Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in Middle East (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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18 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $14k–$1.5M |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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14 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $100k–$10M |
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
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11 | Israel, United States, Mexico | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software | $800k–$25M |
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Falak Startups
VC Fund
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11 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps | $6k–$1.2M |
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Play Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United States, Finland, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Software | $700k–$25M |
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Impact46
VC Fund
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10 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology | $1M–$22M |
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Global Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$50M |
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $400k–$33M |
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $60k–$27M |
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BRM Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Israel | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.7M–$28M |
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
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8 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $9k–$1.5M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$33M |
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Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund
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8 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $439k–$2.7M |
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Firstime Venture Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $500k–$21M |
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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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OurCrowd
VC Fund
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8 | Israel, United States, New Zealand | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $612k–$70M |
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Ludus
VC Fund
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7 | Turkey, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Mobile, Software | $405k–$7M |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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7 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $750k–$33M |
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $180k–$25M |
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GEM Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Cyprus, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, PC Games | $400k–$20M |
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APY Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$2.6M |
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Turkey, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $175k–$30M |
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Kaedan Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $750k–$30M |
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Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $600k–$28M |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.4M–$55M |
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$37M |
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Acasia Group
VC Fund
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7 | Egypt, United States, Lebanon | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Mobile, Software | $175k–$2.6M |
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
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6 | Turkey, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $123k–$38M |
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Information Technology | $82k–$1.5M |
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Tal Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Israel, United States, Cyprus | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $3M–$120M |
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Akin Babayigit
Angel
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6 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games | $425k–$30M |
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Arcadia Gaming Partners
VC Fund
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6 | Turkey, Cyprus, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Online Games | $3M–$30M |
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Oryzn Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Software, Mobile | $1.5M–$50M |
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Moshe Lichtman
Angel
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6 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$20M |
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lool ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Israel, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $720k–$22M |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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Genesis Partners
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Israel, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile | $3.5M–$30M |
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Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Turkey, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $828k–$58M |
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A15
VC Fund
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5 | Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $50k–$8M |
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Finberg
VC Fund
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5 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $500k–$20M |
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HALA Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $500k–$35M |
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Revo Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $430k–$38M |
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BECO Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology | $905k–$60M |
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Giza Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Israel, United States, China | Series B, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $3M–$25M |
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
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4 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology | |
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Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
Angel
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4 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | TV, CRM, Apps | |
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Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $918k–$33M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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4 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $84k–$3.7M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $250k–$50M |
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MizMaa Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Israel, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$73M |
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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.
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.
Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$12M; Series B $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Aidoc — Aidoc is an Israel-based startup providing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists. Their products help detect and pinpoint critical anomalies for radiologists through deep learning and AI algorithms that analyze medical images and patient data. Aidoc eases up the work list and frees up time and attention to what matters. The startupdeidentifies these and sends them onto Aidoc’s cloud, where algorithms identify and highlight abnormalities before returning the images to radiology workstations for reidentification.Aidoc's s solutions aid radiologists in reducing turnaround time and increasing quality and efficiency by flagging acute anomalies in real-time. It also offers tests for intracranial hemorrhages and spinal fractures, plus several chest exams for pulmonary embolisms, pneumothorax, rib fractures, and lung nodules.Aidoc was founded by Guy Reiner, Elad Walach, and Michael Braginsky in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- PayKey — The PayKey social banking and mobile P2P payment solution: A patent-pending mobile payment keyboard that seamlessly integrates with your banking application and lets users complete a transaction without leaving their social application.
- Magisto — Magisto online video editor is a fast & powerful video maker. Turn your photos and video clips into video stories with Magisto movie editor. Start free!
Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $31k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $6k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
- Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nefta — One platform to build, launch and operate web3 games
- Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
- Arya — Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship.
Impact 46 is an asset manager and advisor that specializes in alternative investment opportunities. The firm provides innovative investment products and services to local & international institutions, family groups, endowments, and high net worth investors.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Sadq — Sadq develops a digital platform that provides users with options to handle documents by easy means and in quick steps in a safe and reliable environment. It also offers integration, safety, multilingualism, strong performance, authentication, and credibility.
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- Hypemasters — At Hypemasters, we create legendary & genre-defining games that players all over the world enjoy for years.
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.
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.
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.
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- Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
BRM Capital is a dynamic venture capital fund investing in early stage, Israel-related software, internet infrastructure, and communication companies. Their investment focus is on the Internet, mobile and mobile applications, digital media, online services, enterprise software, and medical device sectors and they also offer flexible, streamlinedinvestment decision making.BRM headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel enjoys a worldwide network of industry, strategic and financial experts.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$23M; Series B $4.7M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $150M in 2002
Portfolio highlights
- Kamari Pharma — Orvida Pharma | Disease-modifying therapies for rare genetic skin diseases
- Rapid Medical — Rapid Medical's mission is to develop safe and effective neurovascular medical devices that are beneficial to patients and meet physicians' needs.
- AA-I Technologies — AA-I Technologies' research team spans computer science, mathematics, physics, and biology, enabling the creation of models designed to analyze complex scientific problems and generate new insights. The company focuses on building AI capable of supporting breakthroughs in areas where traditional research methods face limitations.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $9k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $10k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
- Ni-CAT Battery Materials and AI Company — Ni-CAT is working on AI-assisted research and development of next-generation battery materials, which is the key to the transition to battery electric vehicles. Ni-CAT believes that the speed of EV transition is still not enough to prevent global warming and replace carbon-based fuels in near future, and it is not related to money or resources. Webelieve that speeding up EV transition is possible with our novel methodology, which combines three approximation to the solution: our unique AI-assisted materials research, digitalized reactor farm and our novel surfactant-assisted synthesis.As the electrification of the automotive industry expands, we deliver state-of-the-art technologies to meet the industry’s high-quality standards. To help our customers to step up the EV transition, we will be working on our research and development of lower-cost/higher performance, ultra-high energy density battery materials to serve innovative solutions for a brighter future. With our expertise in the application of machine learning in material science, we are developing low cobalt/high nickel lithium cathode materials. Cathode determines the type of a lithium battery and is the limiting factor for nickel-based batteries. Further improvement in battery performance is possible through AI-assisted custom high nickel cathode materials with increased charge rate, charge to discharge ratio, tap density, or any other specifications. By our unique computer-controlled digital reactor farm, we numerize synthesis parameters and output specifications for the machine learning algorithm we have been developing.
- Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
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.
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $439k–$2.7M; Series A $985k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $32M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- FU — The FU carries out mortgage business, which guarantees the loans of banks and financial institutions, loans of non-financial institutions.
- Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
- TAZI — TAZI's Automated Machine Learning is understandable continuous machine learning from data and humans, enables business domain experts to use machine learning to ...
Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Series A $500k–$10M; Series B $12M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
- Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
- STAX Engineering, Inc. — The STAX mission is to help 1 billion people significantly through new technologies that promote health, sustainability, reduced environmental toxins, and reduced global warming.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Seed $612k–$8M; Series A $5.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Corgi Insurance — Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention.
- PhenOlives — PhenOlives transforms olive oil waste into nutritious, gluten-free olive flour that retains the health benefits of olive oil. The company employs a patented process to create a high-fiber ingredient suitable for various baking and cooking applications.
- BetterSeeds — The company focuses on non-GMO genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 for creating a novel breed of seeds and crop traits that address the 21st-century agriculture challenges. BetterSeeds provides advanced seeds enabling better crops for mechanized harvesting, extreme e climate resistance, higher calory and nutrient values, and more.
Ludus finds, invests in, and nurtures the best-in-class gaming startups. We aim to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding for entrepreneurs and start-ups.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
- Jambox Games — Power-up your mobile games
- TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.
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.
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.
GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets. Leading venture capital investor in the games industry
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Cyprus, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AppMagic — Mobile market intelligence tool
- Order of Meta — game development company
- Made on Earth Games — Play never alone. Building an AI-native social autobattler with persistent AI buddies and real squads.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- Mindtail — Based in Istanbul, Mindtail is a mobile gaming studio dedicated to crafting the next evolution of hybrid mobile games. Founded by industry veterans whose previous titles have reached over 300+ million players worldwide
- GoWit Technology — Unlock your retail media potential with GoWit's omnichannel Retail Media Advertising platform. Expand your audience reach, optimize bidding, and leverage first-party data for maximum conversions and privacy protection.
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
Kaedan Capital is a private investment group active for over 15 years. We are entrepreneur centric investors with co-founder mentality, focused on Israeli related, seed to early stage ventures in diverse technology areas.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $750k–$9.3M; Series A $1.6M–$30M; Series B $4.5M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- TrialKit — Discover TrialKit, a powerful legal tool that streamlines trial preparation and builds stronger defense strategies through AI-driven insights.
- Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
Wa’ed Ventures is a $500 million venture capital fund with the aim to accelerate the development of an integrated startup ecosystem by investing in local tech-based startups and incentivizing global entrepreneurs to localize their tech innovations in the Kingdom.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YNMO — YNMO is the first Arabic/English digital solution that aims to improve the quality of care and educational services for individuals with special needs by allowing service providers such as schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.
- Hazen.ai — Enhance safety with our AI-powered camera, providing real-time monitoring and precise violation detection. This technology empowers authorities to enforce traffic laws effectively, ensuring safer roads for all.
- UnitX — Automate inspection in-line for better yield
We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$13M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $14M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
- Toka — Toka develops cutting-edge and lawful digital forensics, intelligence and force protection capabilities to empower government agencies strengthen homeland security.
- Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms. .
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.5M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- 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.
Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.6M; Angel $200k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bosta — Bosta provides an on-demand courier app with a B2C focus, allowing users to send parcels to their customers. The platform connects its users to couriers and allows them to monitor the status of the delivery of the package. Bosta was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
- Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing R&D services to the region's scientific sectors.
- Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $123k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
- Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
- Vimesoft — Vimesoft is a platform that offers video conferencing, enterprise video and remote learning.
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $82k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
- Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
- Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
TAL Ventures (TAL) is an Israel based Venture Capital group with deep ties to the Israel high-tech ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $35M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Octup — Elevate your e-commerce business with our comprehensive E-commerce Operations Platform. Streamline processes, boost efficiency, and drive sales growth!
- Fibery — Create a custom workspace for all roles in your company. Connected databases, customizable views, powerful reports, automations, integrations, and more. You name it, we have it.
- BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform
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Browse database — It's Free!Akin Babayigit is currently a co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a mobile games studio based in London. Before starting Tripledot, Akin was an active investor & advisor to various companies in the gaming space as well as serving as the Head of Business Operations & Special Projects at King Digital Entertainment. Before his experience at King,Akin was the head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $425k–$8.4M; Series A $15M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Palabra.ai — AI-Powered Speech Translation & Voice Interpreter App. Get real-time translation in 30+ languages with minimal latency for smooth global communication.
- Pixel Flow — Stuck on Pixel Flow? Get instant solution for ANY level just by uploading a screenshot. Beat Pixel Flow very hard levels fast with easy cheat & walkthrough.
- Cypher Games — Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story. We aim to shape the future of mobile gaming together with our colleagues, investors and thought partners.
Arcadia Gaming Partners is a founder-led venture capital business that invests in the mobile game companies.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Online Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Cyprus, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $3M–$23M; Series A $25M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MoneyTime — MoneyTime operates as a mobile app where we can earn money by playing games.
- Vento Games — Vento Games is an interactive entertainment company that develops and publishes video games and digital experiences for a global audience. The company focuses on creating titles for mobile, console, and PC platforms that blend storytelling, gameplay mechanics, and visual design to engage players across genres. Its offerings include original gameconcepts as well as community-driven features such as in-game events, social interaction systems, and content updates that extend player engagement. Vento Games works with creative talent, designers, and technical developers to plan, build, and launch interactive entertainment products, incorporating iterative testing and design feedback throughout development cycles. The company also manages publishing activities that support distribution, platform optimization, and player community outreach for its games. Through its development and publishing services, Vento Games supports the lifecycle of digital entertainment projects from concept through release and ongoing content engagement.
- Mission Control Games — Mission Control Games is a mobile game studio focused on the casual puzzle genre
Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3.5M–$47M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
- Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.
- Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!
Moshe Lichtman is an angel investor. Moshe Lichtman has spent 29 years creating software products for global markets. He's freshly retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses including its MSN business in the late 90s, its TV business in the mid-2000s and most recently its IsraelR&D center, which he built into one of the 3 largest centers outside the U.S. Mr. Lichtman was also one of the leaders of the Windows 95 team and president of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. He is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups. and is in the process of forming a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Panorays — Panorays automates, accelerates and scales your third-party security evaluation and management process so you can easily manage and remediate risk.
- Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
- Superwise — Superwise gives ML practitioners fully automated, enterprise-grade model observability in a self-service SaaS platform. Start monitoring ML in production in under 5 minutes.
We find and work with Israel’s best founders who are driven by a clear vision of how the world or an industry could be better. We share their obsession with bringing that vision to life. We do this at the very start of their journey. We are Israel’s Seed Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $720k–$10M; Series A $1.2M–$20M; Series B $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Lizo.ai — Lizo.ai is developer of an investment operating platform that is designed to maximize real estate investment ecosystem returns.
- Zeroport — Zeroport enables secure remote access using hardware-enforced, non-IP isolation, eliminating malware, data exfiltration, and VPN-based attack surfaces.
- Cassidy Bio — A biotechnology company developing AI-driven genomic foundation models
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.
Genesis Partners is a leading early stage Israeli venture capital firm that manages over $600 Million across four funds, and focuses on seed and early stage investments in the ICT sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$20M; Series B $8M–$20M; Series C $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aternity — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
- Worklight — Signup to be the first to know when we launch.
- Sensible Medical Innovations — Sensible Medical Innovation Ltd. is introducing a breakthrough sensing and monitoring technology providing actionable and accurate data for guiding the management and treatment of several chronic medical conditions representing today’s biggest burden on US and worldwide healthcare budgets.
Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $828k–$24M; Series A $1.6M–$51M; Series B $2.5M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tavrn — Tavrn provides state of the art, AI-powered demand letters and medical chronologies for attorneys.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- 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.
A15 is an entrepreneurial company that invests in digital products and technology brands. They aspire to empower the human race to overcome its limits and expand its capabilities by creating real products for real people. They help them scale by providing them with investment, the support of our ecosystem, and act as their launchpad for expansion.It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $100k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
- Tirport — TIRPORT is a Turkey-based startup, aiming to make logistics effortless to any shipper regardless of size and buying power. It is a digital logistics platform that allows carriers and shippers to connect. The company offers end-to-end logistics solution that combines a freight marketplace with company drivers and strategic partnerships to provide arange of services.TIRPORT ERP automatically tracks and keeps logistics updated on any shipment's progress. Its technology provides real-time freight monitoring services for load owners. The company was founded in 2016 and based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Octopus — Octopus Signage is a cloud based interactive and measurable Digital Signage solution.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$730k; Series A $500k–$35M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- 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.
- intella — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.
Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $430k–$5M; Series A $1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- CLEATUS — CLEATUS is an AI-powered platform that helps government contractors discover contract opportunities, manage capture pipelines, and write winning proposals. We make government contracting accessible to any business, with AI that automates everything from finding opportunities to submitting winning proposals.Empowering government contractors withagentic AI for every stage of the contracting lifecycle. Effortlessly discover new opportunities, craft winning proposals, manage pursuits and win more work within a single, purpose-built platform designed for organizations of any size.
- Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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.
Giza Venture Capital, established in 1992, is a pioneer investor in seed and early-stage technology companies and currently manages five funds totaling over $600 million. Giza has invested in over 90 companies in the sectors of Communications, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Life Sciences, Internet and New Media. Giza's visionin recognizing future technology leaders has led to over 30 successful exits. Giza also has a seed stage investment plan called the Ofek Program whose goal is to secure investment in high-quality seed opportunities at the earliest possible stage.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Series A $3M–$8.1M; Series B $9M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cyota — Cyota was a leading player in the anti-fraud space, specializing in financial institutions. It specialized in fraud related to the Internet, such as online banking fraud, eCommerce fraud and phishing. Cyota was acquired by RSA Security (NASDAQ:RSAS) iCyota is the leading player in the anti-fraud space, specializing in financial institutions. Itspecializes in fraud related to the Internet, such as online banking fraud, eCommerce fraud and phishing. Cyota was acquired by RSA Security, Inc (NASDAQ: RSAS) for $145M (US) in 2005 (RSA was subsequently acquired by EMC Inc (NYSE: EMC))
- Logz.io — Stop Chasing Alerts. Get Ahead of Problems with AI-Powered Observability.
- Crosswise — Crosswise provides the world’s most authoritative consumer device map to ad tech vendors, consumer brands and premium publishers. Combining data science, Big Data and machine learning, Crosswise identifies which PCs, phones, tablets, digital TVs and other connected devices are being used by individual consumers. When leveraged for cross-devicetargeted advertising, content personalization and analytics, this data represents a huge source of untapped business potential.
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Lead/follow: no public data
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!
I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos
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- Industry: TV, CRM, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
- Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.
Backing outlier founders who build different.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $918k–$11M; Series A $1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
- Vault Wealth — Discover the range of private wealth management services with personalized wealth planning from Vault, a certified private wealth advisor in Dubai & UAE. A secure digital wealth platform trusted by professionals.
- Global Settlement Network — Global Settlement is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $233k–$3.7M; Angel $84k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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
MizMaa Ventures is a principal investment firm that specializes in investments in technology companies in Israel.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $5.5M–$15M; Series B $7.5M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Brew — Market strategy and intelligence platform turning live, contextual insights into relevant, strategic marketing opportunities.
- Orca AI — Orca AI innovates the marine navigation sphere, providing an intelligent technological solution for collision avoidance in maritime transport.
- Mobb — Give your developers time back with fixes you can trust.
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