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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in December 2024

Investor	Payments United Arab Emirates investments
Prajit Nanu	2
Kunal Shah	2
Mark Ransford	2
Jitendra Gupta	2
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	2
Amrish Rau	2
Anton Bukov	2
Sandeep Nailwal	2
Srinivas Rao M	2
Stefan George	1
Kartik Talwar	1
Josh Ong	1
Giulio X.	1
VonDoom ☕️	1
Yan Hascoët	1
Thibaud Elziere	1
Evan Luthra	1
Eduardo Ronzano	1
Idris Ayodeji Bello	1
Harveen Narulla	1
Mato Perić	1
n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault	1
Hande Enes	1
NFTboi ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎	1
Elena 🌸	1
Evan Van Ness	1
Chris 🐉 MON	1
Yahya Bajarash	1
Afzal Shaikh	1
Osama AlRaee	1
Sergej Kunz	1
Philipp Zentner	1
Erik Podzuweit	1
omar bajarash	1
Omar Bajarash	1
Othmane Bouhlal	1
Yahya Bajarash	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
Ivan Herasymenko	1
Dingaling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎	1
Omar Benmoussa	1
Samih Toukan	1
Amir Sarhangi	1
Omar Darwazah	1
DCF GOD	1
Charles St.Louis	1
Alex Svanevik	1
Martin Köppelmann	1
wale. moca	1
Anurag Arjun	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Revrag — Revarg aims to automate tasks and increase sales efficiency by empowering revenue teams. Its first product, AI-BDR, will handle prospect outreach and meeting scheduling, allowing human salespeople to focus on client interactions. The AI agent will intelligently qualify leads, schedule meetings, and provide data-driven insights.
Zivy Inc — Turn your chaotic and noisy workplace communication into calm collaboration, with Zivy! Skim. Schedule. Tag. Todo. Take action on your messages in zen.
BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Australia

Portfolio highlights

STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
iSavvy Education — iSavvy Education is a children's educational platform in which learning takes place in a universe based on the computer game Minecraft. To engage youngsters in the educational process, each academic subject or topic is a gaming environment with a plot and quests.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.

Srinivas Rao M is a CEO at T-Hub.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Stefan George - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Rarimo Foundation — Rarimo Foundation, which aims to facilitate the development and growth of a new generation of social applications.

Kartik Talwar is the General Partner at A.Capital Ventures and Co-Founder at ETHGlobal.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed
United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.

Josh Ong - Communications Co-Pilot @ Savvy Millennial

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.

Giulio X is a co founder at LiquidX.

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Internet Radio
Seed, Angel
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Rekt Brands — Own a Rektguy NFT? You may be eligible to claim free equity in Rekt Brands Inc. Find out more.
Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.

VonDoom ia CoFounder at cmnd_line,loveless_city.

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.

Yan Hascoët

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Cannabis
Angel, Seed, Series A
France, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
Roof — Roof provides private co-living studios for students with common areas.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Candix — Get set up in 3 minutes. It's free and confidential.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

EvanLuthra is an angel investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Blockchain
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

GGEM — GGEM develops a gaming platform with a Web3 game launcher. It enables the onboarding of traditional gamers into Web3 games by eliminating all steps of the user journey that might be difficult for non-crypto natives, allowing users to start playing blockchain games within seconds.
Rewardable — Turn your spare time into extra cash with simple online tasks and micro-jobs. Earn money whenever and wherever you like.

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Frak Labs — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel.
Poolside — The best code you never wrote.

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Telr — Simplify your payment processes with our easy integration. Accept online payments seamlessly with our all-in-one solution. Discover more now.
SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
Inzen Studio — CVtogel adalah salah satu situs togel online terkemuka di Asia menawarkan berbagai jenis permainan togel Dua permainan populer adalah Togel Singapore dan Togel Hongkong.

Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault

Investment focus

Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

Hande Enes

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.

NFTboi is the founder of BoiLabs.

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Liquidium — Liquidium is the leading Bitcoin lending protocol where users can borrow and lend against Inscriptions, Ordinals, Runes, BRC-20, and more.
Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.

Elena is researching and investing NFTs/ DeFi News.

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.

Evan Van Ness

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Open Source
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.

Chris 🐉 MON is Cofounder at Pixelmon and Monprotocol.

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.

Yahya Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Debt Financing
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

CEO of HFM Global • Entrepreneur with 3 decades of experience across India, Middle-East and South East Asia • Have been in Gold trading business for more than a decade.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

GoldFin — Reshaping cryptocurrencies for the public.

Osama AlRaee is a co-founder and CEO at Lendo.

Investment focus

Internet, Payments, E-Commerce
Seed
Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Taskty.com — taskty page descition here
SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.

Co-Founder of 1inch Network, Software Engineer and Security Expert.

Investment focus

Internet, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed, Series A

Portfolio highlights

STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
Oasis.app — Borrow Dai, a USD pegged Stablecoin, or multiply your exposure using crypto as your collateral
Big Whale Labs — We build the future while everybody else lives in the past

Founder & CEO of LI.FI

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.

Erik has many years of experience in the financial and e-commerce sector. Until last, he was Co-CEO at Westwing Home & Living Germany. Prior to this, Erik spent 7 years working in London and Frankfurt as an Executive Director and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.Erik studied Business and Economics at the University of Kiel and Warwick BusinessSchool. In addition, he was a tutor for statistics and econometrics.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing
Seed, Series A
India, Germany, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

getquin — Track your assets, dividends, performance and more in real-time. Discuss trades and stocks with the community.
Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
UpScalio — We will partner with you to invest, grow and scale your e-commerce business to new heights. For and by Indian entrepreneurs and innovators.

omar bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Omar Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Debt Financing
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Othmane Bouhlal is the Founder of Kapten.

Investment focus

Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.

Yahya Bajarash

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Ivan Herasymenko

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

IN1 — IN1 operates as a financial management app, where we can send, spend, earn money & crypto in one app.

Dingaling is an individual investor and crypto twitter celeb.

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, Software
Seed, Series A
Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.
Ethos Network — The Ethos Credibility Score is the first dApp created on the Ethos Network. It created Ethos to be expandable to various interfaces and dApps by developing the infrastructure onchain. Using any interface, developers can post reviews, vouches, and slashes straight into Ethos' smart contract.

Omar Benmoussa is the Founder at of Kapten.

Investment focus

Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.

Amir Sarhangi is the Founder and CEO of Supermojo. He previously worked at Ripple as a VP of Product and Services. Amir Sarhangi attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bazaars — With Bazaars marketplace, use your crypto to buy high-value-items...
Supermojo — Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class.

Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Heurist — Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources.
Echelon — Echelon is a high-efficiency money market that allows users to borrow and lend assets via non-custodial pools, earning interest and increasing purchasing power through leverage.
Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.

Charles St.Louis - CEO @ DELV

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Brazil, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Pods — Building DeFi. Strategies, primitives and tooling. Welcome to Pods.
Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Oasis Pro Markets — Alternative Trading System

Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.

Martin Köppelmann - Co-Founder & CEO @ Gnosis

Investment focus

Web3, Blockchain, Database
Seed
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.

wale.moca is Doing research at Azuki.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.

Anurag Arjun is the Founder of Avail. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology. He previously worked at Polygon Technology as a Co-Founder. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clave — One click onboarding to future of finance
Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.

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