# HALA Capital

> HALA Capital is a VC fund in Khobar backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/halavc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HalaVentures
- Website: http://www.halavc.com/

HALA Capital is a VC fund in Khobar focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$7M |
| Series A | $500k–$35M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $450k–$440M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 9 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 17% |
| Software | 6 | 14% |
| Payments | 5 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 12% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 50% |
| Series A | 8 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Saudi Arabia | 11 | 26% |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 21% |
| Egypt | 4 | 10% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Jordan | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ali Abussaud | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-abussaud |
| Ayat Al-Sabbagh | Research Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ayat-al-sabbagh |
| Da'ad Aboalkhair | Executive Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/da-ad-aboalkhair |
| Hussain Almarhoon | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hussain-almarhoon |
| Lulwah Alduhami | Marketing & Value Creation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lulwah-alduhami |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| intella | intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses. | $12.5M | Series A | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Rize | Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market. | $35.2M | Series A | Jan 19, 2025 |  |
| Quantum Platform | Quantum Platform is a business-to-business product platform for sampling solutions using data-driven processes and models. The company offers targeted sampling solutions through its intelligent e-process integration. Its e-process satisfactory targets active online shoppers based on clearly defined criteria to drive real conversion rates.Quantumalso creates a collaborative integration with global FMCG's and a wide range of exclusive online businesses for samples to be delivered to the target audience's doorstep. The company also offers specialized targeted sampling campaigns/online sampling using the help of data-driven models and e-process. | $7M | Seed | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Rize | Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market. | $2.9M | Seed | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| SuperCommerce | SuperCommerce is a low-code enterprise ecommerce software targeting software houses and developers to accelerate the development so they can build advanced ecommerce utilizing the power of Ai and ML. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Nearpay | Nearpay is a fintech startup based in Saudi Arabia, on a mission to make payments easy, secure, and accessible for every merchant. Our focus is simple: we build innovative payment infrastructure solutions that cater to banks, payment providers, and SaaS startups. With a blend of expertise and enthusiasm, we're shaping the future of paymentsone transaction at a time. | $14M | Series A | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Omniful | Retail-tech SaaS | $5M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Krave Mart | Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes. | $6.3M | Seed | Nov 10, 2023 |  |
| intella | intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses. | $3.4M | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Kaso | Kaso is an all-in-one AI-powered platform and growth suite for the foodservice industry. It's digital procurement and ordering platform uses data-driven tools and AI-powered automation to connect restaurants with suppliers - streamlining orders, reducing errors and food waste, and enabling smarter, more sustainable supply chains. | $10.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2023 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vision-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Shorooq Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shorooq-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [SEEDRA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedra) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Arzan Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arzan-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Impact46](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/impact46) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does HALA Capital invest in?

HALA Capital invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Saudi Arabia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

HALA Capital typically joins rounds of $600k–$7M at Seed, $500k–$35M at Series A and $450k–$440M 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 HALA Capital participates in.

### How do I contact HALA Capital?

Public channels for HALA Capital 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 HALA Capital?

The team at HALA Capital includes Ali Abussaud (General Partner), Ayat Al-Sabbagh (Research Analyst) and Da'ad Aboalkhair (Executive Assistant). 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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