DIFC FinTech Hive
VC Fund
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DIFC FinTech Hive is a VC fund in Dubai focused on FinTech and Financial Services. DIFC FinTech Hive brings the latest FinTech solutions to MEASA and connects startups with the region's largest financial industry stakeholders and institutions.
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
Last updated:
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Industries DIFC FinTech Hive invests in
Stages DIFC FinTech Hive invests in
Countries DIFC FinTech Hive invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 21 (43%)
- Financial Services 21 (43%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (27%)
- Payments 8 (16%)
- Information Technology 8 (16%)
Stage
- Non-equity Assistance 32 (65%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (14%)
- Seed 4 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (6%)
- Funding Round 2 (4%)
Country
- United Arab Emirates 19 (39%)
- United States 9 (18%)
- Singapore 3 (6%)
- United Kingdom 3 (6%)
- India 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Armi Enriquez
Assistant Manager
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Assistant Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Henri Arslanian
Innovation Panel, Appointed Member
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Innovation Panel, Appointed Member | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Saqr Ereiqat
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shereen Abdulla
Senior Manager
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Senior Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOW Money uses mobile banking technology to bring accounts and remittance to the unbanked population of the Middle East. It provides a convenient and easy to use solution for those currently excluded from the financial system, bringing full access to the financial system, and significant savings on remittance. | $7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 29, 2021 | ||
| FlexxPay offers an online platform to employers whose employees can access their earned salaries & commissions instantly, before the regular payday. We provide an instant pay platform allowing employees to access a portion of already earned salaries whenever needed, thus ending financial stress. | $3M / Seed / Feb 14, 2021 | ||
| Inpher.io is a secret computing technology for privacy-preserving machine learning and AI.Inpher is a veteran team of entrepreneurs, cryptographers, and computer scientists who believe that privacy and security are foundational to the future of computing. It has developed transformational Secret Computing™ technology to run analytics andmachine learning algorithms on private data sources with zero-knowledge. This provides a secure path to cloud services and the monetization of analysis and insight without revealing sensitive data. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| FirstHive is a premier global Customer Data Platform - a tool for consumer marketing enterprises to consolidate all their opt-in first-party consumer data. Once deployed, FirstHive becomes the single source of truth of customer identity & data within the enterprise’s marketing and analytics ecosystem. FirstHive acts as the single brain orsystem of intelligence by delivering seamless cross-tool & cross-channel communication for the marketing teams and with its out-of-the-box recommendation & assisted decision engine, directly enhances CX and marketing ROI objectives. FirstHive is a California-headquartered company with operations and customers across the US, India, and ASEAN. | Non-equity Assistance / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| Saffe is a facial recognition provider based on Artificial Intelligence and focuses on payments and secure authentications. | Non-equity Assistance / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| Algante Technologies provides human wealth management services with an Artificial Intelligence solution. The passion for Artificial Intelligence (AI) has driven to innovate with the objective of creating intelligent machines that solve real problems. | Non-equity Assistance / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| Nester is an online FinTech platform that offers property financing solutions and converts them into simple secured investments. Nester will deliver on its mission to supply financial products that are available to all. They aim to be fully transparent and ensure that risk and reward are explained in a way that everyone understands. | Pre-Seed / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| Vouchr has created an engagement platform focused on the consumer payment experience. The company is a team of proven engineers, designers, and product folks from the mobile, social and gaming worlds who are continually creating new and innovative experiences for their platform - enabling their partners to maintain a competitive edge as theirindustries move to digital. | Non-equity Assistance / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| Xpanse provides technologies and services that enable organizations to implement their Advanced Analytics initiatives. Xpanse Analytics developed Xpanse AI - an automated Predictive Analytics platform, which delivers models from raw non-aggregated data in minutes. | Seed / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| Trust Stamp applies advanced cryptographic techniques and AI-powered presentation-attack detection tools to biometric and other identity data to create a proprietary non-PII Hash (IT2). The company's technology is used in multiple verticals, including humanitarian and development services, banking, FinTech, KYC / AML compliance, realestate, and law enforcement. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does DIFC FinTech Hive invest in?
DIFC FinTech Hive invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Arab Emirates. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at DIFC FinTech Hive?
The team at DIFC FinTech Hive includes Armi Enriquez (Assistant Manager), Henri Arslanian (Innovation Panel, Appointed Member) and Saqr Ereiqat (Mentor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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