# Annex Investments

> Annex Investments is a VC fund backing Information Technology and Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/annex-investments/
- Website: http://www.annexinvestments.com

Annex Investments is a Multifaceted Hybrid Venture Single-Family Office, (Located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), strategically blending the patient capital and long-term vision of a traditional SFO with the dynamic, high-growth strategies of a venture firm. We actively build businesses, forge strategic partnerships, and shape the future ofthe MENA business landscape. Our integrated approach is built upon four core pillars: Venture Capital, Joint Ventures/Strategic Partnerships, a proprietary Venture Studio and comprehensive Market Entry & Advisory services

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$6.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 5 | 33% |
| Software | 3 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |
| Health Care | 2 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 13% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 53% |
| Oman | 1 | 7% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abed Benaichouche | CSO & Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abed-benaichouche |
| Ahmed Nasser Al Nowais | Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahmed-nasser-al-nowais |
| Geir Karlsen | CTO & Advisor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geir-christian-karlsen |
| Kareem Anabtawi | Co-founder & partner | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kareem-anabtawi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keyper | Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners. RealKeyper is a Dubai-based proptech platform offering smart property management, rent-now-pay-later solutions, tenant management,and real estate software tools. It helps landlords, tenants, and investors streamline leasing, rent collection, maintenance, and property operations through advanced digital solutions and real-time analytics. | $11M | Series A | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| eMushrif | eMushrif is bringing IoT technology to school buses enabling automatic attendance marking, visual child check system and detection system to ensure no child left on the school bus. The system also provides school admins and parents with mobile apps to track buses and kids along with important notifications. | $7.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| Ovasave | Ovasave is a technology platform that connects women to fertility services. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| ClearGrid | ClearGrid, creating software and AI to streamline recovery and collaborate with the existing vendors. | $6.5M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Myne | Myne offers a comprehensive platform for tracking, growing, and protecting assets. The platform integrates seamlessly with various financial tools to provide users with a holistic view of their wealth. Key features include net worth tracking, budgeting, investing, and estate planning. Myne ensures data security with multiple layers of encryption,making it a secure choice for managing financial well-being. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| Keyper | Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners. RealKeyper is a Dubai-based proptech platform offering smart property management, rent-now-pay-later solutions, tenant management,and real estate software tools. It helps landlords, tenants, and investors streamline leasing, rent collection, maintenance, and property operations through advanced digital solutions and real-time analytics. | $4M | Seed | May 16, 2024 |  |
| Barakah | Barakah is a food delivery startup based in Saudi Arabia. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 11, 2023 |  |
| Wellx | Headquartered in the DIFC Innovation Hub, Dubai, UAE, Wellx is the Middle East’s first wellness-backed InsureTech. Founded by Vaibhav Kashyap and Javed Akberali, Wellx aims to disrupt the insurance landscape in the region by offering individuals, families, corporates and SMEs health insurance that incentivize engagement in various wellnessactivities such as gym visits, healthy eating, focusing on mental wellness, utilising wearable tech, and much more. The company also uses cutting-edge data analytics tools to hyper personalize the wellness experience. Wellx is a digital-first brand, users can complete their insurance journeys online. | $2M | Seed | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Mascotte Health | Mascotte Health is a tech-enabled veterinary practice operator. It provides tech-enabled support infrastructure solutions for veterinary clinics, such as virtual triage and client experience. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Lumi AI | Lumi AI develops software that leverages leading large language models and a proprietary context model to instantly answer operational questions written in plain language, eliminating the need for technical data resources to manually gather, analyze, and manipulate data using coding languages like SQL or Python. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jun 13, 2023 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Annex Investments invest in?

Annex Investments invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Arab Emirates. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Annex Investments's check size?

Annex Investments typically joins rounds of $1M–$6.5M at Seed and $100k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Annex Investments participates in.

### How do I contact Annex Investments?

Public channels for Annex Investments 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 Annex Investments?

The team at Annex Investments includes Abed Benaichouche (CSO & Advisor), Ahmed Nasser Al Nowais (Founder & CEO) and Geir Karlsen (CTO & Advisor). 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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