# Chimera Investment

> Chimera Investment is a VC fund in Abu Dhabi backing E-Commerce and Biotechnology. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.chimerainvestment.com/

Chimera Investment is a VC fund in Abu Dhabi focused on E-Commerce and Biotechnology. Private investment firm managing a diversified portfolio of listed and unlisted equities on both local and regional markets.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $450k–$7.5M |
| Series B | $20M–$100M |
| Series C | $75M–$415M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 18% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| Logistics | 3 | 14% |
| Restaurants | 3 | 14% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 18% |
| Series C | 4 | 18% |
| Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |
| Series E | 2 | 9% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Egypt | 3 | 14% |
| India | 3 | 14% |
| United States | 3 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 14% |
| Colombia | 2 | 9% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foodology | Foodology builds and runs delivery-focused digital restaurant brands. It engages in scaling restaurant brands across Latin America. Its virtual restaurants run through cloud kitchens enabling brands to shorten their iteration cycles and increase their concept offering without incurring significant setup costs. The company operates over 80 kitchensin Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. | $17M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 17, 2023 |  |
| AdalFi | AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks. | $7.5M | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| MNT-Halan | MNT-Halan is a microfinance lending and payments company. | $200M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Foodology | Foodology builds and runs delivery-focused digital restaurant brands. It engages in scaling restaurant brands across Latin America. Its virtual restaurants run through cloud kitchens enabling brands to shorten their iteration cycles and increase their concept offering without incurring significant setup costs. The company operates over 80 kitchensin Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. | $20M | Series B | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Foodology | Foodology builds and runs delivery-focused digital restaurant brands. It engages in scaling restaurant brands across Latin America. Its virtual restaurants run through cloud kitchens enabling brands to shorten their iteration cycles and increase their concept offering without incurring significant setup costs. The company operates over 80 kitchensin Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. | $20M | Series A | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Frubana | Frubana is the everything store for restaurants, sourcing directly from farmers and manufacturers. We are building the railways for (small) B2B e-commerce in LatAm. | $75M | Series C | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Elwood Technologies | Elwood is a leading fintech firm specializing in comprehensive digital asset trading, portfolio, and risk management software for institutions. Its front-to-back solutions connect clients to global crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, custodians, and fund administrators while offering advanced execution management, portfolio analytics, and riskmanagement tools. Built by industry experts with deep experience in traditional finance and digital technology, Elwood empowers financial institutions to navigate digital asset markets with efficiency, security, and confidence. | $70M | Series A | May 16, 2022 |  |
| Kitopi | Kitopi is a food technology and cloud kitchen company that operates cloud kitchens, delivery-only restaurants, and multi-brand food service operations. The company provides kitchen infrastructure, operational support, and technology systems for restaurant brands expanding into delivery and dine-in markets across the Middle East. | $300M | Series C | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Classplus | Classplus is a mobile first SaaS platform that enables private coaching institutes to streamline their video distribution, payments, communication and online assessments through a single platform. | $70M | Series D | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Synthego | Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables the acceleration of life science research and development in the pursuit of improved human health.The company leverages machine learning, automation, and gene editing to build platforms for science at scale. With its foundations in engineering disciplines, the company’s full-stack platformvertically integrates proprietary hardware, software, bioinformatics, chemistries, and molecular biology to advance both basic research and therapeutic development programs.By providing both commercial and academic researchers and therapeutic developers with unprecedented access to cutting-edge genome engineering, Synthego is at the forefront of innovation, accelerating the development of truly engineered biology.The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California. | $200M | Series E | Feb 17, 2022 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SoftBank Vision Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-vision-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Base Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [B. Riley Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-riley-financial) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Chimera Investment invest in?

Chimera Investment invests primarily in E-Commerce, Biotechnology and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chimera Investment's check size?

Chimera Investment typically joins rounds of $450k–$7.5M at Seed, $20M–$100M at Series B and $75M–$415M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chimera Investment participates in.

### When did Chimera Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chimera Investment closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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