Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Kuwait in September 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 September 2025
Investor | Payments Kuwait investments |
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BECO Capital | 2 |
Maqamees Holdings | 1 |
SBX Capital | 1 |
Tether.io | 1 |
Tether | 1 |
Conviction-driven VC backing technology startups across MENA and the Gulf from pre-seed to growth stage
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
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).
Tether.io is one of innovation, resilience, and relentless pursuit of breaking barriers.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Mobile Payments, Financial Services
- Corporate Round
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Kem Technologies — Kem Technologies a flexible P2P quick payment system. And bridges financial gap by ensuring user security.
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
- Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
- Pointsville — Empowering businesses to efficiently create, manage and service digital assets and loyalty programs, driving innovation and inclusion.
- 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.
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