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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Middle East (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Middle East Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
18 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $575k–$30M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
16 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
16 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$50M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
12 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $225k–$50M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
10 United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $600k–$29M
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
10 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.5M–$54M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
10 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $22k–$27M
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
9 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $180k–$25M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
8 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.2M–$65M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
8 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
HALA Capital
VC Fund
8 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, Software $450k–$440M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
8 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.1M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
7 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$100M
Arbor Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, Singapore, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2.6M–$150M
Moneta VC
VC Fund
7 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$100M
STV
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2.1M–$72M
Impact46
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Gaming, Financial Services $1M–$24M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
6 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $100k–$40M
Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $1.6M–$157M
Earlybird Digital East Fund
VC Fund
6 United States, Turkey, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software $1M–$112M
Falak Startups
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$2.4M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund
6 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software $1.5M–$33M
Alameda Research
VC Fund
6 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$40M
A15
VC Fund
5 Egypt, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $50k–$8M
Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$300M
Magnus Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.3M–$34M
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $420k–$50M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
5 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software $150k–$30M
Oqal
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace $100k–$10M
SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Predictive Analytics, E-Commerce $120k–$40M
Class 5 Global
VC Fund
5 United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $300k–$23M
Revo Capital
VC Fund
5 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $430k–$66M
Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $25k–$30M
Derayah Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, FinTech, Marketplace $800k–$33M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
5 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$9M
BECO Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software $905k–$60M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $550k–$114M
coinIX
VC Fund
4 Germany, Israel, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $130k–$5.5M
B&Y Venture Partners
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $714k–$70M
Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $918k–$33M
Emkan Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Transportation, Medical $1.2M–$20M
Ribbit Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Brazil, India Series B, Series A, Series C Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $6.5M–$250M
AU21 Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.1M–$14M
Maven Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $700k–$23M
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $26k–$4.6M
CMT Digital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $2M–$150M
Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund
4 Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.3M–$11M
fresh.fund
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States, Norway Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software $300k–$21M
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 18 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1121
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
  • Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 16 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $2.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
  • Echelon — Echelon is an artificial intelligence operations group that manages technology integrations, technical workforce training, and industrial software distribution for enterprise and government clients.
  • THINK-AI — The Think AI Fabric: AI Node, ILM, and Constellation bonded into one supercompute platform, built for radical efficiency. Nothing sits idle.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 16 investments in Middle East Payments startups

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $3M–$27M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Enhance Fitness — Enhance Fitness is a fitness and wellness company that provides personal training services through a mobile and web-based platform. The company connects users with certified trainers for one-on-one fitness sessions conducted at home, gyms, outdoor locations, or partner facilities. Its platform supports booking management, trainer matching, workouttracking, nutrition guidance, and progress monitoring. Enhance Fitness operates primarily in the Gulf region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, and also develops software tools for fitness businesses through its Enhance Tech platform..
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 12 investments in Middle East Payments startups

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Round size: Seed $225k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $300k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 10 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Shorooq Partners is the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • FMSi — FMSi is a SaaS company that helps with vehicle tracking solutions, administration and monitoring services for IVMS, and project management.
  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • OptimizeGEO.ai — OptimizeGEO.ai is an AI search visibility platform whose proprietary engine helps brands dominate LLM and AI search results
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 17 in the past 12 months

We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves. We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. We stand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $5.4M–$30M; Series B $17M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $175M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Chamelio — Chamelio builds intelligent technology for in-house legal teams. We understand that every in-house legal team operates uniquely - shaped by their industry context, company culture, and strategic priorities. Our platform adapts to these distinct characteristics, delivering hyper-personalized workflows that evolve with your team's specific needs.
  • Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
  • Undecimal Bio — Undecimal Bio operates as a platform biotechnology company that develops targeted delivery mechanisms for small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. The company utilizes a proprietary platform that combines combinatorial chemistry libraries with transformer-based artificial intelligence to discover molecular conjugates capable of guiding genetic medicines to specified cells outside of the liver. This approach aims to circumvent traditional delivery constraints to expand the reach of RNA therapeutics into a broader range of therapeutic areas and human organs.
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 10 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$5M; Pre-Seed $22k–$1.7M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
  • Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 9 investments in Middle East Payments startups

No Boring Tech backs and builds startups that matter. No sameness, no fluff - just committed partners, builders who care, and capital that shows up to help create lasting companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $180k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yasmina — Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services.
  • yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Middle East Payments startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1805
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.8M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Causa Prima — Causa Prima develops software to help finance teams handle both sides of every transaction on one network. The company's AI agents handle invoicing, disputes, and discounts on behalf of clients. It provides a network for the financial operations of businesses.
  • Goodweek — The AI management platform that gives partners and businesses one secure place for every AI model.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 8 investments in Middle East Payments startups

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Anecdote —
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HALA Capital
VC Fund · Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 8 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.3M; Series A $500k–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $450k–$440M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
  • intella — AI-powered voice agents, call center analytics, transcription, and speech-to-text for banks and telecoms across MENA. 86+ Arabic AI experts.
  • Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 8 investments in Middle East Payments startups

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scale with purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 365
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $49k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $95M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 7 investments in Middle East Payments startups

We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2522
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $5.5M–$50M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Z.ai — Z.ai develops artificial intelligence models and services built upon large-scale pretrained architectures. The company offers ChatGLM, a dialogue-focused language model series designed for smooth conversation and easy integration. It also provides Ying, a text-to-video model capable of generating short video clips from text or images, and AutoGLM,a voice-driven AI agent that performs smartphone tasks based on complex user instructions. Z.ai supports integration through an API platform and offers migration assistance for developers moving from other AI ecosystems. The company’s technology stems from research at Tsinghua University’s KEG lab and emphasizes general-purpose cognitive intelligence models.
  • ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
  • Despegar — Despegar operates as an online business-to-consumer travel agency that focuses on the Portuguese and Spanish speaking markets. It enables people to research travel plans, check flight availability, book airline, and hotel and car rental reservations online, as well as offer travel-related services, including access to airlines, car rentalcompanies, and hotels and vacation packages. The company serves the leisure and corporate travelers. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Miami, Florida.
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Arbor Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 7 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Arbor Ventures is a visionary fintech-focused VC, partnering with innovators to shape a smarter future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$110M; Series B $12M–$70M; Series C $2.6M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.8M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • AppliedAI — AppliedAI is an Abu Dhabi technology company building AI-native workflow systems for banking, fintech, insurance, and healthcare. Its platform, Opus, automates and supervises mission-critical, document-heavy processes with embedded governance and human oversight.
  • Tabby — Tabby is the money app that lets you buy now and pay later, send and receive money, earn cashback and save.
  • Stitch — Build and launch loans, cards, wallets, deposits, and payments on one operating system. Trusted by leading banks and fintechs worldwide.
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Moneta VC
VC Fund · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel · 7 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Moneta is a venture capital firm that invests in Data Science Technology startups and operates 2 parallel funds: Seed and Growth. Moneta specializes in Fintech, Insuretech and Financial-related AI and is supporing its ventures across all stages of their capital development. Moneta is backed by world leading financial institutions in USA, Africa andAsia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $3.5M–$26M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • WINN.AI — WINN.AI helps sales team run better sales calls and win more deals with real-time guidance that's tuned to every rep, every deal, and every call.
  • Basis Theory — The tokenization API to build secure and compliant applications in minutes.
  • Safebooks AI — Safebooks AI develops a platform for enterprises to automate the quality verification of financial data. It enables enterprises to sign off on 100% of their financial data.
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STV
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups

STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$17M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $20M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Morni — Morni is an interactive platform that provides roadside assistant services in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries through a smart-phone application. Morni currently provides its services to both individuals and corporations.
  • Signit — Transform your contract workflows with secure, legally-binding e-signatures. Trusted by 700+ Saudi organizations.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Impact46
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Impact 46 is an asset manager and advisor that specializes in alternative investment opportunities. The firm provides innovative investment products and services to local & international institutions, family groups, endowments, and high net worth investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Gaming, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $133M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Hazen.ai — Hazen.ai is a Saudi startup focusing on artificial intelligence based traffic analytics and monitoring solutions
  • TakaHouse — TakaHouse is a gaming company that combines entertainment and communication for gamers.
  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 519
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
  • PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
  • Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms. .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $16M–$157M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $63M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
  • Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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Earlybird Digital East Fund
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Earlybird Digital East Fund is an investment firm that focuses on early stage companies in Eastern Europe and Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Series A $1.8M–$30M; Series B $4M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FintechOS — FintechOS is the AI platform for financial product operations. Design, price, launch, and evolve financial products with governed AI and reduced core dependency.
  • Simr (formerly UberCloud) — UberCloud's HPC Simulation Platform helps engineers run faster simulations and helps overworked IT teams gain control.
  • Picus — The Complete Security Control Validation Platform | Stay proactive by validating your security controls with attack scenarios, empower your Red, Purple, Blue teams.
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Falak Startups
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $6k–$360k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
  • Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
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Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups

JVP is a top VC firm with $1.9B AUM and 165 companies built, leading in AI, Cyber Security, Fintech, Insurtech and Climatech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $4.6M–$22M; Series B $10M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Reduxio — Overcome data gravity with ionir, a Kubernetes Data Services platform built for enterprises and optimized to run in Kubernetes.
  • ThetaRay — ThetaRay's big data analytics solutions are based on AI & machine learning, empowering businesses to find opportunities and threats hidden in their big data
  • Centrical — Centrical helps businesses improve employee engagement, proficiency, and performance through gamification, microlearning, and performance management.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 327
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
  • Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
  • Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
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A15
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

A15 is an entrepreneurial company that invests in digital products and technology brands. They aspire to empower the human race to overcome its limits and expand its capabilities by creating real products for real people. They help them scale by providing them with investment, the support of our ecosystem, and act as their launchpad for expansion.It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iVoiceUp — iVoiceUp is the first whistleblowing platform in MENA for anonymous reporting, case management, and compliance analytics. Detect fraud, protect reporters, and build defensible compliance.
  • Byit — Byit is a technology platform developed to empower independent real estate brokers and freelancers.
  • KNOT Technologies — Sell tickets, merchandise, and hospitality in one place. With built-in fraud protection and real-time revenue tools, you stay in control at every step.
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Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Early-stage capital backing the next generation of frontier technology, critical infrastructure, and applied AI.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$7.1M; Series A $8M–$30M; Series C $25M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400k in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Flick.art — Flick is an AI-powered platform reimagining the future of filmmaking. It offers creators an open canvas where words, images, and moving pictures can grow and connect freely. Instead of working through prompts or rigid tools, filmmakers engage in a dialogue with an “AI director,” allowing stories, characters, and worlds to unfold organically. Byweaving together multiple advanced models, Flick enables a process that feels intuitive, narrative-driven, and collaborative.
  • MaverickX — Breakthrough chemical solutions across oil & gas, mining & metals, and water treatment. More oil. More metals. Smarter chemistry.
  • Rinascera Therapeutics — Rinascera Therapeutics develops transformative therapies for rare genetic skin diseases, including RIN-001 for Gorlin Syndrome and RIN-002 for Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (DEB).
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Magnus Capital
VC Fund · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Initial Coin Offering $2.1M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spicenet — Spicenet is a hyper-fast Layer 2 (L2) trading solution, engineered as a custom application rollup to deliver ultra-fast, reliable, and efficient transaction processing for seamless trading experiences.
  • Real Finance — Purpose-built blockchain infrastructure for issuing, managing, settling, and distributing tokenized financial assets across institutional workflows. Regulated banking integrated at the foundation.
  • WorkQuest — About WorkQuest WorkQuest is a decentralized employment and workforce automation protocol enabling employers and workers to collaborate through smart contracts, stablecoin payments, AI matching engines, and on-chain reputation scoring. The platform transforms global employment into a transparent, verifiable, and borderless digital labor economy.
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$22M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
  • PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
  • OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 267
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
  • Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns. Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as well as the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.
  • Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative and fast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1.1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Parametric insurance for cloud outages with swift payouts triggered by real-time data
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SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Predictive Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.5M; Series A $1.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
  • Gaia — Gaia is a sovereign AI platform for Saudi enterprises. It connects knowledge, files, systems, emails and workflows into a single operational intelligence layer. Employees search across everything the company knows but permission-aware so no one sees what they don't already have access to, get generative AI answers grounded in their own datawith cited sources, and hand cross-system work to AI agents with important steps routed to a person for approval. Hosted on the company’s cloud or fully on-premise so data never leaves your own infrastructure.
  • RIME — A specialized Saudi company providing AI driven solutions, integrated with branch monitors and IoT. Utilizing AI agents
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Class 5 Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$5M; Series A $8M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.2M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
  • invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
  • BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
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Revo Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $430k–$8.4M; Series A $1M–$38M; Series B $3.4M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $86M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CLEATUS — Agentic AI for government contracting. Research markets, manage capture and proposals, and automate workflows under your direction.
  • a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
  • Turbo Law — Review, strategize, draft, research and settle in one connected picture that keeps the work current.
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Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund · Dhahran, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Wa’ed Ventures is a $500 million venture capital fund with the aim to accelerate the development of an integrated startup ecosystem by investing in local tech-based startups and incentivizing global entrepreneurs to localize their tech innovations in the Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.5M; Series A $2.5M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $25k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autobia — Autobia is a B2B marketplace leveraging the data to solve the infrastructure and after-sales challenges in the automotive industry. The company bridges the gap between wholesalers and resellers by offering in-between digital, operational and logistical integrated solutions. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
  • OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
  • StrikeReady — Transform security operations with Composite AI. Investigate alerts, automate SOC workflows and connect your security stack.
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Derayah Venture Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Derayah Venture Capital is a Venture Capital Fund That Invests in High Growth Startups across the MENA region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$21M; Series A $2.3M–$33M; Series B $6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Resal — Resal is the regional leader in digital value exchange and alternative payment solutions by creating a comprehensive ecosystem for prepaid gift cards, loyalty, rewards, and payout and spend management
  • Moyasar — Moyasar is an online payment gateway that provides electronic payment solutions.
  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million. Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.3M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • obilet.com — Obilet.com, founded in 2012, is an end-to-end ticketing platform listing hundreds of bus operators, airlines and ferry companies as well as offerings from hotels and car rental companies. Obilet also provides bus operators with its best-in-class Inventory Management System (IMS) as a SaaS.Obilet is the indisputable market leader in Turkey both inB2B and B2C segments with 400+ bus carriers using its IMS software, 25 million visitors per month, and 15 million app downloads.Obilet is projected to sell more than 40 million tickets annually in 2024, making it one of the top-3 bus ticketing platforms in the world. Obilet also set its vision to be the one-stop-shop for whole needs of users regarding the tourism and travel products by expanding its category offerings with the addition of hotel booking and car rental services. Moreover, Obilet has launched its international expansion project in H2 2022, has one of the largest coverage of markets globally.
  • StratiFi — An AI-powered client investment workflow software for wealth managers
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BECO Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups

BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $905k–$9.5M; Series A $2M–$27M; Series B $5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
  • Amaani — World-class beauty and wellness brands from the Middle East. Brands and products made for Arab consumers, with uncompromising global quality and a true reflection of Modern Arabia. Born in region, designed for the world. Backed by PeakXV, Formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA.
  • Property Finder — PropertyFinder owns and operates real estate portals across Dubai. Available in both English and Arabic, its websites provide visitors with search facilities covering residential and commercial properties for rent or for sale, real estate news, home advice, and buying and selling guides.PropertyFinder provides its users with the tools to helpconsumers find the properties that fit their needs. It works with brokers to list properties in one convenient site, and make it easier to see all of the information about those properties while browsing from its users’ desktop or on the move.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 394
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$9.7M; Series A $3M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$114M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AntSeed — AntSeed operates a peer-to-peer protocol and open marketplace for AI services, connecting buyers with independent providers for model inference, agents, and routing. The network uses BitTorrent DHT for discovery and WebRTC for transport, while payments settle in USDC on the Base blockchain through non-custodial smart contracts. Providers define their own services and pricing, and on-chain settlement data is used to build verifiable performance and reputation metrics. AntSeed exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs via a local proxy so existing tools, frameworks, and autonomous agents can route requests through the network. For non-technical users, the AntStation desktop application offers a chat interface that selects providers based on factors such as model type, cost, latency, and privacy. The ecosystem also includes the ANTS utility token, which underpins emissions and incentive programs tied to real network activity.
  • Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
  • SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
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coinIX
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

CoinIX manages a portfolio of cryptocurrencies and assets. The investment focus for venture investments is Europe and with a strong focus on companies using distributed ledger technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PPKING — PPKING is a unique decentralized financial platform that specializes in beneficial liquidity and MEME token trading.
  • Turtle Club — Aggregated, diligenced, personalized onchain yield management.
  • BTA Protocol — Decentralized ecosystem protocol BTA Protocol based on BTC offering applications such as Staking,Liquidity, RSP, Launchpool, and Lending protocols.
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B&Y Venture Partners
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $714k–$9M; Series A $2.5M–$20M; Series B $5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
  • Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
  • Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
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Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Backing outlier founders who build different.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $918k–$11M; Series A $1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grove — Grove is a Riyadh-based company building technology for freshness in the fresh-produce sector. Grove connects farms, markets, and households through an integrated, demand-driven operating system that coordinates planning, quality, logistics, and service as one loop. Demand signals from multiple channels are unified to guide upstream decisions andensure every grade of produce has an optimal path to market. Quality is treated as a managed process across the chain—not a final inspection—so produce reaches consumers ripe, flavorful, and reliable.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Global Settlement Network — Global Settlement Network enables regulated institutions to issue digital currency, settle tokenized assets, and move value across borders.
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Emkan Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Transportation, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series A $6.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $31M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
  • Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
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Ribbit Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

It takes money to change money

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 355
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$79M; Series B $20M–$100M; Series C $28M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $10M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Crossmint — An all-in-one platform for companies and agents: wallets, payments, tokenization, and more.
  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • Entropy.io — Entropy provides everlasting trading for international stocks, commodities, indices, and long-term pre-IPO stocks as an independent market deployer under the Hyperliquid HIP-3 framework.
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AU21 Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 175
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Initial Coin Offering $1.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PERL.eco — The Planetary Ecosystem Registration Ledger will be a dedicated blockchain for real-world ecological assets through tokenizing carbon credits and biodiversity, NFTs and decentralised (DeFi) rewards.
  • Meter.io — Meter.io is a base layer hybrid consensus protocol built to address the volatility, scaling and interoperability problems in the existing cryptocurrencies.
  • Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
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Maven Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Maven Capital provides funding, supporting and advising ambitious cryptocurrency startups from seed to beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChimpX AI — ChimpX AI is an AI-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) superapp designed to simplify crypto trading, cross-chain asset management, and blockchain interactions through natural language commands. The platform focuses on making complex DeFi operations accessible to everyday users by combining artificial intelligence, automation, and gaslesstransactions into a single interface.
  • Gacha Galaxy — The price oracle for collectible cards. Live marketplace data, grading-aware pricing, prediction signals on top.
  • Cluster Protocol — Orchestration layer for autonomous workflows and prompt to dapp browser based IDE on @base all powered by x402 Backed by @daofive and @papervc
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$600k; Pre-Seed $26k–$150k; Convertible Note $30k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
  • ConverJinn — Paste a product link and the Jinn writes a conversion-driven description with SEO-smart HTML, ready to drop into your store.
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CMT Digital
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 228
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $5M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.8M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $9.2M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
  • Diameter Pay — Diameter Pay is a financial service company that provides financial inclusion, fintech, blockchain, and social entrepreneurship services.
  • City Protocol — City Protocol offers growth incentives and creative tools driven by AI. A portable reputation is created via City ID.
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Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Oracles investment group About Us Investing in the future Oracle Investment Group (OIG) is a venture capital firm with a distinctive focus on the domains of decentralized finance, metaverse development, blockchain gaming, and the intricate infrastructure that underpins these domains. At the core of our investment strategy lies the recognition that community and connectivity are

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ordzaar — A modern, user-friendly launchpad for Bitcoin Ordinals and degen playground.
  • Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.
  • BLIFE Protocol — Bringing Web3 to Bitcoin with the backing of Animoca Brands. Merged with @Portalcoin
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fresh.fund
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

fresh.fund is an Israeli pre-seed venture capital fund investing in early-stage startups across segments and verticals.We're built to partner with early-stage founders from day one, often as the company's first institutional investors. Our model is refreshingly simple: up to $300,000 in pre-seed funding within <4 weeks and follow-oncapital as necessary.Check out our portfolio here >> https://www.fresh.fund/portfolio. It's never too early to have a conversation about your startup.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $300k–$6M; Series A $11M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.9M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Kimba — Kimba is an adaptive scent sleep system that uses sleep and biometric data to deliver personalized, natural-origin scents at specific moments throughout the night, designed to actively improve sleep rather than simply track it.
  • CopilotKit — The Enterprise-Ready Frontend Stack for Agents. CopilotKit lets you integrate LLMs or agents with real-time context, UI control, and full flexibility.
  • Shifters AI — Shifters builds autonomous robotic teams for dangerous ground missions.
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