Angus Paterson
Partner @ STC Ventures
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Angus Paterson is a Series B investor at STC Ventures in Dubai focused on FinTech and Finance. Angus has over 15 years investment and corporate finance advisory experience focused on the TMT and digital sectors.Prior to STC Ventures, Angus was responsible for setting up and leading the venture capital activities of Abu Dhabi based twofour54 (Abu Dhabi Media Zone), successfully establishing it as a recognised name in regional VC, taskedwith providing sector specialist funding and support to help develop the Middle East’s entrepreneur base, in digital media, media and entertainment.Previously Angus worked for the ventures division of Ingenious Media, a UK based media investment and advisory business, targeting growth capital deals across the broader media/digital sectors.Prior to this Angus was with Genesis Investments, a specialist fund providing early stage finance to growing media businesses in the UK, before which he worked in the TMT sector corporate finance practice of Arthur Andersen (latterly Deloitte) where he also trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant.Angus graduated from Cambridge University in Oriental Studies/Modern Languages, and is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Angus Paterson invests in
Stages Angus Paterson invests in
Countries Angus Paterson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 1 (13%)
- Finance 1 (13%)
- Delivery 1 (13%)
- Insurance 1 (13%)
- Logistics 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Series C 2 (25%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Investments
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Yallacompare
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Yallacompare is the finance comparison site in the middle east with operations across 9 countries in the mena region. Since 2011 they have helped users compare banking products saving each one thousands of dollars every year. Since banking and insurance go hand in hand, they told their team to go out and build a platform that could save their userseven more money. Their goal is to put each and every customer's mind at ease. Their insurance tech is state of the art and built right here in the uae by their team of ninja geeks. Thanks to the efforts of their ninja geeks, you can now easily compare the price of your home insurance from the leading insurers with just a few clicks. Best of all, you can buy online and get your policy issued instantly. | $8M / Series C / Jan 06, 2019 | |
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Yallacompare
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Yallacompare is the finance comparison site in the middle east with operations across 9 countries in the mena region. Since 2011 they have helped users compare banking products saving each one thousands of dollars every year. Since banking and insurance go hand in hand, they told their team to go out and build a platform that could save their userseven more money. Their goal is to put each and every customer's mind at ease. Their insurance tech is state of the art and built right here in the uae by their team of ninja geeks. Thanks to the efforts of their ninja geeks, you can now easily compare the price of your home insurance from the leading insurers with just a few clicks. Best of all, you can buy online and get your policy issued instantly. | $3.5M / Series B / May 24, 2017 | |
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Yallacompare
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Yallacompare is the finance comparison site in the middle east with operations across 9 countries in the mena region. Since 2011 they have helped users compare banking products saving each one thousands of dollars every year. Since banking and insurance go hand in hand, they told their team to go out and build a platform that could save their userseven more money. Their goal is to put each and every customer's mind at ease. Their insurance tech is state of the art and built right here in the uae by their team of ninja geeks. Thanks to the efforts of their ninja geeks, you can now easily compare the price of your home insurance from the leading insurers with just a few clicks. Best of all, you can buy online and get your policy issued instantly. | $2.4M / Sep 25, 2016 | |
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Yallacompare
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Yallacompare is the finance comparison site in the middle east with operations across 9 countries in the mena region. Since 2011 they have helped users compare banking products saving each one thousands of dollars every year. Since banking and insurance go hand in hand, they told their team to go out and build a platform that could save their userseven more money. Their goal is to put each and every customer's mind at ease. Their insurance tech is state of the art and built right here in the uae by their team of ninja geeks. Thanks to the efforts of their ninja geeks, you can now easily compare the price of your home insurance from the leading insurers with just a few clicks. Best of all, you can buy online and get your policy issued instantly. | $2.4M / Series A / Sep 01, 2016 | |
Careem
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Careem operates a car booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. The company's platform provides a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their credit card of choice, giving passengers access to affordable and advantageous transportation. | $60M / Series C / Nov 10, 2015 | |
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Yallacompare
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Yallacompare is the finance comparison site in the middle east with operations across 9 countries in the mena region. Since 2011 they have helped users compare banking products saving each one thousands of dollars every year. Since banking and insurance go hand in hand, they told their team to go out and build a platform that could save their userseven more money. Their goal is to put each and every customer's mind at ease. Their insurance tech is state of the art and built right here in the uae by their team of ninja geeks. Thanks to the efforts of their ninja geeks, you can now easily compare the price of your home insurance from the leading insurers with just a few clicks. Best of all, you can buy online and get your policy issued instantly. | $3M / Series A / Sep 13, 2015 | |
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Careem
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Careem operates a car booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. The company's platform provides a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their credit card of choice, giving passengers access to affordable and advantageous transportation. | $10M / Series B / Dec 02, 2014 | |
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Careem
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Careem operates a car booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. The company's platform provides a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their credit card of choice, giving passengers access to affordable and advantageous transportation. | $1.7M / Seed / Sep 09, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About STC Ventures
STC Ventures is an independently managed venture capital fund whose anchor investor is the Saudi Telecom Company. Our goal is to empower entrepreneurs to create market leading technology businesses. We are focused on equity investments that will help to build leading companies in the information technology, telecommunications, and digitalmedia/entertainment sectors. One of the key objectives of our fund is to support the development of innovative technology companies in the GCC, wider MENA region and Turkey, in addition to funding globally minded international companies seeking capital and access to the MENA region.
STC Ventures Contacts
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Aiman Al-Atiqi
Partner
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Alexander Wiedmer
Partner
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Angus Paterson
Partner
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Antoine Garrigues
Managing Partner
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Riyadh Al-Ruwais
Partner
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What does Angus Paterson invest in?
Angus Paterson invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Delivery startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Arab Emirates. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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