Top 5 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kuwait in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 5 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kuwait in January 2026

Investor	Payments Kuwait investments
BECO Capital	2
SBX Capital	1
Maqamees Holdings	1
Tether.io	1
Tether Operations Limited	1

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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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
Mala Inc. — This is meta description
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.

At SBX, we invest in transformative technologies, and the companies and communities leveraging them, through capital, media, and education.

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).

Maqamees Holdings is a investment firm.

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.

Tether.io is one of innovation, resilience, and relentless pursuit of breaking barriers.

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.