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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Middle East in January 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Middle East in January 2025

Investor Retail Middle East investments
Flat6Labs 6
Algebra Ventures 5
Aslanoba Capital 5
Oqal 5
Shorooq Partners 5
Wamda Capital 5
Raed Ventures 4
AUC Angels 4
Arzan Venture Capital 4
Global Brain Corporation 4
Hetz Ventures 4
Terra Venture Partners 3
AdamTech Ventures 3
Alex Angels 3
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) 3
EQ2 Ventures 3
Dtec Ventures 3
Logo Ventures 3
Graphene Ventures 2
Point72 Ventures 2
Wellborn Ventures 2
Sawari Ventures 2
Firat Isbecer 2
Inventures 2
MVI (MENA Venture Investments) 2
Presight Capital 2
Magma Venture Partners 2
Tushar Ahluwalia 2
Nevzat Aydın 2
PeakBridge 2
XT Hi-Tech 2
PICO Venture Partners 2
Champel Capital 2
Signet Jewelers 2
Flat6Labs Egypt 2
Vertex Ventures 2
Good Seed Ventures 2
Falak Startups 2
F2 Venture Capital 2
Saned Partners 2
Global Ventures 2
Newtown Partners 2
Jabbar Internet Group 2
Strauss Group 2
APY Ventures 2
Al Sharqiya Television 2
Ömer Aras 2
Jonathan Doerr 2
Launch Africa 2
Khwarizmi Ventures 2
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Flat6Labs VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
  • Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.
  • Zofa — Zofa provides integrated solutions that promote long-term change while improving productivity and patient care and enabling fast delivery of medical products.
  • Marginplus Group — We’re creating innovative investment solution to drive Africa’s growth and transform lives through real estate and agriculture.
Algebra Ventures VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • EFreshli — Furnishing & decorating is exciting with our expert designers, curated shopping experience, and professional setup. Transform your space with our easy 3-step process.
  • YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
  • Connect Money — White labeled card issuance - Zero upfront investment - no integrations - go live in less than 10 weeks.
Aslanoba Capital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Oqal VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
  • DESAISIV — DESAISIV, a MENA based InsurTech startup specialising in health insurance which is transforming health insurance for insurers and clients through exploiting their advanced AI solutions which were developed in collaboration with top machine learning scientists from the University of Oxford. DESAISIV’s philosophy is simply to put AI at the centre ofall decision making. This AI-driven approach guarantees that clients of Groups and SMEs will get optimized insurance policies tailored to their needs, also it will make sure that insurance companies will optimise their processes using the latest AI technologies. Benefitting from access to a vast database of hundreds of millions of patient records, DESAISIV has achieved an impressive average prediction accuracy of over 95%. Demonstrating their commitment to excellence, they have set an ambitious target to exceed 99% accuracy by the end of this year. Through their AI-driven products, DESAISIV streamlines various aspects of health insurance, including automating underwriting procedures, tailoring policy's benefits and coverage, improving quality of service by predicting developing diseases, identifying high-risk behaviours, and reducing customer attrition.
  • TWIG — TWIG is a Bank Agnostic Automated Savings Platform in the MENA region. Our flagship app provides Automated Saving Plans to help users save better; a Smart Budgeting tool with tailored insights; and Smart, customizable and user-specific Goals.
Shorooq Partners VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
  • Corgea — Corgea is an AI-powered security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
  • Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.
Wamda Capital VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
Raed Ventures VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
  • Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
  • 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.
AUC Angels VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
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
  • E-Commerce, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
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
Arzan Venture Capital VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
  • Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
  • Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
  • Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.
Global Brain Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 60 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Lazuli — Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to utilize data for analysis, search, recommendation, marketing & supply chain management.
  • HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
  • Smart Education — Smart Education, Ltd. (located in Tokyo, Japan, President Daigo Ikeya) launched it’s kid’s music app “Rhythm Book” for smartphones and tablets. It’s in the App Store as an universal app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. With Rhythm book, kids can learn and feel the rhythm by tapping instruments along with their favorite songs. There are more than 100kid’s songs from TV, cartoons, to choose from and nursery rhymes in English and in Japanese. Stimulate the young mind with genuine and real studio recorded music and sounds. This app is designed to co-play between parents and child. You can purchase more songs via internet and the songs you’ve purchased can be co-owned by the same Apple ID through iCloud.
Hetz Ventures VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments 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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Expanso — Expanso enables distributed data processing on your own hardware. Compute at the edge and directly generate insights from your data.
  • Jones — Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the valuechain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.
  • Prompt Security — Prompt Security protects organizations from all risks associated with Generative AI such as Prompt Injection, Data Leaks, Shadow AI, etc. Secure all uses of Generative AI in the organization: from GenAI tools used by employees to GenAI integrations in customer-facing products.
Terra Venture Partners VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
We are an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with inspiring entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
  • Arugga AI Farming — Arugga develops ground robots to treat and monitor individual plants in the greenhouse. We are proud to be the first company to commercialize a robot that successfully replicates (bumblebee) buzz pollination in tomato greenhouses.
  • Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
AdamTech Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Adamtech is The result of three entrepreneurs joining their life experiences together.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Jordan, United Arab Emirates
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
Alex Angels VC Fund · Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt
Alex Angels is an investment management company that helps investors to invest in early-stage companies with strong management teams. The company specializes in the fields of financial services, financial exchange, and investments. Alex Angels was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Al Iskandariyah, Egypt.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • CardoO — Welcome To Our InnovationsExplore
  • SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Datricks — Offering real-time risk detection and control, ensuring continuous financial compliance and enabling you to significantly impact the bottom line of your business
  • Greeneye Technology — Spray Less, Grow More. Our mission is to dramatically reduce chemicals usage while increasing productivity and profitability for farmers.
  • Secret Double Octopus — Provider of industry-leading FIDO-certified, rotation-based passwordless MFA with the fullest support for enterprise complexity. Click here for more!
EQ2 Ventures VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in the past 12 months
EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
  • Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Dtec Ventures VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman
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.
Logo Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Retail, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
Graphene Ventures VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Graphene - venture fund for innovative startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series F
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Datalogz — Datalogz is a BI Ops solution that enables teams to bridge the gaps in their business intelligence environment.
  • Start Careers — Start Careers offers Publicize the vacancies in a practical way to the best universities in the country.
  • 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.
Point72 Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 29 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
  • Ladder — Get stronger & workout more. Free 7 day trial, no credit card needed!
  • Starfish Space — Starfish Space: We're developing the first on-demand fleet of versatile and efficient space tugs prepared to service on-orbit satellites. --- Active life extension, debris removal, autonomous transportation
Wellborn Ventures VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Wellborn is seeking companies and game-changing ideas to invest in that will shake up the industry and brighten our technological future. By teaming up with innovative and passionate entrepreneurs Wellborn's mission is to facilitate the transformation of seed and early stage companies into category global leaders. Through collaboration,professional guidance and strategic support our team is dedicated to converting visionary ideas into mature successful brands in order to transform existing markets as well as enabling the creation of new ones. Wellborn is focused on investing in the sectors of: Information technology Software / Cloud / Big Data Cyber Security / Internet / Mobile If you strive to be an industry leader and are seeking financial aid and company backing, contact us and let the revolution begin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bugatone — Bugatone adds software-only sensors to any earphone
  • Vi — VI helps health organizations leverage AI to maximize member health outcomes and financial returns.
  • The-Roy — The-Roy is an business intelligence firm focusses on information analysis, and operations to assist in business and legal interests.
Sawari Ventures VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
The Middle East/North Africa is the next great investment opportunity. The Middle East has a collective population larger than the US, the vast majority of whom are ‘digital natives‘ (e.g.; under 30) with great appetites for consumer technology products and services. The region boasts higher per capita GDP and more disposable income than Indiaor China. In short, the Middle East is one of the technology sector’s high-growth regions, and offers tremendous potential for expansion in mobile, internet, social media and eCommerce services.Like the BRIC’s and other emerging markets, local partners are key to success. Sawari Ventures is at home in the Middle East, and knows its culture, context and business climate. They have experience and relationships working with technology and investment leaders world-wide. They know how to translate local visionaries into global hits.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Egypt, United States, Lebanon
Portfolio highlights
  • Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
  • Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
  • Pearl Semiconductor — Pearl Semiconductor has been developing for the past few years reference clocks and clock generators based on piezoelectric MEMS resonators that are built on top of CMOS
Firat Isbecer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crait.it — 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.
Inventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
  • Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
  • Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
MVI (MENA Venture Investments) VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
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.
  • Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
  • 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.
Presight Capital VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
Presight is a global venture capital firm investing at the intersection of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we manage over $600M in assets across two early-stage funds. We were founded in 2019 in partnership with Apeiron Investment Group, the multi-billion dollar private investment firm of Christian Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur in technology, fintech, blockchain/crypto, and life sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
  • Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
  • Parker — Banking, Credit, & Financial Analytics for the Best Ecommerce Brands.
Magma Venture Partners VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Israel, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ubeya — Ubeya is an employee management platform that helps manage shift and hourly employees. Offering an and-to-end solution for Staffing Agencies, Catering and Hospitality industries, Delivery Fleets, and more. Helping Managers, Payroll, HR and Legal departments to digitize operations with an employee app and a client portal. Our modular system allows each business to choose the functions that best serve their business: Schedule, Clock-in, Track, Communicate and Pay your employees with Ubeya.
  • Intezer — Intezer introduces a Genetic Malware Analysis technology, revolutionizing cyber threat detection and response. By identifying the origins of software, Intezer equips enterprises with an advanced way to detect modern cyber threats, while providing deep context on how to effectively respond to incidents. Intezer offers solutions for incident responseautomation, cloud workload protection, threat intelligence, and more. For more information, visit www.intezer.com.
  • Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.
Tushar Ahluwalia Angel
Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group.
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Investment focus
  • InsurTech, Insurance, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Germany, Mexico, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
  • Xaver — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
  • Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
Nevzat Aydın Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
  • Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
PeakBridge VC Fund · Valletta, NA - Malta, Malta · 5 investments in the past 12 months
PeakBridge is a global impact VC that funds and connects the people, technology and processes that will shape the future of food.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • BE WTR — The first premium sustainable water brand aiming to promote a more ecological water consumption and to contribute to a better hydration thanks to its technological and design water systems. | Discover more about us.
  • Mondra — AI-driven environmental insights platform that supports food system players to accelerate Scope 3 progress, reduce the cost of Net Zero, and drive competitive advantage.
  • Orbisk — One-third of all food produced (worldwide) is wasted. Orbisk helps professional kitchens to get a grip on their food waste.
XT Hi-Tech VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Established in 1997 as the venture arm of XT Holdings, XT Hi-Tech is one of the early investors in Israeli startups. Since inception, we have invested in over 80 companies in various technology categories and at different stages, including Phytech, Checkmarx, Enzymotec, Cymbio, Sofwave, and Lumenis.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
  • BlueThrone — BlueThrone is a Technology-Driven App Appreciation Company that Buys and Grows Great iOS Apps
  • NeuReality — NeuReality is the first complete, system-level solution designed to address the challenges of optimizing, deploying, managing, and scaling AI workflows.
PICO Venture Partners VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Israel, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sepio — Sepio provides full asset visibility. Sepio's Asset Risk Management sees, assesses and mitigates risk for all known and shadow IT assets.
  • Zero Networks — Zero Networks delivers automated microsegmentation, securing assets on-prem, in the cloud, and OT/IoT. Deploy in 30 days with set-and-forget simplicity.
  • Salvador Technologies — Salvador Technologies provides the world's fastest recovery from cyber-attacks and software/hardware malfunctions. Our innovative solution ensures the continuous operation of critical workstations and servers, eliminating downtime. Back to work in 30 seconds based on offline air-gapped sotrage.
Champel Capital VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
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
  • Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Israel, United States, Switzerland
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.
Signet Jewelers VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States
Signet Jewelers engages in the retail sale of jewelry and watches in the United States, the United Kingdom.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Retail, Software
  • Seed, Grant
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • STOREE — STOREE: Chat GPT for Retail
  • Akron Children’s Hospital — We lead the way to healthier futures for children through quality patient care, education, and advocacy
Flat6Labs Egypt VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
MENA’s leading seed and early stage VC firm, and the manager of the most renowned startup programs in the region. We are Accelerating the Future.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Egypt, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Filtareeq — Empowering your logistics department in ecommerce journey
  • WellPal — Healthy Super App
  • Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
Vertex Ventures VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Higharc — Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects and improves each step of design, construction and sales for home building.
  • anecdotes — anecdotes is the first enterprise-grade compliance management platform. Compatible with SOC 2, PCI, ISO, ITGC, HIPAA & more. Get started for free!
  • Cycle Network — Cycle Network is a web3 based an omni-chain interoperability infrastructure with global stateview of blockchain community.
Good Seed Ventures VC Fund · Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Good Seed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that exclusively invests in sustainable food tech.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
  • Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
  • Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
Falak Startups VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • 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
  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.
F2 Venture Capital VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in the past 12 months
F2 Capital is a specialized seed stage venture capital fund backing Israeli founders at the junction of big data, artificial intelligence and connectivity.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Justt — Reduce revenue loss from chargebacks with Justt's AI-powered chargeback automation and friendly fraud prevention for merchants. Learn more!
  • Monto — Monto introduces the future of B2B payments, where getting paid is a touchless process. Connect with any portal to experience transformation.
  • Astrix Security — Astrix is the first integration access management solution - helping organizations unleash the power of automation and app integrations while keeping their ever-expanding web of third-parties under control.
Saned Partners VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
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
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan
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 — Mumzworld.com is the largest e-commerce portal in the Middle East dedicated to all things mother, baby, and child. The Company serves over 2 million mothers in the MENA region and ships to more than 20 countries. Mothers can now shop faster and easier than ever before and find products not available anywhere else in the region.Mumzworld.com is acompany built by mumz for mumz, with the ultimate vision of becoming an indispensable online extension of a mother’s life. Mumzworld.com was created by the same team of Bayt.com (Alexa rank# 1,700), the largest job site in the Middle East. As a result, Mumzworld.com has:• Established the largest catalog of products for mothers in the region, bringing more than 200,000 products online from over 2,000 global and regional brands • Shipped over 60 tons of products to over 20 countries • Pioneered the e-commerce experience for mothers in the Middle East, being called the “Amazon for moms” by CNN. • Partnered with giant FMCGs, such as P&G and DANONE • Acquired exclusivity to a large selection of products, as well as exclusive distribution rights for a growing number of global brands
Global Ventures VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in the past 12 months
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings. ​
  • Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.
  • Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.
Newtown Partners VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
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.
Jabbar Internet Group VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in the past 12 months
The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan
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.
  • qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • Keyper — Keyper simplifies real estate management for property owners, tenants, and partners. Manage portfolios, get market insights, apply for rent with flexible payment options, and explore partnership opportunities to earn passive income. Join Keyper today!
Strauss Group VC Fund · Petah Tiqva, HaMerkaz, Israel
Strauss Group is an international corporation with a portfolio of five companies, which provide a response to two leading world trends – Health & Wellness, and Fun & Indulgence.
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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.
APY Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 investments in the past 12 months
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rototip — Rototip is a manufacturing Marketplace.
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Lokum Games — Lokum Games is a mobile game development company.
Al Sharqiya Television VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Al Sharqiya TV is Iraq's first privately owned satellite channel
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Internet, Shopping
  • Seed
  • Iraq
Portfolio highlights
  • Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Ömer Aras Angel
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting edge Livestream Advertising products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to serve smart, elegant, and non-intrusive ads while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech Bioinformatics translates genome-wide molecular data (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, Microbiomics, etc.) into biotechnology solutions primarily for use in precision medicine.
Jonathan Doerr Angel
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
  • Credit, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • United States, United Arab Emirates
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.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
  • Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Khwarizmi Ventures VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms. .
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
  • Yalla Plus — Yalla Plus offers QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants, featuring integrated payments and easy menu management.
  • Mala'a Technologies — Make better financial decisions with Malaa. Manage your financials, track your expenses, take a loan or invest your money all from one app. Connect you bank accounts and start today
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