Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Middle East in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Middle East in February 2025
Investor | Restaurants Middle East investments |
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BECO Capital | 5 |
4DX Ventures | 3 |
Raed Ventures | 3 |
Nuwa Capital | 3 |
Shorooq Partners | 3 |
COTU Ventures | 2 |
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) | 2 |
Iraq Tech Ventures | 2 |
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) | 2 |
Valia Ventures | 2 |
Rawaz Rauf | 2 |
David Buttress | 2 |
PeakBridge | 2 |
PICO Venture Partners | 2 |
MSA Novo | 2 |
Bassam Falah | 2 |
Tenmou | 2 |
Hope Ventures | 2 |
MSA Capital | 2 |
Crescent Enterprises | 2 |
Shwan Ibrahim Taha | 2 |
Subhi Khudairi | 2 |
Pioneer Fund | 1 |
Al Faisaliah Group | 1 |
6G Capital | 1 |
Ozkan Hacıoğlu | 1 |
Kybele Investment | 1 |
iMENA Group | 1 |
Al majdiah investment | 1 |
Zohar Zisapel | 1 |
Oqal | 1 |
Youcef Oudjidane | 1 |
Saudi Venture Capital Company | 1 |
Global Founders Capital | 1 |
Global Ventures | 1 |
SEEDRA Ventures | 1 |
Abdul Majeed Al Hokair | 1 |
Algebra Ventures | 1 |
Cyrus Angel Fund | 1 |
Vision Ventures | 1 |
Saudi Venture Capital | 1 |
Wamda Capital | 1 |
SnackFutures | 1 |
Strauss Group | 1 |
Heaventures | 1 |
Sukna Ventures | 1 |
Antler | 1 |
BY VP | 1 |
Tech Invest Com | 1 |
Abdulelah Algosaibi | 1 |
Founded in 2012, BECO Capital pioneers early-stage venture capital firms, focusing on MENA and beyond. It proudly partners with regional success stories like Careem, Kitopi, SWVL, PropertyFinder, MaxAB, Tribal, and others, shaping the tech landscape
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
- Mala Inc. — This is meta description
- BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
- Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
- Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- Mala Inc. — This is meta description
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
- Amwal Tech — The fastest and most secure way to accept payments online
- Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
COTU stands for Champions Of The Underdog. We are on a mission to reinvent how seed investing is done in the Middle East by backing extraordinary founders and showing them how to believe in themselves when they are at the loneliest, earliest, and most challenging parts of their journeys.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
- AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
- Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) is a venture capital fund investing in early stage technology companies around the globe. The fund is interested in post-revenue Seed through Series-B opportunities. RTF was founded by Riyad Capital Co. and TAQNIA and is backed by leading Saudi institutional investors.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
- Haseel — The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age.
- TruKKer — TRUKKER is one of the leading names of logistics & transportation companies in UAE, KSA, Egypt & across the GCC. We offer logistics & transport & truck rental services in the MENA Region. Call us on +971 600-524642.
- Eureka — All of Eureka's products have AI embedded to create unique audience segments and improve prediction accuracy, risk analytics and conversion.
Iraq Tech Ventures provides minimum investment to approved startups in Iraq and the Middle East region.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
- invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
- Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Valia is a venture capital firm backing founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Diagon — Diagon's advanced platform for optimizing manufacturing equipment procurement and lifecycle management. Explore our innovative solutions to tackle global supply chain challenges and support the reshoring of manufacturing.
- Bedrock Materials — Bedrock Materials pioneers affordable sodium-ion batteries with revolutionary materials and production techniques, changing energy storage for a more sustainable future.
- Diagon Technologies — Diagon's advanced platform for optimizing manufacturing equipment procurement and lifecycle management. Explore our innovative solutions to tackle global supply chain challenges and support the reshoring of manufacturing.
Rawaz Rauf
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Food Delivery, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Egypt, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants
- Paperclip — Paperclip aims to champion the sharing economy via a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying, selling, renting and donating within communities. This concept has been tentatively titled the 'social inventory movement' - a marketplace where listings never leave; an ecosystem of people's assets, with ownership transferred from profile toprofile following transactions.The overarching mission is to change the way people think about the things that they own, in the same manner that Airbnb changed the way people think about their properties - to empower people by unlocking the value of their everyday assets such as bikes, power tools, clothes, books and even food.
- MyJam — All the food you love in one place.
PeakBridge is a global impact VC that funds and connects the people, technology and processes that will shape the future of food.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BE WTR — The first premium sustainable water brand aiming to promote a more ecological water consumption and to contribute to a better hydration thanks to its technological and design water systems. | Discover more about us.
- Mondra — AI-driven environmental insights platform that supports food system players to accelerate Scope 3 progress, reduce the cost of Net Zero, and drive competitive advantage.
- Orbisk — One-third of all food produced (worldwide) is wasted. Orbisk helps professional kitchens to get a grip on their food waste.
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
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sepio — Sepio provides full asset visibility. Sepio's Asset Risk Management sees, assesses and mitigates risk for all known and shadow IT assets.
- 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.
- Salvador Technologies — Salvador Technologies provides the world's fastest recovery from cyber-attacks and software/hardware malfunctions. Our innovative solution ensures the continuous operation of critical workstations and servers, eliminating downtime. Back to work in 30 seconds based on offline air-gapped sotrage.
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
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
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
Bassam Falah is a Founder and Managing Partner of Innovest Middle East VC.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Tenmou is Bahrain´s first Business Angels Company, which provides both mentor-ship and capital to high-potential, innovative Bahraini entrepreneurs from the seed stage. Through the support and mentor-ship provided by our Angel shareholders, all of whom are established businessmen and successful entrepreneurs in their own right, we look to givethese new entrepreneurs the greatest chance of success.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
- Tajweed — Tajweed is the first Arabic-language portal that teaches young people to recite the Holy Quran and revive their Arabic language skills.
- Travilege — Travilege provides a comprehensive B2B2C ERP SaaS platform to travel agents and operators. Its technology digitizes day-to-day operations, automates reservation processes, and promotes cooperation via an e-Hub.
Hope Ventures will empower and invest in the next generation of promising Bahraini entrepreneurs. Our mission is to identify ambitious entrepreneurs and provide them with the necessary tools, resources, and networks to scale and thrive in the region's entrepreneurship landscape.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Coffee, Restaurants
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Bahrain, Oman, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ReQahwa — ReQahwa is a coffee upcycling startup that transforms coffee waste grounds into sustainable and bio-degradable products.
- Ahlan App — Ahlan App offers users a safe and simple way to earn credit for recurrent online purchases and visits to selected merchants.
- Thiqa Tutoring — Thiqa Tutoring (TT) is Tutors Providers, by customers, for educational and teaching services. International educational and teaching methodologies and standards.
MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
- DP Technology — DP Technology is a global leader in the "AI for Science" research paradigm, where AI learns scientific principles and data, then tackles key challenges in scientific research and industrial R&D.DP's commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to the creation of the DP "Particle Universe", an array of pre-trainedlarge science models designed to bridge foundational research with practical industrial applications. DP's software suite includes the Bohrium® Scientific Research Space, Hermite® Computational Drug Design Platform, RiDYMO® Dynamics Platform, and Piloteye® Battery Design Automation Platform. Together, these platforms form a robust foundation for industrial innovation and an open ecosystem for AI in science, fostering advancements in key areas such as drug discovery, energy, material science, and information technology.
- DP Technology — Deep Technology uses a new generation of molecular simulation technology to tackle micro-scale industrial design difficulties. Founded in 2018 and is based in Beijing China.
Crescent Enterprises operates across four distinct platforms, which work together in synergy to develop innovative, sustainable, and profitable businesses.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Seed, Series A
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Kitopi — Kitopi is a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to grow their business and expand their delivery reach.
Shwan Ibrahim Taha
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Subhi Khudairi
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
- Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.
Al Faisaliah Group, a privately-held holding company that holds positions in the dairy, healthcare, and foodservice industries.The Group is recognized for its values, professional management, and decades-long strategic partnerships with leading local and global firms including notably Sony, Danone, Philips, and Accenture.It was founded in 1971in Riyadh, Ar Riyadh.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
6G Capital is the family office arm of the Allana Group, which invests in diverse sectors ranging from retail, healthcare, and fintech.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Convertible Note
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ChatFood — ChatFood is a commission-free ordering platform that enables restaurants to take back control of their online business and sell via Instagram, WhatsApp, social media, and websites with built-in online payments solutions, third-party logistics integration, and marketing tools.
- BuyAnyAutoPart — BuyAnyAutoPart agggregates the market prices for all the parts a garage needs and at any moment allows theme to see those prices.
Özkan Hacıoğlu is a Co-Founder & CEO at Neredekal.com.
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Investment focus
- Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Pardon — Contact us for the best quality Smart QR Menu for restaurants, cafes and hotels, quick reference and much more. What are QR menu prices?
Kybele started its operations in 2018 and since then created a diversified portfolio of Turkish and Global companies.
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Investment focus
- Recipes, Delivery, Restaurants
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
iMENA is a holding company focused on capturing the hyper-growth phase of the consumer Internet opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The company invests in, builds, and partners with great founders and organizations across sectors and businesses with globally proven technology and business models. iMENA supports them withstrategic and operational services that address the challenges of building, growing, and creating value out of online businesses in the MENA region.
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Investment focus
- Recreation, Restaurants, Reservations
- Series A
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ReserveOut — Reserveout, choose a city to find out the best restaurants & promotions near you ..RESERVE A TABLE NOW!
Riyadh based investment firm
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Al-Menu — Al Menu is a firm that specializes in restaurant operations.
Zohar Zisapel
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Investment focus
- Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
- Nucleix — OUR TESTS AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER - WHEN TREATMENT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PATIENTS OUR PRODUCTS
- Hailo — Hailo have developed the best performing AI processors for edge devices. Our AI accelerator chips are used for Smart City & Homes, machine learning, automotive AI, retail AI and smart factory Industry 4.0 solutions.
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
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
- DESAISIV — DESAISIV, a MENA based InsurTech startup specialising in health insurance which is transforming health insurance for insurers and clients through exploiting their advanced AI solutions which were developed in collaboration with top machine learning scientists from the University of Oxford. DESAISIV’s philosophy is simply to put AI at the centre ofall decision making. This AI-driven approach guarantees that clients of Groups and SMEs will get optimized insurance policies tailored to their needs, also it will make sure that insurance companies will optimise their processes using the latest AI technologies. Benefitting from access to a vast database of hundreds of millions of patient records, DESAISIV has achieved an impressive average prediction accuracy of over 95%. Demonstrating their commitment to excellence, they have set an ambitious target to exceed 99% accuracy by the end of this year. Through their AI-driven products, DESAISIV streamlines various aspects of health insurance, including automating underwriting procedures, tailoring policy's benefits and coverage, improving quality of service by predicting developing diseases, identifying high-risk behaviours, and reducing customer attrition.
- TWIG — TWIG is a Bank Agnostic Automated Savings Platform in the MENA region. Our flagship app provides Automated Saving Plans to help users save better; a Smart Budgeting tool with tailored insights; and Smart, customizable and user-specific Goals.
Youcef Oudjidane is the Co-Founder of Elevate. He previously worked at Class 5 Global as a Managing Partner. Youcef Oudjidane attended the University of Nottingham.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
- Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
- FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
SVC has backed 31 VC and PE Funds and 5 Angel Groups that supported 525 Startups and SMEs via $1.6 Billion AUM
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BARQ — BARQ is the first bullet delivery PaaS in the middle east, leading the e-commerce industry to achieve a 30 min. delivery time.
- BALLURH — A SaaS platform that provides predictive analytics with smart recommendations for Retailers to enhance decision-making, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
- Lawazem | لوازم — It is the first B2B marketplace that is especially made to solve that problem. Lawazem consolidates all your operational purchases and spending in one place, whether it is groceries, stationary, cleaning materials, office accessories, or else.We go beyond to make your work environment even better, by providing gift and flower deliveries to youremployees and clients, arrange for internal events, and prepare for your guest and internal meetings through our hospitality partners.Finally, we even help in becoming your concierge for your international purchases, online purchases that require Credit Cards, and help you improve your sourcing process.Lawazem is here to help you anytime and every time.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
- Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
- Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.
- Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.
SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.
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Investment focus
- Predictive Analytics, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
Abdul Majeed Al Hokair is an individual partners.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- valU — valU is your lifestyle enabling solution, Setting out to change the way you shop! We help you get what you want now, and pay as you can afford on a monthly basis; turning your aspirations into reality.
- The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
- Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
- Shift EV — Electrifying fleets in emerging markets.
Cyrus Angel Fund is an angel fund that funds early seed startups. They are very actively involved, believing that this can help improve a startup’s odds of success. Their domain includes SaaS, consumer Internet and other software ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, SMS
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bontact — Bontact helps businesses engage their website visitors directly from their website through a Multi-channel customer engagement platform which includes a combo of fastest live chat, call back (to any phone - worlwide), ticket and SMS, all through a single interface.Let Bontact enrich sales and customer live support services by getting yourcustomers to interact with your business. They provide the software infrastructure which will enable interaction between your customers and your sales / support inducing a more personal approach to your service. Their rich portfolio of support solutions, cater to your business needs, focusing your sales/ support on your customer's needs, thus enhancing his positive experience in your web site.The user interface is intuitive, user-friendly and allows generation of advanced reports and segmentation, as well as ongoing management of all solutions as well as recording conversations between your sales force and website visitors. The proactive customer interaction will promote a better shopping atmosphere and customer service.
- SimpleOrder — Restaurant inventory management software featuring purchasing and menu costing for single locations & chains. Connect your purchasing to your sales
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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- Haseel — The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age.
- Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
- RedBox — Don't wait for drivers to deliver your packages! Instead, use RedBox lockers to ship your packages and collect them at your convenient time. No human contact!
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, Tunisia
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- 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.
- DokkanAfkar — DokkanAfkar.com was created by a group of passionate guys who love and appreciate creativity, design and ideas. It was created to enable customers to buy cool unique products with ideas that are fun, unusual and unique. Our products have a focus on fun, uniqueness, defiantly clever, and entertaining products.
- 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.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
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- qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- 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
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
SnackFutures is Mondelēz International's new innovation hub that is dedicated to unlocking emerging snacking opportunities around the world. SnackFutures will capitalize on new trends and mobilize entrepreneurial talent and technologies to build and grow small brands with large-scale potential, and leverage other growth opportunities acrosssnacking.
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- Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Food Processing
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel
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- Mezcla — Mezcla is mixing up the bland protein-based snacking category. Our first product, the Puff-Crispy, replaces the traditional slab-style protein bar with an innovative, crunchy texture developed from puffed pea protein. This elevated snack blends plant-based power with crave-worthy textures and flavors and offers amazing growth potential as anexpanding line. This is only the beginning for us on this mission to create better-for-you snacking that prioritizes delivering invigorating flavors and textures.
- New Gem — NewGem Sandwich Wraps are made from fruits and veggies! 20-40 Calories per Wrap, Gluten Free, Vegan, 5-8g Net Carbs, Paleo, Diabetic, Keto
- Steiner’s — Steiner takes pleasure in bringing new concepts to coffee cake, using ingredients that make it delicious while remaining gluten-free.
Strauss Group is an international corporation with a portfolio of five companies, which provide a response to two leading world trends – Health & Wellness, and Fun & Indulgence.
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Retail
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel
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- Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
- Torr FoodTech — Torr is an innovative food tech startup, aiming to challenge multi-ingredient snacking categories with our breakthrough technology. Torr dreams develop and produce snacks that serve a unique, tasty, and much healthier bite.
- Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.
Heaventures strives to join in exceptional early-stage startups as a team member and contribute with its time, expertise, network and money.
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States, Germany
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- Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
- VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
Sukna ventures is a venture studio and fund based in Saudi Arabia.
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- Information Technology, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
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- Dawul — Dawul is a platform that allows investors to share details of the financial status of their portfolios with other investors.
- Mozn — Confidently screen customers, monitor transactions and assess risk with powerful AI and seamless automation.
- Marn.io — Marn is an hourly work solutions platform connecting Saudi businesses with thousands of Saudi job seekers in Retail, hospitality, F&B, and Hajj industries. As one of the first Saudi on-demand hourly staffing platform, Marn has had the trust of hundreds of well-known brands and hundred thousands of job seekers. Marn enables businesses to hirehourly staff to manage customers during peak hours and high seasons. All employees are fully vetted through interviews and tests that are prerequisites for joining the platform. Brands using Marn for recruiting save time and effort by letting our technology manage interviews, training, placement, shift scheduling, worker payments, performance reports, and task evaluation. Marn offers other services such as mystery shopper for hotels and retail, and sports events management.Learn more at Marn.io
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
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- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
BY VP operates as an investment firm.
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- B2B, Marketplace, Restaurants
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Saudi technology investment company established in 2005. We invest in growth stage tech startups in Saudi Arabia & Middle East North Africa (MENA) region
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- Predictive Analytics, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
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- Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
- Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
Abdulelah Algosaibi is the Saudi angel investor.
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- Restaurants, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Bahrain
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- OrderJet — OrderJet is an innovative F&B solution that improves customer experience and helps business owners increase efficiency and lower costs. It is suitable for all types of restaurants, coffee shops, food courts, and food trucks, and supports dine-in, take-out, and delivery services.
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