Top 5 Non Profit Startup Investors in Middle East (June 2026)

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Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 500
Round size: Series B $6M–$45M; Debt Financing $20M–$400M
Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

Creditas — Creditas is a financial technology company, operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
TerraPay — TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. Thenetwork facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements.TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement.
AND Global — AND Global is a Financial Technology as a Services company that provides everything that a modern digital bank needs and more. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.

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Ivanka Trump

Investment focus

Industry: Education, Farming, CleanTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Twigtale — Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging forkids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
University of The Community/ Indigenous Cultural Arts Museum — UNIVERSITY FOR SELF LEARNING

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We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 190
Round size: Seed $150k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.7M; Series A $1.5M–$22M
Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

Stayf — Cultivating a Healthy Corporate Culture through Sport and Wellness in One App
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Sensi AI — Clanz Technologies offers an audio-based system designed to support security in human interactions. The system works by connecting to devices that record audio. It analyzes audio data to find unusual sounds or patterns that may indicate incidents. When an anomaly is detected, the system sends alerts in real time. The service also providesinformation about conditions that can affect care quality, such as stress levels or lack of training. It can be used in places where monitoring human interaction is important for safety. The company offers a demo for organizations that want to use the system.

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Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Stage:Series B, Series C
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 132
Round size: Series B $6.5M–$62M; Series C $3.9M–$100M
Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
Astrada — Astrada is a software company that provides financial infrastructure, payments, and automation services.

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