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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Middle East (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Middle East Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
6 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$33M
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace $150k–$38M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $14k–$1.3M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$33M
Oqal
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
5 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$30M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Hetz Ventures
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $3.6M–$90M
Maxis
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $100k–$2.5M
DFF Ventures
VC Fund
4 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Marketplace, Information Technology $808k–$27M
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $180k–$25M
Logo Ventures
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway Seed, Series A Software, Retail, SaaS $600k–$22M
AUC Angels
VC Fund
4 Egypt, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Retail $40k–$1.2M
AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund
3 Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Internet, E-Commerce $70k–$750k
Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund
3 Iraq Seed, Convertible Note Retail, Internet, Shopping
Abercross Holdings
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity B2B, Retail, Software
212
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $250k–$27M
Terra Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$30M
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software $1.5M–$43M
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $170k–$3M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$2.6M
Falak Startups
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$1.2M
Alex Angels
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Retail, Finance $28k–$1.6M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$184M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $100k–$3.7M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising $1.1M–$15M
DASH Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$42M
AgFunder
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$40M
Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software $800k–$25M
Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Saned Partners
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Ghana, Kenya Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Jonathan Doerr
Angel
2 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Credit, Retail, FinTech
Champel Capital
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Switzerland Series B, Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Ronan Bardet
Angel
2 Spain, Israel Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Classifieds
Signet Jewelers
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States Seed, Grant SaaS, Retail, Software $3M–$8M
Alfanar
VC Fund
2 Lebanon Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Retail, Fashion, Recycling
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software
NB Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce $500k–$12M
Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series B, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Information Technology, Predictive Analytics
Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $60k–$27M
PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security $600k–$54M
Angel Effect
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $20k–$996k
Vertex Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$100M
Firat Isbecer
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Point72 Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $3M–$104M
MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
2 United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $250k–$11M
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Shorooq Partners is 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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
  • Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 268
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $45k–$550k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Lum!ere — Lum!ere is a designer and manufacturer of radical style brass, sterling silver, and gold plated jewelry.
  • ElSupplier.com — ElSupplier.com provides consumer goods. That product includes dairy products, olive oil, vinegar, and cheese. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers.
  • The Baby Garage — The Baby Garage is a marketplace for kids products and services in e-commerce and consumer-to-consumer platforms. The platform offers parents a shopping marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and donate. They provide products and services such as baby transport, nursing, feeding, bathing, skin care products, diapering, toys and activities,fashion, a baby room, and stationery.
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Zarya App — Earn without investment.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • obilet.com — oBilet is the leading online bus ticket booking platform in Turkey. It is a great system for any bus traveller, making purchasing a domestic bus ticket from several companies simple and convenient at any time. It collects offerings from different bus companies, making it easy for the user to compare prices and choose the best option. Currently,the company has more than 400 bus firms on 40.000+ routes in the platform. oBilet also offers flight tickets but its primary focus is on the intercity bus market. Initially it started with team of two and 2000 tickets sold in a month. After pulling itself up by its bootstraps, oBilet took attraction of 2 Top Tier East Europe focused Venture Capitals (EarlyBird VC and EBRD’s venture capital investment arm) ended up with receiving funding. Now, operations are continued with the team of over 250 and statistics are highly impressive. During 2019, around 10 million tickets are sold, website is visited for over 160 million times and 5 million customers have downloaded mobile app which is selected Europe’s best travel application by MasterCard. The company expects even higher growth in 2020 through the high passenger potential of Turkey and dynamic atmosphere of the company.oBilet was founded by Yigit Gurocak and Ali Yilmaz in April, 2012. It is headquartered in Istanbul in Turkey.
  • StratiFi — StratiFi offers a client-profiling, risk analysis, and compliance software that makes monitoring, measuring, and communicating risk simple. The company believes in evaluating risks before chasing returns as a sound way to make strategic decisions with long-term finances in an uncertain world. StratiFi is building the technology that will become the"default" standard in the industry to evaluate and quantify hidden risks in portfolios and make investing safer, more reliable, and less volatile. The company was founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, California.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Aanaab — Aanaab offers online courses in Arabic for teachers and educators to help them improve their skills in different areas including self-development, educational strategies, education techniques, and educational tools and techniques.
  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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Hetz Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 14 in the past 12 months

We are Hetz Ventures, a team of investment professionals backed by some of Europe's most successful and best-connected investors. We driven by professional and open communication and swift decision making. We help startups to create.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$17M; Series A $10M–$90M; Series B $15M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
  • BAND — BAND is the Developer of a universal AI platform that integrates and orchestrates intelligent agents across business systems.
  • Upriver — Upriver is an AI-native data engineering platform that connects to an organization's data stack, understands its data environment, and uses autonomous agents to build, maintain, validate, and troubleshoot data pipelines and data operations.
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hardal — Centralize your first-party data and connect it from any source to any destination for a better performance.
  • Promake
  • Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri — Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. manufactures and exports a variety of sanitary products, including cosmetics, personal care items, and home cleaning products. The company is known for its private label wet wipes, which are produced with botanical ingredients. Sapro adapts its processes and products to meet the needs of the Earth andall living beings, emphasizing sustainability and innovation in its operations.
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DFF Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Dutch Founders Fund is a (pre) seed venture fund that backs founders building the marketplaces of tomorrow. We like platforms that reimagine traditional supply chains and SaaS-enabled marketplaces.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketplace, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.8M; Series A $5.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cofrai
  • Liablix
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $180k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Carseer — Carseer is a vehicle history reporting platform that offers vehicle history reports, enabling its users to make an informed decision when buying a new/used car.
  • yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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Logo Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • V-Count — V-Count works with 550+ brands, 25.000+ locations in 105+ countries.
  • Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
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AUC Angels
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

What is AUC Angels? AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region. Angel investors are individuals who are interested in investing in early-stage startups with growth potential which in turn supports the growth of a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dKilo — dKilo is a technology company in the AdTech space. It offers smart out of home advertising solutions using the internet of things and AI.
  • Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
  • 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
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AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Adamtech is The result of three entrepreneurs joining their life experiences together.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $70k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Repzo — Repzo is a mobile sales CRM (customer relationship management) app . Simply put, this application turns your smartphone or tablet into the ultimate standalone field force management tool.
  • Abwaab — Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outsidethe classroom.
  • Faylasof — Because the storage space is limited in the traditional bookstores, and it is always under pressure to advertise only the best-selling books. And for the special needs of readers Faylasof has brought the solution to this troubled approach to current technology, only very little space to store large amounts of data and be able to quickly find thebooks they need, of course, books can provide readers with a variety of consulting needs.Faylasof is one of the largest advisor books online bookstore in the Middle east. That allows ordinary users to conveniently easy find books, offering more than 1 million titles of Arabic and English books with home delivery and customized payment methods .Faylasof Mission: provide people with what is needed to read more in a very technical and professional way, inspire them with EducationFaylasof Vision: Create a generation of Readers by building an international strategy to become the best books providers nationally, and internationally
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Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Al Sharqiya TV is Iraq's first privately owned satellite channel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Iraq

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
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Abercross Holdings
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Investing in privately owned, profitable, high growth, medium sized UK companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
  • Complete Business Solutions — Complete Business Solutions provides affordable business solutions for accounting, payroll, human resource, and personnel needs.
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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $250k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Haelixa — Physical supply chain traceability with DNA for product sustainability. Mark, verify, and communicate the journey of your materials.
  • Promake
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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Terra Venture Partners
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We are an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with inspiring entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M; Series A $2.1M–$14M; Series B $15M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • ViewNetic — ViewNetic is an AgTech startup developing unique imaging and machine learning technologies for early, pre-propagation detection of pests and diseases in high-value crops.
  • Infiniplex — Infiniplex is an Israel-based startup whose mission is to utilize routine blood testing to screen for genetic tumor biomarkers and to offer preemptive, preventive, and follow-up cancer screenings at a more accessible and affordable cost. Our goal is to identify common and rare cancer types through a standard, inexpensive blood test that could becarried out as part of routine checkups, leveraging existing laboratory equipment and know-how. We aim to include tumor genomic testing as part of people's standard blood test checkups. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Yokne'am Illit, Israel.
  • Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
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Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

JVP is a top VC firm with $1.9B AUM and 165 companies built, leading in AI, Cyber Security, Fintech, Insurtech and Climatech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $4.3M–$24M; Series B $10M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Reduxio — Overcome data gravity with ionir, a Kubernetes Data Services platform built for enterprises and optimized to run in Kubernetes.
  • ThetaRay — ThetaRay's big data analytics solutions are based on AI & machine learning, empowering businesses to find opportunities and threats hidden in their big data
  • Altair Semiconductor — Altair is a fabless semiconductor company based in Israel that is developing state of the art, ultra low power mobile WiMAX silicon solutions optimized for handsets and handheld devices.Altair was founded in May 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives with extensive broadband and wireless silicon experience. Their products are thesmallest, lowest power solutions in the industry, offering superb mobility performance and enabling the migration of WiMAX from a fixed wireless PC technology to a true next generation mobile technology.Altair's management and technology executives were among the founding team of Libit Signal Processing, a fabless chip company acquired by Texas Instruments in 1999 for $365 million. The company's world class scientists, algorithm, VLSI and software engineers have in the past, jointly developed over twenty complex mixed-signal silicon products, spanning six different broadband wired and wireless technologies.Altair is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum and a member of the IEEE802.16e.
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
  • AlgoDriven — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
  • Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 18 in the past 12 months

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
  • Spektra Games — We make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
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Falak Startups
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $6k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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 is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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Alex Angels
VC Fund · Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Alexandria Business Angels Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $28k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Plstka — Plstka is solid waste management and recycling company that collects solid trash from gamification mobile app.
  • AgriCash — AgriCash is a financial services company that provides application for installment of agricultural production sectors.
  • Poultry Sync — Take your poultry production operation to the next level and leverage artificial intelligence to boost performance, save cost, control fraud, and increase efficiency.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 587
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$99M; Series B $4.3M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Base Food — Base Food produces high-quality, flavorful staple food products that are nutritionally-balanced and convenient.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
  • Wonderplanet — Wonderplanet designs and develops native language applications and games for smart phones and tablets. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coraly — Coraly is a real estate growth platform that unifies listings, leads, transactions, marketing, and compliance in one AI-powered system for agents and teams.
  • Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

At the core of our ethos is a firm belief in human potential and the promise of a better future. We forge lasting legacies by partnering with founders who are obsessed with redefining paradigms and building companies that will transcend generations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • PostEx — Instant & upfront payments for e-commerce stores offering Cash on Delivery. Get seamless COD, growth capital, and nationwide same-day delivery with PostEx!
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Atomo Coffee — Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reversed engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee.
  • Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
  • Bear Flag Robotics — Safe, productive and efficient farming operations for the next generation of growers. Customize, Orchestrate, Automate,and Scale your fleet to your needs.
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$12M; Series B $6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Aidoc — Aidoc is an Israel-based startup providing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists. Their products help detect and pinpoint critical anomalies for radiologists through deep learning and AI algorithms that analyze medical images and patient data. Aidoc eases up the work list and frees up time and attention to what matters. The startupdeidentifies these and sends them onto Aidoc’s cloud, where algorithms identify and highlight abnormalities before returning the images to radiology workstations for reidentification.Aidoc's s solutions aid radiologists in reducing turnaround time and increasing quality and efficiency by flagging acute anomalies in real-time. It also offers tests for intracranial hemorrhages and spinal fractures, plus several chest exams for pulmonary embolisms, pneumothorax, rib fractures, and lung nodules.Aidoc was founded by Guy Reiner, Elad Walach, and Michael Braginsky in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • PayKey — The PayKey social banking and mobile P2P payment solution: A patent-pending mobile payment keyboard that seamlessly integrates with your banking application and lets users complete a transaction without leaving their social application.
  • Magisto — Magisto online video editor is a fast & powerful video maker. Turn your photos and video clips into video stories with Magisto movie editor. Start free!
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 17 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
  • Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
  • Kanjo — Kanjo is a software company offering pre-diagnosis, remote monitoring, and personalized care-matching solutions for mental health wellness.
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Saned Partners
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Toters — Fast & easy delivery. GET THE APP
  • Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
  • Mumzworld — Shop at Mumzworld, the leading online store for newborn and child essentials across the Middle East and worldwide. Find motherhood must-haves and shop today!
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
  • Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
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Jonathan Doerr
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Jonathan Doerr is the CEO of Daraz. Prior to this, Jonathan served as the managing director of Jumia Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Champel Capital
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

As a young and dynamic company with a spirit of entrepreneurship, we look first and foremost at the vision leading the entrepreneur. We believe that we should be investing in people, before everything else. We want to be investing in companies led by entrepreneurs who are capable of envisioning and growing great companies with products and/or services meeting real market needs in large and growing markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lynxight — Lynxight creates computer vision applications for underwater operations. The company offers a platform with a set of applications utilized across multiple industries: pools, aquaculture, energy, maritime security and infrastructure, among others. Powered by proprietary AI technology, Lynxight enables superior capabilities to manage safety risksand improve operational performance: object detection, measurement and recognition, behavioral analysis, action classification, trajectory optimization and anomaly modeling to predict and forewarn of unplanned situations.Lynxight is hardware agnostic and can be applied in any environment using imaging from above/below water.
  • Treetoscope — The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology.
  • Intelligent Traffic Control — Intelligent Traffic Control is an adaptive AI-based traffic light real-time management system. It uses advance Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms to make a real-time analysis of the intersection situation, recognize the traffic pattern and tendencies, and changing the green light allocation per lane accordingly, assuringminimum waiting time at the intersection by maximizing the intersection capability.ITC mathematically proved that there are many traffic jams that the system can prevent. It accumulates the algorithm based on a complex mathematical equation and set of algorithms.
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Ronan Bardet
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Ronan Bardet is the founder and CEO of EGI GROUP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Classifieds
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Heygo — Explore places to visit within the UK and around the world on Rest Less. Get inspired and plan trips to holiday destinations with us.
  • Tu&Co — Tu&Co is an Ecommerce for the purchase of household products and guides for its assembly.
  • Shopper — TNG Shopper. Accelerating the Next Generation of Retail. A hybrid retail web platform where physical and digital retail merge. Hybrid Commerce - Hybrid Retail
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Signet Jewelers
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Signet Jewelers engages in the retail sale of jewelry and watches in the United States, the United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STOREE — Create your AI retail manager and unlock better store performance, insights, and more efficient operations, all in one place.
  • Akron Children’s Hospital — We lead the way to healthier futures for children through quality patient care, education, and advocacy
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Alfanar
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Alfanar is the Arab region's first venture philanthropy organisation. We support social enterprises in the Arab region by helping them to become sustainable.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Recycling
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Lebanon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FabricAID — FabricAID collects, sorts, and redistributes second-hand clothes at micro prices to marginalized communities reducing fabric waste.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
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NB Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $2.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yegertek — Yegertek is a leading Loyalty Program & Customer Engagement technology provider in Dubai, UAE with the aim of transforming customer engagement space globally.
  • Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
  • Edgistify — Edgistify is an AI-driven warehousing and fulfilment partner building India’s most trusted and intelligent supply chain backbone. Powered by its proprietary platform, EdgeOS, the company unifies warehousing, order management, transportation, and on-ground operations into one seamless execution ecosystem. Built on technology, discipline, andreliability, Edgistify is redefining how modern brands scale fulfilment in India.
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Roxom Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
  • VERB Technology Company — VERB Technology Company is a software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, applications platform developer. Its platform is comprised of sales enablement business software products marketed on a subscription basis. The applications are available in both mobile and desktop versions. It includes verbCRM, Customer Relationship Management application, verbLEARN,Learning Management System application, and verbLIVE, its Live Broadcast Video Webinar application.
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Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Backing outlier founders who build different.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Predictive Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kingpin — The AI revenue engine for B2B retail
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Vault Wealth — Discover the range of private wealth management services with personalized wealth planning from Vault, a certified private wealth advisor in Dubai & UAE. A secure digital wealth platform trusted by professionals.
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
  • Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
  • Branchsight — Made with Framer
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $190k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $4M–$20M; Series B $11M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sepio — Sepio Zero Trust Hardware Security enhances network security by seeing, assessing, and mitigating risk across all known and shadow IT assets.
  • ORION Security — ORION detects and prevents data loss across SaaS, email, cloud, AI tools, and endpoints using intelligent, context-aware, proprietary AI agents.
  • 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.
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Angel Effect
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$755k; Pre-Seed $20k–$996k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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Vertex Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Vertex Ventures US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 416
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$28M; Series B $6M–$43M; Series C $9.3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Warung Pintar — Platform digital terpercaya untuk membantu warung tradisional Indonesia tumbuh bersama teknologi.
  • Flutura — Accenture discusses how to maximize business potential with Accenture's Industrial Intelligence Suite. Read more.
  • Ace Turtle Omni Pvt Ltd — We help retail businesses in India, Singapore & Malaysia convert multichannel sales & marketing strategies to omnichannel on marketplaces & own websites
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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Point72 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 243
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$12M; Series A $10M–$35M; Series B $15M–$104M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
  • zerohash — zerohash provides API-first technology and turnkey regulatory infrastructure to launch and scale compliant crypto and stablecoin products quickly and securely.
  • Range Media Partners — Range Media Partners provides artists, directors, writers, professional athletes, and others with management and representation services.
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MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Mena Venture Investments (MVI) is an angel fund that invests in early stage startups with strong growth potential in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and beyond. We work with entrepreneurs to build solid, scalable businesses and ensure access to capital at early stages of a venture to fuel their growth. Beyond financial investment,MVI offers support through mentorship, access to markets, networks, and clients, as well as cross-border operational support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3.2M; Series A $800k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
  • Connecterra — Remove data silos across your systems, quantify your decisions with data, get insights and analysis powered by advanced AI delivered to your inbox and to your wider team.
  • littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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