NTEC
VC Fund
Kuwait, Kuwait
NTEC is a leader in promoting sustainable transfer of technology to the region, through a corporate venture capital model. They invest in the following : * Biotechnology and Life Sciences * IT and Telecommunication * Energy and Alternate Energy * Water and Environment * Venture Capital Funds
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries NTEC invests in
MobileiOSAppsAudioSolar
Stages NTEC invests in
Series ASeries BSeries CSeedPre-Seed
Countries NTEC invests in
FranceGermanyUnited StatesUnited KingdomUnited Arab Emirates
Round sizes
Series A $3.2M–$43MSeries B $3.2M–$183MSeries C $22M–$275M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3.2M–$43M
- Series B
- $3.2M–$183M
- Series C
- $22M–$275M
Investment Focus
Stage
- Series A 3 (25%)
- Series B 3 (25%)
- Series C 2 (17%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
Country
- France 1 (8%)
- Germany 1 (8%)
- United States 1 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Aliah Al Tameemi
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors
|
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Anas Meerza
General Manager
|
General Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Farouk Bastaki
Chairman, Board of Directors
|
Chairman, Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Izzat Abou-Amarah
Vice President
|
Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Qais Marafie
Assistant Vice President
|
Assistant Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cadena is a global leader in the field of international business development, providing robust tools and services to streamline the process of overseas revenue growth. Its Discovery Portal houses an extensive database of over 2 million prospects, offering businesses a platform to expand their reach across borders. The company's proprietaryAI-driven prospecting tools, BuyBeacon™ and IntelliConnect™, leverage advanced algorithms and machine learning to identify and prioritize promising leads. These tools offer data-driven insights, helping businesses boost conversion rates and optimize sales strategies.With a strong local presence in key markets such as the GCC, North America, and APAC, Cadena boasts an accredited Enterprise Sales Team. These professionals bring their understanding of local business cultures, regulatory environments, and market trends to assist clients in navigating these regions.Cadena has also developed CadenaPay, an innovative tool that uses predictive analytics to assess the risk of delayed overseas B2B payments. For high-risk invoices, Cadena offers an invoice factoring service, providing immediate cash to businesses and enhancing their financial stability.By combining advanced technology and local expertise, Cadena empowers businesses to navigate the complexities of international commerce, delivering concrete solutions for global business growth. | $275M / Series C / Jun 08, 2026 | ||
| Cadena is a global leader in the field of international business development, providing robust tools and services to streamline the process of overseas revenue growth. Its Discovery Portal houses an extensive database of over 2 million prospects, offering businesses a platform to expand their reach across borders. The company's proprietaryAI-driven prospecting tools, BuyBeacon™ and IntelliConnect™, leverage advanced algorithms and machine learning to identify and prioritize promising leads. These tools offer data-driven insights, helping businesses boost conversion rates and optimize sales strategies.With a strong local presence in key markets such as the GCC, North America, and APAC, Cadena boasts an accredited Enterprise Sales Team. These professionals bring their understanding of local business cultures, regulatory environments, and market trends to assist clients in navigating these regions.Cadena has also developed CadenaPay, an innovative tool that uses predictive analytics to assess the risk of delayed overseas B2B payments. For high-risk invoices, Cadena offers an invoice factoring service, providing immediate cash to businesses and enhancing their financial stability.By combining advanced technology and local expertise, Cadena empowers businesses to navigate the complexities of international commerce, delivering concrete solutions for global business growth. | $183M / Series B / Dec 23, 2024 | ||
| Cadena is a global leader in the field of international business development, providing robust tools and services to streamline the process of overseas revenue growth. Its Discovery Portal houses an extensive database of over 2 million prospects, offering businesses a platform to expand their reach across borders. The company's proprietaryAI-driven prospecting tools, BuyBeacon™ and IntelliConnect™, leverage advanced algorithms and machine learning to identify and prioritize promising leads. These tools offer data-driven insights, helping businesses boost conversion rates and optimize sales strategies.With a strong local presence in key markets such as the GCC, North America, and APAC, Cadena boasts an accredited Enterprise Sales Team. These professionals bring their understanding of local business cultures, regulatory environments, and market trends to assist clients in navigating these regions.Cadena has also developed CadenaPay, an innovative tool that uses predictive analytics to assess the risk of delayed overseas B2B payments. For high-risk invoices, Cadena offers an invoice factoring service, providing immediate cash to businesses and enhancing their financial stability.By combining advanced technology and local expertise, Cadena empowers businesses to navigate the complexities of international commerce, delivering concrete solutions for global business growth. | $43M / Series A / Nov 14, 2023 | ||
| Cadena is a global leader in the field of international business development, providing robust tools and services to streamline the process of overseas revenue growth. Its Discovery Portal houses an extensive database of over 2 million prospects, offering businesses a platform to expand their reach across borders. The company's proprietaryAI-driven prospecting tools, BuyBeacon™ and IntelliConnect™, leverage advanced algorithms and machine learning to identify and prioritize promising leads. These tools offer data-driven insights, helping businesses boost conversion rates and optimize sales strategies.With a strong local presence in key markets such as the GCC, North America, and APAC, Cadena boasts an accredited Enterprise Sales Team. These professionals bring their understanding of local business cultures, regulatory environments, and market trends to assist clients in navigating these regions.Cadena has also developed CadenaPay, an innovative tool that uses predictive analytics to assess the risk of delayed overseas B2B payments. For high-risk invoices, Cadena offers an invoice factoring service, providing immediate cash to businesses and enhancing their financial stability.By combining advanced technology and local expertise, Cadena empowers businesses to navigate the complexities of international commerce, delivering concrete solutions for global business growth. | $32M / Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Cadena is a global leader in the field of international business development, providing robust tools and services to streamline the process of overseas revenue growth. Its Discovery Portal houses an extensive database of over 2 million prospects, offering businesses a platform to expand their reach across borders. The company's proprietaryAI-driven prospecting tools, BuyBeacon™ and IntelliConnect™, leverage advanced algorithms and machine learning to identify and prioritize promising leads. These tools offer data-driven insights, helping businesses boost conversion rates and optimize sales strategies.With a strong local presence in key markets such as the GCC, North America, and APAC, Cadena boasts an accredited Enterprise Sales Team. These professionals bring their understanding of local business cultures, regulatory environments, and market trends to assist clients in navigating these regions.Cadena has also developed CadenaPay, an innovative tool that uses predictive analytics to assess the risk of delayed overseas B2B payments. For high-risk invoices, Cadena offers an invoice factoring service, providing immediate cash to businesses and enhancing their financial stability.By combining advanced technology and local expertise, Cadena empowers businesses to navigate the complexities of international commerce, delivering concrete solutions for global business growth. | $250K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | ||
| Palringo is a community messaging and gaming app for iOS and Android. The platform allows users to send instant messages, play games and to form large groups based on common interests. Launched in 2006, Palringo has more than 40 million installed users worldwide and offers a range of games along with more than 350,000 user created groups, some ofwhich have up to 2,000 members. Headquartered in London, Palringo also has offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg and Helsinki.Users can create and build community groups dedicated to the things they are passionate about, from gaming and entertainment to sports, travel and technology. They can further enhance their experience by using Palringo Credits to purchase virtual products such as rich media sticker packs, Bots and premium groups and accounts. Following the acquisition of Swedish game studio, Free Lunch Design, in 2014 and Tribe Studios in 2015, Palringo champions 'Community Gaming' - the integration of gaming capabilities with its instant messaging platform to create community orientated games. Palringo develops both in-app and external games. | $3.2M / Series B / Aug 01, 2010 | ||
| Palringo is a community messaging and gaming app for iOS and Android. The platform allows users to send instant messages, play games and to form large groups based on common interests. Launched in 2006, Palringo has more than 40 million installed users worldwide and offers a range of games along with more than 350,000 user created groups, some ofwhich have up to 2,000 members. Headquartered in London, Palringo also has offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg and Helsinki.Users can create and build community groups dedicated to the things they are passionate about, from gaming and entertainment to sports, travel and technology. They can further enhance their experience by using Palringo Credits to purchase virtual products such as rich media sticker packs, Bots and premium groups and accounts. Following the acquisition of Swedish game studio, Free Lunch Design, in 2014 and Tribe Studios in 2015, Palringo champions 'Community Gaming' - the integration of gaming capabilities with its instant messaging platform to create community orientated games. Palringo develops both in-app and external games. | $3.1M / Aug 23, 2009 | ||
| Streamezzo S.A. develops media mobile products and solutions. Its solutions enable telecom operators, broadcasters, media companies, content providers, and service providers to design, develop, debug, and deploy services on cellular networks. The company’s products include Rich Media Software Suite, which comprise Rich Media Client that enablesmobile users to access media services, such as interactive Mobile TV, widgets, portals, and multimedia services; Rich Media Server, an application server that enables to deploy media services; Workbench, an integrated multimedia authoring suite; Service Manager, a back-end solution that enables mobile administrators and marketers to manage and customize media mobile service; and Broadcast, which enables users to deliver mobile TV over broadcast networks. Its solutions comprise Interactive Mobile TV for interactive services; Music Jukebox for over-the-air music downloading; on-device portal for text, image, audio, and video combined information on a mobile portal; Event Microsite for mobile marketing; Dynamic User Interface, which enables to give customers direct access to specific services and applications; and online interactive communication solutions. The company also offers professional services. Streamezzo was founded in 2004 and is based in Paris, France. | $5.5M / Series D / May 13, 2009 | ||
| Streamezzo S.A. develops media mobile products and solutions. Its solutions enable telecom operators, broadcasters, media companies, content providers, and service providers to design, develop, debug, and deploy services on cellular networks. The company’s products include Rich Media Software Suite, which comprise Rich Media Client that enablesmobile users to access media services, such as interactive Mobile TV, widgets, portals, and multimedia services; Rich Media Server, an application server that enables to deploy media services; Workbench, an integrated multimedia authoring suite; Service Manager, a back-end solution that enables mobile administrators and marketers to manage and customize media mobile service; and Broadcast, which enables users to deliver mobile TV over broadcast networks. Its solutions comprise Interactive Mobile TV for interactive services; Music Jukebox for over-the-air music downloading; on-device portal for text, image, audio, and video combined information on a mobile portal; Event Microsite for mobile marketing; Dynamic User Interface, which enables to give customers direct access to specific services and applications; and online interactive communication solutions. The company also offers professional services. Streamezzo was founded in 2004 and is based in Paris, France. | $22M / Series C / Dec 17, 2007 | ||
| Palringo is a community messaging and gaming app for iOS and Android. The platform allows users to send instant messages, play games and to form large groups based on common interests. Launched in 2006, Palringo has more than 40 million installed users worldwide and offers a range of games along with more than 350,000 user created groups, some ofwhich have up to 2,000 members. Headquartered in London, Palringo also has offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg and Helsinki.Users can create and build community groups dedicated to the things they are passionate about, from gaming and entertainment to sports, travel and technology. They can further enhance their experience by using Palringo Credits to purchase virtual products such as rich media sticker packs, Bots and premium groups and accounts. Following the acquisition of Swedish game studio, Free Lunch Design, in 2014 and Tribe Studios in 2015, Palringo champions 'Community Gaming' - the integration of gaming capabilities with its instant messaging platform to create community orientated games. Palringo develops both in-app and external games. | $3.2M / Series A / Dec 01, 2007 | ||
| See all 12 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Similar industry
Similar stage
Similar country
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
SaaS Investors
118,083 investors
Climate Investors
45,430 investors
Media (entertainment) Investors
35,108 investors
Energy Investors
27,815 investors
Impact Investors
22,415 investors
Sustainability Investors
22,415 investors
Mobile Investors
15,134 investors
SaaS VC Funds
72,248 investors
Climate VC Funds
37,240 investors
FAQ
What does NTEC invest in?
NTEC invests primarily in Mobile, iOS and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does NTEC invest in?
NTEC typically joins rounds of $3.2M–$43M at Series A, $3.2M–$183M at Series B and $22M–$275M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not NTEC's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds NTEC took part in.
How do I contact NTEC?
Public channels for NTEC 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 NTEC?
The team at NTEC includes Aliah Al Tameemi (Vice Chairman, Board of Directors), Anas Meerza (General Manager) and Farouk Bastaki (Chairman, Board of Directors), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
