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Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in October 2024

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

Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in October 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) United Arab Emirates investments
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	9
Wamda Capital	4
Vision Ventures	3
HALA Ventures	3
Jabbar Internet Group	3
Chalhoub Group	3
BECO Capital	2
Tenmou	2
Amrish Rau	2
Raed Ventures	2
Groww	2
Sequoia Capital	2
Srinivas Rao M	2
Globivest	2
Algebra Ventures	2
Acasia Ventures	2
Mindshift Capital	2
Arzan Venture Capital	2
Vivium Holdings	2
Jitendra Gupta	2
Delta Partners	2
Kunal Shah	2
FHS Capital	2
Willowtree Investments	2
Global Founders Capital	2
VN2 Capital	2
Flat6Labs	2
Northzone	2
Nama Ventures	2
Faith Capital	2
Prajit Nanu	2
Access Bridge Ventures	1
The Case for Her	1
Nabtah Ventures	1
Venom Ventures	1
Enterprise Fund	1
BY Venture Partners	1
Pin Invest	1
Deniz Devrim Cengiz	1
Raza Beig	1
Mocha Ventures	1
Al Qahtani Holding	1
Pinnacle Financial Partners	1
Animoca Brands	1
Jets Capital	1
Nour Nouf	1
March Holding	1
KAAF Investments	1
Nascent	1
Eureeca	1

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

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.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.

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.

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!

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.

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 :-)

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan

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!

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

Investment focus

Apps, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates

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!

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!

Tenmou is Bahrain´s first Business Angels Company, which provides both mentor-ship and capital to high-potential, innovative Bahraini entrepreneurs from the seed stage. Through the support and mentor-ship provided by our Angel shareholders, all of whom are established businessmen and successful entrepreneurs in their own right, we look to givethese new entrepreneurs the greatest chance of success.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Bahrain, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
Tajweed — Tajweed is the first Arabic-language portal that teaches young people to recite the Holy Quran and revive their Arabic language skills.
Travilege — Travilege provides a comprehensive B2B2C ERP SaaS platform to travel agents and operators. Its technology digitizes day-to-day operations, automates reservation processes, and promotes cooperation via an e-Hub.

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

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.

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Investment focus

Advice, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Corporate Round
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.

Srinivas Rao M is a CEO at T-Hub.

Investment focus

Advice, Payments, Financial Services
Grant, Seed
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.

Investment focus

FinTech, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

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.
Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

DXwand — DXwand Cognitive Engagement Toolkit, COGENT, is next generation chatbot that is trained to lookup your products, track orders and conducts a full sales order dialog with your customers. It supports both Arabic and English and works on Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, SMS, website, Twitter, Mobile App and over voice.
YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
Connect Money — Zero Capex. Go live in 60 days with Connect's one-stop-shop banking solution.

Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Menthum — Saving Made Simple
Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.

Investing in global, female entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

FORTË — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
Vivoo — At home testing made simple! Get personalized insights and expert advice tailored just for you. Begin your journey to wellness now!
Making Space — Discover Making Space, a talent acquisition and learning platform that creates new pathways to employment and career advancement for Disabled people.

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.

Our global reach and diverse interests enable us to build brands across traditional and alternative investments, such as real estate, technology, art and design.

Investment focus

Advice, Real Estate, Property Management
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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!

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
ZeroMission — ZeroMission is a technology focused provider of integrated data for intelligent fleet electrification planning, operations and reporting.
MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Revrag — Revarg aims to automate tasks and increase sales efficiency by empowering revenue teams. Its first product, AI-BDR, will handle prospect outreach and meeting scheduling, allowing human salespeople to focus on client interactions. The AI agent will intelligently qualify leads, schedule meetings, and provide data-driven insights.
Zivy Inc — Turn your chaotic and noisy workplace communication into calm collaboration, with Zivy! Skim. Schedule. Tag. Todo. Take action on your messages in zen.
infinyte.club — A New World Of Wealth. Where access to new-age wealth-creation opportunities is not just for the ultra-wealthy

Family Office

Investment focus

Blockchain, SaaS, Sales
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, Marshall Islands

Portfolio highlights

FLUUS — FLUUS is an aggregator of fiat to crypto gateways with a crypto ramping network covering emerging. FLUUS allows users to buy, sell, or swap cryptocurrencies and tokens. They aggregate cryptographic services into a single software development kit, connect ramping, exchanging, transactions, and payments, and create a money experience.
Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
Homecare Hub — Homecare Hub assists persons with caregiving needs, such as those with dementia, disability, accident, fall risk, or chronic illness, in avoiding huge institutional nursing facilities, by offering a superior experience in a secure, individualized, inexpensive, small shared care and co-living environment. To help people locate home care servicesthat are reasonably priced, it offers home health care services. With the help of the company's services, customers may locate reliable care for their loved ones in the areas of personal care, companion care, live-in care, home support, and many more.

Pre-seed and seed Fintech

Investment focus

Financial Services, Advice, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
Distributional — Distributional is the modern enterprise platform for AI testing and evaluation to make AI safe, reliable and secure

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

A fund investing in the blockchain, crypto & web3 ecosystem as well as disruptive technology. Offices in London & New York.

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Flink Food — Flink is a developer of an online platform used to offer and deliver multi-category grocery products. Its application offers a wide selection of convenience items like fresh herbs, fruits, bread, essentials, and home supplies among others that enable people to get necessaries delivered to the door within ten minutes while saving transit costs.Thecompany was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
iStoria — iStoria, a specialized EdTech app that helps people improve their English language through reading interesting stories
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.

Faith Capital is a venture capital firm investing in talented MENA founders building long-term value by developing sound operations at home and abroad.A Kuwait based venture capital fund owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience and success in the GCC.The principal focus of Faith Capital is on e-commerce businesses,based in the region, which have high growth potential for the future.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Prajit serves as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors. Based in Mumbai, Prajit is responsible for executing the business strategy and directing the overall performance and growth of our organization. He is also in charge of driving innovation across processes and create value add for customers. Prior to co-foundingInstarem Prajit, held several leadership positions in global companies, including Global Sales Director, TMF Group and Vice President, Sales and Account Management at WNS (NYSE:WNS). He is a graduate from Mumbai University.

Investment focus

Advice, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Access Bridge Ventures (ABV) is a leading early stage venture capital fund. tha invests across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and on a case by case basis outside these regions. We currently have investments in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and aggressively expa

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom

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.
RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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!

Amplifying the issues of menstruation and female sexual health and pleasure through funding and advocacy at The Case for Her.

Investment focus

Wellness, Content, Women's
Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Mauj — Mauj is a sexual and menstrual wellness company. Mauj is driven by a common goal to challenge the stigma and misinformation surrounding female sexuality in their region.
LEIA — LEIA is an application that provides postpartum support for new parents.

Nabtah Ventures operates as a venture studio.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Internet
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Seeru — Seeru is a Dubai-based TravelTech Startup with a mission to simplify travel. We combine competitive travel content aiming at the lowest possible rates via a unified API. Our platform empowers travelers, agents, companies, and developers to access optimal travel deals from a centralized dashboard.

Venom Ventures Fund (VVF) invests in the people, projects, and creative ideas that will lead the way for adoption and towards a fairer financial system.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Web Apps
Seed
Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Nümi — Nümi is a platform for influencers, creators and gamers that shifts the perception of what is possible in virtual worlds. With the tools provided by Nümi, VR users can create immersive experiences and explore thousands of virtual worlds built by communities.
Everscale — Everscale is a scalable smart contract-based platform with sharding, dynamic multithreading, and low gas costs that can process 100k+ transactions per second. Everscale aspires to be the backbone for high-load applications with real-world use cases, as well as a hub that connects all popular blockchains. Its rapidly expanding ecosystem includes awide range of dApps, including exchanges, bridges, non-custodial wallets, and GameFi applications.

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Investment focus

SEM, Apps, Software
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Zbooni — Customers are most receptive on social and messaging apps today. Bring the checkout experience to them, in real-time.
Weaver.build — Weaver.build is a contractor marketplace for home renovations

BYVP invest in high impact founders building market transforming and category-leading companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

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
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.

Pin invests in early stage and high-growth potential companies.

Investment focus

Advice, Real Estate, Property Management
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Keyper — Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners.

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.

Raza Beig is the CEO of Splash and Iconic and Director at Landmark Group.

Investment focus

Art, Blockchain, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Artfi — Artfi brings you the biggest opportunity to invest in cryptoart. It redefines your art work into prestigious blockchain asset. Making your art collection more accessible like never before.

Disrupting TradFi via Tokenised Investments. Investing in early stage blockchain companies with global growth potential.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

myco — myco is a content streaming super dApp that smoothly integrates AVOD and SVOD capabilities into a decentralized ecosystem.
Only U Bank — A bank for female influencers and their followers
KyotoProtocol.io — KYOTO is a decentralized, carbon negative ecosystem, redesigning the creation and tokenization of carbon assets.

Al Qahtani Holding is an industrial group that offers can manufacturing, beverages, maritime, real estate, mining, and oil-gas services.

Investment focus

Advice, Real Estate, Property Management
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Keyper — Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners.

Pinnacle Financial Partners is a bank headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee operating in middle and East Tennessee.

Investment focus

Music, Apps, Cloud Security
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Apiture — You have always been told “they can’t do it“ or “it’s going to take a year.“ Legacy technology should not be your obstacle; now you can transform development processes that would take years into hours. They don’t wrap old technology with an API layer. They create everything as an API, so they can help you innovate faster. Their engineers,ex-bankers and fintech-savvy leaders are pursuing an ambitious goal: to change the future of banking with their solutions. They are headquartered in Wilmington, NC, with an office in Austin, TX.
Amplified Music Rights — AMR Songs is a music library rights acquisition service.
Cutting Edge Media Music — Cutting Edge Media Music are the experts in music for media – film, television, video games, advertising, Broadway – across its publishing, label, services, and marketing verticals. Cutting Edge Media Music also owns IP in some of the most popular media properties and franchises in the world.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.
Universal Health Token — Universal Health Token (UHT) is a gamified healthcare platform developed by GOQii's Web3 business unit to promote the gamification of preventive healthcare using blockchain technology.

Jets.Capital - Crypto investment fund

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
United States, Switzerland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Pulsr — Web3 community discovery made easy for digital creatives, collectors and curators.
Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
FastLane — We build MEV-aware infrastructure and smart contracts to make DeFi useable and keep it decentralized.

We inspire to build societies where knowledge empowers every individual to realize their full potential to contribute to the greater good and to be responsible for future generations. Investment in startup business, Community Services, Shared Offices.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Venture Capital
Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Safanad — Safanad is a global principal investment firm that invests in real estate, private equity and public markets. With offices in New York, Dubai and London, the firm seeks to identify global investment opportunities poised to deliver consistently attractive returns. Safanad’s investment focus is primarily within the healthcare, education, financialservices and retail sectors.
Lucky — Lucky is an app for credit products, offers, and cashback rewards.
Shorooq Partners — Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

March Holding makes Investment in Commercial Enterprises & Management.

Investment focus

Public Transportation, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
Zbooni — Customers are most receptive on social and messaging apps today. Bring the checkout experience to them, in real-time.
Lyve Global — Lyve reimages logistics through advanced and agile solutions and technology innovations that connect organizations and opportunities.

KAAF Investments is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Audio, FinTech
Series A, Private Equity
Nigeria, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
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 and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.

Nascent invests in early-stage teams with a focus on missionary founders who are building category-defining companies and protocols It was founded in 2020.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Khalani — Khalani has developed the world's first decentralized solver platform, which seeks to improve the web3 user experience through a multi-chain collaborative solution network. The platform significantly decreases the cost of creating and operating solvers.
EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
Sorella Labs — Sorella Labs is developing a solution to solve Ethereum's maximum extractable value (MEV) problems and focuses on mitigating MEV through pattern.

Eureeca is the first and most regulated global online crowdinvesting (or Equity Crowdfunding) platform where businesses can source funding from the crowd in exchange for equity in their business. Harnessing the power of the internet and social media, Eureeca’s platform connects Angel and Institutional investors to small & medium enterprises(SMEs) online to pool their funds and resources - creating a game-changing alternative to traditional funding. We operate across 3 continents and over 100 countries. We have pioneered cross border investing; building a digital solution to enable investors to build a portfolio of early growth stage investments from around the globe.From our offices in Dubai, London, Kuala Lumpur, and Amsterdam, Eureeca offers high-yield potential investment opportunities from the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia to its investor network who range from casual and angel investors to institutional firms. Businesses raising funds can leverage this network for capital, strategic connections, and expansion into new markets.Eureeca was recently highly ranked in the MENA Forbes “Top 100 Startups 2017” and won “Innovator of the Year” by Forbes in 2017. Other accolades include “Innovator of the Year” at the 2014 Gulf Business Awards and “Most Innovative Online Platform” by Frost and Sullivan in 2015.

Investment focus

SaaS, eSports, Internet
Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bhatia Labs — Bhatia Labs provides productized services, platforms and infrastructure at affordable costs to individuals, startups and businesses all over the world.
Pole Position — Automotive events agency in Dubai with creative new activation ideas and a single source for turnkey automotive event management and delivery

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