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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Middle East (July 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
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
14 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$33M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
13 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$32M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
11 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Software $1.5M–$50M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
10 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $60k–$27M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
10 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$33M
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
8 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $180k–$25M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
7 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $250k–$50M
Moneta VC
VC Fund
7 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$100M
HALA Capital
VC Fund
7 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $500k–$35M
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
7 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.4M–$60M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
7 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6M–$200M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
STV
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $2.1M–$54M
Impact46
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $1M–$22M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $14k–$1.3M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Falak Startups
VC Fund
5 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$1.2M
BECO Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $905k–$60M
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
5 Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace $150k–$38M
Oqal
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Arbor Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Singapore, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $6M–$175M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$40M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $460k–$6M
coinIX
VC Fund
4 Germany, Israel, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$5.5M
Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $600k–$30M
Glilot Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Cyber Security, Software, Security $1.5M–$70M
fresh.fund
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States, Norway Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software $300k–$21M
Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services $2M–$100M
CMT Digital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2.2M–$40M
B&Y Venture Partners
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $714k–$70M
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $420k–$110M
AU21 Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.1M–$14M
Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $918k–$33M
Disruptech Ventures
VC Fund
4 Egypt, United States, Morocco Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$38M
MSA Novo
VC Fund
4 Egypt, India, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.5M–$32M
Revo Capital
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $430k–$38M
Maven Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $700k–$6M
SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $120k–$35M
OurCrowd
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States, New Zealand Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $604k–$65M
Signal Peak Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.3M–$25M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$48M
EFG Hermes
VC Fund
3 Egypt, Kuwait, United States Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Banking $28k–$13M
Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$37M
Joule Ventures
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Analytics $800k–$30M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, India, Bahrain Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Banking, FinTech $8.4M–$9.4M
Emkan Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Transportation, Medical $1.2M–$20M
Ribbit Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Brazil, India Series B, Series A, Series C Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $7.4M–$250M
Finberg
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Istanbul Startup Angels
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States Angel, Seed SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 14 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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: 100
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Zarya App — Earn without investment.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 13 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: 842
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
  • Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
  • Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 11 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Antimatter
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 10 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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: 120
  • Round size: Seed $190k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 10 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

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.
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 8 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$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

  • Carseer — Carseer is a vehicle history reporting platform that offers vehicle history reports, enabling its users to make an informed decision when buying a new/used car.
  • 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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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 7 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: 171
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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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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

Portfolio highlights

  • WINN.AI — WINN.AI helps revenue teams run better sales calls and win more deals by automating admin work and guiding reps live, during the call.
  • Basis Theory — The tokenization API to build secure and compliant applications in minutes.
  • Safebooks AI — Safebooks deploys AI agents that automate finance operations end to end. Reconciliation, validation, policy enforcement, workpapers, and more. Grounded in your actual data.
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HALA Capital
VC Fund · Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 7 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; Pre-Seed $550k–$730k; Series A $500k–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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 — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.
  • 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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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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. Westand 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: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 267
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $14M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cypago — Enterprise-grade Cyber GRC Automation Platform Enterprise-grade Cyber GRC solution for any security and compliance standard, across hybrid and multi cloud environments
  • Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
  • Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
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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 We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1820
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$54M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Semgrep — An extensible developer-friendly application security platform that scans source code to surface true and actionable security issues with AI-assisted SAST, SCA, and Secrets Detection solutions.
  • Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
  • Observable — Observable provides a data visualization platform for developers, data scientists, journalists, and educators to explore, analyze, and visualize data on the web together. It enables users to create complex graphs, charts, and other visual representations of data. The platform empowers creators to further their learning through data visualizationand gain deep insights. The company is helping organizations make decisions with data, including teams at Stitch Fix and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day.
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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: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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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: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$25M; Series A $8M–$28M; Series B $20M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $800M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
  • 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.
  • Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.
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Impact46
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 13 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, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • CashIn — Cashin to Lead the Digital Transformation in Petrol Stations!
  • Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
  • Hypemasters — At Hypemasters, we create legendary & genre-defining games that players all over the world enjoy for years.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 6 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 scalewith 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:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 268
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $45k–$550k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Lum!ere — Lum!ere is a designer and manufacturer of radical style brass, sterling silver, and gold plated jewelry.
  • ElSupplier.com — ElSupplier.com provides consumer goods. That product includes dairy products, olive oil, vinegar, and cheese. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers.
  • The Baby Garage — The Baby Garage is a marketplace for kids products and services in e-commerce and consumer-to-consumer platforms. The platform offers parents a shopping marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and donate. They provide products and services such as baby transport, nursing, feeding, bathing, skin care products, diapering, toys and activities,fashion, a baby room, and stationery.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 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, Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Aanaab — Aanaab offers online courses in Arabic for teachers and educators to help them improve their skills in different areas including self-development, educational strategies, education techniques, and educational tools and techniques.
  • 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.
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Falak Startups
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 5 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
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $6k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $905k–$10M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $6.8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Wisewell — Wisewell is a sustainability-driven clean water technology company developing high-quality, easily accessible drinking water solutions.
  • Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
  • Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
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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 wellas 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: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M 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.
  • Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
  • 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 andfast-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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.
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Arbor Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 5 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: 74
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$175M; Series B $12M–$70M; Series C $12M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $226M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Silot — Silot started with B2B business connecting banking infrastructure and financial products in the early stage, and then directly empowered SMEs and social e-commerce sellers after transformation.
  • GlobaliD — Your ID, just better in every way Take back control of your data. The future of digital identity. Your ID, just better in every way Get a Demo Why
  • Akulaku Group — Akulaku is a leading banking and digital finance platform in Southeast Asia that operates in 4 major countries: Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia.Targeting an emerging market with an underserved but creditworthy and fast-growing consumer group, Akulaku currently provides users with digital banking, consumer credit, digital investment andinsurance brokerage services, fulfilling financial needs for a wide range of customers.
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GameFi.org
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • AI Pay with Crypto — AI Pay with Crypto is an AI-native financial infrastructure built for the emerging agent economy.APC enables autonomous AI agents to execute payments, settle transactions using programmable stablecoins, and connect directly to real-world merchant networks through QR codes, POS terminals, and other payment channels
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 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: 246
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$6M; Pre-Seed $460k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Coverio — Coverio is a software company that offers enterprise-wide payroll and hiring management software for web4 companies.
  • MonkeyLeague — MonkeyLeague is a video game company. They develop PC and console-based NFT games. The company offers a turn-based, play-and-earn multi-player soccer game that provides monkey NFTs of genetic composition formulated from 32 traits.
  • 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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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: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PPKING — PPKING is a unique decentralized financial platform that specializes in beneficial liquidity and MEME token trading.
  • Turtle Club — Turtle aligns incentives between protocols and LPs to offer the best curated incentives in DeFi.
  • BTA Protocol — BTA Protocol is a decentralized ecosystem protocol based on BTC that includes applications such as staking, liquidity, range stability, launch pool, and lending protocols.
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Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund · Dhahran, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YNMO — YNMO is the first Arabic/English digital solution that aims to improve the quality of care and educational services for individuals with special needs by allowing service providers such as schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.
  • Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
  • Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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Glilot Capital Partners
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Glilot Capital Partners is a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs with a solid success record and with the aim of accelerating the success of those starting out. The firm's early growth fund focuses on post-Series A startups in the enterprise software and cybersecurity sectors. They seek to provide flexible funding solutions byleading or participating in early growth rounds and offering convertible notes. Glilot+ includes a large community of industry leaders, strong financial backing, and extensive resources to drive the growth of their business. Glilot Capital Partners was founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $5M–$32M; Series B $6M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $220M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Niv-AI — Niv-AI develops an AI platform that optimizes power usage in AI data centers by capturing real-time electricity consumption data and dynamically balancing workloads. It addresses bottlenecks where synchronized GPUs create sharp power spikes, unlocking up to 30% of stranded capacity without new hardware.
  • CopilotKit — CopilotKit is the full-stack framework for building user interactive agents and copilots. The company behind the AG-UI Protocol.
  • ScaleOps — ScaleOps is the industry's first Kubernetes optimization platform that automatically optimizes compute resources in real-time.
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fresh.fund
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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: 42
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $300k–$6M; Series A $11M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wisio — Wisio lets social media creators and experts answer questions and requests from followers via paid interactions. The company’s platform empowers followers to gain exclusive access via personalized videos to their favorite creators. Wisio's flexible and easy-to-use platform is packed with features to help creators build deeper communitieswhile monetizing the creator - follower relationship. Thousands of them are already using it to help build their online reputation and business.Wisio's vision is to make everyone reachable.
  • CopilotKit — CopilotKit is the full-stack framework for building user interactive agents and copilots. The company behind the AG-UI Protocol.
  • Shifters AI — Shifters AI is a software company that develops artificial intelligence and robotic solutions.
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Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Olive Tree Capital started as the foreign investment arm of the single member family office. With a diverse mandate, we are able to seek worthwhile global investment opportunities without asset class restrictions; we seek public market opportunities with discrepancies between market perception and fundamental reality, and we enjoy privatelyinvesting in and collaborating with partners who share our passion, dedication, and clarity. More philosophically, we live by the Golden Rule; thus, we especially love entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses that are positively contributing to humanity in parallel with pursuing profitability.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.1M; Series A $8M–$30M; Series B $30M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kindly His — Janani aims to make the process of infertility treatment and assisted fertilization easier and more affordable for the masses.
  • Cheeze — A Photography focused NFT Media and Entertainment company
  • Mendel.ai — Mendel.ai transforms unstructured EMR data and clinical literature into comprehensive and compliant analytics-ready data. Mendel uses their novel AI aided by clinical experts to streamline global oncology research by organizing real-world data and automating clinical trials. They build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trialprocess, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.
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CMT Digital
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 207
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$13M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tazapay — Experience Tazapay's best-in-class global payment solutions for businesses. Our extensive network supports cards, local payment options, and bank transfers in over 173 countries, ensuring seamless collections, secure holding, and efficient payouts worldwide.
  • DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
  • The Giving Block — The Giving Block makes it easy for nonprofits to accept non-cash donations like crypto and stocks for 2,000+ nonprofits. The Giving Block is the largest platform that helps nonprofits accept crypto and stock donations. In 2022, it was acquired by Shift4, a publicly traded payments company.
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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, Information Technology
  • 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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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 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: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • OTO — OTO is SaaS company that helps retailers implement their Omni-Channel strategy by enabling them to ship their online orders directly from the physical stores with the best delivery partners in just 2 hours! Also, we provide Online Retailers and E-commerce companies access to ship packages with more than 80 delivery & carrier companies shipping domestically and internationally.
  • One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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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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Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Backing outlier founders who build different.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $918k–$11M; Series A $1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Vault Wealth — Discover the range of private wealth management services with personalized wealth planning from Vault, a certified private wealth advisor in Dubai & UAE. A secure digital wealth platform trusted by professionals.
  • Global Settlement Network — Global Settlement is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services.
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Disruptech Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

DisrupTech Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm based in Cairo, Egypt, focused on backing founders disrupting the status quo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.2M; Series A $12M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
  • i'SUPPLY — i'SUPPLY is a leading Egyptian Health Tech platform, licensed by the FRA. We simplify B2B2C order management and integrate fintech solutions to empower healthcare SMEs. Our mission is to connect stakeholders, improve operations, enhance working capital access, and ensure patients get essential medic
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
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MSA Novo
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
  • Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
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Revo Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 11 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, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $430k–$5M; Series A $1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cendra — Cendra is a platform for action-oriented AI agents that automate conversations and operations in the built world.
  • Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • CLEATUS — CLEATUS is an AI-powered platform that helps government contractors discover contract opportunities, manage capture pipelines, and write winning proposals. We make government contracting accessible to any business, with AI that automates everything from finding opportunities to submitting winning proposals.Empowering government contractors withagentic AI for every stage of the contracting lifecycle. Effortlessly discover new opportunities, craft winning proposals, manage pursuits and win more work within a single, purpose-built platform designed for organizations of any size.
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Maven Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Me3 — Me3 is a crypto wallet to purchase, send, receive, and exchange tokens and NFTs.
  • 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.
  • Cluster Protocol — Cluster Protocol is the co-ordination layer for AI agents, a carnot engine fueling the AI economy making sure the AI developers are monetized for their AI models and users get an unified seamless experience to build that next AI app/ agent within a virtual disposable environment facilitating the creation of modular, self-evolving AI agents.
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SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 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, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$525k; Series A $1.3M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
  • Squadio — Tech Teams as a service platform (TaaS) ready to take over your project and transform it digitally.
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OurCrowd
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 286
  • Round size: Seed $604k–$10M; Series A $5.3M–$22M; Series B $7M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Oriient — Bringing the GPS revolution indoors with the most scalable and accessible solution for buildings. No Hardware, Cost Effective, and Highly Accurate.
  • Sequentify — Sequentify provides a technology that is based on tools from the synthetic biology and AI software worlds for targeted DNA sequencing applications such as cancer diagnostics, carrier screening, COVID-19 surveillance and other applications.
  • BetterSeeds — The company focuses on non-GMO genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 for creating a novel breed of seeds and crop traits that address the 21st-century agriculture challenges. BetterSeeds provides advanced seeds enabling better crops for mechanized harvesting, extreme e climate resistance, higher calory and nutrient values, and more.
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Signal Peak Ventures
VC Fund · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Backing early-stage SaaS and tech breakthroughs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $7.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $16M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Hubpay — All-in-one global payments platform for UAE businesses. Sign up for free or talk to our specialists to open a business account today & expand your business globally.
  • Pronto — Hit Labs is a technology company that develops applications designed to connect people to those who will help them succeed in school, in work, and in life.
  • Shoptrue — Shoptrue is a consumer-facing fashion marketplace offering a personalized shopping experience. It has developed powerful insights and unique capabilities to help match people to relevant brands and styles and change the way the world buys and sells clothes. It provides personalized product recommendations using collaborative filtering as well asbrand, style, and shape-based recommender systems for personalized affinity predictions and recommendations, enabling retailers to better organize their product catalogs.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Polkadot — Polkadot is a dedicated community that envisions a web where users own their digital identities and data, restoring their authority.
  • Solana Company
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EFG Hermes
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Established in 1984, EFG Hermes is the leading investment bank in the Arab world. The Firm specializes in Securities Brokerage, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity and Research. EFG Hermes is listed on both the Egyptian and London stock exchanges. The recent acquisition of a 65% stake in Credit Libanais marks the first step towardsEFG Hermes’s transformation into a universal bank and will enable it to rapidly expand into retail and commercial banking.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Kuwait, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7M; Pre-Seed $28k–$3M; Debt Financing $7.4M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.7M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
  • Kenzi Wealth — KENZI is developing the asset management infrastructure layer, which will be offered easily to banks, independent asset managers (IAMs), and independent financial advisors (IFAs) via a plug-and-play suite of APIs.
  • Action Energy — Action Energy Company provides a wide range of upstream services, such as onshore drilling and workover, electric submersible pumps, slickline, wireline, directional drilling, OTSG, inspection, coil tubing, simulation, cementing, and mud engineering.
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 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: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.5M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • 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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Joule Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Joule Ventures is an early stage U.S.-based venture fund enabling founding teams in Israel to tackle complex technical challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$13M; Series A $7.4M–$15M; Series B $25M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coralogix — Coralogix is a streaming platform for modern engineering teams. Coralogix’s Streama© technology produces real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance on storage or indexing, solving the challenge of data growth in large-scale systems.Ingest data from any source for a single, centralized platform to manage, monitor, and alertyour applications. As data is ingested, Coralogix instantly narrows millions of events down to common patterns for deeper insights and faster troubleshooting.Machine learning algorithms continuously observe data patterns and flows between system components and trigger dynamic alerts so you know when a pattern deviates from the norm without static thresholds or the need for pre-configurations.
  • Cache — Cache offers automated savings and interest optimization for personal finances using technology-driven solutions.
  • Corbel — Engage buyers instantly, convert more leads, and close deals faster - all powered by AI.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

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, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 298
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Consistently recognised as the leading financial centre in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region. Find out more about what makes Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) number one and how we continue to shape the financial landscape of the region, from Dubai to the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, India, Bahrain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $8.4M–$9.4M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
  • Clara — Easy company incorporation, equity management, documents and data room. Everything you need to manage and grow your business in one place.
  • Union Bank of India — Union Bank of India is a financial institution offering consumer and business banking services.
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Emkan Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 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: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series A $6.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hubpay — All-in-one global payments platform for UAE businesses. Sign up for free or talk to our specialists to open a business account today & expand your business globally.
  • Trukkin — Trukkin is the best logistics company within GCC. Contact us for cargo logistics solutions and truck transport services.
  • FENIX — Fenix is a UAE-based free floating micromobility operator anchored in the GCC region.
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Ribbit Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 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: 270
  • Round size: Series A $7.4M–$70M; Series B $20M–$100M; Series C $30M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Delphia — Delphia puts your data to work for you.
  • CoinSwitch — CoinSwitch breaks down the complexities in Crypto, empowering the everyday Indian to make informed investment decisions on a simple and trusted platform. When we started up, Crypto was a field reserved for specialists. Today, over 20 million users trust CoinSwitch to learn, purchase and invest in Crypto. That makes us India’s largest crypto app.On CoinSwitch, users can invest in Crypto with a few simple taps, either as a one-time purchase or in regular intervals through an SIP. But simplicity is not a substitute for informed decisions. A CoinSwitch user spends 27 minutes on our app—to learn about Crypto and Web3 through our educational content and understand the market sentiments through CRE8, the Crypto Rupee Index. But we are just getting started. CoinSwitch not only plans to double down on making Crypto accessible to everyone but is on track to become the one-stop wealth-tech destination for every Indian.
  • Chainalysis — Chainalysis helps government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with cryptocurrency.
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Finberg
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
  • OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
  • Our Next Energy — ONE is a Michigan-born energy storage company focused on battery technologies that will accelerate the adoption of EVs and expand energy storage solutions.
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Istanbul Startup Angels
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
  • MobilMed — Since 2015, we have been providing services in the field of mobile biomedical device design and application solutions. Our goal is to provide you with great customer experience and exceptional value services.
  • Parkkolay — Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems.
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