# Leap Ventures

> Leap Ventures is a VC fund in Beirut backing Software and Machine Learning. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Lebanon
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $71M
- Last fund: Mar 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3183404
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/leapvc
- Website: http://leap.vc/

Leap Ventures is a VC fund in Beirut focused on Software and Machine Learning. Partnering with entrepreneurs to help them build great companies.

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$1.3M |
| Series A | $3M–$27M |
| Series B | $6.6M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |
| SaaS | 2 | 8% |
| Music | 2 | 8% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 33% |
| Seed | 7 | 29% |
| Series B | 5 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 8 | 33% |
| United States | 5 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| China | 1 | 4% |
| Estonia | 1 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diana Kander | Keynote Speaker and Innovation Consultant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diana-kander |
| Hala Fadel | Co-founder& Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hala-fadel |
| Christan Hiscock | Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christan-hiscock |
| Herve Cuviliez | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herve-cuviliez |
| Khaled Ismail | Member of the Investment Committee | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khaled-ismail |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Revoy | EV vehicle between the tractor and the trailer to help power the truck and reduce diesel fuel consumption. | $27M | Series A | Aug 02, 2026 |  |
| Keyang Semiconductor | Keyang is mainly engaged in the design, R&D, manufacture, packaging, and testing of semiconductor TSV package integrated circuit products. | $72.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 03, 2023 |  |
| Dogdrop | Dogdrop is a female founded and venture backed start-up based in Los Angeles. Dogdrop provides better, more accessible dog care with their physical locations for recreation & activity and DTC at home essentials for dog parents. The company was founded in 2018 by Shaina Denny and Greer Wilk and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. |  | Seed | Sep 08, 2020 |  |
| Xolo | Xolo is focusing on 40 million professionals globally who have chosen to run their business independently. Its aim is to reduce time spent on business administration to near zero by offering an incredibly simple online platform that merges company formation, banking, accounting, and other services. Xolo is the quickest and easiest way to launch andrun a one-person freelancing business in Europe. Xolo has customers from 140 countries through it's global product line and has localised solutions in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Xolo's typical customers are software developers, management consultants, designers, and other independent professionals. | $6.4M | Series A | Jul 15, 2019 |  |
| Brigad | Brigad is a staffing and recruiting company that provides staff and workforce on demand for hospitality and retail businesses. Its digital expertise allows a matching technology to staff vetted and available workforce on a record time. Embrace flexibility, save time & money by getting rid off HR and organisational management. | $6.6M | Series B | May 07, 2019 |  |
| Miuros | By bringing their data to life, Miuros streamlines Customer Service operations to improve Customer Experience. Thanks to a holistic approach and its Customer Service Performance Management platform interfaced with industry standards, Miuros makes every layer of a customer service organization, from support reps to management teams, smarter andfaster. |  | Seed | Dec 13, 2018 |  |
| MYKI | MYKI is security start up that secures and manages password and sensitive information online for Individuals and teams. The MYKI Offline Password Manager & Authenticator is the first offline password manager that offers the convenience of a cloud connected one.MYKI stores passwords, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) secrets, payment cards,secure notes and government IDs offline in a cloud-less manner.You can pair the MYKI app with the MYKI browser extension on Mac, Linux and Windows. The MYKI extension is available on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge and Opera.The MYKI app automatically syncs with paired extensions in a P2P encrypted manner allowing MYKI to save and autofill your data on your phone as well as on computer. MYKI can also manage and autofill Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) tokens on your phone as well as on computers. | $4M | Series A | Sep 05, 2018 |  |
| Karnott | Karnott automatically calculates the allocation of farm equipment usage per user. It also allows the calculation of loads of mechanization plot by plot or crop by crop. Also can take them into account to arrive at the net margin of productions. |  |  | May 30, 2018 |  |
| Brigad | Brigad is a staffing and recruiting company that provides staff and workforce on demand for hospitality and retail businesses. Its digital expertise allows a matching technology to staff vetted and available workforce on a record time. Embrace flexibility, save time & money by getting rid off HR and organisational management. | $4M | Series A | Mar 01, 2018 |  |
| Keeward | Keeward Group is a technology company focussed on the long tail in the media, art and culture industries. Through its platform, Keeward creates value at the intersection of innovation and diversity, leveraging the entire value chain: from digital and physical distribution to content creation, machine learning and big data.Over the last 10years, Keeward Group has brought together a family of companies who share this same focus. We do this through our in-depth expertise across a range of specializations (project management, design, development, marketing, content creation, knowledge sharing, to name a few) and by identifying creative clusters in cities around the world where we nurture young businesses, as well as creative talents, who will bring value to our platform. |  | Series B | Oct 17, 2017 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Leap Ventures invest in?

Leap Ventures invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Leap Ventures's check size?

Leap Ventures typically joins rounds of $549k–$1.3M at Seed, $3M–$27M at Series A and $6.6M–$10M 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 Leap Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Leap Ventures?

Public channels for Leap 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 Leap Ventures?

The team at Leap Ventures includes Diana Kander (Keynote Speaker and Innovation Consultant), Hala Fadel (Co-founder& Managing Partner) and Christan Hiscock (Founder and CEO). 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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