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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Middle East (September 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
11 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $600k–$29M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
9 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$30M
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
8 Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace $150k–$30M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
7 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.2M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.3M–$53M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
7 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
Oqal
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $575k–$30M
Hetz Ventures
VC Fund
5 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $3.6M–$90M
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $180k–$25M
DFF Ventures
VC Fund
4 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Marketplace $808k–$30M
Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $284k–$7.5M
AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund
4 Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Internet, E-Commerce $70k–$3M
INT3
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Cyber Security $700k–$30M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $22k–$27M
AUC Angels
VC Fund
4 Egypt, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Retail $40k–$1.2M
Logo Ventures
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway Seed, Series A Software, Retail, SaaS $600k–$22M
Abercross Holdings
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity B2B, Retail, Software $6.7M–$6.7M
Vertex Ventures Israel
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3.5M–$100M
Maxis
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $100k–$2.5M
212
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $250k–$27M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Sales $1M–$15M
Touma Group
VC Fund
3 Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed SaaS, Retail, FinTech $100k–$400k
Lyra Ventures
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States, France Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Retail, E-Commerce $3M–$27M
AgFunder
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$28M
Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $100k–$12M
Falak Startups
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$2.4M
Alex Angels
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Logistics, Food and Beverage $28k–$1.6M
Inventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$7M
Target Global
VC Fund
3 Germany, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $2M–$100M
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software $1.5M–$33M
DASH Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States Seed, Series B, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet $600k–$44M
Wellborn Ventures
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Fitness $1M–$20M
Sawari Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software $100k–$42M
Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $155k–$15M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Software $1.2M–$50M
Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund
3 Iraq Seed, Convertible Note Retail, Internet, Shopping
Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$37M
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce $170k–$3M
Terra Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$30M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $100k–$3.7M
Elm
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, E-Commerce
MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
2 United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $250k–$11M
Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
AltaIR Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $120k–$22M
Red Dot Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, France Series B, Series C, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $21M–$100M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
NB Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce $500k–$21M
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 11 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: 219
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 9 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: 117
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$3.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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.com, founded in 2012, is an end-to-end ticketing platform listing hundreds of bus operators, airlines and ferry companies as well as offerings from hotels and car rental companies. Obilet also provides bus operators with its best-in-class Inventory Management System (IMS) as a SaaS.Obilet is the indisputable market leader in Turkey both inB2B and B2C segments with 400+ bus carriers using its IMS software, 25 million visitors per month, and 15 million app downloads.Obilet is projected to sell more than 40 million tickets annually in 2024, making it one of the top-3 bus ticketing platforms in the world. Obilet also set its vision to be the one-stop-shop for whole needs of users regarding the tourism and travel products by expanding its category offerings with the addition of hotel booking and car rental services. Moreover, Obilet has launched its international expansion project in H2 2022, has one of the largest coverage of markets globally.
  • StratiFi — An AI-powered client investment workflow software for wealth managers
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 8 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: 71
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M 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 · 7 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: 357
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $49k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $95M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 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: 776
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$31M; Series B $3.5M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • NBT — NBT specializes in the development of wind farms in the field of renewable energy in emerging markets.
  • Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 7 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, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$10M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Anecdote —
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 6 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: 109
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $2.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
  • THINK-AI — The Think AI Fabric: AI Node, ILM, and Constellation bonded into one supercompute platform, built for radical efficiency. Nothing sits idle.
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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: 139
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1.1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1090
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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Hetz Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 15 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: 75
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$20M; Series A $10M–$90M; Series B $15M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $18M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Aligned — Aligned provides sales teams with a customer-facing digital portal that can be used to manage and share their marketing content, conversation and sales process with prospective buyers. The Saas B2B startup is growing at a fast pace and looking for top talents to join its core team.
  • Oak — Oak is the identity operating system born complete: one AI-native platform that discovers, understands, and governs every human, machine, and AI agent identity.
  • Arrakis Security — Secure the enterprise agents where they're deployed. Total visibility, governance, and remediation for the autonomous workforce.
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 5 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$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

  • Yasmina — Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services.
  • 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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DFF Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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, SaaS, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.8M; Series A $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $59M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
  • compri — AI Agents that automate sourcing, supplier management and procurement operations for manufacturing companies. Your new team colleagues.
  • Grid.online — Grid.online is building transportation infrastructure as a service that will unlock the huge free transportation capacity of cities and allow it to be shared efficiently.
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $284k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.5M; Series A $800k–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
  • HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
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AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 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: 8
  • Round size: Seed $70k–$750k; Series A $3M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
  • Floranow — FloraNow - The online floral marketplace connecting flower suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers worldwide. Find roses, tulips, and premium flowers with integrated farm management and vendor portal solutions.
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INT3
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

The Israeli founders fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$8.6M; Series A $17M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eon — Meet Eon, the next-generation cloud backup solution with the first-ever backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. We empower organizations with cloud backup posture management (CBPM), making complex backups simple and turning them into valuable, easily accessible assets.
  • Euno — Euno is a frictionless data model governance platform that provides a revolutionary approach to dynamic data that enables data teams to design, regulate, and grow data models alongside the company.
  • HiveWare — HiveWare brings a modern approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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: 130
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$5M; Pre-Seed $22k–$1.7M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
  • 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!
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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 Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Angel $100k–$230k; Pre-Seed $40k–$200k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • UNLOCK — Companies looking to outsource certain department functions should look no further than Unlock EPN. A complete and diverse business directory of agencies and companies in Egypt. All are available with direct contact information for your convenience.
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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: May invest from a new fund soon — 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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Abercross Holdings
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 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: 5
  • Round size: Seed $6.7M–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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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Vertex Ventures Israel
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We partner early with global-minded entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt large markets

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 189
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$28M; Series B $5M–$35M; Series C $5.6M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $170M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Rylo — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
  • Aternity — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
  • Quantum Art — Quantum Art develops scalable, multi-core quantum computers with advanced trapped ion qubits and multi-qubit gates, accelerating breakthroughs in AI, finance, and materials science.
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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: 89
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hardal — Cookieless, first-party, server-side attribution tracking to improve ROAS. Unified attribution across Web, iOS, Android & Shopify Apps.
  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • 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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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 9 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: 72
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $250k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $56M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications.
  • Provenance — Every model, deck, and source document on one record. Prove where any number came from.
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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, Sales
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coraly — Coraly helps real estate teams create listing-ready content, qualify leads, manage transactions, and share client-ready Packs from one AI-powered platform.
  • 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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Touma Group
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Business Investments, Import & Export

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AlgoTraders — Launch systematic strategies without building the whole quant infrastructure team: data, backtesting, execution, reporting, compliance and agentic-AI workflows. On our cloud or yours. Winner, Hedgeweek European Awards 2026.
  • Golden Fist — Popcorn Machines Saudi Arabia Popcorn Warmers Cinema Concessions Saudi Arabia Party Supplies Saudi Arabia Nacho Machines Saudi Arabia Fresh Corn Slush Machines Icetro Sno biz
  • Central Limit Technologies — Professional investment strategies often require many years of work and significant financial investments in buying and managing financial data, maintaining old systems, and handling various technical challenges. Our technology takes care of all these aspects, allowing you to concentrate on creating robust and diversified portfolios.
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Lyra Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We are venture capitalists investing in companies that use innovative technology to reinvent the business of fashion and retail.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$7M; Series A $7.6M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LIZEE — Implement rental or second-hand solutions. The future is circular. Partner with the best software technology and circular experts.
  • Threedium — Threedium is a 3D engine. We believe that democratizing the creation and distribution of 3D and AR experiences represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people buy and sell products.
  • SuperCircle — SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste.
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 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: 159
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $362k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
  • 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.
  • IIF — A farm in your pocket.
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 35 in the past 12 months

Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 519
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $2.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
  • Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $6k–$360k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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, Logistics, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $28k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.3M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • AgriCash — AgriCash is 1st AgriFinTech app Provides PNPL service for the agricultural sector in Egypt
  • 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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Inventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cenoa — Cenoa - The smartest way to get paid globally!
  • ELTA360 — ELTA360 transforms the way we experience properties in the digital realm. Creating 3D tours can appear complex, hence ELTA360 designed an uncomplicated learning journey that simplifies the process for anyone to start crafting digital twins of properties. It serves as the optimal instrument for real estate agents, architects, hospitality serviceproviders, and anyone else aspiring to showcase their spaces innovatively and incorporate them into their marketing channels
  • Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital funds YouTubers and influencers worldwide. Apply for global creator funding to grow your channel, scale your influence, and earn more.
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Target Global
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Target Global is a prominent European technology investment firm with a significant presence in the venture capital landscape, boasting over €3 billion in assets under management. The firm operates out of key tech hubs including London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi, and has a rich portfolio featuring some of Europe's most successful techcompanies such as Revolut, Auto1, Copper, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, and Rapyd.Founding and GrowthTarget Global was established in 2015 by Shmuel Chafets and Yaron Valler, who brought a wealth of experience from their tenure at Hasso Plattner Ventures. Their professional partnership dates back 15 years to their time at Giza Venture Capital, a trailblazer in Israel's investment ecosystem, where they honed their investment acumen and industry foresight.Investment Philosophy and ImpactTarget Global stands out in the European tech industry for its diverse team and its ability to identify and capitalize on unique opportunities. The firm's knack for recognizing potential in the early stages of Germany's tech economy led to the emergence of several unicorns in the 2010s. As the European tech industry evolves, Target Global remains at the forefront, seeking out innovative companies like Robovision, Saleor, and Finom. These recent investments reflect the firm's commitment to supporting cutting-edge technology and business models.Fundraising SuccessesTarget Global's fundraising prowess is evident in its six investment funds, which have collectively raised significant capital. The funds range from Early Stage Funds, focusing on nascent startups, to Growth Funds that support more mature companies scaling their operations. The firm's co-investment strategy has led to over €1 billion in capital deployment across a diverse array of partnerships.Backing and AchievementsWith the backing of investors such as FERI, UBS, Allianz X, Mubadala, and Hermes GPE, Target Global has cemented its reputation as a trusted and successful investment firm. Its portfolio spans over 140 companies at various development stages, with a focus on those targeting trillion-dollar markets.Just a few of the many notable companies in the firm’s portfolio include:- Tarabut, MENA’s leading open banking platform, which was recently featured in Forbes Middle East’s list of Top 50 Fintech Companies.- Flo Health, an AI-driven women’s health product, which is the world’s top health and fitness app by downloads.- Robovision, an easy-to-use AI-driven computer vision platform for users to develop their own deep-learning-based solutions.- Enter, a German company that helps homeowners and businesses reduce their carbon footprint.Target Global's track record includes support for 15 unicorn companies, over 20 exits, and 7 IPOs, showcasing its ability to drive growth and success in the European tech ecosystem. The team, comprised of individuals with founder and operator backgrounds, continues to pursue exceptional opportunities to expand the firm's portfolio and influence.Target Global's journey from its inception to its current status as a key player in European venture capital is marked by strategic investments, a commitment to diversity, and a deep understanding of the tech industry's dynamics. With a clear vision for the future, Target Global is poised to continue its role in shaping the next wave of European tech giants.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 238
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$19M; Series A $4.2M–$34M; Series B $11M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $214M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
  • Alta — Alta leverages data and AI to drive business growth 24/7.
  • Nimble Way — Automate data collection with real-time pipelines. Power AI & BI with structured, cloud-integrated data for accurate insights & growth.
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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: 201
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $4.6M–$22M; Series B $10M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021

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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DASH Ventures
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 3 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, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $4.5M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
  • 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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Wellborn Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$16M; Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WINN.AI — WINN.AI helps sales team run better sales calls and win more deals with real-time guidance that's tuned to every rep, every deal, and every call.
  • Evermile — Evermile has everything you need to simplify operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive business growth. Try it, it's easier than you think!
  • Reeco — #1 Shopping Solution for the hospitality industry
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Sawari Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.5M; Series A $2.1M–$4.5M; Series B $2.7M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Axis — With axis, you can send money to friends instantly and for free, buy anything online, request money from anyone, earn rewards and cashback, and understand your spending habits so that you can budget.
  • 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
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 11 in the past 12 months

A Diez Venture Capital Arm. Fueling Dubai's New Business Ideas.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $155k–$15M; Series A $700k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $136M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • vfrog — The full physical AI loop. Any robot. Any model.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $3M–$27M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Antimatter — Antimatter builds AI infrastructure designed for real-world limits: energy, geography, and deployment time. Faster to deploy and lower cost than hyperscale models.
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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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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.5M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $63M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • 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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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: Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • 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 — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
  • 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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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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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 3 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: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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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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Elm
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Elm offer a wide range of ready-made and customized digital solutions in many areas. The company provides products that are seemingly tailored to customers' needs and aspirations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Reachware — Reachware is the top IPaaS in the Middle East, connecting systems for a unified ecosystem. Trusted by global enterprises. Learn more.
  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
  • Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
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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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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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AltaIR Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 11 in the past 12 months

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 306
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $1.6M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Pluvo — Financial forecasts calling for dry, complicated spreadsheets? Reclaim your time - no broken formulas, no duplication, no problems. Pluvo centralizes your data for dynamic scenario planning and unlimited forecasting!
  • Noodle Tomato — earn on youtube with ai
  • Plurio — Full-Funnel Dashboards
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Red Dot Capital Partners
VC Fund · Savyon, HaMerkaz, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Red Dot Capital Partners is a growth stage fund focused on Israeli related tech companies

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Series A $21M–$32M; Series B $25M–$50M; Series C $27M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $320M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Tangos Ai — Tangos Ai creates autonomous agents that reason, research, connect evidence, and produce audit-ready results for banks, financial institutions, and national security organizations.
  • Velocity — Velocity is the AI-native monetization and distribution platform powering revenue and growth for the next generation of AI-native applications.
  • Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

NAMA VENTURES TECH FOUNDERS FUNDING TECH STARTUPS LOOKING FOR FUNDING? APPLY NOW

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $5.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
  • Nodes — Talent Intelligence Layer for Regulated Industries
  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $3M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bold Care — Bold Care is a digital men’s health and wellness startup that offers free sexologist consultations and discreet delivery of holistic sexual wellness kits. It offers personalized treatment plans with prescription medicines and natural supplements. With unlimited post-consultation follow-ups, the startup helps find permanent solutions for men’swellness issues.
  • Power Gummies — Simplifying Good Health for Healthy Hair & Nails, the perfect beach body, & PMS Gummies Vitamins with a Natural Blend of Nutrition & Antioxidants.
  • Edgistify — India's Top AI-Driven Warehousing & Fulfilment Partner | Pan-India Operations | Omnichannel Fulfilment Powered by EdgeOS
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