# Enabling Future

> Enabling Future is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Nov 2020
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enabling-future
- Website: http://www.enablingfuture.com

Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 17% |
| Mobile | 3 | 13% |
| Finance | 3 | 13% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 13% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 48% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 13% |
| Angel | 2 | 9% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 22% |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 | 22% |
| The Netherlands | 3 | 13% |
| China | 1 | 4% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 4% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hubertus Thonhauser | Managing Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hubertus-thonhauser |
| Saad Umerani | Founder & Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saad-umerani |
| Yusuf Bashir | Managing Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yusuf-bashir |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NÜWATER | NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less |  |  | Nov 16, 2020 |  |
| Volt Lines | Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit. | $6M | Series A | Dec 27, 2019 |  |
| Trifacta | Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-serviceapproach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions.Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com | $100M | Series E | Sep 12, 2019 |  |
| Overline (prev. BC) | Cryptocurrencies are "walled gardens" which cannot reuse, trigger, or execute transactions with other blockchains. If Alice wants to execute Bob’s smart contract, she can only send cryptocurrency from the blockchain on which Bob deployed the smart contract. This lack of cooperation stifles innovation and forces users to place unwarrantedtrust in validators or centralized exchanges. Merging blockchains together into Block Collider is like building roads between buildings. Hypothetically, one could build a building that has everything, but in practice some buildings are built to work in, some are built to live in — as long as citizens want to be in multiple buildings at different points in time, roads are valuable and necessary. |  | Seed | Apr 28, 2018 |  |
| OfficeRock | Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms. |  |  | Dec 27, 2017 |  |
| Aspiration | Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $47M | Series B | Dec 07, 2017 |  |
| BulkWhiz | Bulkwhiz is the first hassle-free online bulk grocery shopping in the UAE, powered by the next generation artificial intelligence. It is the first local startup in its sector to develop its own proprietary AI-enabled technology that offers a personalized, simple online shopping experience for households and small businesses. Through its homegrowntech solution, Bulkwhiz delivers value and is designed to save time, money and effort for the busy working moms and dads, city dwellers and small businesses. Its one-click order offers door-to-door delivery service of branded bulk, shelf stable, household staples and office products. Carefully curating leading regional and international brands, Bulkwhiz allows shoppers to create a one-time smart and flexible shopping list that makes the arduous shopping of bulk products simple and easy. |  | Seed | Nov 20, 2017 |  |
| Change | Change is on a mission to remove the complexities and barriers to wealth creation. Change enables users to invest as little as €10 into cryptocurrencies, stocks and other assets. No minimum balances or high commissions. All possible by secure blockchain technology and the smartphone in your pocket.Buy Change shares from Funderbeam:https://www.funderbeam.com/market/changegroup/tradesMore investor materials like audits, results and updates: https://www.changeinvest.com/investor | $17.5M | Equity Crowdfunding | Oct 16, 2017 |  |
| Base58 | The Base58 Capital AG was founded in 2017 and is a technology-driven investment firm specialized in cryptoassets. The company has offices in Zurich and is located in Hünenberg, Switzerland. Base58 is led by computer science and finance specialists from Switzerland and the United States.We gain our edge by developing software to ease theoperations of our investment solutions, reduce the cost of executing our trades, and capitalize on new opportunities to generate returns.As a member of the VQF - the leading self-regulatory organization in Switzerland - we are committed to ensuring compliance with regulatory Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2017 |  |
| Kivu Technologies | Established in Austria in 2016, Kivu is a talented multidisciplinary team of engineers, developers, data scientists, analysts and security professionals. Founded by a passion to drive change through innovation, we believe we can make the world a better, safer place. We believe our world is increasingly connected, an exponentially expanding network.Existing technologies are inadequate to handle massive networks. Understanding networks and the connected relationships within these networks is vital to tackle the most challenging problems of our time. At Kivu, we design and build technology to help save lives and enhance human security. | $2M | Seed | Sep 11, 2017 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Enabling Future invest in?

Enabling Future invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 23 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 Enabling Future's check size?

Enabling Future typically joins rounds of $500k–$2M 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 Enabling Future participates in.

### How do I contact Enabling Future?

Public channels for Enabling Future 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 Enabling Future?

The team at Enabling Future includes Hubertus Thonhauser (Managing Partner), Saad Umerani (Founder & Managing Partner) and Yusuf Bashir (Managing 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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