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Top 50 Restaurants VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in February 2025

Investor	Restaurants Middle East investments
BECO Capital	5
Raed Ventures	3
4DX Ventures	3
Nuwa Capital	3
Shorooq Partners	3
MSA Novo	2
PICO Venture Partners	2
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF)	2
COTU Ventures	2
Iraq Tech Ventures	2
MSA Capital	2
Valia Ventures	2
Crescent Enterprises	2
Tenmou	2
PeakBridge	2
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	2
Hope Ventures	2
Vulpes Ventures	1
Foodlab Capital	1
SnackFutures	1
Reshape	1
Kybele Investment	1
Pioneer Fund	1
JAM Fund	1
6G Capital	1
AMK Investment Office	1
Saudi Venture Capital	1
Saudi Venture Capital Company	1
SEEDRA Ventures	1
Harel Insurance and Financial	1
Vision Ventures	1
Cyrus Angel Fund	1
HALA Ventures	1
Disruptive	1
Strauss Group	1
Sukna Ventures	1
Algebra Ventures	1
HB Investments	1
VentureSouq	1
Faith Capital	1
BY VP	1
Al majdiah investment	1
Al Faisaliah Group	1
Global Founders Capital	1
Derayah Financial	1
Falak Startups	1
Wamda Capital	1
Bugshan Investment	1
Global Ventures	1
Cyfr Capital	1

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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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
Mala Inc. — This is meta description
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.

A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
Amwal Tech — The fastest and most secure way to accept payments online
Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.

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

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

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sepio — Sepio provides full asset visibility. Sepio's Asset Risk Management sees, assesses and mitigates risk for all known and shadow IT assets.
Zero Networks — Zero Networks delivers automated microsegmentation, securing assets on-prem, in the cloud, and OT/IoT. Deploy in 30 days with set-and-forget simplicity.
Salvador Technologies — Salvador Technologies provides the world's fastest recovery from cyber-attacks and software/hardware malfunctions. Our innovative solution ensures the continuous operation of critical workstations and servers, eliminating downtime. Back to work in 30 seconds based on offline air-gapped sotrage.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.

Iraq Tech Ventures provides minimum investment to approved startups in Iraq and the Middle East region.

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.

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.

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.

Valia is a venture capital firm backing founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.

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.

Crescent Enterprises operates across four distinct platforms, which work together in synergy to develop innovative, sustainable, and profitable businesses.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
Tajweed — Tajweed is the first Arabic-language portal that teaches young people to recite the Holy Quran and revive their Arabic language skills.
Travilege — Travilege provides a comprehensive B2B2C ERP SaaS platform to travel agents and operators. Its technology digitizes day-to-day operations, automates reservation processes, and promotes cooperation via an e-Hub.

PeakBridge is a global impact VC that funds and connects the people, technology and processes that will shape the future of food.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Uninhibited Venture Investing Southeast Asia & Australia-New Zealand

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, Vietnam, Australia

Portfolio highlights

JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
NoneAway — NoneAway is an AI -powered app that makes property buying, selling, and renting safer, smarter, and simpler.
Veremark — A leading online background checking platform that is scalable, secure and fast. Featured Checks - Criminal Record Check, Reference Check, Employment Check.

Investing in companies at the forefront of Foodtech

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Series A, Series B
Israel

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

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Food Processing
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Colombia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Koppiku — Our CoffeeYour Way Our CoffeeYour Way Discover your new fave drinks From full-bodied coffees, to refreshing coolers View Menu View Menu koppiku latte (Hot/Iced) Cereal latte (Iced) koppiku milk tea (Iced) snow black (Iced) Americano (Hot/Iced) latte (Hot/Iced) cappuccino (Hot/Iced) Koppiku coconut latte (Hot/Iced) There is no Koppiku without You
MedsNow — SaaS for independent pharmacies
Good Weird — A new genderless approach to beauty. Be you, it's good

Kybele started its operations in 2018 and since then created a diversified portfolio of Turkish and Global companies.

Investment focus

Recipes, Delivery, Restaurants
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.

6G Capital is the family office arm of the Allana Group, which invests in diverse sectors ranging from retail, healthcare, and fintech.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Convertible Note
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

ChatFood — ChatFood is a commission-free ordering platform that enables restaurants to take back control of their online business and sell via Instagram, WhatsApp, social media, and websites with built-in online payments solutions, third-party logistics integration, and marketing tools.
BuyAnyAutoPart — BuyAnyAutoPart agggregates the market prices for all the parts a garage needs and at any moment allows theme to see those prices.

AMK Investment Office is a generation private family office.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.
Nexford University — Nexford is a next-generation online university based in Washington DC. Earn a globally affordable, accredited degree program at a flexible pace. Master competencies. Move forward in life.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

Portfolio highlights

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.

SVC has backed 31 VC and PE Funds and 5 Angel Groups that supported 525 Startups and SMEs via $1.6 Billion AUM INVESTMENTS 1.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
BALLURH — A SaaS platform that provides predictive analytics with smart recommendations for Retailers to enhance decision-making, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.

SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.

Investment focus

Predictive Analytics, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Hospitality
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Israel, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.
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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SMS
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bontact — Bontact helps businesses engage their website visitors directly from their website through a Multi-channel customer engagement platform which includes a combo of fastest live chat, call back (to any phone - worlwide), ticket and SMS, all through a single interface.Let Bontact enrich sales and customer live support services by getting yourcustomers to interact with your business. They provide the software infrastructure which will enable interaction between your customers and your sales / support inducing a more personal approach to your service. Their rich portfolio of support solutions, cater to your business needs, focusing your sales/ support on your customer's needs, thus enhancing his positive experience in your web site.The user interface is intuitive, user-friendly and allows generation of advanced reports and segmentation, as well as ongoing management of all solutions as well as recording conversations between your sales force and website visitors. The proactive customer interaction will promote a better shopping atmosphere and customer service.
SimpleOrder — Restaurant inventory management software featuring purchasing and menu costing for single locations & chains. Connect your purchasing to your sales

Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
Omniful — Omniful offers a modular platform to replace legacy systems, simplifying supply chain, retail, and logistics management.
Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.

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.

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.

Strauss Group is an international corporation with a portfolio of five companies, which provide a response to two leading world trends – Health & Wellness, and Fun & Indulgence.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Retail
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
Torr FoodTech — Torr is an innovative food tech startup, aiming to challenge multi-ingredient snacking categories with our breakthrough technology. Torr dreams develop and produce snacks that serve a unique, tasty, and much healthier bite.
Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.

Sukna ventures is a venture studio and fund based in Saudi Arabia.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Octa — Octa is a one-click automated system for collecting invoices that ensures timely payment to business-to-business firms.
Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.

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.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
Shift EV — Electrifying fleets in emerging markets.

HB Investments is the private investment office of the founders of Huda Beauty, working closely with exceptional entrepreneurs to build and scale their companies.

Investment focus

EdTech, Retail, Delivery
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kitopi — Kitopi is a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to grow their business and expand their delivery reach.
Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.
The Luxury Closet — The Luxury Closet is a fast growing online market platform that buys, sells, and consigns luxury items, mostly pre-owned, at a discounted price maintaining brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. The Luxury Closet is the first of its kind in the GCC region in terms of size, market reach and scalability. It has achievedmassive traction in a short period of time, and double digit monthly growth.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain

Portfolio highlights

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.
Playbook — Playbook accelerates career growth for women through expert-led Masterclasses and an engaged community that enables women to keep learning and leading.
One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.

BY VP operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

B2B, Marketplace, Restaurants
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.

Riyadh based investment firm

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Al-Menu — Al Menu is a firm that specializes in restaurant operations.

Al Faisaliah Group, a privately-held holding company that holds positions in the dairy, healthcare, and foodservice industries.The Group is recognized for its values, professional management, and decades-long strategic partnerships with leading local and global firms including notably Sony, Danone, Philips, and Accenture.It was founded in 1971in Riyadh, Ar Riyadh.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.

Derayah Financial is a financial services firm that has built and operates the first mutual fund supermarket in Saudi Arabia.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Eat App — Powerful restaurant reservation and guest management system. Flexible enough to use at both small and large restaurants. Sign up today. It's free!
Sary — Sary is a B2B marketplace for wholesale, groceries, stores, offices, cafes, restaurants, and hotels in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Shop for your business from a wide range of suppliers and distributors in one place. Get the best wholesale market prices, various items, great sales deals, offers, and discounts, fast delivery, order tracking, online payment, and cash on delivery with one click
Speero — Speero is an automotive spare part market place.

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.

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.

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

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zension — Zension is a subscription e-commerce company for consumer tech. Each and every day, we set out to create a new standard for connectivity and access to the best technology tools for all.
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.
BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

Cyfr operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

B2B, Marketplace, Restaurants
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Qpay — Qpay offers a convenient and flexible financing solution for consumers and pays for them over time, usually without interest. QPay is a popular choice for consumers as it is fairly easy to get approved for, compared to traditional credit cards and personal loans.
Strider Technologies — Strider develops tools that deliver valuable insights to enterprises that enhance their long-term competitiveness, including the ability to combat economic espionage threats beyond the cyber domain. Strider’s technology illuminates previously unseen risks and integrates seamlessly into existing corporate threat management programs.

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