# Arzan Venture Capital

> Arzan Venture Capital is a VC fund in Kuwait backing Software and E-Commerce. See 59 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuwait, Kuwait
- Total investments: 59
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last fund: Jan 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arzan-venture-capital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/arzanvc
- Website: http://arzanvc.com/

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$3.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $180k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $3M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 10 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 12% |
| SaaS | 6 | 10% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 54% |
| Series A | 9 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 7% |
| Series B | 4 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Arab Emirates | 19 | 32% |
| Egypt | 7 | 12% |
| Saudi Arabia | 7 | 12% |
| Jordan | 3 | 5% |
| Kenya | 1 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hasan Zainal | Founder and Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hasan-zainal |
| Laith Zraikat | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laith-zraikat |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| yozo.ai | Yozo AI Growth Agent is a self-sufficient Shopify store marketing assistant. Yozo is an e-commerce store owner's suite of AI agents. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Yasmina | Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services. | $2M | Seed | Jul 13, 2025 |  |
| Revenya Capital | Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA. | $2M | Seed | Nov 05, 2024 |  |
| Hulexo | Hulexo is a low-code EPR system that helps retailers streamline operations and make smarter decisions using a smart decision-making engine. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| Nearpay | Nearpay is a fintech startup based in Saudi Arabia, on a mission to make payments easy, secure, and accessible for every merchant. Our focus is simple: we build innovative payment infrastructure solutions that cater to banks, payment providers, and SaaS startups. With a blend of expertise and enthusiasm, we're shaping the future of paymentsone transaction at a time. | $14M | Series A | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Gameball | Gameball triggers powerful human emotions, moving your customers through the entire user journey faster, and keeping you engaged with them at every step. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| Money Fellows | Money Fellows is a financial technology company that offers digitized money circles, also known as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs). Through its mobile application, users can join money circles with flexible durations of 6, 10, or 12 months. Participants make regular contributions and receive payouts according to a predeterminedschedule. The platform supports various payment methods, including the Money Fellows Card, credit/debit cards, pre-paid cards, bank transfers, Fawry, and e-wallets. Users can participate in multiple circles simultaneously, with payouts up to 1,200,000 EGP. The service includes features such as cashback on payouts and discounts on pay-ins. Money Fellows operates under the supervision of the Central Bank of Egypt's Regulatory Sandbox and collaborates with Banque Misr to monitor transactions and user payouts. | $31M | Series B | Oct 30, 2022 |  |
| Zid | Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia. | $50M | Series B | Oct 17, 2022 |  |
| Subsbase | SubsBase is a cloud-based subscription and billing platform. That provides operational, analytics, and billing tools to subscription-based businesses to efficiently manage their subscribers, removing the entire overhead of subscriber lifecycle management from the business and core products and services. | $2.4M | Seed | Aug 25, 2022 |  |
| Khazenly | Khazenly is an on-demand digital warehousing and fulfillment management platform that provides an omnichannel solution to help merchants digitize their businesses. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 59 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shorooq Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shorooq-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Wamda Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wamda) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [HALA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hala-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [BECO Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beco-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Arzan Venture Capital invest in?

Arzan Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 59 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 Arzan Venture Capital's check size?

Arzan Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $600k–$3.7M at Seed, $180k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arzan Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Arzan Venture Capital?

Public channels for Arzan Venture Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Arzan Venture Capital?

The team at Arzan Venture Capital includes Hasan Zainal (Founder and Managing Partner) and Laith Zraikat (Partner). 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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