# Outliers Venture Capital

> Outliers Venture Capital is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Software. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outliersvc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/outliersvc
- Website: https://outliers.vc/

Outliers Venture Capital is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on E-Commerce and Software. Outliers is an operator-led investment firm backing outliers early and with quiet conviction. Rooted in MENA, we invest where the next chapters of industry are being written. We partner with founders who see what others overlook, embrace bold challenges, and shape early insight into enduring, category-defining companies.Simply put, we back thosewho build different.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $918k–$11M |
| Series A | $1M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 16% |
| Software | 4 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |
| Internet | 3 | 8% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 35% |
| Series A | 8 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 14% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Saudi Arabia | 7 | 19% |
| Egypt | 6 | 16% |
| United States | 4 | 11% |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 8% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mohammed Almeshekah | Founder & Managing Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohammed-almeshekah |
| Sarah AlSaleh | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-alsaleh |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stream | Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable. | $5.2M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Global Settlement Network | Global Settlement is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services. | $11M | Pre-Seed | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Grove | Grove is a Riyadh-based company building technology for freshness in the fresh-produce sector. Grove connects farms, markets, and households through an integrated, demand-driven operating system that coordinates planning, quality, logistics, and service as one loop. Demand signals from multiple channels are unified to guide upstream decisions andensure every grade of produce has an optimal path to market. Quality is treated as a managed process across the chain—not a final inspection—so produce reaches consumers ripe, flavorful, and reliable. | $5.1M | Seed | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Strataphy | Strataphy offers geothermal cooling via a service model for buildings, industry, data centers, and aquaculture. | $6M | Seed | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| Kingpin | Kingpin is the AI revenue engine built to modernize how brands, distributors, and retailers transact and scale. It replaces fragmented B2B Retail systems with one intelligent infrastructure that helps Sales Leaders Find, Reach, and Convert their B2B buyers globally. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Stream | Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable. | $4M | Seed | Nov 02, 2025 |  |
| Vault Wealth | Vault Wealth is a digital private wealth management platform, designed for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) and affluent clients. | $5.1M | Seed | May 25, 2025 |  |
| Nawy | Nawy is Africa’s largest proptech company, transforming real estate across the MENA region with cutting-edge technology. With AI-powered search, expert in-house brokerage, and innovative financing solutions, Nawy simplifies property transactions for consumers, brokers, and developers alike. Its growing portfolio includes Nawy Shares, Nawy Now, NawyPartners, and Nawy Unlocked where it enhances accessibility, transparency, and efficiency. Nawy’s vision is to play an integral role in every real estate transaction, driving innovation and shaping the future of the industry.. | $52M | Series A | May 12, 2025 |  |
| Amwal Tech | Amwal Tech is authentication, identity orchestration, and frictionless payment solutions | $4M | Seed | Jan 13, 2025 |  |
| Penny Software | Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system | $6.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shorooq Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shorooq-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [STV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stv-2) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Nuwa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuwa-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Raed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raed-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Class 5 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/class-5-global) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Outliers Venture Capital invest in?

Outliers Venture Capital invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 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 Outliers Venture Capital's check size?

Outliers Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$6M at Seed, $918k–$11M at Pre-Seed and $1M–$33M 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 Outliers Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Outliers Venture Capital?

Public channels for Outliers Venture Capital 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 Outliers Venture Capital?

The team at Outliers Venture Capital includes Mohammed Almeshekah (Founder & Managing Partner) and Sarah AlSaleh (General 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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