# Empede Capital

> Empede Capital is a VC fund in Abu Dhabi backing Software and SaaS. See 107 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 107
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/77227857
- Website: https://www.empede.capital

Empede Capital is a Venture Capital investor with a clear focus on innovation & industry disruption

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Empede Capital. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Empede Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/empede-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $898k–$1.1M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $300k–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 21 | 20% |
| SaaS | 15 | 14% |
| FinTech | 14 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 9% |

170 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 52 | 49% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 11 | 10% |
| Series F | 10 | 9% |
| Seed | 8 | 7% |
| Series E | 7 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 67 | 63% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mukund Hirani | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mukund-hirani |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rippling | Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps. It is a platform that automates manual work, like onboarding new hires. In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, andSlack. It’s the only platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of the administrative work.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $250M | Series D | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Roofstock | Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more likestock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased.Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $240M | Series E | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Rippling | Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps. It is a platform that automates manual work, like onboarding new hires. In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, andSlack. It’s the only platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of the administrative work.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  |  | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Spring Health | Spring Health is a global mental health company built on one AI-native platform so care follows individuals across every job, move, health plan, and life stage. Independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, with 92% of members reliably improved or recovered from depression or anxiety and employers seeing a 52%reduction in total mental health claims costs, Spring Health provides personalized lifelong mental health support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. More than 170 million people worldwide have access to Spring Health, which is trusted by leading employers, health plans, and channel partners, including Highmark, Target, The Coca-Cola Company, BlackRock, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Wawa. |  |  | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Omada Health | Omada Health is a digital care company that offers innovative and clinically effective digital health programs to empower individuals to engage in their health and lead healthier lives. The program is personalized to meet each participant’s unique needs as they evolve, ranging from diabetes prevention, type 2 diabetes management, hypertension,behavioral health, and musculoskeletal issues. Omada combines professional health coaching, connected health devices, real-time data, and personalized feedback to deliver clinically meaningful results. The company is the largest CDC-recognized provider of the National Diabetes Prevention Program. | $192M | Series E | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Procurified | Construction SaaS Platform connecting Buyers & Suppliers to automate product Sourcing | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| Pipe | Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies |  |  | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Mark43 | Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to effortlessly collect, manage, analyze, and share information. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology anddata-driven insights to public safety.The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City. |  |  | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Dragos | Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company on a mission to safeguard civilization by protecting the world’s critical infrastructure. Dragos codifies the knowledge of our cybersecurity experts into an integrated software platform that provides customers critical visibility into ICS and OT networks so that threats are identified and can beaddressed before they become significant events. Our solutions protect organizations across a range of industries, including power and water utilities, energy, and manufacturing, and are optimized for emerging applications like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT). Dragos is privately held and headquartered in the Washington, DC area with a regional presence around the world, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East. |  |  | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Tally | Tally is a consumer tech company pioneering full-service financial automation. Founded in 2015, we built the first automated debt manager to help people overcome credit card debt and put billions of dollars back in people’s pockets. Tally’s vision is to automate people’s entire financial lives, so they can stress less about money and do more ofwhat they love. |  |  | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 107 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Empede Capital invest in?

Empede Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 107 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Empede Capital's check size?

Empede Capital typically joins rounds of $898k–$1.1M at Seed and $300k–$5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Empede Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Empede Capital?

Public channels for Empede Capital include LinkedIn 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 Empede Capital?

The team at Empede Capital includes Mukund Hirani (General 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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