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Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Arab Emirates in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Arab Emirates in May 2025

Investor	Payments United Arab Emirates investments
Global Founders Capital	10
Global Ventures	7
Shorooq Partners	7
Raed Ventures	7
VentureSouq	5
4DX Ventures	4
MSA Novo	4
B&Y Venture Partners	4
Olive Tree Capital	4
STV	3
Wamda Capital	3
BY Venture Partners	3
HALA Ventures	3
Arbor Ventures	3
Maven Capital	3
MSA Capital	3
Groww	2
Heartcore Capital	2
Aditum Ventures	2
KSK Angel Fund	2
Blockchain Founders Fund	2
Sequoia Capital	2
Point Nine	2
Signal Peak Ventures	2
Oqal	2
ZBS CAPITAL	2
Oracles Investment Group	2
Presight Capital	2
HOF Capital	2
Reciprocal Ventures	2
Delphi Ventures	2
Zephyrus Capital	2
Arzan Venture Capital	2
Anthemis	2
Newid capital	2
Willowtree Investments	2
Impact46	2
Prosper global	2
Contango Digital Assets	2
GSR	2
Touch Ventures	2
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)	2
Firestartr	2
RaliCap	2
Tekton Ventures	2
Dtec Ventures	2
Cointelegraph	2
Animoca Brands	2
LayerZero Labs	2
AU21 Capital	2

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
Scribe Health AI — The #1 Free AI Medical Scribe & Progress Note Taker. Integrated to your EMR. HIPAA Compliant AI Scribe. Save 2 hours everyday. Reduce Burnout by 80%. No credit card signup.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zension — Zension is a subscription e-commerce company for consumer tech. Each and every day, we set out to create a new standard for connectivity and access to the best technology tools for all.
Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.
BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NymCard — NymCard is providing, in the MENA region and around the globe, dynamic and secure building blocks for building fast and easy card programs.
CQR — CQR is dedicated to offering unrivaled protection by combining proactive techniques, cutting-edge technology, and guidance.
The Box Self Storage Services LLC — The Box Self Storage Services offer complete protection for your goods both for domestic and commercial purposes. As an added advantage, They offer you the flexibility of accessing the stored items at any time through Their 24-hour access control log. Moreover, They provide insurance for your goods should there be any unexpected damage duringcalamities.They provide the best moving and relocation services in Dubai and UAE. They design a customized relocation plan for you based on your requirements and budget. One of Their relocation experts will always be around keeping an eye on the loading and unloading process and making sure that your items stay safe and undamaged.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

BloomPath — Bloompath gives engineering team leads clear visibility into project progress, team contributions, and what's gaining traction, without digging through tools. Stay aligned, spot blockers early, and keep your team moving forward.
SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
Mala Inc. — This is meta description
SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates

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

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

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

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
Arva AI — Arva AI makes onboarding onto a bank/fintech as a business 100x faster and significantly cheaper. An end-to-end KYB solution fuelled by AI.
Hamming AI — Test your AI voice agent against 1000s of simulated users in minutes. Call analytics, monitoring, and governance for AI voice agents.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
BloomPath — Bloompath gives engineering team leads clear visibility into project progress, team contributions, and what's gaining traction, without digging through tools. Stay aligned, spot blockers early, and keep your team moving forward.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Vasco — Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lean Technologies — Lean provides the Data and Payments tools to empower MENA's next generation of financial products | Trusted by Etisalat, Hubpay, Lulu Finance, Binance, Sarwa and more.
Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
Pagos Solutions — Get real-time payment data detecting issues, trends, and opportunities plus intelligent payment solutions for optimizing payment performance.

We fund, support and advise ambitious cryptocurrency startups from seed to beyond.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

XSwap — XSwap is a cross-chain swaps protocol that provide protocols and end-users with secure, reliable, and simple cross-chain payments, all supported by Chainlink CCIP.
Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.
NXI — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
DP Technology — DP Technology is a global leader in the "AI for Science" research paradigm, where AI learns scientific principles and data, then tackles key challenges in scientific research and industrial R&D.DP's commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to the creation of the DP "Particle Universe", an array of pre-trainedlarge science models designed to bridge foundational research with practical industrial applications. DP's software suite includes the Bohrium® Scientific Research Space, Hermite® Computational Drug Design Platform, RiDYMO® Dynamics Platform, and Piloteye® Battery Design Automation Platform. Together, these platforms form a robust foundation for industrial innovation and an open ecosystem for AI in science, fostering advancements in key areas such as drug discovery, energy, material science, and information technology.
DP Technology — Deep Technology uses a new generation of molecular simulation technology to tackle micro-scale industrial design difficulties. Founded in 2018 and is based in Beijing China.

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Investment focus

Advice, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Corporate Round
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Denmark, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

Aditum Ventures invests in early-stage FinTech and B2B software companies across the MENA Region.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
Fundbot — Fundbot is a solution for lenders that helps them digitize invoice financing, supply chain financing, and other financial services. It is a cash flow optimization tool and a financing marketplace for SMEs.The invoices are synchronized in the accounting system. It offers a digital CFO that analyses payables and receivables in real-time and offers tofinance. It provides financial recommendations based on the business’s needs.

KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OMTrade — OMTrade is a cryptocurrency copy trading platform that aims to make cryptocurrency copy trading more equitable, sustainable, and creative.
Buyandship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Unit — Unit Network DAO is a sovereign layer 1 blockchain built using the Substrate framework by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot and Parity Technologies. It provides the technological and economic infrastructure for mainstream adoption of the token economy. A near-future in which millions of tokens fuel borderless communities to empower the globe.
M10 — Material10 is an international game studio and publisher with a vision to build the future of massively multiplayer games, leveraging cutting edge technology and creating truly open virtual economies.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Strava — Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.Founded in 2009, millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help membersdiscover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.
Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.

Signal Peak is a venture capital firm with more than $550 million of committed capital under management. The fund invests in information technology companies and looks for entrepreneurial teams with the potential to transform markets and create lasting value. Specific areas of focus include Internet, SaaS, enterprise software, communications,security, and mobile computing—all markets in which the firm has deep expertise.Our strategy includes providing a level of operational assistance that creates additional value. We take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach by making early introductions to key customers and strategic partners, and by helping to recruit top executives and co-investors.Collectively, the Signal Peak team has founded and served as senior officers or board members in dozens of companies. The team has a combined history of successful company leadership and private equity investments that span over 60 years. As a result, our team has the resources, decision-making experience, and strategic relationships to meet the demands of today's passionate entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.
Intros AI — Intros AI boosts community engagement by automating interactions across major platforms. It offers customizable algorithms and analytics for any size community to deepen engagement and relationships.
Nostra AI — Nostra is an AI-based personalization solution. The technology automatically optimizes the content of every page on your site for maximum conversions. It learns from your visitors to see what performs best and applies that learning to subsequent website visitors, resulting in a better experience for all.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
DESAISIV — DESAISIV, a MENA based InsurTech startup specialising in health insurance which is transforming health insurance for insurers and clients through exploiting their advanced AI solutions which were developed in collaboration with top machine learning scientists from the University of Oxford. DESAISIV’s philosophy is simply to put AI at the centre ofall decision making. This AI-driven approach guarantees that clients of Groups and SMEs will get optimized insurance policies tailored to their needs, also it will make sure that insurance companies will optimise their processes using the latest AI technologies. Benefitting from access to a vast database of hundreds of millions of patient records, DESAISIV has achieved an impressive average prediction accuracy of over 95%. Demonstrating their commitment to excellence, they have set an ambitious target to exceed 99% accuracy by the end of this year. Through their AI-driven products, DESAISIV streamlines various aspects of health insurance, including automating underwriting procedures, tailoring policy's benefits and coverage, improving quality of service by predicting developing diseases, identifying high-risk behaviours, and reducing customer attrition.
TruBuild — AI pre-construction tool to review tenders, compare bids, and manage contracts, faster decisions, fewer errors, less admin.

ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
Alliance Games — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.

Oracles Investment Group provides one of a kind platform for Crypto Project teams to raise capital, grow supporters, and Crypto Investors to take part in promising projects.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Ordzaar — Ordzaar is the operator of a decentralized Bitcoin marketplace where crypto traders can buy, sell, and exchange ordinals.
Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.
BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.

Presight is a global venture capital firm investing at the intersection of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we manage over $600M in assets across two early-stage funds. We were founded in 2019 in partnership with Apeiron Investment Group, the multi-billion dollar private investment firm of Christian Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur in technology, fintech, blockchain/crypto, and life sciences.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
Needle — Needle enables fast, AI-powered information discovery across all your data sources. Moreover, its RAG API helps developers build agentic AI applications.

HOF Capital is a global technology investment firm that leverages its global limited partner network to help founders build massive businesses.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

GenLogs — Get ready to have your operations supercharged! Our real-time data on all trucks in America helps you find the right capacity at the right time.
Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.

Partnering with crypto founders from day 0. Here investments == partnerships.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NymCard — NymCard is providing, in the MENA region and around the globe, dynamic and secure building blocks for building fast and easy card programs.
DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.
Warlock Labs — Warlock Labs is a provider of an omni-chain liquidation engine that improves the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols by recapturing the maximum extractable value.

Delphi Ventures is a thesis-driven, high-conviction firm that allocates across core themes that we believe will dramatically shape the world.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ORO AI — ORO facilitates the transformation of data into advanced forms of intelligence, representing the next generation of analytical capabilities.
Cabal — Cabal is an innovative protocol that effectively generates revenue while operating on the robust initial layer 1 network.
Reservoir — Infrastructure and APIs to bring efficient token markets to every chain, wallet, and app

capital

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Heurist — Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources.
assisterr — Assisterr is building an AI tokenization stack to ensure fair compensation for data owners and contributors. The platform manages the entire lifecycle of SLM training, enabling features like data provenance tracking, fine-tuning, and the launch of SLM-powered Agents. Web3 component allows data owners to contribute their data and expertise todomain-specific SLMs and capture the value from such contributions.
bitSmiley — BitSmiley offers comprehensive Bitcoin DeFi solutions to bridge the stablecoin and lending infrastructure gaps within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Its main product is an over-collateralized stablecoin based on Bitcoin. Users can utilize Bitcoin as collateral for BitSmileyDAO and Mint BitUSD.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.

digitally native finance

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

LiquidTrust — Confidently make and receive your business payments worldwide. Direct Pay for fast transactions across 229 countries, or Pay by Trust for enhanced protection against fraud and delays.
Burbank — Burbank's technology creates the most seamless customer experience by enabling authentication of users anytime, at any time, using the widely known "Tap and PIN." Burbank gives companies the ability to produce the remarkable.
SimpleClosure — The easiest and most trustworthy way to shut down your startup. Simplify your company dissolution process, saving time and money while getting everything done right.

Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Kenya, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lulalend — Financial provider for SME business banking accounts, business funding, and trade capital in South Africa. Do not delay. Click now to learn more and start today!
NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

Willowtree Investments operates as an early stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
Mindgard Ltd — Mindgard Ltd specializes in providing comprehensive AI security solutions to enterprises. Our operations center around a sophisticated platform designed to determine, detect, and remediate adversarial attack vulnerabilities within AI models. The platform is built on over four years of PhD-led research in AI and cyber security, ensuring advancedprotection that traditional Cyber Security platforms cannot offer.Our platform integrates seamlessly with existing AI and Cyber Security tools, enabling automated and repeatable vulnerability testing across the entire AI estate. This integration allows enterprises to efficiently assess and mitigate risks, optimizing their AI and cyber security resources.Key operational features include: - Automated Security Testing: Utilizing a library of adversarial attacks, our platform conducts thorough and repeated security tests to identify vulnerabilities. - Detection and Response: The platform continuously monitors AI models for threats and provides rapid detection and response capabilities to neutralize potential attacks. - Seamless Integration: Designed for compatibility with existing operational tools, our platform can be easily incorporated into current security infrastructures.Mindgard Ltd's operations ensure that businesses can securely adopt and innovate with AI technologies while protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation in the evolving AI landscape.
Distributional — Distributional makes AI safe, reliable and secure.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Spoilz — Play innovative new games with Spoilz, your one-stop destination for gaming joy. From casual to strategy, experience the best in gaming today!
Cipher — Cipher It provides a wide range of services, including risk assessment, rapid response, and recovery to ensure business continuity.
Mala'a Technologies — Make better financial decisions with Malaa. Manage your financials, track your expenses, take a loan or invest your money all from one app. Connect you bank accounts and start today

Venture capital, M&A, Real-Estate, Pharma

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Logistics
Convertible Note
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.

Contango Digital Assets is a crypto focused venture capital firm helping to fuel the financial revolution.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Heurist — Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources.
Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.

GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.
Canopy — Canopy is a DeFi platform built on Movement that leverages a dynamically balanced dual-token ecosystem of $LEAF and $OAK, as well as the ability for users to offer liquidity with single asset deposits.

Touch Ventures is an investment holding company focused on high growth, scalable investment opportunities globally, including those who may benefit from Afterpay's ecosystem

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Payments, Virtual Workforce
Seed, Series A, Series C
Australia, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Breef — Breef is bringing the agency online. As the modern outsourcing solution, our platform connects leading brands with boutique agencies for all their digital + creative needs. The company was founded in New York by George Raptis & Emily Bibb.
Postpay — Postpay is an e-commerce company that offers easy installment loans to shoppers, enabling them to make purchases without financial strain. Explore the website for a variety of features, exclusive deals, and featured brands. Shop stress-free and enjoy affordable shopping with Postpay.
Her Black Book — Her Black Book

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, India, Bahrain

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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.

Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.

We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Perceptis AI — Perceptis is AI-powered service for creating professional business proposals. Create winning multimillion-dollar proposals - fast. Our models are trained on proposals generated by elite consultants.
Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
Flywl — Flywheel Dynamix is a cloud meta-marketplace transforming how enterprises buy and sell cloud software with unmatched trust, visibility, and efficiency.

Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman

Portfolio highlights

Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
AlgoDriven — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.

The most recent news about crypto industry at Cointelegraph. Latest news about bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain, mining, cryptocurrency prices and more

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

SynergyAI — SynergyAI is The AI Toolkit for the Blockchain.
Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
Rewardable — Turn your spare time into extra cash with simple online tasks and micro-jobs. Earn money whenever and wherever you like.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Domin Network — Domin Network is a decentralized business network that connects software and hardware in many business situations using the NFT middleware protocol and DePIN rollup technology.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

LayerZero Labs is a blockchain messaging protocol developer that allows decentralized applications build across multiple blockchains. The company is a User Application (UA) configurable on-chain endpoint that runs a ULN.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IT Infrastructure
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, Bahamas

Portfolio highlights

Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
Rewardable — Turn your spare time into extra cash with simple online tasks and micro-jobs. Earn money whenever and wherever you like.
Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
NeuronX — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

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