Samih Toukan
Chairman and CEO @ Jabbar Internet Group
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Samih Toukan is a seed investor at Jabbar Internet Group in Dubai focused on FinTech and Financial Services. In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Samih Toukan invests in
Stages Samih Toukan invests in
Countries Samih Toukan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$6M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$7.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (20%)
- Financial Services 3 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (15%)
- Apps 2 (10%)
- Mobile 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (55%)
- Series A 3 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series J 1 (5%)
Country
- United Arab Emirates 5 (25%)
- United States 4 (20%)
- Jordan 2 (10%)
- India 1 (5%)
- Germany 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions. | Seed / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers. | $6M / Seed / Aug 14, 2024 | ||
| Jiye Technologies is a B2B Agri marketplace that connects farmers to retail markets. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 21, 2021 | ||
| Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits. | $1.9M / Seed / Oct 21, 2021 | ||
| Lean Technologies is a FinTech startup that develops a platform to provide access to consumer financial data. The company's API suite, designed to abstract developers from the fragmentation of the financial infrastructure, enables businesses to seamlessly access their customers' financial data and initiate instant bank transfers. Thecompany aims to enhance the accessibility, transparency, and utility of financial data and payments for consumers and businesses, promoting a more inclusive and interconnected financial landscape. | $3.5M / Seed / Jul 08, 2020 | ||
| VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh. | $7.1M / Series A / Apr 19, 2020 | ||
| Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India. | $11.4M / Series J / Jul 03, 2019 | ||
| Blueground is a global proptech company that is reinventing the way people live with its curated network of thousands of quality, turnkey homes in sought-after neighborhoods around the globe, accessible for stays of a month or longer. Blueground’s tech-enabled platform provides a fully digitized experience with around-the-clock support and accessto daily necessities from apartment cleanings, grocery delivery, wellness offerings, and more, providing a seamless experience from end to end. Blueground is headquartered in New York City, with a portfolio of thousands of apartments in 15 cities worldwide including in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Denver, Seattle, Austin, Dubai, Istanbul, Paris, London, Vienna and Athens, with plans to expand to 50+ cities by 2025. Find us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter or at www.theblueground.com. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 05, 2019 | ||
| 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 | ||
| eZhire is a Dubai-based mobility and technology company founded in 2016 that offers a fully digital, app-based car rental service across the UAE. It enables users to rent vehicles on-demand—ranging from economy cars to luxury vehicles—with options for daily, weekly, monthly, or subscription-based rentals. Unlike traditional rental companies, eZhireeliminates common friction points such as security deposits, physical paperwork, and branch visits. Customers can browse, book, and manage rentals entirely through the app, with cars delivered directly to their location 24/7. | Seed / Jan 23, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Jabbar Internet Group
The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)
Jabbar Internet Group Contacts
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Hussam Khoury
Co-Founder & President
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Samih Toukan
Chairman and CEO
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Louay Aldoory
Partner
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FAQ
What does Samih Toukan invest in?
Samih Toukan invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Arab Emirates. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Samih Toukan's check size?
Samih Toukan typically joins rounds of $500k–$6M at Seed and $1.5M–$7.1M 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 Samih Toukan participates in.
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When did Samih Toukan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Samih Toukan closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 20 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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