# AB Ventures LP

> AB Ventures LP is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ab-ventures-lp/
- Website: https://abventures.vc

AB Ventures LP is a VC fund focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Arab Bank's corporate venture capital arm, founded in 2018, and specialized in early-stage FinTech investments, with a global mandate.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.5M–$6.6M |
| Series B | $13M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 67% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 67% |
| Finance | 2 | 22% |
| Local | 1 | 11% |
| Banking | 1 | 11% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 22% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 22% |
| Denmark | 1 | 11% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Faisal Hakki | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faisal-hakki |
| Suleiman Arabiat | FinTech Investment lead | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suleiman-arabiat |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lendo | Lendo is an alternative lending marketplace that helps digitally finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia. Lendo was granted the first Crowdlending (debt financing) licensed in Saudi Arabia, and received the Excellence in Finance Leaders Award from FiNext Awards. Lendo’s products and solutions make everyday businessactivities easier, more secure, and more efficient for both investors and borrowers alike. | $28M | Series B | Dec 10, 2023 |  |
| Swoop | Swoop Finance Limited is an Appointed Representative of Talbot Capital Limited which is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Swoop is a business funding and savings platform enabling you to discover the right funding solutions across loans, equity and grants, and to identify and easily make savings – all in one fell swoop. | $6.6M | Series A | Jun 12, 2022 |  |
| HyperPay | HyperPay is a fintech company that provides payment gateway, solutions, and services for e-commerce and merchants. The company offers businesses with a dynamic array of integrated payment solutions and financial services to help businesses transition to a cashless society and positively impact people's lives and business growth. It alsoprovides merchants with a broad array of products and services in addition to payment processing, including risk and fraud management, monitoring system, installments, and invoicing systems among others. | $36.8M | Corporate Round | May 26, 2022 |  |
| HyperPay | HyperPay is a fintech company that provides payment gateway, solutions, and services for e-commerce and merchants. The company offers businesses with a dynamic array of integrated payment solutions and financial services to help businesses transition to a cashless society and positively impact people's lives and business growth. It alsoprovides merchants with a broad array of products and services in addition to payment processing, including risk and fraud management, monitoring system, installments, and invoicing systems among others. | $36.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 26, 2022 |  |
| OptioPay | OptioPay operates a fully serviced open banking solution without IT integration for businesses from various industries. End-customers receive value-added products and services in return for their bank account data to save time and money through exclusive cashbacks, higher-value vouchers, contract optimisation, offers for sustainable consumption andCO2 compensation, as well as discounts and other personalised recommendations. In addition to well-known partners such as AboutYou, Adidas, Amazon, Douglas, Ikea, Lieferando, Otto, Rewe, Reebok and Zalando, OptioPay’s top 100 corporate clients include DZ Bank, Comdirect Bank, Sparkasse, Commerzbank, HDI, AXA, Gothaer, Fonds Finanz, Blau Direkt, Deutsche Post, BS Energy and Basler Kantonalbank. OptioPay was founded in 2014 in Berlin by CEO Marcus Börner and COO Oliver Oster. It employs more than 65 people from 24 countries and currently operates in the DACH-region and The Netherlands. | $13.2M | Series B | May 04, 2021 |  |
| Veem | Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Itconverts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient.Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $31M |  | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Factris | Factris is a fintech firm that specializes in the fields of SME financing, factoring, debt management, debtor insurance, and invoice finance. The company specializes in working capital to businesses by buying their unpaid invoices. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland. | $5.5M | Series A | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| NORD.investments A/S | NORD is a digital investment services; in cooperation with Saxo Bank, helps you design and maintain your portfolio.NORD is a Danish company that was started as a response to the high cost mutual funds and bank advisers takes to help their customers to invest. Instead of having expensive consultants and large branches NORD has a simpleself-service platform with the right tools.Most are handled automatically and the practical tasks for our experts can be kept to a minimum. All investment plans are composed of carefully selected ETFs. When you invest through NORD, it is therefore not in individual stocks or bonds but rather in a number of funds that spreads your risk. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 01, 2020 |  |
| NORD.investments A/S | NORD is a digital investment services; in cooperation with Saxo Bank, helps you design and maintain your portfolio.NORD is a Danish company that was started as a response to the high cost mutual funds and bank advisers takes to help their customers to invest. Instead of having expensive consultants and large branches NORD has a simpleself-service platform with the right tools.Most are handled automatically and the practical tasks for our experts can be kept to a minimum. All investment plans are composed of carefully selected ETFs. When you invest through NORD, it is therefore not in individual stocks or bonds but rather in a number of funds that spreads your risk. | $971K |  | Jul 01, 2019 |  |

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## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does AB Ventures LP invest in?

AB Ventures LP invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Saudi Arabia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is AB Ventures LP's check size?

AB Ventures LP typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$6.6M at Series A and $13M–$28M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AB Ventures LP participates in.

### How do I contact AB Ventures LP?

Public channels for AB Ventures LP include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at AB Ventures LP?

The team at AB Ventures LP includes Faisal Hakki (Managing Director) and Suleiman Arabiat (FinTech Investment lead). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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