Ben Harburg
Managing Partner @ MSA Capital
Beijing, China
Ben Harburg is a seed investor at MSA Capital in Beijing focused on E-Commerce and B2B. Ben Harburg the Managing Partner of MSA Capital, a global investment firm with $2.5 billion in assets under management. Prior to MSA, Harburg was a founding member of The Boston Consulting Group's Middle East system, and built one of the largest commodities trading companies in Asia, with offices in 13 countries. Harburg serves on the Board ofDirectors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Harburg was a Fulbright Scholar at Rhur University Bochum, where he was based in the Institute for Oriental and Islamic Studies.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Ben Harburg invests in
Stages Ben Harburg invests in
Countries Ben Harburg invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 8 (32%)
- B2B 6 (24%)
- Marketplace 4 (16%)
- Software 3 (12%)
- Apps 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (28%)
- Series A 4 (16%)
- Series B 3 (12%)
- Series C 3 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (28%)
- Egypt 3 (12%)
- China 2 (8%)
- Brazil 2 (8%)
- Jordan 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Tamatem is a mobile games publisher in the MENA market. The company partners with international studios and developers, take their games, localizes them, and makes them culturally relevant for the Arabic gamer. It focuses on publishing MMO-RPG, strategy, and card games. Their experience in localization, user acquisition, distribution,cross-promotion, monetization, user acquisition, and whales management can help get your game on the top of the charts, increase revenue and ensure its success in the Arabic market.Tamatem has published 40 games that have achieved more than 50 million downloads, in its HQ in Amman, Jordan which currently has 26 employees. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Flint is a global crypto investment app. Flint leverages the power of crypto to deliver incredibly high returns on idle money. | $5.1M / Seed / Jan 24, 2022 | ||
| Sary is a B2B marketplace that connects small businesses with suppliers seamlessly. The company's mission is to empower organizations with smarter ways to operate and grow efficiently. Sary was founded in early 2018 by Careem ex-General Manager, Mohammed Aldossary, and his partner Khaled AlSiari, to fix the broken supply chain in thewholesale industry. Today, Sary operates in 12 major cities, where customers can order wholesale items ranging from a box to a truckload in a few clicks to be delivered as fast as 24 hours. Sary served 40,000+ customers, worked with 1700+ brands and wholesalers. | $74.8M / Series C / Dec 19, 2021 | ||
| TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners. | $42M / Series B / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $200b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, grocery stores and any food outlet to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services. The suppliers who sell through Cayena get a rapid boost in high-quality,recurring demand without taking any credit risk. | $3.5M / Series A / Sep 16, 2021 | ||
| Kaso is an all-in-one AI-powered platform and growth suite for the foodservice industry. It's digital procurement and ordering platform uses data-driven tools and AI-powered automation to connect restaurants with suppliers - streamlining orders, reducing errors and food waste, and enabling smarter, more sustainable supply chains. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $200b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, grocery stores and any food outlet to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services. The suppliers who sell through Cayena get a rapid boost in high-quality,recurring demand without taking any credit risk. | Series A / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| Capiter is a B2B marketplace that brings FMCGs, wholesalers, and merchants to the same platform, enabling merchants to order their products through the eCommerce platform and receive credit facilitiesCapiter is the liaison between the FMCG, wholesale, and merchant's supply chain. That provides efficiency in the whole supply chain by usingadvanced technology and Machine-learning models. This provides high-quality service to sales channels and high data validity to the supply channels with a highly optimized financial / product cycling.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. | $33M / Series A / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $200b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, grocery stores and any food outlet to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services. The suppliers who sell through Cayena get a rapid boost in high-quality,recurring demand without taking any credit risk. | $3.5M / Seed / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| Nubank issues, administrate, processes, and transfers payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investment in other entities. It serves clients in Brazil. The company launched its proprietary loyalty rewards program ("Nubank Rewards"), as well as a digital account ("NuConta") that is already used by more than 17million people.Cristina Junqueira, David Velez, and Edward Wible founded EO2 Solucoes de Pagamento on May 6, 2013 that became Nubank in on June 25, 2013. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil. | $750M / Series G / Jun 08, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About MSA Capital
MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading new economy entrepreneurs.
MSA Capital Contacts
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Jenny Zeng
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Walid Faza
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Ben Harburg
Managing Partner
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Prakhar Khanduja
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What does Ben Harburg invest in?
Ben Harburg invests primarily in E-Commerce, B2B and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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