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Top 50 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Middle East (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Middle East Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.5M–$60M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
2B Angels
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$11M
PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology $600k–$59M
Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software $800k–$30M
MSA Novo
VC Fund
2 Egypt, India, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.5M–$32M
Rovio Entertainment Corporation
VC Fund
2 Turkey Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown Computer, Publishing, Mobile Apps
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
North Base Media
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Advertising, News $75k–$23M
Rutledge Vine Capital
VC Fund
2 Israel Seed, Series A Video, Events, Software $150k–$1M
Acasia Group
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Financial Services, Mobile $50k–$2.6M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $60k–$27M
Laconia Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Advertising, Software, SaaS $425k–$9.5M
PLUS Ventures
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Video, Mobile $720k–$15M
Oqal
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Sales $1.1M–$15M
BRaVe Media Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel Video, Apps, Internet $1.1M–$4M
On Grid Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Retail, Software, Mobile $750k–$14M
Family & Friends
VC Fund
1 United States, Senegal, France Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software $20k–$3M
El Sewedy Capital Holding
VC Fund
1 Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Higher Education, Autonomous Vehicles $3M–$11M
Accel
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.6M–$75M
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, E-Commerce, FinTech $170k–$3M
Techra Investments
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Mobile, Content $650k–$1.1M
Founder Collective
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.1M–$20M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.3M
Trendlines Group
VC Fund
1 Israel, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device $650k–$15M
Pitango VC
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Health Care, Information Technology $4M–$100M
Saudi Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$68M
Oryzn Capital
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$50M
New York Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $325k–$12M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$30M
Faith Capital
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $100k–$50M
TPY Capital
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics $3.5M–$64M
PipelBiz.com
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Equity Crowdfunding, Seed Software, Health Care, Medical $150k–$2.8M
Cedar Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series B, Series C, Series A Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile $3M–$27M
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $17k–$4.6M
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Software, Video Games $50k–$2M
Saga Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $3.5M–$46M
Cyhawk Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series C Publishing, Credit, Mobile $1.5M–$1.8M
Saned Partners
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals $550k–$20M
Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $155k–$15M
Primera Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed Internet, SaaS, Software $1.5M–$26M
L Catterton
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, China Private Equity, Series B E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage $18M–$785M
Ludus
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Gaming, Mobile, Software $405k–$4.2M
Ibtikar Fund
VC Fund
1 Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $60k–$2M
OurCrowd
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, New Zealand Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $593k–$65M
Lupus Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed Books, Children, Publishing
Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF)
VC Fund
1 Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Gift, Health Care $150k–$2.4M
Media Development Investment Fund
VC Fund
1 Indonesia, Egypt, India Seed, Venture - Series Unknown News, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment $75k–$1.5M
Whitestone Investment Fund
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States Seed Retail Technology, SaaS, Video $750k–$2M
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $14M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
  • Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
  • IRP Systems — IRP Systems delivers high performance electric vehicle systems, EVVER e-powertrains and TrueDRIVE control software for fast integration.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Conversational Al, for Everyone. Real phone calls. Real-time automation. Built for real operations.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Anecdote
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2B Angels
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Cheshin Venture Capital - Beyond funding, we provide: mentorship, strategy consulting, connections, and Joyon your way to becoming a truly exceptional company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$3M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Valerann — Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through enhanced use of data - to save lives, reduce congestion, decrease emissions and to support Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). We transform the overwhelming, disparate data created by road infrastructure, ITS assets and drivers into meaningful, easily understood insights -unlocked by our Intelligent Traffic Management solutions.
  • Arya — Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship.
  • Coralogix — Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform that enables businesses to monitor and manage data in real time, providing instant insights without the need for indexing. The platform supports Log Analytics, application performance monitoring (APM), security information and event management (SIEM), real user monitoring (RUM), and infrastructuremonitoring, offering complete visibility into AI performance, security, and governance in a single solution. Coralogix offers a simple pricing model based on data volume, along with world-class support that ensures rapid response times and swift resolutions.
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $4M–$20M; Series B $11M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Tastewise — Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage
  • Zero Networks — Zero Networks delivers automated microsegmentation, securing assets on-prem, in the cloud, and OT/IoT. Deploy in 30 days with set-and-forget simplicity.
  • ORION Security — ORION detects and prevents data loss across SaaS, email, cloud, AI tools, and endpoints using intelligent, context-aware, proprietary AI agents.
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$12M; Series B $6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Aidoc — Aidoc is an Israel-based startup providing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists. Their products help detect and pinpoint critical anomalies for radiologists through deep learning and AI algorithms that analyze medical images and patient data. Aidoc eases up the work list and frees up time and attention to what matters. The startupdeidentifies these and sends them onto Aidoc’s cloud, where algorithms identify and highlight abnormalities before returning the images to radiology workstations for reidentification.Aidoc's s solutions aid radiologists in reducing turnaround time and increasing quality and efficiency by flagging acute anomalies in real-time. It also offers tests for intracranial hemorrhages and spinal fractures, plus several chest exams for pulmonary embolisms, pneumothorax, rib fractures, and lung nodules.Aidoc was founded by Guy Reiner, Elad Walach, and Michael Braginsky in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • PayKey — The PayKey social banking and mobile P2P payment solution: A patent-pending mobile payment keyboard that seamlessly integrates with your banking application and lets users complete a transaction without leaving their social application.
  • Magisto — Magisto online video editor is a fast & powerful video maker. Turn your photos and video clips into video stories with Magisto movie editor. Start free!
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MSA Novo
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
  • Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
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Rovio Entertainment Corporation
VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Welcome to Rovio. We put joy first with our player-focused mobile games. Angry Birds, Small Town Murders and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Publishing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ruby Games — Let's play together!
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
  • THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
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North Base Media
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Advertising, News
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaiko — Zaiko is the market leader in providing ticketing technology for live events and streaming shows. Monetize your show, engage fans, user analytic data, memberships, and more.
  • Rappler — Rappler is the Philippines' leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action.
  • Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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Rutledge Vine Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Rutledge Vine Capital is a venture capital firm focused on startup and seed technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Events, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evolero — Is your live event canceled? It's time to move to virtual events. Create an unforgettable virtual event experience for your attendees with great branding.
  • Carambola — At Carambola we deliver the most relevant and engaging social content to users while seamlessly integrating ads. Our cutting-edge solutions for site monetization generate increased ad revenue for publishers, while extending users sessions and improving overall site performance.
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Acasia Group
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.6M; Angel $200k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosta — Bosta provides an on-demand courier app with a B2C focus, allowing users to send parcels to their customers. The platform connects its users to couriers and allows them to monitor the status of the delivery of the package. Bosta was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
  • EFG EV Fintech — EFG EV Fintech is investing in startups and bolstering the Fintech ecosystem in the process. EFG EV Fintech combines the financial know-how of EFG Hermes and entrepreneurial expertise of Egypt Ventures to launch the a Fintech-focused startup accelerator.They invest in rising Fintech startups with the potential to grow domestically and expandbeyond the Egyptian market. EFG EV Fintech also provides innovators with the fully integrated services they need to thrive – from funding to mentorship, to training, and office space.
  • Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $190k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
  • DEEP.SA — DEEP.SA develops artificial intelligence engines and intelligent agents that support both consumer-facing and government-focused applications. It offers secure platforms for controlled access to AI models, incorporating knowledge graph-driven tools such as GraphI to convert complex data relationships into actionable insights for decision-making.The company deploys virtual assistants (for instance, KADI) and AI-powered search capabilities tailored to structured and unstructured data environments. Its offerings emphasize compliance with privacy and regulatory standards while enabling technology-driven transformation across different client domains.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
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Laconia Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Laconia Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm that provides early-stage funding and strategic resources for inspired entrepreneurs in the information technology sector.Our goal is to work closely with entrepreneurs and their lead investors to build sustained, scalable, competitive advantage by applying our capital, experience,and professional network to their unique ideas and emerging businesses. We invest in companies that leverage technology and crowd-sourced community to disrupt the traditional structure of industries for increased consumer value and market reinvention. We have specific expertise and interest in the Digital Media, Data Analytics, Mobile, Social, and Ad Technology sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$6.5M; Series A $1.4M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Trestle — Trestle helps construction organizations streamline the vendor contracting and procurement process with integration, smart tools, and use data that's currently going uncollected to reduce risks in future contracts.
  • Brooklyn Health — Brooklyn Health is a company of clinicians, scientists, and engineers dedicated to enhancing digital health measurement.
  • Auxa Health — Best-in-class social care coordination platform for Medicare Advantage plans to improve utilization, delivery, and management of their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) services. We offer a payer-first solution including data analytics, care coordination, and an engagement infrastructure that i
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PLUS Ventures
VC Fund · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

PLUS Ventures, part of the Moldawsky Group, is the first multi-vehicle early-stage investment firm - a structure which enables the company to tailor the right investment suited for each venture's specific needs.PLUS's investment specialization is in Israeli early stage, fast growth technology and media ventures. Its mission is to takea hands-on approach and help great entrepreneurs create great companies.In addition to, and as important as, straight-up cash, PLUS puts its long-term expertise, skills, and ecosystem to work with, and for, its portfolio companies.PLUS Ventures is one of the most active early-stage investors in Israel, and plans to continue to be a dominant player in this field for years to come.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Video, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $720k–$1.7M; Series A $1M–$11M; Series B $4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Evrideo — Evrideo provied end-to-end cloud broadcasting platform, enabling to easily create and manage channels, using broadcast SaaS technology solution
  • DocAuthority — Dapurtoto mempersembahkan promosi spektakuler untuk para penggemar togel online! Dengan hadiah besar yang ditawarkan situs bandar togel online ini menjanjikan bayaran penuh dan pengalaman bermain yang luar biasa.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — Nqoodlet is a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Sales
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coraly — Coraly helps real estate teams create listing-ready content, qualify leads, manage transactions, and share client-ready Packs from one AI-powered platform.
  • Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
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BRaVe Media Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

BRAVE Ventures is a strategic advisory and investment firm that specializes in the converging technology, media, and direct to consumer revolution. For the multi-billion dollar brands we work with, we help our clients prepare for and navigate disruptive change and drive innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TV[R]EV — TVREV is an analyst group of advertising, media, marketing, streaming and technology experts covering changes in TV and streaming media with exclusive reports, analysis and insights about the industry and its future.
  • Encantos — With Encantos, kids get lost in storyworlds. There, they meet characters like them and characters unlike them, and pick up important skills and lessons along the way. Best of all, when learning is fun, kids love learning.
  • PositivEnergy — We are energy architects driven by a desire to make the benefits of clean energy easy, risk-free and available to all. Learn about energy storage systems, EV charging infrastructure and backup power / UPS.
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On Grid Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Investing in GeoDisruption

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$3.3M; Series A $3.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RubyWell — RubyWell is paving a path to financial stability for all family caregivers. Find out how you can save, find, and earn money on your caregiving journey.
  • CloudFrame — CloudFrame is a software product company bridging the mainframe innovation gap with a step-by-step, low-risk approach towards modernizing legacy mainframe technologies. CloudFrame’s innovative approach significantly reduces the business and regulatory risk associated with changing mission-critical mainframe applications. By converting legacyprograms to portable, Cloud-ready modern code, customers can reduce mainframe costs, integrate new technologies into their business applications, and migrate to Cloud.
  • With Clarity — With Clarity is the only online, direct to consumer home try-on engagement ting company that marries affordability with expertise and convenience with a personal touch.With their Free Home Preview, they can try replicas of engagement ring styles at home to make a confident decision. Then return to their site to fully customize the ring and makeit one of a kind. It has the lowest diamond prices guaranteed and a refreshing new way to shop for engagement rings. With Clarity was formerly known as Four Mine
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Family & Friends
VC Fund · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Early Stage Investors

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Senegal, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Angel $20k–$110k; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoon — Building better mobility solutions for Africa
  • NILE Creators — NILE Creators a revolutionary Project-Based Learning (PBL) kit designed to empower African students. By combining hands-on activities with digital tools, NILE Creators transforms traditional classrooms into dynamic learning environments. Our kits cover subjects like engineering, art, and coding, fostering critical thinking, creativity, andproblem-solving skills. With NILE Creators Kits, we aim to bridge the educational gap and prepare students for the future job market. Join us in revolutionizing education across Africa and creating a generation of innovative thinkers and leaders.
  • Tenet Insurance — Tenet leverages AI to scale distribution and back office workflows for insurance, providing fast and affordable service to businesses.
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El Sewedy Capital Holding
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

El Sewedy Capital Holding is the family office of Eng. Ahmed Elsewedy managing more than USD 500mn investments across several sectors including real estate and hospitality, education, financial services, and contracting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Higher Education, Autonomous Vehicles
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flend — Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses.
  • Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing R&D services to the region's scientific sectors.
  • Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2095
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$41M; Series B $9.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Vercel — The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
  • Nimble Storage — Nimble Storage solutions are built on the idea that enterprises should not have to compromise between performance, capacity, ease of management, and price. Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, designed from the ground up to effectively combine flash with high capacity drives, makes high performanceaffordable, simplifies and enhances disaster recovery and backup, and delivers stress-free operations.Nimble Storage is funded by
  • Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
  • AlgoDriven — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
  • Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
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Techra Investments
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Techra Investments is an investment fund specialized in consumer and technology industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curiyo — Curiyo automatically enhances the story behind publishers' content and keeps users entertained, informed and on the site.
  • Brewbike — Brewbike opens student-run coffee shops on college campuses to provide entrepreneurial experiences to the next generation of leaders. Brewbike enables motivated, engaged college students to manage real-world responsibilities and produce tangible results. Brewbike provides significant opportunities for students to develop hard skills that arerelevant to their resumes.
  • AMOpportunities — AMOpportunities connects medical trainees with accessible, inclusive, and quality U.S. clinical training experiences at partnered hospitals.
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Founder Collective
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 374
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • Ficus — Ficus helps life insurers modernize retained asset accounts with digital beneficiary accounts that improve account clarity, access to funds, and beneficiary experience.
  • Ranger — Stop worrying about testing; automate it with Ranger.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 307
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $32k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • lululittle — lululittle combines storytelling with cultural themes to create empowering personalized books where your children are the heroes. We use the power of personalized storytelling to create inspiring and engaging reading experiences, placing your kids at the center of these stories. Our stories are inspired by relevant cultural themes that aim toempower kids in their diverse cultural environments. Our first story is inspired by the Arab world's rich culture and is suited for kids age 0-10. lululittle's easy to use online platform lets you personalize, preview, and order their book in just a few minutes.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • Ouda W Dar — Ouda W Dar is an online platform that helps hosts and guests book unique short-term accommodations.
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Trendlines Group
VC Fund · Misgav, HaZafon, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Trendlines Group invents, discovers, invests in, and incubates innovation-based medical and agrifood technologies. Trendlines invests principally through medical and agrifood incubators in Israel and in Singapore, its in-house innovation center, Trendlines Labs, and its Funds - the Trendlines Agrifood Fund and the Bayer Trendlines Ag InnovationFund.The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Misgav, Israel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$4.1M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • IBI-Ag — We develop a wide array of selective bio-insecticides to help farmers grow more at lower cost with no harm to farm workers, consumers and the environment.
  • Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
  • Arcuro Medical — Arcuro develops a new repair system for meniscus tears of the knee. Arcuro’s proprietary SuperBall repair system consists of a knotless, all-suture anchor and innovative delivery system. The company was founded in 2013.
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Pitango VC
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Israel, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 301
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$50M; Series B $8.1M–$55M; Series C $8.2M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $175M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Convizit — Convizit's AI automatically captures user actions, adds properties, and delivers this behavioral data directly into your analytics and marketing platforms.
  • Connie Health — At Connie Health, our Medicare advisors help older Americans find the right Medicare plan - all at no cost to you.
  • QuantHealth — QuantHealth is an AI company that provides a platform to simulate clinical trials in order to accelerate and de-risk drug development.
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Saudi Venture Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

SVCIC is uniquely positioned to lead the development of the nascent venture capitalindustry in Saudi Arabia by providing unmatched levels of support for fundamentally strong small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) that lack the necessary resources for growth and expansion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$300k; Series A $4M–$6.6M; Series B $5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lean Technologies — Lean provides the Data and Payments tools to empower MENA's next generation of financial products | Trusted by Etisalat, Hubpay, Lulu Finance, Binance, Sarwa and more.
  • Pi Flow — Pi Flow operates as an accounting services provider. Pi Flow is a dedicated Virtual accounting team that offers bookkeeping services and strives to enhance the quality of our client's books.
  • Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.
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Oryzn Capital
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3.5M–$47M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
  • Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.
  • Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!
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New York Venture Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

New York Venture Partners is a seed stage venture capital firm dedicated to the entrepreneur. New York Venture Partners provide an ecosystem of financing, mentorship and strategic marketing consulting to the best entrepreneurs out there today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4M; Pre-Seed $750k–$2M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dstlry — DSTLRY is the next-generation comics publisher and it redefines creator-owned comic books for consumers everywhere.
  • nMachine — A Low-Code solution for creating extraordinary Day 2 Operations platforms - called nMachines - for your existing Kubernetes-based applications, that can be shared inside and outside your organization.
  • Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • obilet.com — Obilet.com, founded in 2012, is an end-to-end ticketing platform listing hundreds of bus operators, airlines and ferry companies as well as offerings from hotels and car rental companies. Obilet also provides bus operators with its best-in-class Inventory Management System (IMS) as a SaaS.Obilet is the indisputable market leader in Turkey both inB2B and B2C segments with 400+ bus carriers using its IMS software, 25 million visitors per month, and 15 million app downloads.Obilet is projected to sell more than 40 million tickets annually in 2024, making it one of the top-3 bus ticketing platforms in the world. Obilet also set its vision to be the one-stop-shop for whole needs of users regarding the tourism and travel products by expanding its category offerings with the addition of hotel booking and car rental services. Moreover, Obilet has launched its international expansion project in H2 2022, has one of the largest coverage of markets globally.
  • Meal Box — Meal Box is both on-demand and subscription based meal delivery player of Turkey; getting orders only by online channels (web, mobile, phone); serving healthy, delicious, everyday food in award-winning presentation with affordable prices in delivery service format.
  • StratiFi — An AI-powered client investment workflow software for wealth managers
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Faith Capital
VC Fund · Sharq Hawalli, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Faith Capital is a venture capital firm investing in talented MENA founders building long-term value by developing sound operations at home and abroad.A Kuwait based venture capital fund owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience and success in the GCC.The principal focus of Faith Capital is on e-commerce businesses,based in the region, which have high growth potential for the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VUZ — 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.
  • Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
  • Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.
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TPY Capital
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

TPY Capital is a Tel Aviv based early state VC, investing in some of Israel’s most talented entrepreneurs. They are active investors who typically lead rounds in the areas we invest in, which include data and analytics, digitization and human augmentation, fintech, and frontier tech such as quantum computing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$18M; Series A $5M–$26M; Series B $9M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Regatta — AI winners won't be decided by models; They'll be decided by data.
  • Q-Factor — Q-Factor is building the world's first million-qubit quantum computer using neutral atom technology. Racing to unlock the full potential of quantum computing.
  • Signals Analytics — Skai Ad Experiments
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PipelBiz.com
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

PipelBiz enables companies to raise capital from an unlimited number of investors without the need of a prospectus

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M; Equity Crowdfunding $152k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable
  • Pickspace — Run rent collection, accounting, leasing, maintenance and owner reporting on one AI-native platform. Book a demo today.
  • Nina Medical Ltd. — World's first truly non-invasive treatment for enlarged prostate (BPH). Safe, precise, and liberating care for millions of men. Treat early with dignity.
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Cedar Fund
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Cedar Fund is a Venture Capital firm investing in Israel and the USA. Cedar Fund invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$8M; Series B $5.5M–$19M; Series C $5.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wochit — Wochit empowers any organization to create compelling on-brand video content with revolutionary ease on a massive scale. Our innovative suite of video storytelling solutions is powerful enough for pros but easy for anyone to master—helping brands, nonprofits, and commercial organizations connect with their audience in new ways every day. Start withone of our standard deployments, or work with us to create a custom integration.Many of the world’s leading media brands have already transformed their video production with our intuitive, flexible solutions and expert support. With limitless access to the latest pre-licensed assets from Getty, AP, AFP, Reuters, Bloomberg, and more, our cloud-based editing tools make creating, versioning, automating, and publishing across platforms simpler than ever before.Proudly backed by Redpoint Ventures, Marker LLC, Greycroft Partners, and Cedar Fund, we’re based in New York, with offices in London and Tel Aviv, and serve globally. Find out more at wochit.com.
  • 365Scores — 365Scores is a cross-platform application that enables users to create their own personalized sports channel. Individuals can get live scores, news form media channels, video highlights, statistics, fixtures, standings, tweets, and more. Covering over 10 major sports, the platform is available in over 20 languages.
  • Pixie Technology — Pixie is creating the Internet of Your Everything™ by building the essential link between everyday things in the physical world and the digital one. It has developed a location-aware sensor network platform, accurate to inches, that enables a Do-it-Yourself IoT for consumer items, adding location awareness to things. That means that with Pixieyou’ll be able to track, locate, and navigate your way to anything you tag with a Pixie Point – making the location an exact science through its first-of-its-kind location technology for consumers. Pixie is an open ecosystem where innovative developers, manufacturers, and creative thinkers will build their own unique location-based apps.
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $17k–$645k; Pre-Seed $26k–$150k; Convertible Note $30k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
  • ConverJinn — AI-powered product categorization and conversion optimization for online stores. Boost conversions and make every product page count.
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Software, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k; Series A $228k–$431k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
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Saga Ventures
VC Fund · Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Saga VC is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$11M; Series A $15M–$30M; Series B $35M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Monaco — The future of sales. Backed by Benchmark, Founders Fund & Human Capital.
  • Profound — 1. https://t.co/uNIJRlRUFJ 2. https://t.co/tNizCMQYpy 3. https://t.co/ljElw4BSK7
  • TerraFirma — Building giant robots to build a brighter future. Apply here https://t.co/FPgVOPmiW0
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Cyhawk Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Cyhawk Ventures offers pre-seed- and seed-stage investment services to firms in the media and advertising industries. It was founded in 2001 by Kfir Moyal and Assaf Ben Ashar and is based in Tel Aviv.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Credit, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Appoxee — Mapp Cloud generates actionable insights for brands to better engage with their customers and deliver more effective cross-channel marketing campaigns.
  • BACKED — Based in Lincolnshire, U.S., Backed is an online lending platform that enables users to add a co-signer to their loan application in order to ensure a lower interest rate. Its platform appeals to all borrower demographics with reduced risk of default. The company offers 1-to-3-year personal loans for diverse purposes ranging from consolidate debtsand career investments to travel and wedding loans. They range from $3,000 to $25,000 at APRs starting at 2.9%. Founded in November 2014, backed operates as a B2C company.
  • BIScience — BIScience provides the deepest digital & behavioral data intelligence to market research companies, brands, publishers & investment firms
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Saned Partners
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$1.3M; Series A $800k–$11M; Series B $3.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Toters — Fast & easy delivery. GET THE APP
  • Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
  • Mumzworld — Shop at Mumzworld, the leading online store for newborn and child essentials across the Middle East and worldwide. Find motherhood must-haves and shop today!
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups, 14 in the past 12 months

A Diez Venture Capital Arm. Fueling Dubai's New Business Ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $155k–$15M; Series A $700k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • vfrog — The full physical AI loop. Any robot. Any model.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Primera Capital
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

We partner with entrepreneurs to build enduring technology companies that leverage our global network, hands-on operational experience, and visionary market insight.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $1.5M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GLIDER.ai — Glider AI Skills Validation & ID Verification Platform for Skills Assessments, Interviews, Learning, and ID Verification with Conversational AI.
  • Air Protein — Air Protein is a startup that aims to develop sustainable protein made from thin air. Using a proprietary probiotic process, Air Protein develops protein-enriched food made from CO2. This revolutionary new protein source can be used to make meat-free burgers, protein-enriched pasta, cereals, beverages, and more.Air Protein has been developed byKiverdi, a California-based biotechnology company.
  • Caramel — Caramel is the safe & easy way to complete any private used car sale. Compatible with any car for sale by owner, Caramel does the DMV work & more for free.
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L Catterton
VC Fund · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. They consider investments across many targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail and restaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Series B $18M–$115M; Private Equity $30M–$785M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $800M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Dishoom — Dishoom is a restaurant chain company.
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  • Farmley — Farmley is a direct-from-farm Indian brand delivering the freshest and cleanest dry fruits to the world. Our direct to consumer value chains allow us to deliver : -) High quality, adulteration free products to the end customer at competitive prices -) Drive maximum value to the farmer community by eliminating middlemen
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Ludus
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Ludus finds, invests in, and nurtures the best-in-class gaming startups. We aim to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding for entrepreneurs and start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $405k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tark Games — Funding and publishing deep, beautiful, and replayable indie games. Backing bold developers. Built for the long game.
  • Spektra Games — We create the most realistic simulation/racing games for mobile!
  • TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.
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Ibtikar Fund
VC Fund · Ramallah, West Bank, Palestinian Territory · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nabeeh — Nabeeh is an online platform that allows users to book housekeeping, cleaning services, maintenance, repairs, and renovation services.
  • gamiphy — GAMIPHY is a user engagement and retention platform that equips brands in different industries with tools proven to increase customer reach and loyalty such as branded mini games, playable Ads and digital loyalty programs. The tools and techniques offered by GAMIPHY can be either integrated into existing websites and apps, or can be used to createplatform-independent solutions. The available solutions are diverse, fully customizable, DIY, and are guaranteed to improve each customer journey, thus shorten the path to earn the loyalty sought after.
  • DataQueue — Discover essential strategies for AI readiness with DataQueue. Learn how to prepare your business, choose the right AI tools, and develop a strategic AI plan for future success
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OurCrowd
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 309
  • Round size: Seed $593k–$10M; Series A $5.3M–$34M; Series B $8M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Hemispheric — Hemispheric develops fundamental AI technologies aimed at deciphering brain activity for innovative applications.
  • MUV Interactive — MUV Interactive designs and develops innovative technology for active human sensing, providing a natural and fluent interactive experience with any type of digital application, from displayed content, and smart home appliances to IOT (Internet of Things) devices, drones and AR/VR applications. The company’s flagship product, Bird, is anintuitive device that is worn on the index finger, which transforms any space into a 3D Interactive Environment. Bird is the first device to integrate the entire spectrum of input and control methods – including touch, remote touch, gesture control and mouse functionality. This gives users the flexibility to interact with each type of digital content in the most intuitive way, whether up close or from a distance of up to 100 feet away.
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Lupus Ventures
VC Fund · Heerenveen, Friesland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Lupus Ventures is a Netherlands-based principal investment company specializes in biotechnology sector focused on oncology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Books, Children, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
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Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF)
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (“ISSF”) is a private sector managed fund making investments in innovative startups and early stage SMEs. The World Bank has invested USD 50 million in the Fund which was complimented by the Central Bank of Jordan with an additional USD 48 million bringing the total working capital of the ISSF to USD 98million.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Gift, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • gamiphy — GAMIPHY is a user engagement and retention platform that equips brands in different industries with tools proven to increase customer reach and loyalty such as branded mini games, playable Ads and digital loyalty programs. The tools and techniques offered by GAMIPHY can be either integrated into existing websites and apps, or can be used to createplatform-independent solutions. The available solutions are diverse, fully customizable, DIY, and are guaranteed to improve each customer journey, thus shorten the path to earn the loyalty sought after.
  • Kitchefy — The all-in-one restaurant management system & POS to streamline your operations, manage inventory, order online and boost sales.
  • Kader — Kader is an on-demand hiring platform for jobs in the hospitality, retail, and service sector.
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Media Development Investment Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Media Development Investment Fund: Human rights organization and non-profit investment fund for independent media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Indonesia, Egypt, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Egab — Egab enables journalists in the Global South to publish nuanced stories in international media outlets. Join 2,000+ journalists across the Global South publishing in international media.
  • Agora — Agora is the publisher of "Gazeta Wyborcza" - the largest Polish opinion-forming newspapers and several glossy magazines. Their products complement media websites.
  • Katadata — KATADATA is an online media company and research in economics and business. Established on April 1, 2012 in Jakarta, the company presents news, information, data, and research results in depth to the interests of business leaders and policy makers, but packaged in a straightforward and attractive way for easy public understanding. Therefore, newsand information not only presented in the form of text, but also in a visually compelling display.In other words, they are trying to simplify complicated matters, without losing their essence. "Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication," as Leonardo da Vinci put it, which we make the company's motto. The Katadata team consists of experienced journalists and researchers in the fields of energy, finance, macroeconomics, commerce and infrastructure.
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Whitestone Investment Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

We bridge the gap between construction operations and financial clarity. Delivering comprehensive risk management and consulting to protect your margins.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail Technology, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ourcart — We help CPG brands activate and gain insight into shopper behavior at retail. We leverage our patented technology to help companies directly or through partners and market research firms. Our unique capabilities and solutions enable brands to close the gap with consumers at retail for the mutual b
  • VNTANA — VNTANA's 3D Collaboration Platform automatically creates 3D web and AR experiences from your manufacturing design files proven to more than double online sales while reducing returns. Our smart algorithms get rid of the need for manual 3D artist work by automatically optimizing and converting 3D assets to ready to use files for Snap, Facebook,Instagra, Google, Shopify, SAP, Unity, and other 3D platforms for advertising and ecommerce.
  • Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
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