Global Ventures
VC Fund
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm, investing in founders and ideas across emerging markets. The Global Ventures team is a diverse, collaborative, talented, and curious group of professionals who, combined, have years of experience and expertise building and scaling companies.
- Total investments:
- 135
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
- Fund size:
- $22M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Global Ventures invests in
Stages Global Ventures invests in
Countries Global Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 15 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$11M
- Series A
- $3M–$27M
- Series B
- $8M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 15 (11%)
- FinTech 12 (9%)
- Financial Services 12 (9%)
- Payments 10 (7%)
- Software 9 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 32 (24%)
- Series A 32 (24%)
- Series B 15 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (6%)
- Funding Round 7 (5%)
Country
- United Arab Emirates 23 (17%)
- Egypt 14 (10%)
- United States 12 (9%)
- Saudi Arabia 7 (5%)
- Nigeria 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Noor Sweid
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 40 | Find email | |
Said Murad
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Taj Najjar
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Amal Enan
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Basil Moftah
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
| See all 15 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that builds payments infrastructue technologies empowering the underserved with access to financial services. Paymob is bridging the financial inclusion gap in MEA region by enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from the power of digital payments and what it unlocks. Paymob was founded in 2015and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. | $35M / Series C / Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Enhance Fitness is a fitness and wellness company that provides personal training services through a mobile and web-based platform. The company connects users with certified trainers for one-on-one fitness sessions conducted at home, gyms, outdoor locations, or partner facilities. Its platform supports booking management, trainer matching, workouttracking, nutrition guidance, and progress monitoring. Enhance Fitness operates primarily in the Gulf region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, and also develops software tools for fitness businesses through its Enhance Tech platform.. | $18.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor. | $2.8M / Seed / Jun 26, 2026 | ||
| Antimatter is an AI infrastructure company that combines energy, data center, and cloud computing capabilities into a single integrated platform. The company was formed through the combination of three operating businesses, Data Factory, Policloud, and Hivenet, which together provide flexible power generation, modular data center infrastructure,and distributed cloud software. Its mission is to make sovereign, sustainable, and scalable AI computing more accessible by addressing the growing constraints around energy availability, data center capacity, and AI workload deployment. The company's infrastructure model is built around deploying compute resources where energy is already available rather than constructing large centralized facilities that require new grid connections. Through modular micro data centers and distributed cloud orchestration software, Antimatter enables AI workloads to run across geographically distributed locations while maintaining unified access to computing, storage, and networking resources. | $350.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 04, 2026 | ||
| Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 09, 2026 | ||
| Mixfont is the world's first artificial intelligence powered digital font foundry. Our mission is to make typography accessible to everyone. | Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2026 | ||
| Tarjama, a certified translation agency in Dubai and across the region, understands that in order to compete in today’s global market, businesses must be able to connect with their customers and stakeholders and communicate about their products and services in a way that fits into the regional and cultural context. What works in Europe or the USmay simply not work in the Middle East. As cultural and linguistic experts, we help you transcend geographic borders and communicate globally! | $15M / Series A / May 20, 2025 | ||
| At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL! | Seed / Apr 15, 2025 | ||
| Zension is a subscription-based e-commerce company focused on making consumer technology more accessible, flexible, and affordable. The company is redefining how people access and use technology by offering subscribers continuous access to the latest devices without the high upfront costs associated with traditional ownership.Built aroundevolving consumer behavior and the growing demand for flexibility, Zension enables users to subscribe to premium tech products with the option to upgrade devices, switch brands, or return products as their needs change. This model allows customers to stay current with the latest technology while paying a lower monthly cost compared to purchasing devices outright.Operating at the intersection of fintech, e-commerce, and consumer electronics, Zension’s platform is designed to simplify access to technology and create a more sustainable, circular approach to device usage. By prioritizing convenience, affordability, and adaptability, the company aims to establish a new standard for connectivity and modern consumer tech ownership. | $30M / Series A / Jan 07, 2025 | ||
| BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life. | $8M / Seed / Dec 13, 2024 | ||
| See all 135 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Global Ventures invest in?
Global Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 135 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Arab Emirates. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Global Ventures invest in?
Global Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$11M at Seed, $3M–$27M at Series A and $8M–$50M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Global Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Global Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Global Ventures?
Public channels for Global Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Global Ventures?
The team at Global Ventures includes Noor Sweid (Founder & Managing Partner), Said Murad (Operating Partner) and Taj Najjar (Analyst), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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