Top 5 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Arab Emirates in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 5 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in United arab emirates. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from United arab emirates. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Arab Emirates in January 2026

Investor	Publishing United Arab Emirates investments
Oraseya Capital	1
Wamda Capital	1
North Base Media	1
EQ2 Ventures	1
Dtec Ventures	1

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Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
Kanjo — Kanjo is a software company offering pre-diagnosis, remote monitoring, and personalized care-matching solutions for mental health wellness.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
BloomPath — Bloompath gives engineering team leads clear visibility into project progress, team contributions, and what's gaining traction, without digging through tools. Stay aligned, spot blockers early, and keep your team moving forward.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system

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.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

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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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.