Top 10 Music Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (November 2026)

Razor Capital is a venture firm focused on unearthing unique investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Grocery
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
Geography: Bangladesh, Lebanon, Malaysia

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $450k–$3M
Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

HAQQ — All-in-one legal AI for law firms. Legal AI Chat for drafting and research, plus eFirm for matters, billing and clients. Trusted by 17,000+ legal teams.
Podeo — JOIN THE VOICE ECONOMY
Wakilni — A special fleet of delivery drivers powered by a high tech to manage orders

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Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan

Investor stats

Total investments: 38
Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$750k
Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

Nabeeh — Nabeeh is an online platform that allows users to book housekeeping, cleaning services, maintenance, repairs, and renovation services.
DataQueue — Discover essential strategies for AI readiness with DataQueue. Learn how to prepare your business, choose the right AI tools, and develop a strategic AI plan for future success
Churn Solution — Churnsolution is a subscription retention and revenue recovery platform for B2C subscription businesses. It reduces cancellations with save flows, recovers failed payments with smart retries and dunning over email and SMS, and wins back lapsed subscribers with campaigns keyed to cancellation reason. Native integrations include Stripe, Braintree,WooCommerce, Paid Memberships Pro and RecurPay, plus webhooks for custom billing stacks. Built for growing subscription teams that want fast time to value without enterprise budgets or a long implementation.

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Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $170k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
AlgoDriven — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.

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Shukhrat Ibragimov is a Group CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Eurasian Resources Group.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Convertible Note
Geography: Tajikistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

zypl.ai — We help financial institutions, government entities make more accurate decisions
Galaxy Racer — Galaxy Racer provides content creators with brand endorsement deals, streaming contracts, creator collaborations, digital rights management, monetization, online and offline event opportunities, social media management and content programming.

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We developed a range of landmark media offerings across a spectrum of disciplines including Broadcast, Film, Music, Digital and Media Services. This has earned us the dominant position in the media marketplace, with the largest market share and widest ownership of content and rights.

Investment focus

Industry: Music, Music Education
Stage:Seed
Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.

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Arcanum Capital is a growth-driven investment in decentralized protocols.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Singapore, United States, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 30
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
HIFI — HiFi Bridge is a cryptocurrency payments platform that allows customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, trade NFT's, borrow loans, and connect their bank accounts all-in-one.The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. The company provides the accessibility for traditional financialusers to gain access to modern decentralized finance tools through it's mobile and web platform.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2021.
Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game

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A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 67
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.

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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

Industry: Software, FinTech, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 58
Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

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Abdulaziz is co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts ecommerce solution servicing the largest customer base in the MENA region. Abdulaziz is also co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the MENA region. Previously, Abdulaziz was the founding Executive ViceChairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a USD7bn independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait (2013-2017). Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Talabat.com<http://Talabat.com> until 2010, and has since then been investing in technology startups and involved in a number of local and regional entrepreneurial initiatives. Abdulaziz has also previously served as Director at Global Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of Global Investment House “Global” where he has played a major role in managing key investments within the Private Equity Group of Global by handling various assignments on corporate restructuring, business planning, deal structuring, due diligence and managing portfolio companies' to exit. Abdulaziz has served as an executive and member of board on a number of companies within the MENA region in the technology, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer finance, food & beverage and real estate sectors.Abdulaziz holds a Bachelor's degree - double major in Information Systems and E-Commerce from University of Toledo, and an MBA degree from London Business School.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Music
Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $300k–$3M
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.
Fakespot — Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.
Yougotagift.com — Buy UAE's most popular gift cards and gift vouchers online! Personalize and digitally send them via email or SMS! Starting at 20 AED. Choose from 200+ Top Brands.

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