# Nama Ventures

> Nama Ventures is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Information Technology. See 53 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Total investments: 53
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 51%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/namaventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/namaventures
- Website: https://www.namaventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NamaVentures

Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$5.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$2.4M |
| Series A | $5.2M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 11 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 11% |
| B2B | 5 | 9% |
| Apps | 5 | 9% |
| Internet | 5 | 9% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 19 | 36% |
| Series A | 2 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Saudi Arabia | 10 | 19% |
| Egypt | 6 | 11% |
| United States | 5 | 9% |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 | 9% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 6% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mohammed Alzubi | Founder & Managing Partner | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohammed-alzubi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PIESHIP | Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing. | $2.1M | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Nodes | Nodes.inc is building the world’s first AI-native, full-stack hiring platform designed to automate and optimize the entire talent lifecycle — from candidate sourcing to predictive onboarding. Powered by multi-agent systems and self-learning AI, Nodes eliminates outdated ATS workflows, bloated HR stacks, and manual recruiting processes.Theplatform goes beyond incremental improvements: it creates rich persona-based candidate profiles, autonomously headhunts across the internet, engages with passive talent using hyper-personalized outreach, and continuously retrains itself based on hiring outcomes. With performance-based pricing and a modular architecture, Nodes enables enterprises to reduce hiring time from 120 days to under 14, slash early-stage attrition, and ensure every hire is a high-fit hire.Backed by top operators and used by Fortune 500 companies, Nodes.inc is redefining the infrastructure layer for the future of work. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 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 |  |
| Nowlun | Nowlun is an online freight forwarding platform allowing you to compare between different services and rates that match your needs.Nowlun gathers different prices and schedules from 30+ shipping lines in Egypt including spot prices.We are gathering all what you need from Sea Freight, haulage and customs clearance in one place and by easiest wayto take your decision. | $1.7M | Seed | Dec 01, 2024 |  |
| Agentnoon | We are Agentnoon. The only workforce planning tool that saves you an average of ~7.5% on your headcount budget. Every year. Create org plans, manage headcount, and forecast costs all in one easy-to-use SaaS tool. Signup takes 1-click; setup takes 15 minutes (not weeks). Upload your spreadsheet, and you’re all set! It’s that simple.Weintegrate with 100+ HRIS, Payroll, and ATS tools. This makes Agentnoon the single source of truth for all your people data. So you make fewer errors and better hiring decisions.We love our customers. And they love us (NPS 9.5). We resolve ~80% of support queries within a day. Onboarding takes <24 hours. No more 6 month-long implementation cycles. Plus, our world-class concierge support is here when you need us.Grow your business with confidence. Only with Agentnoon. |  | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| PIESHIP | Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 19, 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 |  |
| iStoria | iStoria, a specialized EdTech app that helps people improve their English language through reading interesting stories | $1.3M | Seed | Jan 28, 2024 |  |
| Cargoz | Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage. |  | Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| Messenger | Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 13, 2023 |  |

10 of 53 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SEEDRA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedra) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Vision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vision-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HALA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hala-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Jabbar Internet Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jabbar-internet-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Nama Ventures invest in?

Nama Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Information Technology and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 53 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 Nama Ventures's check size?

Nama Ventures typically joins rounds of $120k–$5.6M at Seed, $100k–$2.4M at Pre-Seed and $5.2M–$35M 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 Nama Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Nama Ventures?

Public channels for Nama 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 Nama Ventures?

The team at Nama Ventures includes Mohammed Alzubi (Founder & Managing Partner). 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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