Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Kuwait in July 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Kuwait. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Kuwait. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Kuwait in July 2025
Investor | Payments Kuwait investments |
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BECO Capital | 2 |
Tether | 1 |
Timothy Li | 1 |
Maqamees Holdings | 1 |
SBX Capital | 1 |
Founded in 2012, BECO Capital pioneers early-stage venture capital firms, focusing on MENA and beyond. It proudly partners with regional success stories like Careem, Kitopi, SWVL, PropertyFinder, MaxAB, Tribal, and others, shaping the tech landscape
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Launched in 2014, Tether is a blockchain-enabled platform designed to facilitate the use of fiat currencies in a digital manner. Tether works to disrupt the conventional financial system via a more modern approach to money. Tether has made headway by giving customers the ability to transact with traditional currencies across a blockchain, withoutthe inherent volatility and complexity typically associated with a digital currency. As the first blockchain-enabled platform to facilitate the digital use of traditional currencies (a familiar, stable accounting unit), Tether has democratised cross-border transactions across a blockchain.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Georgia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Be Water — Be Water aims to redefine media consumption through a technology-driven approach to content production and storytelling.
- Shiga Digital — This is the website for shiga.io. We are bridging the gap between traditional finance and the blockchain, making it simple to leverage the benefits that decentralised finance brings.
- Elemental Royalties — Elemental focuses on securing royalties over advanced assets with established operators from a robust pipeline of potential royalty. Founded in 2004, the company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Timothy has been working in FinTech and Marketplace Lending industry for the past decade. He has launched various marketplace lending platforms and held c-level positions at RealtyMogul.com, loanDepot.com, Quick Bridge Funding, Think Finance and JPMorgan Chase.Timothy also co-founded LendFoundry.com, KuberFinancial.com MaxDecision.com. He alsosits on various advisory boards such as Ziero Finance, Solar Mosaic, Blinker Inc., Docitt and CreditExchange.in.Timothy holds various degrees from Harvard Business School, University of Southern California and San Jose State University.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Verdata — Introducing Verdata,the data networkfor POS financing companies. With Verdata, identify the fraud associated with bad merchants, and avoid the fines associated with regulatory complaints.
- Kem — Kem was started with the idea of achieving a simple goal, to make it easy to send money to your friends. Millions of people in the Gulf were facing this issue, and we built Kem for the purpose of removing the pain from peer-to-peer payments.Today, Kem is the fastest growing payments app in Kuwait & the GCC. Pay anyone instantly, receiveeverywhere, spend anywhere. Join the thousands already using the Kem app.The Kem App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Kem’s bank partner(s). Kem Company for Electronic Payment & Settlement Systems W.L.L is a service of Kem Technologies Holding Ltd.
- Truv — With Citadel, users can easily connect their payroll account and instantly share the information you need to run verifications—and we make it more affordable and faster than your manual verifications.
Maqamees Holdings is a investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Kem — Kem was started with the idea of achieving a simple goal, to make it easy to send money to your friends. Millions of people in the Gulf were facing this issue, and we built Kem for the purpose of removing the pain from peer-to-peer payments.Today, Kem is the fastest growing payments app in Kuwait & the GCC. Pay anyone instantly, receiveeverywhere, spend anywhere. Join the thousands already using the Kem app.The Kem App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Kem’s bank partner(s). Kem Company for Electronic Payment & Settlement Systems W.L.L is a service of Kem Technologies Holding Ltd.
At SBX, we invest in transformative technologies, and the companies and communities leveraging them, through capital, media, and education.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Kuwait, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
- SOKNA — SOKNA is Egypt’s first end-to-end funeral service providing your loved ones with care and respect at the completion of their life’s journey.
- DLC.link — We are building a bridge that will let Clarity contracts settle on Bitcoin, unlocking a trillion dollars of Bitcoin to be used for DeFi (Decentralized Finance).
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