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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Middle East (August 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
16 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
15 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$32M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
15 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Software $1.2M–$50M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
12 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $589k–$50M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
10 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $600k–$33M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
10 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $60k–$27M
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
10 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.5M–$60M
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
9 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $180k–$25M
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 Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.3M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
8 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Moneta VC
VC Fund
7 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$100M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
7 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6.4M–$230M
Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$37M
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
FJ Labs
VC Fund
6 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$68M
Impact46
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, Gaming $1M–$22M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$40M
Alameda Research
VC Fund
6 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$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–$72M
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $420k–$50M
Class 5 Global
VC Fund
5 United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $300k–$23M
SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $120k–$40M
Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$124M
Oqal
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
BECO Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $905k–$60M
A15
VC Fund
5 Egypt, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $50k–$8M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
Arbor Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Singapore, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $5M–$175M
Magnus Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.3M–$34M
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
5 Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace $150k–$30M
MSA Novo
VC Fund
4 Egypt, India, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.5M–$32M
Disruptech Ventures
VC Fund
4 Egypt, United States, Morocco Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$38M
Mad'a Investment Company
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait Seed, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.6M–$13M
CMT Digital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$40M
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 $9.2M–$250M
GSR
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Maven Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $700k–$23M
Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $918k–$33M
coinIX
VC Fund
4 Germany, Israel, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$5.5M
AU21 Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.1M–$14M
Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services $2.2M–$100M
Finberg
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $490k–$20M
Revo Capital
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $430k–$66M
Glilot Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Cyber Security, Software, Security $1.5M–$70M
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
Derayah Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, FinTech, Marketplace $1.6M–$33M
Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $284k–$25M
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 16 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: 102
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
  • THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 15 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: 971
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 15 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: 122
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Antimatter — Antimatter builds AI infrastructure designed for real-world limits: energy, geography, and deployment time. Faster to deploy and lower cost than hyperscale models.
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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: 192
  • Round size: Seed $589k–$8.4M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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 — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
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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: 194
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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.
  • Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 10 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 10 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: 126
  • Round size: Seed $190k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
  • DEEP.SA — DEEP.SA develops artificial intelligence engines and intelligent agents that support both consumer-facing and government-focused applications. It offers secure platforms for controlled access to AI models, incorporating knowledge graph-driven tools such as GraphI to convert complex data relationships into actionable insights for decision-making.The company deploys virtual assistants (for instance, KADI) and AI-powered search capabilities tailored to structured and unstructured data environments. Its offerings emphasize compliance with privacy and regulatory standards while enabling technology-driven transformation across different client domains.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 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: 278
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$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

  • 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.
  • IRP Systems — IRP Systems delivers high performance electric vehicle systems, EVVER e-powertrains and TrueDRIVE control software for fast integration.
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 9 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, Financial Services
  • 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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HALA Capital
VC Fund · Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 8 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, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; 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 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: 307
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $32k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • lululittle — lululittle combines storytelling with cultural themes to create empowering personalized books where your children are the heroes. We use the power of personalized storytelling to create inspiring and engaging reading experiences, placing your kids at the center of these stories. Our stories are inspired by relevant cultural themes that aim toempower kids in their diverse cultural environments. Our first story is inspired by the Arab world's rich culture and is suited for kids age 0-10. lululittle's easy to use online platform lets you personalize, preview, and order their book in just a few minutes.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • Ouda W Dar — Ouda W Dar is an online platform that helps hosts and guests book unique short-term accommodations.
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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: 127
  • 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

  • HeyBreez AI — Conversational Al, for Everyone. Real phone calls. Real-time automation. Built for real operations.
  • 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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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 — Agentic finance automation from Safebooks AI. Auditable AI agents that close faster, reconcile continuously, and validate transactions.
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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: 2066
  • Round size: Series A $6.4M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$230M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Island — Meet Island, the Enterprise Browser that gives you control over SaaS governance, visibility and productivity. Secure your critical data and apps with Island.
  • Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/7a5aSCUfnr https://t.co/x14hb3jO7O
  • ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
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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: 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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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: 74
  • 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: 93
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% 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
  • 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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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 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, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1441
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
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Impact46
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 11 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, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • CashIn — Cashin to Lead the Digital Transformation in Petrol Stations!
  • Ash Games Studio — Ash Games Studio develops and publishes interactive video games. Available materials indicate a focus on original titles alongside contract game development services for partners. Work typically spans concept, design, prototyping, programming, art, and testing, followed by content updates and live support. Offerings may include co-development andcontent production for mobile and PC releases, along with community and analytics support.
  • Majestic Mind Games — Majestic Mind Games is a game studio creating strategic, mind-engaging video games.
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 6 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: 504
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
  • Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
  • Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
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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: 321
  • 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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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: 77
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$17M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $20M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $800M in 2017

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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.
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  • 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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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: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$5M; Series A $8M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2019

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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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, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$525k; 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.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
  • RIME — A specialized Saudi company providing AI driven solutions, integrated with branch monitors and IoT. Utilizing AI agents
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Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund · Dhahran, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 9 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, Series B
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.5M; Series A $2.5M–$30M; Series B $19M–$124M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraxy — Terraxy is a startup company building permanent fertile soils to enable greening and agriculture in the desert.
  • THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
  • 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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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: 127
  • 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 a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
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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: 107
  • Round size: Seed $905k–$10M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $6.8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Algebra AI — Algebra AI designs and runs agentic AI workflows that turn complex, manual operations into reliable, production-ready systems with human oversight and real accountability.
  • Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
  • 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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A15
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 5 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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, 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 — AI-powered solutions designed to untangle event ticketing inefficiencies
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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: 263
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$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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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: 75
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$175M; Series B $12M–$70M; Series C $12M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $226M in 2018

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.
  • 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.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
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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 enables universal access to the top DeFi venues across all networks, creating better financial outcomes for all.
  • Real Finance — Real Finance is driven by the mission to revolutionize the financial landscape by integrating real-world assets with blockchain technology, creating a more transparent, secure, and efficient ecosystem that bridges traditional finance with decentralized innovation, enhances asset liquidity, and unlocks new opportunities for global investors.
  • 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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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: 65
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$30M
  • 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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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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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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Mad'a Investment Company
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

Mad’a Investment Company is a Private Equity firm headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and a wholly owned subsidiary of Abdul Aziz Al Othaim & Sons Holding Company (ASO&SONS). We aim to assist businesses to reach their true potential by unlocking values which otherwise could not have been realized. We strive to create exceptional value tobusinesses through our team of investment and operating professionals working collaboratively with the management of our portfolio companies. We, as a Saudi Company, are committed to contributing to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and our Investment Strategy is aligned with the Vision 2030.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
  • Telfaz11 — Telfaz11 is a creative media studio from Saudi Arabia specializing in locally-relevant entertainment content
  • OAK Group — OAK Group offers its wide range of services through restaurants, catering services, beach clubs, temporary accommodation solutions.
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CMT Digital
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 10 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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Derivio — Be early. Trade smarter. One terminal.
  • 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.
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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

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: 309
  • Round size: Series A $9.2M–$90M; Series B $20M–$116M; Series C $30M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
  • 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.
  • Tomo — Get a mortgage or refinance with $0 lender fees and rates 0.25% below the market median. Tomo Mortgage's TrueRate tool shows you a fair rate before you apply.
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GSR
VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its tradingtechnology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $4M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Bundle — Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions.
  • TrueNorth — The first Agentic Brokerage - build your own professional trading desk
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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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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, Software, Financial Services
  • 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 is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services.
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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: 35
  • 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 — 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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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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Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 4 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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$7.1M; Series A $8.5M–$30M; Series B $30M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

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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Finberg
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 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: 61
  • Round size: Seed $490k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Revo Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 12 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: 89
  • Round size: Seed $430k–$8.4M; Series A $1M–$45M; Series B $3.4M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CLEATUS — CLEATUS | Bring Government Contracting to Every Business with AI
  • a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
  • Turbo Law — The unified litigation platform trusted by top litigators. Handle review, drafting, research, and strategy at the depth a complex case actually demands.
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Glilot Capital Partners
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Glilot Capital invests in Seed, Series A, and Series B enterprise software, cybersecurity, and AI companies, with $1.3B raised.

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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: 122
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; 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

  • CopilotKit — The Enterprise-Ready Frontend Stack for Agents. CopilotKit lets you integrate LLMs or agents with real-time context, UI control, and full flexibility.
  • Way Security — Your IdP, IGA, and PAM tools do nothing until they're enforced on every app. Way is the last mile: any control, any application, any identity.
  • Bloom Security — Bloom brings visibility, contextual risk assessment, precise enforcement, and one-click remediation to endpoint security in the AI era.
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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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Derayah Venture Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 4 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: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $2.3M–$33M; Series B $6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% 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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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in Middle East Payments startups

The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $284k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.5M; Series A $800k–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

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.
  • Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • Blueground — Rent beautiful, fully furnished apartments for monthly stays in the best locations around the world. Thousands of furnished flats for short and long-term stays.
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