MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
MVI (MENA Venture Investments) is a VC fund in Dubai focused on E-Commerce and Internet. Mena Venture Investments (MVI) is an angel fund that invests in early stage startups with strong growth potential in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and beyond. We work with entrepreneurs to build solid, scalable businesses and ensure access to capital at early stages of a venture to fuel their growth. Beyond financial investment,MVI offers support through mentorship, access to markets, networks, and clients, as well as cross-border operational support.
- Total investments:
- 70
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries MVI (MENA Venture Investments) invests in
Stages MVI (MENA Venture Investments) invests in
Countries MVI (MENA Venture Investments) invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$3.2M
- Series A
- $800k–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 16 (23%)
- Internet 7 (10%)
- Software 6 (9%)
- Mobile 5 (7%)
- Retail 5 (7%)
Stage
- Funding Round 38 (54%)
- Seed 15 (21%)
- Series A 7 (10%)
- Angel 1 (1%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (1%)
Country
- United States 22 (31%)
- Jordan 11 (16%)
- United Arab Emirates 9 (13%)
- Egypt 4 (6%)
- Germany 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lana Alamat
Legal Cousel
|
Legal Cousel | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Arif Naqvi
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Fadi Ghandour
Founder & Partner
|
Founder & Partner | Total investments: 33 | Find email | |
Fares Ghandour
Director and Investment Manager
|
Director and Investment Manager | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
liwwa
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Liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering. | $2.3M / Series A / Feb 28, 2018 | |
Connecterra
|
Connecterra is a developer of software for the dairy industry. Connecterra is building an Artificial Intelligence that will grow food sustainably to feed future generations. Connecterra exists to give people a previously impossible understanding of the world around them so they can make more productive, humane and sustainable use of Earth’s naturalresources. They use machine learning to turn raw data into insight-driven efficiencies for the benefit of people, companies, and the natural habitats in which they operate | $1.8M / Seed / May 19, 2016 | |
Shippify
|
Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014. | Seed / Jan 20, 2016 | |
TaskSpotting Inc.
|
TaskSpotting channels the power of a crowd to tell brand stories through authentic user generated content (UGC). We partner with brands to turn their marketing objectives into consumer interactions. We help brands become the topic of conversation by activating passionate consumers and giving them immersive experiences to spread influential word ofmouth across their social networks. | $1.2M / Oct 02, 2015 | |
Kindara
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Kindara is devoted to giving women the tools, knowledge, and support to understand how their fertility works, take ownership of their reproductive health, and meet their fertility goals. | $5.3M / Seed / Aug 19, 2015 | |
Bidvine
|
Bidvine makes it ridiculously simple to hire trusted local service providers. They make hiring local, trusted service professionals ridiculously simple - and help people use the time saved to pursue their passions.Getting things done is awesome. More accurately, being done and enjoying the outcome is the real reward of dealing with the smallestfix to the largest project. The problem is that finding someone to help you get there has remained a hassle. Wasn’t technology supposed to help with things like that? While looking to achieve personal goals, find a language tutor for their kids, renovate their house and even clear a wasp nest from their front door, they were spending more time on legwork than on the things they love. They would rather take their kids to the park than hunt for an electrician that can come next Tuesday. They would rather take their journal to the café than search for a quality Arabic language tutor. This is why they started Bidvine. They wanted a better way to find local service providers who could do what they needed, were available when they needed them, and were interested to help. With a background in marketing and marketplaces, as a team they felt uniquely positioned to tackle this challenge and build a business that could be everyone’s first and best choice for getting from to-do to done as quickly as possible. They first conceived of this idea in a shared workspace in Dubai, UAE, are building the platform in Waterloo, Canada, are creating the reality of Bidvine and going to market in London, UK - and through it all they are powered by people. | $3.7M / Equity Crowdfunding / May 17, 2015 | |
Onfleet
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Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University. | $2M / Seed / Apr 21, 2015 | |
The Luxury Closet
|
The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth. | $2.8M / Series A / Apr 01, 2015 | |
Qordoba
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Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, andmore. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018.Visit qordoba.com to learn more. | $3M / Seed / Mar 29, 2015 | |
Labdoor
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Labdoor is a testing lab that publicly verifies the quality of consumer products, starting with supplements. On Labdoor.com, consumers can find scientific product reviews and shop for hundreds of quality-tested supplements all in one place. They also offer a "Labdoor Certified" program to companies who submit every lot of their productsto us for quality control testing.From their chemistry lab in South San Francisco, Labdoor analyzes the purity and potency of popular products to find out which ones have what they claim and if they have any harmful ingredients or contaminants. Then, they grade and rank those products, write reports, and publish that information for free, so consumers can confidently buy the best supplements for their needs. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 24, 2015 | |
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FAQ
What does MVI (MENA Venture Investments) invest in?
MVI (MENA Venture Investments) invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 70 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is MVI (MENA Venture Investments)'s check size?
MVI (MENA Venture Investments) typically joins rounds of $250k–$3.2M at Seed and $800k–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds MVI (MENA Venture Investments) participates in.
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Who are the partners at MVI (MENA Venture Investments)?
The team at MVI (MENA Venture Investments) includes Lana Alamat (Legal Cousel), Arif Naqvi (Founder) and Fadi Ghandour (Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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