Mina Samaan
General Partner @ MMC Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Mina Samaan is a Series A investor at MMC Ventures in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Mina joined the MMC Ventures investment team in 2017. He is responsible for sourcing new deals, deal execution and supporting MMC portfolio companies.Mina’s main areas of interest are in companies where embedded & edge software, robotics and autonomous systems are fundamental technology drivers. Prior to joining MMC, Mina worked at Lazard inLondon, advising companies on Equity Capital Markets and M&A transactions across a number of sectors including industrials and technology. He was previously an aerodynamics engineer for Williams Formula 1 team, working on race-car design & development as well as control software and testing.Mina graduated with a First Class Honours in MEng Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London. Outside of work, he is keen on basketball, boxing, motorsport and traveling the world.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Mina Samaan invests in
Stages Mina Samaan invests in
Countries Mina Samaan invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (26%)
- Information Technology 4 (21%)
- Machine Learning 2 (11%)
- B2B 1 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (37%)
- Series B 3 (16%)
- Seed 2 (11%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
- Series D 1 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 5 (26%)
- France 1 (5%)
- Norway 1 (5%)
- Estonia 1 (5%)
- Switzerland 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Slamcore
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SLAMcore’s mission is to make commercial-grade spatial intelligence accessible to allTheir team of world-leading spatial intelligence experts have developed advanced SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) software that allow robots and drones to truly understand the space around them.Spun out from Imperial College London, SLAMcore hascreated real-time, commercial grade, location, mapping and perception (SLAM) software for use in autonomous robots, drones and consumer products. The SLAMcore software enables fast prototyping and development of commercial products using visual SLAM software for autonomous location, mapping and perception. The software runs in real-time on standard compute/sensors and can be customised for commercial products using cost-effective custom compute/sensors. The team includes industry leading SLAM experts, roboticists, engineers and developers. Pushing the boundaries of what's possible today and how visual SLAM will look like tomorrow. Through partnership with OEMs, SLAMcore provides the core technology that allows robots to become a meaningful part of everyday life. | $14M / May 27, 2026 | |
Albatross AI
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Albatross is an AI firm that enables organizations to provide new, real-time user experiences using next-generation AI-powered customization. | $12.5M / Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | |
BlackWall
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BotGuard provides a service to protect your website against malicious bots, crawlers, scrapers, and hacker attacks. | $48.8M / Series B / Mar 13, 2025 | |
Synthesia
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Synthesia provides an AI video-generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. The service allows users to create, edit, and share videos quickly, making it suitable for various applications like training and marketing. Users can utilize fully cloneable AI videotemplates and create studio-quality videos directly in their browser. | $180M / Series D / Jan 15, 2025 | |
Omnea
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Omnea offers a procurement orchestration platform that streamlines source-to-pay workflows. It enables organizations to centralize supplier data, renewals, approvals, and purchase order automation, while embedding risk management and sourcing tools. Omnea provides modules for intelligent intake (request management), a supplier portal for duediligence, and no-code workflow building to define processes and approvals. Omnea’s reporting suite delivers visibility into spend, supplier performance, and compliance, and AI features assist with RFx generation, policy-aligned document parsing, and risk assessments. The platform integrates with finance and legal systems to reduce manual effort, maintain governance, and ensure consistent supplier evaluation. | $20M / Series A / Oct 14, 2024 | |
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Omnea
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Omnea offers a procurement orchestration platform that streamlines source-to-pay workflows. It enables organizations to centralize supplier data, renewals, approvals, and purchase order automation, while embedding risk management and sourcing tools. Omnea provides modules for intelligent intake (request management), a supplier portal for duediligence, and no-code workflow building to define processes and approvals. Omnea’s reporting suite delivers visibility into spend, supplier performance, and compliance, and AI features assist with RFx generation, policy-aligned document parsing, and risk assessments. The platform integrates with finance and legal systems to reduce manual effort, maintain governance, and ensure consistent supplier evaluation. | $20M / Series A / Oct 14, 2024 | |
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BlackWall
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BotGuard provides a service to protect your website against malicious bots, crawlers, scrapers, and hacker attacks. | $13.1M / Series A / Mar 13, 2024 | |
Eatron Technologies
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Eatron Technologies is a rapidly growing technology start-up head-quartered in Warwick (UK) with a strong R&D centre in Istanbul (Turkey). Eatron develops and offers licenses for its unique software components to OEMs and Tier-1s worldwide who need production-ready automotive-grade software solutions in their journey to electrification andautonomy for any kind of vehicle. Founded by automotive industry veterans in 2018, the company has received over €2M of seed funding to date from ACT Venture Partners and Hirschvogel Ventures. Eatron currently has customer engagements in 3 continents. The company offers a unique platform to OEMs and Tier-1s who can license software components they need from Eatron for their autonomy and e-mobility applications. Unlike many other offerings, Eatron’s software components are designed from the ground-up in strict conformance to automotive software standards, which make them suitable for serial production programs. Eatron’s offerings include full-stack battery management software (BMSTAR®) featuring AI powered functions and diagnostics to support faster and dependable transition to e-mobility. It also provides a reference hardware specification which can be manufactured by its partners. In a related vertical, Eatron offers an L2+ ADAS software platform (L2STAR®), which includes AI powered features like automated lane-change and valet parking. The company believes L2+ ADAS will be the main growth driver in consumer cars for the foreseeable future (as opposed to full autonomy which is still years from mass adoption). | Series A / Jan 17, 2024 | |
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Synthesia
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Synthesia provides an AI video-generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. The service allows users to create, edit, and share videos quickly, making it suitable for various applications like training and marketing. Users can utilize fully cloneable AI videotemplates and create studio-quality videos directly in their browser. | $90M / Series C / Jun 13, 2023 | |
api.video
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api.video is an API-first platform which enables developers to build, scale and operate on-demand and live video streaming in their own apps and platforms in minutes, with just a few lines of code. The service handles the end-to-end workflow, from video ingestion to worldwide video delivery. | $12M / Series A / Dec 13, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About MMC Ventures
MMC Ventures is an investment firm that invests in technology companies at Seed and Series A. MMC commits to a deep understanding of each company’s underlying technology and business model to help make better decisions and be more effective partners.Transformative technology companies MMC has backed to date include Gousto, Interactive Investor,Copper, Signal AI, Synthesia, Peak and more.
MMC Ventures Contacts
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Mina Samaan
General Partner
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Oliver Richards
Partner
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Simon Menashy
Partner
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Alan Morgan
Chairman, Co-Founder
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Ameerul Miah
Partner and COO
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FAQ
What does Mina Samaan invest in?
Mina Samaan invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Mina Samaan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mina Samaan closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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