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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in United Arab Emirates (August 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
12 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$32M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Software $1.2M–$50M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
7 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
7 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $600k–$33M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
6 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
5 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $589k–$50M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
5 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$68M
B&Y Venture Partners
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $714k–$70M
Maven Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $700k–$23M
Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $155k–$15M
BY Venture Partners
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $996k–$70M
Magnus Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.3M–$34M
Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services $2.2M–$100M
Mad'a Investment Company
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait Seed, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.6M–$13M
MSA Novo
VC Fund
4 Egypt, India, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.5M–$32M
Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $284k–$25M
otf Jasoor Ventures
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman Seed, Series A, Series B Logistics, B2B, FinTech $2M–$42M
Class 5 Global
VC Fund
4 United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $300k–$23M
Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund
4 Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.3M–$11M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
Emkan Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Transportation, Medical $1.2M–$20M
KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Apps $850k–$100M
HALA Capital
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, Software $450k–$440M
CoinFund
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.1M–$30M
STV
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $2.1M–$72M
Signal Peak Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.3M–$25M
Tekedia Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $150k–$2.5M
FinTech Collective
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.8M–$55M
HOF Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, FinTech $850k–$863M
GSR
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Tekton Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, South Korea, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$30M
AlRajhi Partners
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain Series A, Seed Subscription Service, Information Technology, Apps $8M–$80M
Firestartr
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $350k–$37M
Aditum Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $250k–$66M
MH Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $500k–$12M
Portal Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin $1M–$73M
Tykhe Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1.1M–$10M
Zinal Growth
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1.3M–$76M
OKX Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1M–$50M
Arbor Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $5M–$175M
MSA Capital
VC Fund
3 China, United States, Egypt Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology $1.5M–$130M
Oqal
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
LayerZero Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Bahamas Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IT Infrastructure
Newid capital
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Turkey Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
2 Denmark, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1.3M–$58M
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
468 Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$42M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$110M
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 12 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: 971
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 9 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Antimatter — Antimatter builds AI infrastructure designed for real-world limits: energy, geography, and deployment time. Faster to deploy and lower cost than hyperscale models.
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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: 102
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
  • THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
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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: 194
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 6 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, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Conversational Al, for Everyone. Real phone calls. Real-time automation. Built for real operations.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 6 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, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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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: 192
  • Round size: Seed $589k–$8.4M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1441
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
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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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $714k–$9M; Series A $2.5M–$20M; Series B $5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
  • Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
  • Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
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Maven Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 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, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChimpX AI — ChimpX AI is an AI-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) superapp designed to simplify crypto trading, cross-chain asset management, and blockchain interactions through natural language commands. The platform focuses on making complex DeFi operations accessible to everyday users by combining artificial intelligence, automation, and gaslesstransactions into a single interface.
  • Gacha Galaxy — The price oracle for collectible cards. Live marketplace data, grading-aware pricing, prediction signals on top.
  • Cluster Protocol — Orchestration layer for autonomous workflows and prompt to dapp browser based IDE on @base all powered by x402 Backed by @daofive and @papervc
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 14 in the past 12 months

A Diez Venture Capital Arm. Fueling Dubai's New Business Ideas.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $155k–$15M; Series A $700k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • vfrog — The full physical AI loop. Any robot. Any model.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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BY Venture Partners
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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: 69
  • Round size: Seed $996k–$10M; Series A $2.8M–$24M; Series B $5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Flextock — Discover efficient order fulfilment with Flextock. We streamline your inventory, orders, and shipping, ensuring accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
  • ChatFeatured — ChatFeatured is a software platform that provides tools for tracking and managing how brands appear in AI search systems. It monitors brand mentions, sources, and visibility across AI platforms. The system analyzes data to identify gaps and content issues. It generates content plans and supports writing and publishing based on search data. Theplatform includes a dashboard that shows performance, citations, and sentiment. It provides site audits with scores and tasks for content and technical review. The service connects with content systems and tools to manage data and updates.
  • Infinity Constellation — AI holdco that is focused on launching AI Service products into category defining companies https://t.co/BeuL2aR9AA
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Magnus Capital
VC Fund · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Initial Coin Offering $2.1M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spicenet — Spicenet enables universal access to the top DeFi venues across all networks, creating better financial outcomes for all.
  • Real Finance — Real Finance is driven by the mission to revolutionize the financial landscape by integrating real-world assets with blockchain technology, creating a more transparent, secure, and efficient ecosystem that bridges traditional finance with decentralized innovation, enhances asset liquidity, and unlocks new opportunities for global investors.
  • WorkQuest — About WorkQuest WorkQuest is a decentralized employment and workforce automation protocol enabling employers and workers to collaborate through smart contracts, stablecoin payments, AI matching engines, and on-chain reputation scoring. The platform transforms global employment into a transparent, verifiable, and borderless digital labor economy.
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Olive Tree Capital
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Early-stage capital backing the next generation of frontier technology, critical infrastructure, and applied AI.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Flick.art — Flick is an AI-powered platform reimagining the future of filmmaking. It offers creators an open canvas where words, images, and moving pictures can grow and connect freely. Instead of working through prompts or rigid tools, filmmakers engage in a dialogue with an “AI director,” allowing stories, characters, and worlds to unfold organically. Byweaving together multiple advanced models, Flick enables a process that feels intuitive, narrative-driven, and collaborative.
  • MaverickX — Breakthrough chemical solutions across oil & gas, mining & metals, and water treatment. More oil. More metals. Smarter chemistry.
  • Rinascera Therapeutics — Rinascera Therapeutics develops transformative therapies for rare genetic skin diseases, including RIN-001 for Gorlin Syndrome and RIN-002 for Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (DEB).
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Mad'a Investment Company
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
  • Telfaz11 — Telfaz11 is a creative media studio from Saudi Arabia specializing in locally-relevant entertainment content
  • OAK Group — OAK Group offers its wide range of services through restaurants, catering services, beach clubs, temporary accommodation solutions.
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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: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
  • Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • Blueground — Rent beautiful, fully furnished apartments for monthly stays in the best locations around the world. Thousands of furnished flats for short and long-term stays.
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otf Jasoor Ventures
VC Fund · Muscat, Masqat, Oman · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

otf Jasoor Ventures is an early stage VC fund that invests in tech and tech-enabled startups in the MENA region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, B2B, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.5M; Series A $2.3M–$37M; Series B $26M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NymCard — <p><span style="color:#ce9178;">NymCard is providing, in the MENA region and around the globe, dynamic and secure building blocks for building fast and easy card programs.</span></p>
  • ELEVATUS — Elevatus is the #1 Agentic AI Hiring Operating System built for enterprise scale. Autonomous recruiting from requisition to onboarding - zero code.
  • Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade
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Class 5 Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
  • invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
  • BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
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Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 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, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ordzaar — Ordinal Launchpad using the latest and greatest tech Bitcoin has to offer.
  • Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.
  • BLIFE Protocol — Bringing Web3 to Bitcoin with the backing of Animoca Brands. Merged with @Portalcoin
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 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: 263
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
  • Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
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Emkan Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 4 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: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series A $6.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
  • Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 4 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, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$14M; Series A $3.6M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buy&Ship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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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, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; Series A $500k–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $450k–$440M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
  • intella — AI-powered voice agents, call center analytics, transcription, and speech-to-text for banks and telecoms across MENA. 86+ Arabic AI experts.
  • Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!
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CoinFund
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $7.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • EDGE Markets — The Financial Platform for Smart Bettors
  • Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
  • LI.FI — Advanced Bridge & DEX Aggregation - Drive multichain strategies with cross-chain data messaging and get users from everywhere.
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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: 77
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$17M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $20M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $800M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Morni — Morni is an interactive platform that provides roadside assistant services in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries through a smart-phone application. Morni currently provides its services to both individuals and corporations.
  • Signit — Transform your contract workflows with secure, legally-binding e-signatures. Trusted by 700+ Saudi organizations.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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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: 88
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; 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

  • 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.
  • Crew — The best all-in-one banking app for your whole crew.
  • Affineon Health — Affineon is the AI inbox that saves provider time. We automatically handle normal and clinically insignificant lab results, and help providers get through abnormal lab results faster. Our AI automatically groups, analyzes, and trends lab results into a smart summary, including possible next steps and a complete patient note. We also route"noise" to staff, reducing the number of messages a physician needs to pay attention to by up to 30%. The result is 5+ hours saved per week per provider. Plus, Affineon tightly integrates with the EHR, so providers don’t need to change their existing workflow.
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Tekedia Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Tekedia Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Corgi Insurance — Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention.
  • Winich Farms — At Winich Farms we are a technology-driven and agri-startup connecting farmers with access to finance, premium markets and passionate about ensuring global food security and democratising agricultural participation. We drive digital participation by crowdfunding through our online platforms, these we use to engage farmers with quality inputs,agricultural expertise, process automation, and machinery, with the promise of decent returns to our subscribers and the farmers at the end of each farming cycle.In addition to this, utilizing our agro e-retail platform (web and app), we connect vicinity farmers with market (households) directly at farm gate price thereby reducing the activities of middlemen, making agro produce more affordable and easily accessible.One farmer at a time, our big vision is to build an Africa that feeds the world and itself. How do we plan to achieve this? Empower African Farmers by lowering barriers to accessing Capital and financial services, data driven best practices and technology to improve yield as well as access to local and global markets for their produce with established offtaker relationships like Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Foods, Labana Rice, Big Bull Rice etcBacked by Orange Corners we are on a mission to create a prosperous and economically resilient Africa powered by Agriculture.
  • Rulebase — AI Coworkers for Financial services.
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FinTech Collective
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

We back creators with a hunger to reimagine the way money flows through the world.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Series A $3.7M–$25M; Series B $14M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Grâce — Grâce offers innovative insurance solutions to enhance customer experience and improve process efficiency.
  • Valence — Reimagining wealth management with AI intelligence. Integrated platform, agentic framework, and dedicated advisors anticipating your needs before they arise.
  • bunch — Bunch is a financial technology company that provides software and operational infrastructure for private market fund management. Its platform supports the full fund lifecycle, including investor onboarding, fund administration, accounting, compliance, reporting, and transaction management for venture capital, private equity, and other alternativeinvestment structures. The company combines proprietary software with integrated operational services to help asset managers and investors manage funds and special purpose vehicles through a centralized system. Bunch also offers tools designed to improve data management and automate workflows across fund operations and regulatory processes. The platform is used by asset managers and investors across multiple European jurisdictions to manage investment structures and administrative activities.
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HOF Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 23 in the past 12 months

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: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$14M; Series A $10M–$52M; Series B $20M–$863M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Valar Atomics — Valar Atomics is scaling nuclear energy for heavy industrial power and clean hydrocarbon fuel production.
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GSR
VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • Bundle — Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions.
  • TrueNorth — The first Agentic Brokerage - build your own professional trading desk
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Tekton Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $1.8M–$23M; Series B $7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Polsia — AI that runs your company while you sleep. 1,000+ companies ran autonomously. Engineering. Marketing. Support. Every day.
  • Hosted·AI — Build profitable AI clouds. Monetize GPU infrastructure. Ultra efficient GPUaaS, optimized GPU utilization, capacity sharing, 5x more revenue & margin per GPU.
  • Infinia — Infinia is a platform that assists the company's clients in managing transfer charges. Allowing you to charge using this method, check each transaction without accessing sensitive information from the accounts that connect to our service, and reconcile all payments in one spot. Integrate your e-commerce applications and platforms withInfinia's open banking platform to facilitate product and service payment without intermediaries and in a secure manner.
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AlRajhi Partners
VC Fund · 3 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: Subscription Service, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • 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.
  • Soum — ‍Soum is reimagining recommence in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient, trustworthy, and transparent recommence marketplace, starting with consumer electronics in Saudi Arabia.
  • Bedrock Robotics — Advanced autonomy for the built world.
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Firestartr
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$4.2M; Series A $3.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
  • Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
  • Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.
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Aditum Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Series A $3M–$66M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$5.5M
  • 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.
  • Holo — Everything you need to make confident property decisions. Mortgage advisory. Buyer's agents. Property technology.
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MH Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

MH Ventures is a world class community-backed Venture Capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alphea — ALPHEA is an AI-native execution OS that awakens intelligence across every surface.
  • Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
  • Fortune Protocol — Fortune Protocol brings the age- old tradition of fortune cookies to the modern prediction market.
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Portal Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Portal is an early-stage investment firm partnering with the innovators that will define the next generation of economy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$17M; Series A $13M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
  • Inversion — Acquiring durable businesses.
  • Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.
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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, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zynk — Make Global Payments Instant
  • Openbox.ai — OpenBox AI provides a unified trust platform for agentic AI, delivering runtime governance, cryptographic verification, and enterprise-grade AI accountability across systems and organizations.
  • OpenBox AI — OpenBox AI provides a unified trust platform for agentic AI, delivering runtime governance, cryptographic verification, and enterprise-grade AI accountability across systems and organizations.
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Zinal Growth
VC Fund · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Zinal Growth is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$33M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.8M; Series A $10M–$76M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
  • Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
  • Bloom Money — Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience.
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund · Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 265
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.5M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAEX — CAEX is a crypto asset exchange operator. CAEX builds transparent and secure crypto asset trading platform for investors.
  • Coinone — Coinone is the cryptocurrency exchanges. Under the vision to ‘Bring Blockchain into the World,’ they aspires to lead the new world of finance through blockchain technology. They currently operates the third largest exchange. They prioritizes the protection of clients’ assets and is dedicated to providing the most secure investing environment.
  • townsquare — Crosschain infrastructure bringing institutional & onchain yields to retail, powering institutional strategies, & RWAs | https://t.co/5glAR6k007
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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: 75
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$175M; Series B $12M–$70M; Series C $12M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $226M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • AppliedAI — AppliedAI is an Abu Dhabi technology company building AI-native workflow systems for banking, fintech, insurance, and healthcare. Its platform, Opus, automates and supervises mission-critical, document-heavy processes with embedded governance and human oversight.
  • Silot — Silot started with B2B business connecting banking infrastructure and financial products in the early stage, and then directly empowered SMEs and social e-commerce sellers after transformation.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
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MSA Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3.5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
  • Memory tensor — Memory tensor designed with a focus on systematic innovation, grounded firmly in fundamental principles, serves as a powerful tool for scalable and adaptable intelligence. Its architecture emphasizes three core attributes: low cost, ensuring economic feasibility and accessibility; low illusion, reducing overfitting and minimizing hallucinations ormisleading outputs; and high generalization.
  • Westlake Lingxi — Neuralicorn is affiliated with Westlake University and develops BCI chips and Chinese/Mandarin neural decoding for language neuroprosthesis systems.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — Nqoodlet is a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
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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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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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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: 202
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$27M; Series B $9.4M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Exporo — Exporo offers investors an overview of real estate projects in which they can invest easily, transparently and free of charge.The idea begins in 2013 with the realization that real estate project developers are increasingly looking for alternative sources of finance, as banks no longer finance entire projects as usual due to stricter regulation,and that private investors only have a lot of money, with good conditions and easy to invest in real estate. The result of this observation is the firm decision to develop its own online marketplace to offer real estate projects as an investment opportunity and to provide capital directly between private investors and real estate companies.Simon Brunke, Björn Maronde, Tim Bütecke and Julian Oertzen founded the online platform in 2014, they are constantly evolving and they are board members of Exporo AG. The company now employs more than 120 people and is based in Hamburg's HafenCity.
  • Perk (formerly TravelPerk) — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
  • 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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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: 114
  • 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

  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
  • Peptilogics — Peptilogics is a biotechnology platform company that develops best-in-class novel peptide drugs for unmet medical needs using its proprietary computational discovery platform.
  • 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–$2.5M
  • 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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468 Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $11M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Customcells Group — With our combined strengths, we are uniquely positioned to deliver customer-centric premium battery technology at scale.
  • Mellow — Detect seizures - with Mellow on your Apple Watch
  • Athens Research — Open-Source Roam Research. A private, extensible, and community-driven knowledge graph.
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 272
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaro — Zaro is a workspace platform that brings AI agents and apps together in one place to automate repetitive business tasks and accelerate important work. The company deploys AI agents that handle real tasks while connecting the apps teams already rely on, enabling operations to scale without scaling headcount. Everything runs on a simple credit-basedmodel where customers only pay for what they use, and users can start free. Zaro enables modern teams to automate busywork, automate the repetitive, and focus on work that moves the business forward. The platform turns AI from a buzzword into something teams use daily for running their business operations.
  • Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
  • Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
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Payments VC funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance

Stats across 135 deals from 217 investors.

217
investors
in United Arab Emirates Payments startups
135
deals
in United Arab Emirates Payments startups
$5.1M
median round
in United Arab Emirates Payments startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
40%
Seed
most common funding stage

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