Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Middle East in April 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 April 2025
Investor | Restaurants Middle East investments |
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BECO Capital | 5 |
Nuwa Capital | 3 |
Shorooq Partners | 3 |
Raed Ventures | 3 |
4DX Ventures | 3 |
Bassam Falah | 2 |
MSA Novo | 2 |
COTU Ventures | 2 |
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) | 2 |
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) | 2 |
PICO Venture Partners | 2 |
Shwan Ibrahim Taha | 2 |
Subhi Khudairi | 2 |
Crescent Enterprises | 2 |
Iraq Tech Ventures | 2 |
Valia Ventures | 2 |
Rawaz Rauf | 2 |
David Buttress | 2 |
PeakBridge | 2 |
Hope Ventures | 2 |
Tenmou | 2 |
MSA Capital | 2 |
Musa Bin Adi | 1 |
VentureSouq | 1 |
Disruptive | 1 |
Apostolos Apostolakis | 1 |
Ali Ilci | 1 |
Global Founders Capital | 1 |
Global Ventures | 1 |
Abdul Majeed Al Hokair | 1 |
JAM Fund | 1 |
Bugshan Investment | 1 |
Oğuzhan Öztürk | 1 |
Zinal Growth | 1 |
Pinnacle Financial Partners | 1 |
Spade Ventures | 1 |
6G Capital | 1 |
Tech Invest Com | 1 |
Algebra Ventures | 1 |
Cyrus Angel Fund | 1 |
Vision Ventures | 1 |
Saudi Venture Capital | 1 |
Wamda Capital | 1 |
SnackFutures | 1 |
Sukna Ventures | 1 |
BY VP | 1 |
Mondelez International | 1 |
Harel Insurance and Financial | 1 |
Silicon Badia | 1 |
Mohammed Khudairi | 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
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, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- NymCard — <p><span style="color:#ce9178;">NymCard is providing, in the MENA region and around the globe, dynamic and secure building blocks for building fast and easy card programs.</span></p>
- CQR — CQR is dedicated to offering unrivaled protection by combining proactive techniques, cutting-edge technology, and guidance.
- The Box Self Storage Services LLC — The Box Self Storage Services offer complete protection for your goods both for domestic and commercial purposes. As an added advantage, They offer you the flexibility of accessing the stored items at any time through Their 24-hour access control log. Moreover, They provide insurance for your goods should there be any unexpected damage duringcalamities.They provide the best moving and relocation services in Dubai and UAE. They design a customized relocation plan for you based on your requirements and budget. One of Their relocation experts will always be around keeping an eye on the loading and unloading process and making sure that your items stay safe and undamaged.
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
- Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
- 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.
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
- Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
- 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.
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
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
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 — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
- 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.
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.
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.
- Orion Security — Orion Security redefines DLP by learning the unique DNA of your business workflows. With AI-powered mapping, monitoring and anomaly detection, Orion understands legitimate data flows and can easily spot suspicious ones. Data protection policies are then automatically created, tailored and fine-tuned to actual data behavior. Orion eliminatesmanual policies and false positives, so you can focus on risks in real-time. Discover the single source of truth for all data movement in the organization, from source to spill: Orionsec.io
- 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.
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.
A multinational firm with diverse operations across strategic sectors.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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- 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.
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.
Musa is an entrepreneur, author , and a senior business leader who worked in various managerial positions with many years of experience specializing in management and compliance, marketing, business risk management, project management, operational risk, and enterprise infrastructure and operations for clients in the oil & gas, manufacturing,engineering, and food industries. Musa holds a master's degree in International Management from the University of Liverpool, a certificate in cybersecurity management from the University of Toronto, a diploma in Project Management, and a BSc degree in electrical power engineering technology.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Whatfoodsmenu — Whatfoodsmenu is a marketplace and online ordering platform for restaurants, cafes, cloud kitchens, and food outlets. Moreover, Whatfoodsmenu is a cloud smart management software as a service (SaaS). Whatfoodsnenu also is working to develop advanced solutions to automate kitchen management and point of sale to improve and increase the efficiency ofits client’s operations. Furthermore, whatfoodsmenu aims to provide all- in- solutions on one platform. Whatfoodsmenu main services include a marketplace on web and on mobile, QR digital menu, E-store – online ordering, online payment, point of sales, QR code table management, floor planning, Expenses and Profit, WhatsApp ordering messages, Dine-in + Takeaway and Delivery Orders. Whatfoodsmen aims to disrupt the market with its competitive and comprehensive advantage offering.Whatfoodsmenu is a simple and easy way to order food online. Customers enjoy a variety of options and cuisines that can be delivered to their homes or offices. The digital menu is based on a smart interface that any standard user can use without difficulty. Whatfoodsmenu creates a digital menu for restaurants, cafes, cloud kitchens, and food outlets in either one or multiple languages and assigns QR codes to the digital menu with the ability to receive payments via more than 20 payment methods or simply accept cash. Also available within the platform is the ordering and payment system across tables and QR codes, where customers can easily order and pay without talking to employees, which contributes to a better user experience and reduces the need for employee intervention.How does it work?When the customer browses the digital menu of the restaurant or cafe, he or she chooses what he or she wants and completes the order upon checkout with a simple registration process. After user verification, the user can continue the checkout process and sends the purchase order via both the system and WhatsApp message to the restaurant directly.The Restaurants that receive orders via the system and or by WhatsApp message can confirm if they are accepting or rejecting the order. if orders are accepted will be added to the point-of-sale system that is also available within the whatfoodsmenu platform. Both Restaurants and whatfoodsmenu may set a delivery cost for each specific area, accept/reject the order, deliver, track and assign drivers, categories, items, etc. A staff management feature is also available to make things easier and faster
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Pathao — Pathao can move you forward. One app for your success, earning, betterment, comfort, easy going lifestyle and many more. Keep #MovingSafely
- Mala Inc. — This is meta description
- PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Sensor
- Series A, Series D, Series E
- United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hana Kuma — Hana Kuma is a story-driven production company founded in the world of Naomi Osaka - renowned around the world as a tennis champion with roots in Haiti and Japan.
- Shield AI — AI pilots will revolutionize battlefields and commercial aviation at a scale greater than the self-driving movement reshaping our highways.
- Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
Apostolos is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He started his career at Boston Consulting Group where he spent 2 years consulting businesses. On his entrepreneurial path, he has co-founded e-shop.gr, Openfund, e-food, doctoranytime and was a key investor in Taxibeat. Since 2010 he has invested and supported a large number of startups with afocus on e-marketplaces and SaaS. He studied civil engineering at NTUA and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Greece, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HairRemoval.co.uk — Go For Laser Hair Removal and Put an End to Tedious Hair Removal with Traditional Methods. Check out the Details at envie.co.uk and Make an Appointment!
- Packhelp — Packhelp makes it easy for anyone to create, order and manage fully custom-branded packaging. It connects customers with the most suitable production possibilities, offering them a broad range of packaging products. Packhelp covers everything from local deliveries of small quantities to global procurement of large volumes, with Packhelp Studio – anonline editor for small businesses, instantly purchasable products and orders from 30 pieces, and Packhelp Plus, which helps mid-market companies scale their packaging needs. Founded in 2015, Packhelp currently serves 50,000 customers from over 30 countries. The list of customers includes brands recognized worldwide, like BMW, H&M, Google, L’Oreal, T-Mobile, Uber, Bolt and Wrangler, and many of the local champions from Europe.
- Kriptomat — Buying, selling, and storing your favorite cryptocurrencies has never been easier! Register in seconds, and start trading in minutes on Kriptomat.
Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor
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Investment focus
- Hotel, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Turkey, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Yenir — Yenir is a platform Yenir that sells fresh products without producing waste.
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
- Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital specializes in financial services tailored specifically for creators across various platforms. The company focuses on enhancing creators' revenue profiles and addressing their unique financial needs through customized solutions. With a keen understanding of platform dynamics and macro trends, Copyright Capital offers accessto capital and strategic business advice to help creators mitigate risks associated with algorithm changes and platform uncertainties. The firm engages in detailed analysis and forecasting of revenue flows, ensuring a data-driven approach to financial support. Whether dealing with agencies or individual creators, Copyright Capital aims to provide financial solutions that align with each creator's specific situation and goals, thereby fostering a more secure and prosperous environment for creative content production.
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.
- Scribe Health AI — HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation tool that seamlessly integrates with 50+ EMR systems including Epic, Cerner & Athena . Automates SOAP notes and medical coding while ensuring data security. Perfect for healthcare providers seeking efficient, compliant documentation workflows
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.
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.
JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a naturally charming, vibrant, and socially responsible fashion brand that celebrates your unique individuality.
- Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
- Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.
Bugshan Investment serves as a vehicle for the Group to participate in Joint Ventures, invest in international and domestic money markets and real estate, and co-invest in private equity deals in local, regional, and global markets.
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Investment focus
- Snack Food, Restaurants, Food Processing
- Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Resal — Resal is Saudi-based startup was founded by Hatem Kameli ( Founder & CEO ) and Fouad AlFarhan ( Co-Founder & CTO ) , started from Jeddah – Saudi Arabia to all MENAWho we are ? Resal is leading the prepaid gift card market by offering all in one prepaid gift cards and rewards solutions for individuals and corporate in Middle East and NorthAfricaWe are here to make people and businesses smile and be delighted by developing an eGift Cards and rewards solutions to make gift cards and rewards easy to send and pleasing to receive at any time and in any place.We Are Offering End-to-end prepaid digital gift cards and rewards solutions and productsResal Store : It’s a one-stop-shop gift cards that help individuals to buy and send gift cards Resal Rewards (glee) : Corporate reward solution which help enterprise to offer employees, partners, customers gift cards as part of incentive and reward program Resal Channels : A business API and embedded technology that offer digital gift cards and rewards from over 400 brands to any 3rd party online channels and offline stores Resal Loyalty ( boonus ) : A loyalty management platform based on multiple rewarding programs that enable merchants and retailers to increase retention and customer spending Resal xCards ( gift card generator ) prepaid digital gift cards issuance solution which enable merchants to easily issue, manage digital gift card
- Matbakhi — Matbakhi partners with hotels and leverages their underutilized kitchen space by offering full F&B services. We also help young and renowned Saudi chefs conceptualize innovative ideas and operate them at scale
Oğuzhan Öztürk
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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?
Zinal Growth is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
- Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
- Bloom Money — Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience.
Pinnacle Financial Partners is a bank headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee operating in middle and East Tennessee.
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Investment focus
- Music, Apps, Cloud Security
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Apiture — You have always been told “they can’t do it“ or “it’s going to take a year.“ Legacy technology should not be your obstacle; now you can transform development processes that would take years into hours. They don’t wrap old technology with an API layer. They create everything as an API, so they can help you innovate faster. Their engineers,ex-bankers and fintech-savvy leaders are pursuing an ambitious goal: to change the future of banking with their solutions. They are headquartered in Wilmington, NC, with an office in Austin, TX.
- Amplified Music Rights — AMR Songs is a music library rights acquisition service.
- Cutting Edge Media Music — Cutting Edge Media Music are the experts in music for media – film, television, video games, advertising, Broadway – across its publishing, label, services, and marketing verticals. Cutting Edge Media Music also owns IP in some of the most popular media properties and franchises in the world.
Spade Ventures is an angel syndicate that invests primarily in early stage.
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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.
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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- Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Convertible Note
- United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
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.
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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- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
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- 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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- Software, B2B, SMS
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
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- 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
- Heltia — 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.
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
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.
Mondelez International is a snack manufacturing company. The company manufactures and markets food and beverage products for consumers. Their portfolio includes well-known brands like oreo, chips ahoy, halls, and cadbury, among others.
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- Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Israel, Spain, United States
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- Pack2Earth — Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries.
- Celleste Bio — Celleste is a business that specializes in employing cell culture techniques to produce high-value cocoa ingredients, removing the need for cocoa trees to be grown.
- 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.
Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services provide comprehensive financial and insurance solutions. The firm seeks to provide agents and customers with simpler, faster, and more personal service.
It was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Hospitality
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- Israel, United States, Australia
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- AISAP — Fully automated diagnosis, interpretation & reporting of ultrasound examinations at the point of care.
- Tidhar — Tidhar is a dynamic international real estate group that initiates, builds, and markets residential, commercial, and industrial projects in Israel.
- Lumi Finance — Lumi Finance is a fintech company.
Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
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- mtion interactive — mtion is a creating the metaverse for gamers to stream from, share with each other, and be in. mtion's platform provides gamers with the tools to create their own personalized 3D spaces in which the can create, build, and socialize with in.
- Userpilot — Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
- The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.
Mohammed Khudairi
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- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Iraq
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- 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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