# B&Y Venture Partners

> B&Y Venture Partners is a VC fund in Beirut backing E-Commerce and Software. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Lebanon
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Oct 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/7931167/
- Website: https://byvp.com/

B&Y Venture Partners is a VC fund in Beirut focused on E-Commerce and Software. B&Y Venture Partners started with a vision: to create the go-to venture capital fund for early-stage technology start-ups. We do this by investing in great entrepreneurs and by providing them with value beyond just money, in exchange for a minority share in their business.We aim to partner with world-class entrepreneurs who want to buildthe next big technology success stories. We look for highly-driven teams with a “get it done” attitude, who can achieve exceptional execution of their ideas. We believe that founding teams are the most important component of start-up success.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $714k–$9M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$20M |
| Series B | $5M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 10 | 24% |
| Software | 7 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 17% |
| FinTech | 6 | 15% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 39% |
| Seed | 12 | 29% |
| Series B | 5 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Arab Emirates | 13 | 32% |
| United States | 7 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 12% |
| Lebanon | 3 | 7% |
| Egypt | 2 | 5% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abdallah Yafi | Founder - General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abdallah-yafi |
| Fadi Bizri | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fadi-bizri |
| Ghaith Yafi | Founder & Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ghaith-yafi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laced | Laced is a marketplace for the buying and selling of authentic sneakers, connecting thousands of buyers and sellers worldwide. | $12M | Series A | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Finverity | Finverity is a cross-border supply chain finance platform for mid-market. We aim to close the $1.5 TRL funding gap in global Trade Finance by using technology to make financing of mid-market companies economically viable and provide access to capital worldwide. | $5M |  | Mar 30, 2023 |  |
| Bridged Media | - We provide tools for Impact driven content creators to embed social action in their multi-format content to address the emerging desire among consumers to make tangible impact, enhance engagement & retention metrics for content creators and fulfil sustainable goals set out by organizations more efficiently. - We give access to contentcreators access to a content management system through which they are able to copy-paste the desired action through a single line of code. The platform works on an engagement and action model, where the consumer engages through a varied content style that flips on the same webpage to deliver the relevant action. Our technology aims to bridge the gap between empathy and action in all forms of content (text, video or audio. - The global digital content tool market size is expected to reach US$ 38.2 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 12% during 2020 and 2030. | $713.8K | Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Hoken | Venture-backed, Hoken is a primary and secondary marketplace and exchange whereby hotels, travelers and traders can purchase hotel bookings with the ability of selling, speculating or redeeming hotel stays. | $9M | Seed | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Bazaar Technologies | Bazaar is empowering small and medium sized retailers who form the backbone of Pakistan’s retail economy.Bazaar’s mobile app gives these small business owners access to a large assortment of goods from multiple local and international brands as well as unbranded products on a single platform - which can be ordered at any day of the week with freenext day delivery to storefronts.Our mission is to build a truly incredible and scalable tech company in and for Pakistan. | $70M | Series B | Mar 14, 2022 |  |
| Finverity | Finverity is a cross-border supply chain finance platform for mid-market. We aim to close the $1.5 TRL funding gap in global Trade Finance by using technology to make financing of mid-market companies economically viable and provide access to capital worldwide. | $2M | Seed | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Englease | Englease.com is an online English learning platform for users in the MENA region. It offers English courses, including IELTS and TOEFL preparation, through a subscription-based model with live and flexible online classes. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 19, 2021 |  |
| Bookme | Bookme.pk is Pakistan’s leading e-ticketing platform with over 6 Million registered customers in the transportation and entertainment industry. Bookme is also among the largest e-commerce platforms in the country, in terms of digital transactions. It is completely cashless and has already integrated with major payment platforms in Pakistanincluding JazzCash, Easypaisa, Habib Bank Limited, Alfalah and Askari Bank to ensure a seamless checkout experience for end-users. Furthermore, Bookme.pk has a vast portfolio of 150+ bus companies and 250+ airlines integrated on its platform. | $7.5M | Series A | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| Learnerbly | Learnerbly assists with the development of people at work by curating learning and development opportunities to accelerate professional growth. Its platform helps forward thinking businesses such as likes of Ideo, Curve, goCardless. | $10M | Series A | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| GrubTech | GrubTech is an end-to-end SaaS platform enabling the digital transformation of restaurants and cloud kitchens. Its scalable and flexible operating system is the 'Shopify' of the food service industry. The company offers an omnichannel POS capable of accepting orders from all the popular food aggregators, direct online channels, dine-in,and takeaway. In addition, our platform is AI-powered to provide unparalleled insights into demand forecasting, smart appliance optimization, dynamic order routing, customer profiling, and inventory management. GrubTech primarily serves cloud kitchens, also known as ghost kitchens or dark kitchens, which are commercial kitchens optimized for preparing food specifically for delivery. They also cater to QSRs and other restaurant models that heavily rely on delivery and takeout services. | $13M | Series A | Dec 06, 2021 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does B&Y Venture Partners invest in?

B&Y Venture Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 41 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 B&Y Venture Partners's check size?

B&Y Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $714k–$9M at Seed, $2.5M–$20M at Series A and $5M–$70M 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 B&Y Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact B&Y Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at B&Y Venture Partners?

The team at B&Y Venture Partners includes Abdallah Yafi (Founder - General Partner), Fadi Bizri (Partner) and Ghaith Yafi (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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