# El Sewedy Capital Holding

> El Sewedy Capital Holding is a VC fund in Cairo backing Financial Services and Higher Education. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/el-sewedy-cap-for-real-estate-development/
- Website: https://www.elsewedycapital.com/

El Sewedy Capital Holding is a VC fund in Cairo focused on Financial Services and Higher Education. El Sewedy Capital Holding is the family office of Eng. Ahmed Elsewedy managing more than USD 500mn investments across several sectors including real estate and hospitality, education, financial services, and contracting.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 22% |
| Higher Education | 2 | 11% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 2 | 11% |
| Books | 1 | 6% |
| Sales | 1 | 6% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 83% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nawah Scientific | Cutting edge research is available exclusively to those with high tech equipment in their labs. Nawah is a core hub of advanced equipment specialized in natural and medical sciences. Nawah's online platform receives experiments requests, Nawah's scientists carry them out and return results online. Thus, researchers can do much advancedresearch regardless of their location and available facilities in their labs. In 3 years, we analyzed 10K+ samples for 25 universities and companies in the MENA, Malaysia, UK and Switzerland. | $23M | Series A | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Flend | Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses. | $3M | Seed | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Octane | Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses. | $5.2M |  | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Octane | Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses. | $5.2M | Seed | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Settle Payments | SETTLE automates enterprise's payments and manages all their bank accounts in one place for better cashflow decisions. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Sporty Pro | Sporty Pro is multibrand online store for international and local sports and athleisure brands. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Elsewedy Machinery | Elsewedy Machinery specializes in selling, renting, and servicing a wide range heavy machines and trucks. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Elsewedy University of Technology | Elsewedy University is a polytechnic university that offers a 4 year Bachelor's degree in Technology with international standards |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Just Finance | Just Finance is a leading consumer finance company dedicated to empowering individuals and families to achieve their financial goals. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Asfoura Books | Asfoura Books aims to provide high quality Arabic books to children worldwide |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shorooq Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shorooq-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Algebra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algebra-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plus Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plus-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acasia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acasia-ventures-22) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AfricInvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afric-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baalbaki](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baalbaki) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does El Sewedy Capital Holding invest in?

El Sewedy Capital Holding invests primarily in Financial Services, Higher Education and Autonomous Vehicles startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is El Sewedy Capital Holding's check size?

El Sewedy Capital Holding typically joins rounds of $3M–$11M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds El Sewedy Capital Holding participates in.

### When did El Sewedy Capital Holding last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for El Sewedy Capital Holding closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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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