# Khaled Talhouni

> Khaled Talhouni is a Series B investor at Nuwa Capital (Dubai) backing E-Commerce and FinTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nuwa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuwa-capital)
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 86%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaledtalhouni
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/khaledtalhouni

Khaled Talhouni is a Series B investor at Nuwa Capital in Dubai focused on E-Commerce and FinTech. Khaled Talhouni is the Founder & Managing Partner at Nuwa Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 29% |
| FinTech | 2 | 14% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 29% |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 | 50% |
| Bahrain | 1 | 7% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Calo | Calo is a direct-to-consumer food tech company offering personalised meal subscriptions. Its app automatically calculates the calories and macronutrients that users need and delivers them ready-to-eat meals portioned to fit their fitness goals. The app matches users with chef-prepared meals, ensuring high-quality food convenient for busylifestyles. With its user-friendly interface, the Calo app allows users to analyze their needs and subscribe to meal plans in less than two minutes. | $39M | Series B | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| ClearGrid | ClearGrid, creating software and AI to streamline recovery and collaborate with the existing vendors. | $6.5M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Silkhaus | Silkhaus makes living comfortable and convenient through 24/7 mobile support and a digital concierge. |  |  | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Calo | Calo is a direct-to-consumer food tech company offering personalised meal subscriptions. Its app automatically calculates the calories and macronutrients that users need and delivers them ready-to-eat meals portioned to fit their fitness goals. The app matches users with chef-prepared meals, ensuring high-quality food convenient for busylifestyles. With its user-friendly interface, the Calo app allows users to analyze their needs and subscribe to meal plans in less than two minutes. | $25M | Series B | Dec 30, 2024 |  |
| Mala Inc. | Mala provides a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution specifically designed for B2B transactions in the MENA region. The platform enables businesses to manage their cash flow more effectively while making purchases. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Seez | Seez is a data-first retail platform for automotive buying and selling services. The Seez mobile app for car shoppers offers a smart search engine for online car listings, as well as proprietary, AI-powered tools, and services that make the car shopping journey faster, easier, and more efficient. Seez is an AI-powered automotive technology platformhelping car dealerships digitize sales, improve customer experience, and manage online-to-offline car buying journeys. | $5M | Series B | Oct 04, 2021 |  |
| Baraka | baraka is an investment app, founded in the UAE. It empowers people to become confident investors by providing educational content, digestible market news and in-depth stock analysis. Access to thousands of stocks and ETFs creates the freedom to explore new opportunities. baraka’s mission: to give everyone access to the markets, and empowereveryone to invest. It’s what they call: investing. empowered. | $4M | Seed | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| Eyewa | Eyewa is the first dedicated online eyewear store for the Middle East. We have thousands of different eyeglasses, sunglasses, color contact lenses and prescription contact lenses for you to choose from. On Eyewa, you’ll find quintessentially cool brands like Ray-Ban and Emporio Armani, heritage brands like Burberry and Persol, high-fashion brandslike Fendi, Dolce & Gabbanaand Prada sporty brands like Nike and Lacoste and everything in between. Discover their brands portfolio with thousands of styles here. | $21M | Series B | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Eyewa | Eyewa is the first dedicated online eyewear store for the Middle East. We have thousands of different eyeglasses, sunglasses, color contact lenses and prescription contact lenses for you to choose from. On Eyewa, you’ll find quintessentially cool brands like Ray-Ban and Emporio Armani, heritage brands like Burberry and Persol, high-fashion brandslike Fendi, Dolce & Gabbanaand Prada sporty brands like Nike and Lacoste and everything in between. Discover their brands portfolio with thousands of styles here. | $2.5M | Series B | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| MUNCH:ON | MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for itsrestaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders | $3M | Series A | Feb 25, 2019 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Nordstar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordstar) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Arzan Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arzan-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [B&Y Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-y-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BY Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/by-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dubai Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dubai-angel-investor) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Nuwa Capital

VC Fund · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nuwa Capital is a radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and private equity. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Dubai, UAE.

5 contacts available at Nuwa Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arnav Danthi | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arnav-danthi |
| Khaled Talhouni | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khaled-talhouni |
| Sarah Abu Risheh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-abu-risheh |
| Stephanie Nour Prince | Partner, Network and Operations; Partner, Network and Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephanie-nour-prince |
| Tarek Kabrit | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tarek-kabrit |

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## FAQ

### What does Khaled Talhouni invest in?

Khaled Talhouni invests primarily in E-Commerce, FinTech and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Arab Emirates. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Khaled Talhouni last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Khaled Talhouni closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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