# Global Ventures

> Global Ventures is a VC fund in Dubai backing Health Care and FinTech. See 125 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 125
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Fund size: $85M
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-ventures-me/?viewAsMember=true
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GlobalVC_MENA
- Website: https://www.global.vc/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$11M |
| Series A | $3M–$25M |
| Series B | $8M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 15 | 12% |
| FinTech | 11 | 9% |
| Software | 10 | 8% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 7% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 25% |
| Series A | 29 | 23% |
| Series B | 14 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Arab Emirates | 21 | 17% |
| Egypt | 14 | 11% |
| United States | 12 | 10% |
| Saudi Arabia | 7 | 6% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noor Sweid | Founder & Managing Partner | 38 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noor-sweid |
| Said Murad | Operating Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/said-murad |
| Taj Najjar | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taj-najjar |
| Amal Enan | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amal-enan |
| Basil Moftah | General Partner | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basil-moftah |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maalexi | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Rabbit | 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 | Zension is a subscription e-commerce company for consumer electronics. | $30M | Series A | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| BioSapien | 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 |  |
| BioSapien | 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 |  |
| Locad | Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost. | $9M | Series B | Nov 19, 2024 |  |

10 of 125 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [VentureSouq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturesouq) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
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- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Global Ventures invest in?

Global Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 125 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 is Global Ventures's check size?

Global Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$11M at Seed, $3M–$25M at Series A and $8M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Global Ventures participates 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 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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