale.
- Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
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