Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $600k–$29M |
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $400k–$30M |
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BECO Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software | $905k–$60M |
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Nuwa Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $1.3M–$39M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Egypt, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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Tenmou
VC Fund
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3 | Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, SaaS, Internet | $100k–$1.4M |
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $420k–$50M |
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Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Denmark, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.2M–$58M |
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.1M–$44M |
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Iraq Tech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine | |
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Al Faisaliah Group
VC Fund
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2 | China, Egypt, Bahrain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Apps, Nutrition | $4.5M–$13M |
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STV
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $2.1M–$72M |
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Rawaz Rauf
Angel
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine | |
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Naseel
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia | Series A | Payments, Software, Restaurants | $4M–$4M |
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MSA Novo
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, India, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1.5M–$32M |
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AlTouq Group
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Pakistan | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Apps, Fitness | $5M–$20M |
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Crescent Enterprises
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates, India | Series C, Seed, Series A | Medical, Robotics, Health Care | $1.8M–$50M |
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Oğuzhan Öztürk
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants | |
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Ozkan Hacıoğlu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants | |
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Ali Ilci
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Switzerland, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Hotel, Advice, Gaming | $123k–$400k |
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iMENA Group
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | PropTech, Software, Recreation | |
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Cyrus Angel Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, E-Commerce | $750k–$6M |
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Global Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.2M–$50M |
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Shwan Ibrahim Taha
Angel
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine | |
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David Buttress
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Mobile, E-Commerce, Restaurants | $100k–$16M |
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Heaventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, SaaS | $100k–$2M |
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PeakBridge
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing | $501k–$50M |
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COTU Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $300k–$37M |
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Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF)
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan | Series A, Series B, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software | $1M–$125M |
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Jumpspeed Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $500k–$20M |
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Al majdiah investment
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A | Restaurants, SaaS, Retail | $1M–$10M |
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Point Nine
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $900k–$62M |
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Sukna Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $100k–$40M |
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security | $1M–$54M |
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MSA Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, Egypt | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology | $1.5M–$130M |
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SEEDRA Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Predictive Analytics, E-Commerce | $120k–$40M |
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Subhi Khudairi
Angel
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine | |
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Bassam Falah
Angel
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
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Valia Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $750k–$30M |
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FinTech Collective
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1.8M–$55M |
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Nazer Group
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce | |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Hope Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Recycling, E-Commerce, Coffee | $48k–$1M |
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Silicon Badia
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $500k–$13M |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | |
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace | $150k–$38M |
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | |
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Saudi Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia | Seed, Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Internet | $300k–$68M |
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Foodlab Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Israel | Series A, Series B | B2B, SaaS, Software | $2.8M–$8.1M |
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Disruptive
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series A, Series D, Series E | Software, Sensor, Analytics | $5M–$750M |
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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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- FMSi — FMSi is a SaaS company that helps with vehicle tracking solutions, administration and monitoring services for IVMS, and project management.
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $2.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
- 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 — The Think AI Fabric: AI Node, ILM, and Constellation bonded into one supercompute platform, built for radical efficiency. Nothing sits idle.
BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $905k–$9.5M; Series A $2M–$27M; Series B $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
- Amaani — World-class beauty and wellness brands from the Middle East. Brands and products made for Arab consumers, with uncompromising global quality and a true reflection of Modern Arabia. Born in region, designed for the world. Backed by PeakXV, Formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA.
- Property Finder — PropertyFinder owns and operates real estate portals across Dubai. Available in both English and Arabic, its websites provide visitors with search facilities covering residential and commercial properties for rent or for sale, real estate news, home advice, and buying and selling guides.PropertyFinder provides its users with the tools to helpconsumers find the properties that fit their needs. It works with brokers to list properties in one convenient site, and make it easier to see all of the information about those properties while browsing from its users’ desktop or on the move.
A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$5.5M; Series B $5M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- Bundle — Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions.
- Keep Converting — Keep Converting is a technology company that develops AI-driven tools for e-commerce personalization and conversion optimization. The platform analyzes visitor behavior and shopping patterns to help online stores deliver tailored product recommendations, customized user experiences, and automated engagement strategies. Its services are designed tosupport digital retailers in improving customer interaction, increasing sales efficiency, and enhancing overall website performance across online commerce channels.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
- Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
Tenmou supports early-stage startups in Bahrain with angel investment, mentorship, resources and connections to help entrepreneurs achieve ..
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $100k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$22M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
- OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Denmark, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $3.4M–$27M; Series B $9.5M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $179M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Davis AI — Davis AI provides AI-driven real estate development services focused on early-stage feasibility studies and architectural design. The company combines proprietary generative models, including its Gaudi-1 architectural generation model, with in-house architects to deliver site analysis, regulatory diagnostics, volumetrics, financial modeling, andinvestment analysis. Davis AI also produces architectural outputs such as floor plans, unit mix optimization, and space planning. Its workflow ingests client data rooms and enriches them with regulatory, market, and site data, turning these into constraints that guide every result. Outputs are refined and validated by human experts before delivery and are intended for real estate developers, investors, and other project stakeholders.
- Fora — Fora's expert travel advisors will help you plan your dream trip while unlocking exclusive perks and upgrades. Welcome to the modern travel agency.
- PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 297
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$6.6M; Series A $7.3M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $500M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
- Spiich Labs — AI for revenue teams that win on relationships. The agentic sales platform that eliminates CRM admin: your CRM updates itself after every call, you get daily meeting briefs, and follow-ups write themselves. Save 9+ hours weekly.
- Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source
Iraq Tech Ventures provides minimum investment to approved startups in Iraq and the Middle East region.
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, Nutrition
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: China, Egypt, Bahrain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- Binli Technology — Binli Technology is a new energy vehicle manufacturer.
- 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.
STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$17M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $20M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Morni — Morni is an interactive platform that provides roadside assistant services in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries through a smart-phone application. Morni currently provides its services to both individuals and corporations.
- Signit — Transform your contract workflows with secure, legally-binding e-signatures. Trusted by 700+ Saudi organizations.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
Rawaz Rauf
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
A financial holding company.
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- Industry: Payments, Software, Restaurants
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $4M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ALWANS — A leading saudi company with diverse interests and capabilities.
- Foodics — Foodics offers a cloud-based all-in-one restaurant management system on an iPad in English and Arabic. With multiple add-on iOS apps and building on more, thousands of restaurants, food trucks, cafes, and fast-food chains across the Middle East are hiking their revenues and building their relationships with diners. Offering high tech solutions andreal-time management, Foodics powers its clients and provides a unique style of dining fit for the future.Their mission is to provide a restaurant management system that is so easy to use and won’t even need their guide. They have five locations across the Middle East that serves 24/7 and over a thousand customers who have rung up over a billion orders through the Foodics system.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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
AlTouq Group is a Saudi Arabian Family Office established in the 1970's as an investment vehicle for the AlTouq family. It has grown into a sophisticated local and international investor with a global revenue generating asset base.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $5M–$12M; Series A $12M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iKcon — iKcon is a cloud kitchen and food technology company based in the UAE that develops and operates delivery-focused kitchen infrastructure for restaurant and food brands. The company supports businesses with kitchen operations, logistics integration, digital ordering systems, and market expansion services. Its platform is designed to help food brandslaunch or scale delivery operations without investing in traditional dine-in restaurant spaces. iKcon primarily works across the Middle East and North Africa region, serving both local and international restaurant partners.
- MedznMore — MedznMore makes quality healthcare effortless, reliable, and affordable. MedznMore is a digital healthcare innovator, dedicated to improving access to healthcare by blending technology and innovation to solve problems associated with modern-day pharmacies.
- Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.
A multinational firm with diverse operations across strategic sectors.
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- Industry: Medical, Robotics, Health Care
- Stage:Series C, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$45M; Series A $5.3M–$27M; Series C $30M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XCath — XCath, meanwhile, is developing steerable robotic microcatheters for treating endovascular conditions such as cerebral strokes. Devices such as these are expected to help treat patients remotely, especially in parts of the world where special surgical procedures are not readily available.
- Flipspaces — Flipspaces designs and builds offices, hospitals, retail, and education spaces across India, the US and the UAE. 10M+ sq ft delivered. 1,000+ projects.
- Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
Oğuzhan Öztürk
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- Industry: Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pardon AI — Boost your business with Pardon AI 3.0, cutting-edge technology. Discover AI-driven insights to increase sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and streamline operations. Transform your hospitality experience today!
Özkan Hacıoğlu is a Co-Founder & CEO at Neredekal.com.
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- Industry: Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pardon AI — Boost your business with Pardon AI 3.0, cutting-edge technology. Discover AI-driven insights to increase sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and streamline operations. Transform your hospitality experience today!
Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor
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- Industry: Hotel, Advice, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Pre-Seed $123k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pardon AI — Boost your business with Pardon AI 3.0, cutting-edge technology. Discover AI-driven insights to increase sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and streamline operations. Transform your hospitality experience today!
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
- Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital funds YouTubers and influencers worldwide. Apply for global creator funding to grow your channel, scale your influence, and earn more.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: PropTech, Software, Recreation
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OpenSooq — OpenSooq is an online classified platform that allows users to freely trade property, cars, products, and services in the Middle East & North Africa region. Sellers can offer products and services to millions of users online without intermediaries. Buyers can browse a wide variety of goods and services, including automotive, Real Estate,Electronics, and much more.
- ReserveOut — Reserveout, choose a city to find out the best restaurants & promotions near you ..RESERVE A TABLE NOW!
- JRD Group — JRD Group is a pioneering PropTech company, passionate about technology and how it can be used to improve the real estate industry.Their proprietary real estate products – seven market leading property portals across the MENA region and a proprietary real estate SaaS tools – help thousands of real estate professionals on a daily basis managetheir business activities online.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $750k–$1M; Series A $2.8M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Datarails — Datarails is the AI operating system for finance teams. Unite your financial and operational data with FinanceOS, keep your existing models, and trust every AI output.
- SimpleOrder — Restaurant inventory management software featuring purchasing and menu costing for single locations & chains. Connect your purchasing to your sales
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $3M–$27M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
- Enhance Fitness — Enhance Fitness is a fitness and wellness company that provides personal training services through a mobile and web-based platform. The company connects users with certified trainers for one-on-one fitness sessions conducted at home, gyms, outdoor locations, or partner facilities. Its platform supports booking management, trainer matching, workouttracking, nutrition guidance, and progress monitoring. Enhance Fitness operates primarily in the Gulf region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, and also develops software tools for fitness businesses through its Enhance Tech platform..
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 based out of London, England and is the Owner of Dragons RFC. David previously worked at OVO as a Chief Executive Officer. David Buttress attended the Middlesex University. David Buttress has been awarded as Glassdoor Highest Rated CEOs for 2016 - Employees' Choice Award, Entrepreneur Wales Awards, Debrett's 500 2015 -Entrepreneur, listed as one of Britain's 500 most influential people award.
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$5M; Series A $8.2M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$967k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
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 — A marketplace for cultural food.
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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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $107k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inspakt — Digitalize documentation from start to finish. Create and customize new templates with no-code, request fill-out and finalize by collecting signatures.
- NBL Games — NBL Games, a new gaming company, has developed Quiz Crush, a mobile app that offers a unique platform for global trivia competitions.
- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine Games is a mobile game studio in Istanbul making Coin Chef, Wonder Skies, Carnival Knockdown and Pop Flow 3D: puzzle and social casual games for iOS and Android.
PeakBridge is a highly networked, global impact VC that funds and connects the people, technology and processes that will shape the future of food. We invest in visionary pioneers, from early stage to Series A-B, with scalable, protectable climate and health-focused technologies. At their core: a deep commitment to disrupting our food system whiledriving positive impact. Our team is spread across seven countries and includes pioneers of FoodTech investment and decades of deep Agri-Food operational and financial experience. Together, we create exceptional value for bold FoodTech entrepreneurs and investors. A member of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity partnership, PeakBridge is also the only venture capital firm that is an official partner of the world’s largest Agri-Food innovation initiative, EIT Food.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $501k–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$17M; Series B $11M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $187M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Myota — Myota is a science and tech-based platform that develops fiber-based microbiome interventions to treat and prevent chronic disease. Myota was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in London, England.
- Ilant Health — We offer a comprehensive solution that take the stress and stigma out of obesity treatment. We increase access, improve quality, and drive reduction in total cost of care.
- KÄÄPÄ Biotech — Medicinal mushrooms, biotechnology, mycology, forestry, agroforestry, and food production.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$10M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $9.9M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $54M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sirdab — Sirdab provides technology-enabled warehousing, transportation, and fulfillment services for businesses. The company connects businesses with on-demand warehouse space for dry, ambient, chilled, and frozen goods. Its transportation services support shipments between cities and include bulk transportation and last-mile delivery. Sirdab also providese-commerce fulfillment services covering order picking, packing, shipping, and delivery. Its Warehouse Management System and Order and Inventory Management System provide tools for managing inventory, warehouses, orders, shipments, and logistics operations. The platform provides real-time inventory visibility and tracks goods throughout storage and transportation activities. Sirdab serves e-commerce sellers, brands, wholesalers, distributors, and businesses managing seasonal or ongoing inventory.
- 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.
- Keep Converting — Keep Converting is a technology company that develops AI-driven tools for e-commerce personalization and conversion optimization. The platform analyzes visitor behavior and shopping patterns to help online stores deliver tailored product recommendations, customized user experiences, and automated engagement strategies. Its services are designed tosupport digital retailers in improving customer interaction, increasing sales efficiency, and enhancing overall website performance across online commerce channels.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.7M; Series A $2M–$23M; Series B $4M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
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.
- Unifonic — Unifonic is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. It develops a communications platform used by organizations to send and manage messages and interactions across multiple channels such as SMS, voice calls, WhatsApp, and web chat through a single system.
Jumpspeed Ventures is a Micro-Fund based in Jerusalem, the Capital of the Startup Nation. Jumpspeed invests in early-stage (pre-seed and seed) software startups that originate in Jerusalem's startup eco-system. Jumpspeed is managed by Ben Wiener.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $500k–$10M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
- Tenna Systems — Tenna Systems develops a platform that supports real-time monitoring, geolocation, and mitigation of radio-frequency interference to help maintain dependable connectivity for mission-critical systems. Its technology is informed by extensive experience in electromagnetic warfare and is designed to enhance awareness of RF activity across complexoperational environments. Tip&Cue supports defense, aerospace, and mobility organizations by enabling detection and analysis of interference sources and by strengthening the resilience of systems that depend on spectrum availability.
- NeuroKaire — Genetika+ is revolutionzing depression treatment. Using biological, medical and genetic data, GenetikaPlus develops personalized solution for every patient to help them recover better, faster.
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- Industry: Restaurants, SaaS, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aamar — An innovative real estate platform that simplifies and automates leasing processes.
- Munjz — Munjz is a mobile app for connecting individuals & corporate sector looking for household services with pre-screened professionals.
- Al-Menu — Al Menu is a firm that specializes in restaurant operations.
Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 309
- Round size: Seed $900k–$7.5M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Kaiko — Kaiko provides real-time and historical cryptocurrency trade data, order books, and aggregated prices through a cryptocurrency API, downloadable CSV files, and a livestream WebSocket. We cover 100+ crypto exchanges and 35,000+ trading pairs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
- Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
- Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
Sukna ventures is a venture studio and fund based in Saudi Arabia.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $100k–$9M; Series A $10M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Flend — Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses.
- OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
- Anecdote —
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $6M–$54M
- 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
- Xpander.ai — Xpander.ai delivers backend infrastructure for AI agents, managing memory, tools, state, integrations, and native deployment within Slack.
- ORION Security — ORION detects and prevents data loss across SaaS, email, cloud, AI tools, and endpoints using intelligent, context-aware, proprietary AI agents.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3.5M–$33M; Series B $7.9M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
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- Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
- Memory tensor — Memory tensor designed with a focus on systematic innovation, grounded firmly in fundamental principles, serves as a powerful tool for scalable and adaptable intelligence. Its architecture emphasizes three core attributes: low cost, ensuring economic feasibility and accessibility; low illusion, reducing overfitting and minimizing hallucinations ormisleading outputs; and high generalization.
- Westlake Lingxi — Westlake Lingxi develops brain-computer interface technologies, including neuro-prosthetic systems and neural decoding solutions, to support rehabilitation for people with language and movement disorders.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Predictive Analytics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.5M; Series A $1.3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
- Gaia — Gaia is a sovereign AI platform for Saudi enterprises. It connects knowledge, files, systems, emails and workflows into a single operational intelligence layer. Employees search across everything the company knows but permission-aware so no one sees what they don't already have access to, get generative AI answers grounded in their own datawith cited sources, and hand cross-system work to AI agents with important steps routed to a person for approval. Hosted on the company’s cloud or fully on-premise so data never leaves your own infrastructure.
- RIME — A specialized Saudi company providing AI driven solutions, integrated with branch monitors and IoT. Utilizing AI agents
Subhi Khudairi is an angel investor based in Houston, Texas.
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Bassam Falah is a Founder and Managing Partner of Innovest Middle East VC.
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
- 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.
Valia is a venture capital firm backing founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$17M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1.8M; Series A $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- morph — morph is a physical AI and soft robotics company that launched the shapeshifting soft robotics cells platform.
- Inner Logic — The development infrastructure for the next generation of procedural devices.
- Apollo Atomics — Apollo is building the most power-dense pressurized-water nuclear reactor. (YC P26)
We back creators with a hunger to reimagine the way money flows through the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $13M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $92M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Valence — Reimagining wealth management with AI intelligence. Integrated platform, agentic framework, and dedicated advisors anticipating your needs before they arise.
- bunch — Bunch is a financial technology company that provides software and operational infrastructure for private market fund management. Its platform supports the full fund lifecycle, including investor onboarding, fund administration, accounting, compliance, reporting, and transaction management for venture capital, private equity, and other alternativeinvestment structures. The company combines proprietary software with integrated operational services to help asset managers and investors manage funds and special purpose vehicles through a centralized system. Bunch also offers tools designed to improve data management and automate workflows across fund operations and regulatory processes. The platform is used by asset managers and investors across multiple European jurisdictions to manage investment structures and administrative activities.
- HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.
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- Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iKcon — iKcon is a cloud kitchen and food technology company based in the UAE that develops and operates delivery-focused kitchen infrastructure for restaurant and food brands. The company supports businesses with kitchen operations, logistics integration, digital ordering systems, and market expansion services. Its platform is designed to help food brandslaunch or scale delivery operations without investing in traditional dine-in restaurant spaces. iKcon primarily works across the Middle East and North Africa region, serving both local and international restaurant partners.
- The Luxury Closet — Buy & sell online at The Luxury Closet and get discounts of up to 90% off retail price on authentic, new & pre-loved luxury brands for watches, bags, clothes, shoes for both men and women.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1119
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
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- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
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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- Industry: Recycling, E-Commerce, Coffee
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $48k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $265k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glamera — Glamera B2B2C: SaaS platform to power beauty salons, spa, Gym and barber shops, to optimize sales, booking, marketing, inventory and HR. Glamera White Label: Every service provider can create his own website, to help his customer in pre-booking his services. Glamera B2C: Mobile application for end user to book beauty and wellness appointment.
- Ahlan App — Ahlan App offers users a safe and simple way to earn credit for recurrent online purchases and visits to selected merchants.
- FabricAID — FabricAID collects, sorts, and redistributes second-hand clothes at micro prices to marginalized communities reducing fabric waste.
Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $550k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- ZeroDrift — The Enforcement Runtime for AI // Your policies and regulations, enforced on everything AI says. Before it ships.
- Algebra AI — Algebra AI designs and runs agentic AI workflows that turn complex, manual operations into reliable, production-ready systems with human oversight and real accountability.
- Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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
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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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $450k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$38M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
- Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Internet
- 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.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
OLXTOTO adalah bandar slot gacor resmi yang menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang tak tertandingi dengan jackpot besar setiap hari. Dengan berbagai pilihan permainan yang menarik dan peluang menang yang tinggi, OLXTOTO menjamin kesenangan dan kepuasan bagi para pemain. Bergabunglah sekarang dan rasakan sensasi memenangkan hadiah besar di platform yang terpercaya dan aman.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Incredo — DouxMatok is a food-tech company. They have developed a proprietary technology that enhances the sweetness of sugars with no after taste - preserving the full "sugar experience" customers are looking for. The enhanced sweetness allows for a significant reduction in the consumption of sugar.The company was incorporated in 2014, and itsR&D center is based in Petach-Tikva, Israel.
- SimpleOrder — Restaurant inventory management software featuring purchasing and menu costing for single locations & chains. Connect your purchasing to your sales
Disruptive is a leading global technology investment firm headquartered in Austin, TX. Founded in 2012 by CEO Alex Davis, Disruptive has deployed billions of dollars into the private sector with investments in top-performing, late-stage private technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Sensor, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series D, Series E
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Series A $5M–$22M; Series D $125M–$250M; Series E $65M–$750M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
- Shift5 — Shift5 is a cybersecurity company that provides hardware and software solutions to defend operational technology (OT) platforms, such as planes, satellites, ground combat vehicles and large-scale mining and construction vehicles.
- Shield AI — Autonomy for the world.
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