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Top 50 Payments VC Funds in United Arab Emirates

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC 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 Funds in United Arab Emirates

Investor	Payments United Arab Emirates investments
Global Founders Capital	8
Shorooq Partners	7
Global Ventures	7
Raed Ventures	5
VentureSouq	5
Wamda Capital	4
B&Y Venture Partners	4
4DX Ventures	4
Olive Tree Capital	4
MSA Capital	3
STV	3
Arbor Ventures	3
Accion Venture Lab	2
Aditum Ventures	2
Cherry Ventures	2
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)	2
Signal Peak Ventures	2
Anthemis	2
HOF Capital	2
Reciprocal Ventures	2
KSK Angel Fund	2
Prosper global	2
RaliCap	2
Firestartr	2
AlRajhi Partners	2
Heartcore Capital	2
Newid capital	2
Presight Capital	2
HALA Ventures	2
Tekton Ventures	2
Point Nine	2
Emkan Capital	2
Lince Capital	1
Iberis Capital	1
Blockchain Founders Fund	1
Gate Ventures	1
Groww	1
Afterpay	1
SevenX Ventures	1
AlphaGrep	1
468 Capital	1
Knollwood Investment Advisory	1
Mad'a Investment Company	1
BR Capital	1
Hi2 Global Venture Fund	1
SINOFY	1
Emurgo ventures	1
Jets Capital	1
BlueCrow Capital	1
Al Tamimi & Company	1

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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

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

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, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

DXwand — DXwand Cognitive Engagement Toolkit, COGENT, is next generation chatbot that is trained to lookup your products, track orders and conducts a full sales order dialog with your customers. It supports both Arabic and English and works on Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, SMS, website, Twitter, Mobile App and over voice.
MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.

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

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.
Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
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.

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

Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
Omniful — Omniful is your partner in retail revolution. Explore our comprehensive suite of AI-Powered solutions designed to empower omnichannel retailers, D2C brands, and fulfillment providers. From scalable order management, to agile warehouse management, to data-driven business intelligence, we provide the tools you need to thrive in tomorrow's dynamic market.
Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs is focused on automating mundane human jobs through Easy-to-use, collaborative and tele-operable robotic arms for Industries

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, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.

B&Y Venture Partners is a MENA based Venture Capital firm that invests globally at both seed and growth stage. We invest in visionary and high-impact founders aiming to create new markets or transform existing ones.

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.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
AOA — AOA based in Boston, New York, and London developing cancer diagnostics in the field of women’s health.AOA is a female-led company, is committed to bringing the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy ovarian cancer diagnostic test to market that will improve clinical practice, help reduce patient mortality and deliver cost savings to payers.
DermBiont — Leading a Revolution in Dermatology

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

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.
Shenji Changhua — Shenji Changhua is a biotechnology company focusing on neurological diseases such as ALS.
Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
Noon - The Social Learning Platform — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!

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, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
Ready — Get Ready BOSS for your CSP digital transformation. Cross-sell OTT services, subscriber self-service & more. Includes flexible, modular billing & API.
Pagos Solutions — Get real-time payment data detecting issues, trends, and opportunities plus intelligent payment solutions for optimizing payment performance.

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.

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

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
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.

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Octomind — Octomind is an AI-powered end-to-end web app testing tool that detects bugs before they are discovered by users. It develops automated software that runs UI tests to discover bugs.
Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.

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, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rain — Rain is a licensed and trusted crypto exchange in the Middle East with customers worldwide. Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies on Rain.
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.

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.
Monarx — Automatic malware protection for PHP web hosting providers.
Fetch Package — Fetch is an off-site package management solution for multifamily apartment communities. Eliminate the time and space devoted to resident packages and bring your resident's a valuable new amenity - direct to door delivery.

digitally native finance

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
Ergo — Ergo empowers shoppers by letting them communicate with retailers so they can set prices together.
Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Astrus — Astrus fully automates analog layout using AI without disrupting your workflow.
Cambrium — Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks. Our platform combines synthetic biology, machine learning and lab automation to create high-performance materials at scale.We fundamentally believe that the ability to align economic and environmental incentives makes biologythe most important manufacturing technology of the 21st century. We are accelerating a Cambrian explosion of biomaterials to address the world’s most pressing problems.
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.

Be among the few who stepped into the unknown and changed everything. The future you envision begins with Reciprocal Ventures.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ironforge — The Solana Developer Platform
Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.
Third Time Entertainment — Third Time Entertainment is a startup game development studio that focused primarily on NFT and crypto gaming. Founded in 2015 by Ian Cummings, with co-founders Paul Fleetwood and Brian Fleming. Starting in 2021, Third Time has begun development on 2 of the most highly anticipated crypto-based blockchain games, Photo Finish Live and The Suites.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
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.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs is focused on automating mundane human jobs through Easy-to-use, collaborative and tele-operable robotic arms for Industries

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.

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

Zenpli — Zenpli makes it easy for enterprises and startups in LatAm to manage KYC and fraud complexity through a single modular API, no matter the use case.
Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.

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 streamlines reporting for sophisticated growth marketing teams. Automatically integrate, process and visualize data from all of your marketing sources.

AlRajhi Partners is an investment firm that focuses on public equities, private equity, and real estate. The company is owned by a subset of the Alrajhi family. The company's shareholders are members of the AlRajhi family, who pioneered and established one of the world's first and largest Islamic banks.

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel Agency, Subscription Service
Series A, Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Mamo — Experience the ease of sending and receiving money with Mamo. No beneficiaries. No fees. No IBANs. Money is made for living. Move your money, at your pace.
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.
FlyAkeed — FlyAkeed is combining multiple definitions into one: "Online Travel Agency", "Travel Management Company", and “Expense Management Solution”. It offers comprehensive travel services and innovative solutions for corporates and their employees to help them achieve the ultimate booking experience when traveling for work.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quesma — At Quesma we help customers to innovate faster by re-shaping the way applications are built and connected to their DBs. Quesma database gateway enables development teams to modernise and evolve application architecture.
CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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

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

Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
Parker — Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances.

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

Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Omniful — Omniful is your partner in retail revolution. Explore our comprehensive suite of AI-Powered solutions designed to empower omnichannel retailers, D2C brands, and fulfillment providers. From scalable order management, to agile warehouse management, to data-driven business intelligence, we provide the tools you need to thrive in tomorrow's dynamic market.
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.

TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stageinvestments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world.Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India).Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus.We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
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.
Nano Technologies — VUI provides Flexible Payroll (EWA) solutions, income statistics, and employee financial management education through a technology platform.

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

ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.
Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
BlueLayer — BlueLayer transforms the management of carbon projects with a cutting-edge software stack that frees up valuable resources to bring more quality credits to market.

Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Transportation, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Hubpay — Secure & efficient global payments for UAE businesses. Get competitive rates, fast transfers, and expert support. Book a demo and open a forex corporate account today
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.

Lince Capital is an independent venture capital company. Lince Capital was born from the experience of a family group with over 30 years of experience in managing investment funds in various business areas, including real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, and telecommunications.Lince Capital is distinguished by its personalized and excellentsupport, close and direct relationship with each of its investors and business partners, and the dedication of an experienced and dynamic team.

Investment focus

Grocery, Cannabis, Coworking
Seed, Funding Round
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Zeoos — Zeoos offers to accelerate and simplify direct sales to end customers in the marketplace (Direct to Consumer), while also providing management and logistical services.
PayNest — PayNest is a payments amalgamator, which was created with the core mission of digitizing cash collection in the Middle East.
Paynest — Hello, we are Paynest! An innovative online platform with a very important mission: to give every employee the tools to master financial wellness and build a resilient future. Instant wage access, financial education and mentoring by professional financial coaches are the main benefits we bring on the table.Our co-partners in this mission will bethe pioneering employers: the minds who have an insightful and special way of thinking. Those who believe that their teams’ wellness is a top priority and want to see their employees evolve both professionally and personally. Together we will provide independence and safety to every employee. And that’s just the beginning! We are here to grow with you.50% of employees confirm that they are unable to fund a financial emergency. This is something that “produces” a never-ending sense of financial stress. Studies show that the demanding modern life and the global political and economical changes make every employee worry about the future. In Paynest we believe that it's vital for employees to have instant wage access whenever they want to. The result will be less everyday stress, more focus and boosted morale.In Paynest we believe that if you take action today, you can dream of tomorrow.And that is something that works both for every employer and every employee around the world.

Iberis is an investment manager that operates a value-oriented investment management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Series A, Seed, Series C
Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PayNest — PayNest is a payments amalgamator, which was created with the core mission of digitizing cash collection in the Middle East.
Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Layer Edge — First Optimistic Rollups with Modular DA Layer on #Bitcoin. Fast, Inexpensive & Familiar EVM environment for #BTC ecosystem.
Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
Unstable Protocol — Unstable Protocol implements zkOracles to enhance the DeFi utility for the LRTfi market.

Gate.io providing various forms of funding, we are able to help promising teams and startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Bahamas, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

EthStorage — EthStorage is a crypto startup and It is a storage rollup built on top of ethereum.
Bitlight Labs — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.

Start Online Investing in Stocks and Direct Mutual Funds with India's Leading Investment and Trading Platform - Groww. Equity Trading, US Stocks, Direct Mutual Funds with Zero-commission.

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.
Digio — Aadhaar eSign and eKYC, Digital Signatures(DSC), eNACH(NPCI Electronic Mandates), digital documentation platform. Leading digital transformation of India.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

Afterpay Limited has transformed the way people pay by giving merchants the ability to allow shoppers to receive products immediately and pay in four simple installments over a short period of time. The service is completely free for customers who pay on time - helping consumers spend money responsibly without incurring interest, fees or revolvingand extended debt. As of May 2020, Afterpay is offered by more than 50,000 of the world's best retailers and is used by more than 9 million active customers globally.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Corporate Round
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.
ClearPay — ClearPay is a great new way to pay for the things you love with three equal Interest-free payments. You can use it to make purchases up to the value of £450 by simply selecting ClearPay online at the checkout, where a retailer offers it to you as a payment method.If you’re new to ClearPay, the process is fast and simple and there are no longforms to complete.All you need to do is make a quick application and when approved set up your payment plan using your credit or debit card.And for existing customers ClearPay is even faster and easier to use. They even provide you with an online account which you can use to control your plans from your smartphone.

SevenX Ventures is an independent thinker and tech-driven cryptocurrency investment firm that provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lifeform — Lifeform provides decentralized identity systems for Web3 avatars.
Gosleep — Gosleep is a healthfi-focused web3 lifestyle applications. They also provide gamefi, socialfi, and healthfi services. Additionally, they also provide token-rewarded and social gaming-driven system to encourage users to build up healthier sleep behavior's and participation.
Mystic Games — Mobile game developer. Pushing Free to play Roguelike RPGs to the next level.

AlphaGrep is a proprietary trading company that provides investments based upon algorithmic and systematic quantitative approaches.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

IoTeX — IoTeX is the leading decentralized network powering the future of web3 and machine economy (MachineFi). The platform is built for developers to connect billions of machines with web3 infrastructure, to create innovative products including DeFi, NFT, DAO, Metaverse, and MachineFi applications. Founded in 2017 with a team of alumni from Google,Facebook, Uber, Bosch, and Intel, IoTeX has launched a high-performance public blockchain with off-chain computing for devices and machines, cross-chain bridges, wallet, and the MachineFi marketplace. The IoTeX network has grown rapidly with >$2B in assets on-chain, >300K on-chain users, and >10k devices connected across hundreds of dapps.
Magic Square — Discover, use, and manage all dApps, DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, and engage with the community in one convenient place. Magic Square - It's all there.
Acme Labs — Enable secure, one-tap token payments and trades across banks and blockchains in minutes. No downloads, seed phrases or gas fees required!

468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
DYNO — DYNO is a company that offers digital and provision-free solutions for occupational pension schemes.
Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.

Investment company headquarted in Baltimore, MD

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

env0 — Automate the provisioning of Terraform and Terragrunt workflows and infrastructure as code with env0. Get visibility, predictability & governance on your cloud deployments and design the controls to empower your teams with self-service cloud environments.
Baraka — baraka is an investment and US stocks trading platform built to empower the next generation of Middle East investors.
Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Teeela — Teeela is the GCC’s fastest growing and most innovative gifting platform, built to provide families with the easiest, quickest and most personalized gifting and toy buying experience
RedBox — Don't wait for drivers to deliver your packages! Instead, use RedBox lockers to ship your packages and collect them at your convenient time. No human contact!
SmartCrowd — Smart Crowd is a real estate investment platform that provides you an opportunity to access the UAE real estate market with low minimum investment amount from a simple online portal.Smart Crowd’s innovative approach enables investors to treat their investment properties more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation rather than dealingwith the hassles of researching and buying vacant properties that need to be leased and managed. This creates significant time and cost savings. By allowing low minimum investment you diversify your properties, allowing you to build a well-diversified investment property portfolio without taking on too much leverage and risk.

investment strategies - blockchain - digital assets - DAO - crypto - currency

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
Azuro — Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol, utilizing smart-contracts to bring full transparency to the betting process and to deliver a classic betting experience with plentiful markets & liquidity and funky innovations like collectible bets and gamification via NFTs
StableBattle — StableBattle is a real-time mass PvP tournament game with a prize pool generated from DeFi yields

Haitou Global is a global asset allocation platform providing asset management, investment banking, digital technology product, and services. Haitou Global manages a Registered Investment Advisor and a Broker-dealer in the U.S., with headquarters in New York and Beijing and operations in San Francisco, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Pakistan, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Finku — Aplikasi manajemen keuangan yang membantu mengelola transaksi keuangan kamu secara otomatis. Pelajari semua insight yang dipersonalisasi khusus untuk kamu! Download aplikasi beta nya sekarang !
Trukkr — Trukkr is Pakistan's First and Largest Online Logistics Platform. They make the process of booking commercial cargo fast by linking a shipper with transporters over a secure, intuitive and powerful platform. We ensure that shippers have complete transparency in price discovery, visibility, flexibility, and choice while at the same time givetransporters easy access to more jobs, whenever they want them. Founded in 2019, Trukkr is committed to reinventing the old school trucking industry in Pakistan by making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity, while ensuring shippers have access to the right truck, at the right time.
Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

Sinofy Group is a Management Consulting Firm.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Thailand, Australia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Cyrator — Discover great crypto projects through verified reviews by a decentralized community
Marhaba Defi — MRHB Defi is a halal, decentralized finance platform built to embody the true spirit of an “Ethical and Inclusive Defi” by following faith-based financial and business principles, where all excluded communities can benefit from the full empowerment potential of Defi.
Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

EMURGO Ventures is a venture capital initiative of Emurgo that promotes and finances Cardano blockchain startups and middleware development.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Portugal, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
HELIX — Gain access to curated alternative investment opportunities and make your crypto do more today. Helix is an accredited marketplace utilising blockchain technology to provide access to off-chain private credit in emerging markets.
Mythic Protocol — The Central Hub for Mythic Operatives to conduct their operations

Jets.Capital - Crypto investment fund

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
United States, Switzerland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Pulsr — Pulsr operates as a NFT distributed discovery ecosystem that connects next-gen creators and collectors to the next evolution of the internet.
Credora — XMargin utilizes zero-knowledge proof technology to provide cross-margin, credit, and settlement services for the financial markets. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.
FastLane — FastLane is an easy to integrate protocol that rewards participating validators for protecting the health of the Polygon blockchain.

BlueCrow Capital is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

PayNest — PayNest is a payments amalgamator, which was created with the core mission of digitizing cash collection in the Middle East.
Paynest — Hello, we are Paynest! An innovative online platform with a very important mission: to give every employee the tools to master financial wellness and build a resilient future. Instant wage access, financial education and mentoring by professional financial coaches are the main benefits we bring on the table.Our co-partners in this mission will bethe pioneering employers: the minds who have an insightful and special way of thinking. Those who believe that their teams’ wellness is a top priority and want to see their employees evolve both professionally and personally. Together we will provide independence and safety to every employee. And that’s just the beginning! We are here to grow with you.50% of employees confirm that they are unable to fund a financial emergency. This is something that “produces” a never-ending sense of financial stress. Studies show that the demanding modern life and the global political and economical changes make every employee worry about the future. In Paynest we believe that it's vital for employees to have instant wage access whenever they want to. The result will be less everyday stress, more focus and boosted morale.In Paynest we believe that if you take action today, you can dream of tomorrow.And that is something that works both for every employer and every employee around the world.

The largest and most dynamic non-affiliated law firm in the Middle East with 17 offices across 9 countries and comprising 330 Fee Earners (partners are included).Over the years they have advised, and continue to support, government, government-owned entities, local, regional and international companies, banks and financial institutions along withboth international and regional law firms.Their core strength is their people and the diversity of their experience and local knowledge. Their reputation for excellence and regional experience extends beyond their network of offices in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.As a firm, their ability to practice local law in each of these jurisdictions – and the ability of each of their licensed litigators to have rights of audience before local courts – is a unique strength that truly sets us apart from their competitors.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bazaars — Cryptocommerce is here. Bazaars is building the cryptocommerce ecosystem. Buy and sell any item, car, or property using crypto. Join the Bazaars community and receive a percentage of profits with BZR tokens.

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