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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in United Arab Emirates (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in United Arab Emirates Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
10 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$33M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
7 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services $1M–$50M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
7 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$33M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
7 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$33M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
5 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $250k–$50M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
5 Egypt, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
MSA Novo
VC Fund
4 Egypt, India, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.5M–$32M
Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services $2M–$100M
B&Y Venture Partners
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $753k–$70M
CoinFund
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$43M
Tykhe Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $1.1M–$10M
HALA Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $500k–$35M
STV
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $2.1M–$54M
Portal Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$74M
Maven Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $700k–$6M
BY Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1M–$70M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
MSA Capital
VC Fund
3 China, United States, Egypt Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services $1.4M–$130M
Arbor Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $6M–$175M
Signal Peak Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.3M–$25M
Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $570k–$15M
Emkan Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Transportation, Medical $1.2M–$20M
Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund
2 Singapore, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.6M–$21M
Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $918k–$33M
Point Nine
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$53M
HOF Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $385k–$57M
Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2.5M–$50M
Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
2 Denmark, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1.3M–$76M
Willowtree Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Payments, Artificial Intelligence $1.7M–$12M
Aditum Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $120k–$66M
Touch Ventures
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Series C E-Commerce, Payments, Virtual Workforce $1.6M–$35M
Presight Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services $2M–$125M
Contango Digital Assets
VC Fund
2 United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$7.7M
Big Brain Holdings
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $500k–$15M
KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, SaaS $1M–$100M
Prosper global
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates Convertible Note SaaS, Payments, Logistics $285k–$715k
Zephyrus Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Newid capital
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Turkey Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Cointelegraph
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Vietnam Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
HP Spring Studios
VC Fund
2 Bahrain, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Mobile Apps, Retail Technology
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
LayerZero Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Bahamas Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IT Infrastructure
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
AU21 Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Delphi Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
AlRajhi Partners
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Series A, Seed Information Technology, SaaS, Rental $8M–$80M
GSR
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Impact46
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $1M–$22M
Anthemis
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$60M
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 824
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
  • Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 7 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
  • Valeo — Get your lab tests done at the comfort of your home anywhere in Dubai through our personalized mobile health tracker app. Hassle-free blood sample collection.Wellness coach provided.
  • Tarjama — Translation services, certified translation agency, legal translation, medical translation, website translation, video translation, and subtitling.
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 7 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$11M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • OneLoad — OneLoad is an online service that enables users to easily buy prepaid vouchers for all mobile companies, pay utility bills and transfer balance to others.
  • MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 7 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
  • Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
  • Zarya App — Earn without investment.
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 5 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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MSA Novo
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
  • Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
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Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $8M–$30M; Series B $30M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Karbon — Karbon Card is a financial platform for Indian entrepreneurs.
  • Compra Rapida
  • Mendel.ai — Mendel.ai transforms unstructured EMR data and clinical literature into comprehensive and compliant analytics-ready data. Mendel uses their novel AI aided by clinical experts to streamline global oncology research by organizing real-world data and automating clinical trials. They build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trialprocess, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.
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B&Y Venture Partners
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $753k–$9M; Series A $2.5M–$20M; Series B $5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
  • Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
  • Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
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CoinFund
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Series A $7.3M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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Tykhe Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

At Tykhe Block Ventures, we lead seed rounds into bold ventures and hold liquid investments within the blockchain sector with a focus on decentralisation technologies, digital assets and their key enabling infrastructure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saga.xyz — Saga is a hyperscaling platform for AI and crypto applications. Where the crazies dare to dream their craziest dreams.
  • Xverse
  • Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
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HALA Capital
VC Fund · Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$730k; Series A $500k–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
  • intella — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.
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STV
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$25M; Series A $8M–$28M; Series B $20M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $800M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
  • 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.
  • zenda — zenda is a fintech app for families. It enables families to pay school bills with pay-now and pay-later options, unlocking rewards when ever they pay.
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Portal Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

We pair business fundamentals with crypto native perspective to back innovators at the earliest stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$17M; Series A $13M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
  • SkyTrade — SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace.
  • Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
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Maven Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Me3 — Me3 is a crypto wallet to purchase, send, receive, and exchange tokens and NFTs.
  • ChimpX AI — ChimpX AI is an AI-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) superapp designed to simplify crypto trading, cross-chain asset management, and blockchain interactions through natural language commands. The platform focuses on making complex DeFi operations accessible to everyday users by combining artificial intelligence, automation, and gaslesstransactions into a single interface.
  • Cluster Protocol — Cluster Protocol is the co-ordination layer for AI agents, a carnot engine fueling the AI economy making sure the AI developers are monetized for their AI models and users get an unified seamless experience to build that next AI app/ agent within a virtual disposable environment facilitating the creation of modular, self-evolving AI agents.
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BY Venture Partners
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $2.6M–$20M; Series B $5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Huspy — Huspy is a proptech based in Dubai redefining the home financing process through a user friendly digital experience that puts the buyer first.
  • Maket — Maket puts generative architecture at the center of a collaborative workspace where architects and clients can explore and iterate through early design concepts faster.
  • Invisible Technologies — Invisible is a business process automation platform that automates repetitive digital work by managing and outsourcing recurring tasks to human agents. We call it worksharing.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • TAP — Talent Acceleration Platform (TAP) is a Dutch / Palestinian company bridging the gap between universal talent and unequal career opportunities.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Tamatem — We are the leading mobile games publisher in the Arabic speaking world! We bring international mobile games from all around the world to publish in the MENA market!
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MSA Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: China, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Series A $3.5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
  • MindOn — MindOn is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence software and algorithms to create humanoid robots.
  • Amador Bioscience — At Amador we provide global-standard translational sciences and clinical pharmacology services to leading biopharmaceutical companies.
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Arbor Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$175M; Series B $12M–$70M; Series C $12M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $226M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Abra — Abra provides wealth and treasury management solutions to give clients an edge across trading, borrowing and investing digital assets.
  • 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.
  • Ready — Get Ready BOSS for your CSP digital transformation. Cross-sell OTT services, subscriber self-service & more. Includes flexible, modular billing & API.
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Signal Peak Ventures
VC Fund · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Backing early-stage SaaS and tech breakthroughs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hubpay — All-in-one global payments platform for UAE businesses. Sign up for free or talk to our specialists to open a business account today & expand your business globally.
  • Pronto — Hit Labs is a technology company that develops applications designed to connect people to those who will help them succeed in school, in work, and in life.
  • Syxsense — Revolutionize your endpoint and vulnerability management with Syxsense. Get real-time visibility & control over all your endpoints.
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

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.
  • Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
  • Silkhaus — Silkhaus makes living comfortable and convenient through 24/7 mobile support and a digital concierge.
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Emkan Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2M; Series A $6.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trukkin — Trukkin is the best logistics company within GCC. Contact us for cargo logistics solutions and truck transport services.
  • InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
  • FENIX — Fenix is a UAE-based free floating micromobility operator anchored in the GCC region.
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Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lympid — We believe that anyone should have access to the amazing opportunities found on the blockchain, from DeFi protocols (aave, compound, yearn…) to Crypto Indexes, there's so much to discover! At Lympid you will be able to do it all easily in the same app, and directly through EUR.
  • Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
  • BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
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Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Backing outlier founders who build different.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $918k–$11M; Series A $1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Vault Wealth — Discover the range of private wealth management services with personalized wealth planning from Vault, a certified private wealth advisor in Dubai & UAE. A secure digital wealth platform trusted by professionals.
  • Global Settlement Network — Global Settlement is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Athenian — Introducing the world to software engineering metrics that help teams, and improve processes. Athenian is built for GitHub and Jira users.
  • Lottielab — Easiest animation editor for design and tech teams.
  • Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
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HOF Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $385k–$5.5M; Series A $10M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
  • BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
  • Drop — Join the free rewards app with over 5 million members that lets you earn points by shopping at 500+ brands, investing in crypto, playing games and more.
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Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$9M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $24M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • Blockworks — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.
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Heartcore Capital
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Denmark, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$27M; Series B $9.6M–$76M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Skynopy — Skynopy offers an end-to-end connectivity solution for satellite operators to communicate with their satellites in Low-Earth Orbit.
  • TrapLight Games — A hard-hitting mobile game studio from Finland. Traplight is a premium mobile games studio with 10+ years of game development expertise at the highest level. Our ambition is to create world class, chart topping, scalable game services.
  • Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
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Willowtree Investments
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Willowtree Investments operates as an early stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Payments, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Gable — Bridge the communication gap between data producers and data consumers
  • Tensec — Tensec is reimagining B2B cross-border financial services by providing the fastest and simplest way for businesses to move money across global markets.
  • RapidFire AI — RapidFire AI provides an agile deep learning development platform to accelerate AI development while reducing infrastructure costs
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Aditum Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.8M; Series A $3M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Touch Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Payments, Virtual Workforce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2M; Series A $3.7M–$16M; Series C $10M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

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.
  • Reshop — Get your refund, fast.
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Presight Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

A simple static landing page for Presight Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$75M; Series B $8.2M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $400M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • thirdweb — Build on internet capital markets with infrastructure for agents to discover, pay for, and interact with services and APIs.
  • Razor Group — A consumer goods holding company with a clear strategic focus on focused product categories, long-term value enhancement and first-class customer satisfaction.
  • Alloy Therapeutics — Alloy Therapeutics empowers scientists with access to pre-competitive biologics drug discovery technologies and services across 6 modalities
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Contango Digital Assets
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Giza — Giza builds infrastructure that enables intelligent agents to analyze markets, execute strategies, and manage liquidity across decentralized finance.
  • 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.
  • Billy Bets — Billy Bets is an AI platform that tracks sports bets, manages a wallet, and makes smarter bets with AI assistance.
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Big Brain Holdings
VC Fund · Weston, Florida, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.2M; Series A $9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
  • Synonym Finance — SYNO is a universal cross-chain credit layer. Earn interest and borrow assets with maximum efficiency.
  • Solana Company
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$48M; Series A $2.2M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
  • manebi — manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.
  • Terra Motors — Terra Motors is an electric car manufacturing company that utilizes IoT and digitally connecting EV mobility. They develop the global enterprise for global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that have brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at thefamous electronic retail stores, do-it-yourself stores, bicycle stores, car stores, and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market.In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market.
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Prosper global
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Payments, Logistics
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Convertible Note $285k–$715k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Zephyrus Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Newid capital
VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Cointelegraph
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Quranium — Quranium (founded in early 2024) is the world’s first Convergence Layer, a Layer‑1 blockchain infrastructure purpose-built to fuse quantum security, AI-native automation, and EVM compatibility. Headquartered in Switzerland with offices in UAE (DMCC) and Singapore, it leverages post-quantum cryptography (NIST-approved SLH‑DSA, ML‑KEM) andhigh-performance PoS consensus to create an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable foundation for Web3 Quranium is designed for a post-quantum world, it delivers an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable decentralized infrastructure. Quranium is not just a blockchain — it’s the foundation for a new era where quantum, AI, and Web3 converge securely and seamlessly.
  • Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
  • Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.
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HP Spring Studios
VC Fund · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

HP Spring Studios is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Mobile Apps, Retail Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bahrain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BILRS — Bilrs.com is a global bill payment solution platform, enabling online and offline Partners to offer a wide selection of bills to their Customer offerings through a single integration.
  • Daleel — Daleel is a B2C2B financial marketplace that aims to improve overall financial wellbeing in the MENAP region.
  • Better — Shop the latest wellness and beauty products with multi-language and multi-currency support. Discover Better.
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 370
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DNABLOCK — We enable Web3 creator communities to design and mint NFT collections of truly custom photorealistic 3D avatars, environments and cinema-quality animated content with no code or animation knowledge.
  • Cool Cats — Welcome to the official website for Cool Cats. Discover Blue Cat and his friends, shop for merch, watch fun animations, and learn more about Cool Cats today.
  • Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!
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LayerZero Labs
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

An omnichain interoperability protocol. LayerZero enables the realization of cross-chain applications with a low level communication primitive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IT Infrastructure
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Bahamas

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubyx — Ubyx is a clearing system that allows anyone,
  • Obex — Obex helps to fund stablecoin projects backed by compute, energy and fintech credit on the Sky protocol.
  • 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.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
  • DeepNode AI — DeepNode connects researchers, data scientists, and enterprises into one transparent, verifiable network for building real-world AI. DeepNode AI a technology service provider focusing on decentralized AI infrastructure,
  • Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
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AU21 Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Delphi Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sophont — Multimodal foundation models for healthcare
  • Sei Labs — Accelerating the Future The Fastest Layer 1 Blockchain
  • Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
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AlRajhi Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

AlRajhi Partners is a leading multi-asset class investment firm. We are prudent ethical investors with a diversified portfolio of assets across the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Rental
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $8M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • FlyAkeed — FlyAkeed is the only app that enables you to browse fully-booked flights and waitlist to issue your ticket once your seat becomes available again.
  • Bedrock Robotics — Bedrock Robotics delivers enhanced autonomy to the built environment, allowing the construction sector to build at the rate that today's society requires.
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GSR
VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lillius — LILLIUS_Making sports and home training easy and fun just like playing a game! LILLUS is a Blockchain based WEB3 Sports Experience Platform that rewards users for healthy activities!
  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • TrueNorth — Crypto's first AI discovery engine
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Impact46
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Sadq — Sadq develops a digital platform that provides users with options to handle documents by easy means and in quick steps in a safe and reliable environment. It also offers integration, safety, multilingualism, strong performance, authentication, and credibility.
  • Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
  • Hypemasters — At Hypemasters, we create legendary & genre-defining games that players all over the world enjoy for years.
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Anthemis
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

digitally native finance

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 253
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tremor — Tremor designs, builds & manages SmartMarkets utilize state-of-art auction technologies & optimization techniques.
  • TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
  • Maxwell Financial Labs — Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home.Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average.
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Payments VC funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance

Stats across 114 deals from 169 investors.

169
investors
in United Arab Emirates Payments startups
114
deals
in United Arab Emirates Payments startups
$6.1M
median round
in United Arab Emirates Payments startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
41%
Seed
most common funding stage

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