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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United Arab Emirates Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Arab Emirates 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
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $170k–$3M
Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $284k–$25M
The Greenhouse
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Retail, Travel, Manufacturing
Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $550k–$5.6M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $14k–$1.3M
Women Spark
VC Fund
2 Bahrain Pre-Seed EdTech, Education
DASH Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$42M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising $1.1M–$15M
NB Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce $500k–$12M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$33M
Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $155k–$15M
Faith Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $100k–$50M
Jonathan Doerr
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, VoIP, Credit
Abu Dhabi Media Company
VC Fund
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Series A, Private Equity Mobile, Retail, Lifestyle
French Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, France, China Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Payments $2M–$30M
Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $918k–$33M
AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund
1 Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Internet, E-Commerce $70k–$750k
MPGI
VC Fund
1 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Sturgeon Capital
VC Fund
1 Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $100k–$17M
Enabling Future
VC Fund
1 United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Mobile $500k–$2M
Mishaal Alireza
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Seed iOS, Apps, Video $1M–$2M
STV
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics $2.1M–$54M
Red Swan Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, E-Commerce $1.2M–$75M
VentureFriends
VC Fund
1 Greece, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $219k–$25M
Oqal
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Sanabil
VC Fund
1 United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Series B, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$157M
Salman Butt
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Web3, Retail, Logistics
Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$37M
Presight Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services $2M–$125M
BECO Capital
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology $905k–$60M
Dany Farha
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology $4M–$42M
MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
1 United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $250k–$11M
Teqvisory
VC Fund
1 Australia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, Retail, Software
Global Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Software $1.5M–$50M
Hayaat Group
VC Fund
1 Pakistan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail $5.2M–$7.5M
Mu Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $675k–$20M
Infinity Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Series A, Seed Software, FinTech, Information Technology $4M–$20M
Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Robert Kay
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed SaaS, Retail, Software
Upper90
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, Germany Seed, Debt Financing, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $5.5M–$60M
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $420k–$110M
GS Shop
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps $327k–$24M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
1 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $250k–$50M
Wiktor Namysl
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Series A Retail, E-Commerce, Brand Marketing
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$32M
COTU Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $300k–$37M
Hosam Arab
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Series A, Debt Financing FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
1 Germany, Mexico, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Retail, InsurTech, Insurance $3.3M–$50M
Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain $1.8M–$120M
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aanaab — Aanaab offers online courses in Arabic for teachers and educators to help them improve their skills in different areas including self-development, educational strategies, education techniques, and educational tools and techniques.
  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
  • AlgoDriven — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
  • Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates 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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $284k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.5M; Series A $800k–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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.
  • Blueground — Rent beautiful, fully furnished apartments for monthly stays in the best locations around the world. Thousands of furnished flats for short and long-term stays.
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The Greenhouse
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

The Greenhouse offers a unique retail tech-accelerator program focused on accelerating technology-driven solutions, catered towards fast growing retail startups. This equity-free accelerator program runs for twice a year; offering startups market access and retail expertise. Selected startups are matched with corporate sponsors across the Group toimplement proof of concepts, with the goal of signing commercial agreements down the line.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Travel, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Armoir — Armoir is a luxury luggage brand that designs quality suitcases inspired by travel trunks.
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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups, 19 in the past 12 months

At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • estaie — Flexible furnished stays from weeks to a year. Stay longer and save across hotels, serviced apartments, and managed holiday homes with one simple payment and no hidden fees.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lum!ere — Lum!ere is a designer and manufacturer of radical style brass, sterling silver, and gold plated jewelry.
  • ElSupplier.com — ElSupplier.com provides consumer goods. That product includes dairy products, olive oil, vinegar, and cheese. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers.
  • The Baby Garage — The Baby Garage is a marketplace for kids products and services in e-commerce and consumer-to-consumer platforms. The platform offers parents a shopping marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and donate. They provide products and services such as baby transport, nursing, feeding, bathing, skin care products, diapering, toys and activities,fashion, a baby room, and stationery.
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Women Spark
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Women Spark, powered by PLAYBOOK, serves as a dynamic bridge, connecting investors with promising deal flow and founders with the essential capital to drive impactful strides in the ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bahrain

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stllr Network — Stllr Network streamlines authentic video content production by creators on web or API.
  • CADO Gifting — CADO Gifting is a leading online gift shop based in Dubai that offers a variety of premium products like flowers, cakes, roses, plants, chocolate boxes, home items, balloons, baskets, hampers and also experiences for you, your loved ones and your business. Home Delivery & Fast Delivery.
  • Playbook — Playbook accelerates career growth for women through expert-led Masterclasses and an engaged community that enables women to keep learning and leading.
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • PostEx — Instant & upfront payments for e-commerce stores offering Cash on Delivery. Get seamless COD, growth capital, and nationwide same-day delivery with PostEx!
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Zarya App — Earn without investment.
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $155k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
  • Receiptable — Deliver digital receipts to an app already installed on consumers' phones. Unlock the receipt data to better monetise your customers through more personalised services. We deliver convenience, augmented data and positive impact for the environment.
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Faith Capital
VC Fund · Sharq Hawalli, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 2 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
  • Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
  • Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
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Jonathan Doerr
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Jonathan Doerr is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the Founder of Smileneo. Jonathan previously worked at Daraz as a Co-Founder & Co-CEO. Jonathan Doerr attended Baruch College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, VoIP, Credit
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • HelloCurve — Curve is an AI-powered Voice and Customer Intelligence Platform for Modern Sales & Support teams. Curve provides you with a business phone and call center quality technology through the cloud. We are reimagining CX through with our integrated Voice and Customer Intelligence Platform. With Curve, you can conduct customer conversationseffortlessly and extract deep insights with speech to text transcription, sentiment analysis, conversation auto-tagging, and seamless CRM integrations. Managers can elevate QA, pinpoint training opportunities, identify customer trends, and improve team collaboration.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Abu Dhabi Media Company
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Located in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) the largest and most diversified media group in the Arab world. It enjoys some editorial and administrative independence. Its dependence on government and federal funding through the Ministry of Information and Culture since 1999 was scrapped in February of 2006.Its currentproduct portfolio include the broadcast division, ADMC which aims to play a leading role in the evolution of the television industry in the Arab world. Several radio stations covering the UAE on FM and AM frequencies as well as online streaming. Some of the region's leading publications like Al Ittihad Newspaper, The National, Zahrat Al Khaleej and Majid Magazine.Its digital arm, ADMC Digital Group, aims to be at the forefront of developments in digital media and operates across the digital landscape. Its business media ventures inclute Getmo.ae, Gazillion.com, and Subsidaries include a TV-facility and Production services to broadcasters and production houses called livehd.ae, a film production company called Imagenation Abu Dhabi. And UPP, the largest print and publishing company in Abu Dhabi.The current strategy is to expand to the western media world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Retail, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • The Luxury Closet — Buy & sell online at The Luxury Closet and get discounts of up to 90% off retail price on authentic, new & pre-loved luxury brands for watches, bags, clothes, shoes for both men and women.
  • Gazillion, Inc. — Gazillion Entertainment, we develop, publish and operate diverse games on many platforms. Our goal: To build breakthrough experiences featuring world-class brands and original franchises, superior production quality and unmatched gameplay. Gazillion is headquartered in Foster City, CA.
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French Partners
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

French Partners is the first co-investment club dedicated to qualified investors wishing to accompany and finance companies led locally by French entrepreneurs. French Partners targets start-ups and growing SMEs with revenues of up to several tens of millions of euros, who already have or wish to accelerate their international presence, as well asinnovative investment funds. French Partners invests from €1 million to €5 million, often on a minority basis, alone or in co-investment, in the capital of companies founded and managed by french entrepreneurs internationally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$24M; Series A $2.7M–$30M; Series B $15M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
  • Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
  • Cheaf Technologies — Descarga Cheaf y rescata comida en perfecto estado con hasta 70% de descuento. Ahorra y combate el desperdicio de alimentos.
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Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Backing outlier founders who build different.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $918k–$11M; Series A $1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Vault Wealth — Discover the range of private wealth management services with personalized wealth planning from Vault, a certified private wealth advisor in Dubai & UAE. A secure digital wealth platform trusted by professionals.
  • Global Settlement Network — Global Settlement is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services.
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AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3M–$6M; Series A $7.7M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
  • Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
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Sturgeon Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Unique investment funds for those who believe the best opportunities for profit, impact, and innovation can be found in frontier & emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $268k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BILLZ — More than 60% of retailers in developing countries are still use papers, excel sheets or outdated software. We are here to digitize the stores and power them with technology to perform on the best level both online & offline.BILLZ is the all in one retail management platform for small & medium sized businesses powered with POS, inventorymanagement, CRM, analytics, E-commerce & financial tools to sustain in a new digital world.
  • Finmap — Finmap is financial management tool that allows business owners to see the state of their company without special knowledge of finance and studying of complex systems. By using 3 simple buttons - income, outcome and transfer - all analytics appears in a few clicks at a glance: how much the company earned, which projects more profitable, astatement of cash flows, accounts receivable and payable of the company. Finmap makes it possible to see the business situation on one sheet, removes chaos in financial management and gives the business owner the opportunity to make the right decisions
  • PeopleForce — PeopleForce is one of the BEST and fastest growing online HR Software service provider, we consist​ of highly qualified and experienced members with dedicated team. we love the fact that our solution and software is making HR service more convenient and easy for our customer. Our Product Include Applicant Tracking Software: Our service help youfind the right person more faster and easier Staff Onboarding: Every phase of onboarding process with a new employer is important. By using our onboarding software you will increase employee retention and save more money and stress. Leave tracking: Leave tracking will help you to easily record leave for holidays, vacations, half-day etc.Electronic signatures: Tool to sign your documentHR Reporting: This prove report on all employee on annual salary and current employment status with date range.Performance management: Measure the effective and efficient manner to employee process that enhances your employee’s performance through aligned goals and development. employee directory: Employer master database, thus providing all the information about employee. Custom workflows: Design a custom workflow to fit your organization needs. At PeopleForce , we understand the difficulties in getting the best hands. We also understand the necessity to use good and reliable software and service. We're here to help all of our customers and their unique needs. PeopleForce we “OFFER THE BEST”
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Enabling Future
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
  • Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
  • Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hang w/ — We leverage our 13 years of experience and innovative design practices to help our top-tier clients achieve success.
  • Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
  • Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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STV
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$25M; Series A $8M–$28M; Series B $20M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $800M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
  • Morni — Morni is an interactive platform that provides roadside assistant services in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries through a smart-phone application. Morni currently provides its services to both individuals and corporations.
  • Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.
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Red Swan Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Red Swan is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who delight customers, create culture, and disrupt industries.If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees,and who scare their shareholders by passing on acquisition offers. They tend to be movements as much as businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.6M; Series A $3.5M–$17M; Series B $14M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hale — Hale is a platform that curates personal care products for men from different brands and matches them to individual needs. It uses data and AI to help users choose products across skincare, haircare, and wellness without relying on a single brand.
  • Expo — Expo is an open-source platform for making universal native apps for Android, iOS, and the web with JavaScript and React.
  • Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.
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VentureFriends
VC Fund · Athens, Attiki, Greece · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $424k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $219k–$3.4M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Spotawheel — Spotawheel is a trusted high-tech used cars B2C platform that redesigns the whole buy-sell process from scratch, ensuring value, transparency and customer satisfaction at the highest levels throughout.
  • Proportunity — Proportunity is a technology-driven mortgage lender. The company pushes the edge on real estate data-driven investment insights. It uses machine learning to accurately forecast house prices and up-and-coming areas, providing loans to buyers looking to purchase homes in forecasted high-growing areas.Vadim Toader and Stefan Boronea startedProportunity in 2016, which is headquartered in London, England.
  • Valeria HR — Valeria HR is a digitized workforce management platform driven by AI.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Mantas protects businesses against cyber risk. We leverage predictive analytics to provide robust cyber insurance that helps businesses mitigate cloud downtime risks. Our parametric solutions ensure uninterrupted operations for all cloud-dependent businesses including e-commerce, SaaS and digital platforms.
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Sanabil
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Sanabil Investments is a sovereign wealth fund specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. Its investments are concentrated in direct equity investments, primarily in the Kingdom, and in funds, as well as in diversified investment portfolios. These investments support the growth of the Kingdom’s economy while building internationalinvestment capability and transferring expertise to local Saudi talent.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $6.9M–$40M; Series B $1M–$157M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

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.
  • SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
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Salman Butt
Angel · Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Salman Butt - Co-Founder & Chief Expansion Officer @ Salla

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Retail, Logistics
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
  • Byzanlink — Byzanlink: Access Institutional Grade Yield On-chain Bridging TradFi and DeFi with RWA Tokenization for stable, institutional-grade yields
  • AmplifAI Health — Empowering healthcare with portable thermal imaging and advanced computer vision for early disease management insights
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates 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

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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Presight Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

A simple static landing page for Presight Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$75M; Series B $8.2M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $400M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Peptilogics — Peptilogics is a biotechnology platform company that develops best-in-class novel peptide drugs for unmet medical needs using its proprietary computational discovery platform.
  • Alloy Therapeutics — Alloy Therapeutics empowers scientists with access to pre-competitive biologics drug discovery technologies and services across 6 modalities
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BECO Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $905k–$10M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $6.8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Wisewell — Wisewell is a sustainability-driven clean water technology company developing high-quality, easily accessible drinking water solutions.
  • Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
  • Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
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Dany Farha
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Dany is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, with many exits from ventures in a variety of industries. Dany co-founded and exited Bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest job site; Butlers, the UAE’s largest commercial laundry company and Intercat, one of the largest catering companies in the UAE. Dany was a seed investor in Gonabit, a MiddleEast focused daily deal website that was acquired by Living Social in 2011. He currently sits on the boards of 3 portfolio companies.Dany is the first to acknowledge that he wouldn’t have accomplished all these things without the support of the investors and mentors that gave him his start. It is this belief that serves as the impetus behind BECO. Like those that boosted him when he needed it, Dany aspires to serve the next wave of entrepreneurs, so that they too can fulfil their potential and pass along the same spirit of generosity to those that follow in their footsteps.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$9.5M; Series A $4M–$40M; Series B $30M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
  • GoNabit — Group-buying platforms emerged as a game-changer by offering consumers a chance to access bulk discounts through collective purchasing power.
  • JadoPado — JadoPado is a marketplace where people around the world come together to buy and sell great stuff!JadoPado lets you sell new, used and refurbished products directly to buyers. Sellers handle their own stores including products, offers, orders and fulfilment, while making sure everything looks great!JadoPado gives buyers incredible choiceacross a wide range of categories and an easy to use, secure experience. JadoPado handles payments on behalf of sellers and pays them out after you’ve received your purchase.
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MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates 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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Teqvisory
VC Fund · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Teqvisory

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
  • Quicko — Quicko is an online marketplace in Australia, focusing on groceries, with future plans to expand to other business lines. Offering a “Personal Shopper” experience, who's shopping on customer behalf from local stores, and deliver it to the customer, with no integration efforts or operational cost on the store. QX is the Operational Arm forQuicko, offering on-demand last-mile delivery services to Quicko, and any other 3rd party merchants. Quicko's mission is to raise the bar for customers’ price, selection and delivery speed expectations, by pioneering the on-demand delivery experience, and empowering offline businesses & local stores. Adding value, not overhead.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates 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: 109
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Antimatter
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Hayaat Group
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Investing in innovative, sustainable and world-leading projects

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $5.2M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
  • Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
  • GrocerApp — GrocerApp is a low-price online supermarket that allows users to order products across categories like grocery, vegetables, beauty & wellness, household care, baby care, pet care, and meats & seafood and gets it delivered to their doorstep.
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Mu Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Mu Ventures is a NY pre-seed/seed venture capital firm that invests in commerce software that reduces friction in transactions. We have five sectors of interest that include infra + payments, vertical SAAS, marketplaces, retail tech, and supply chain.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $675k–$3.5M; Series A $7.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taiv — Taiv enhances live TV in bars & restaurants with bettercontent, commercials, automation, and control. No risk, no cost, cancel any time. Oh - and we'll pay you every month.
  • Kingpin — One unified B2B wholesale platform to automate orders, sales workflows, and revenue growth powered by autonomous AI agents.
  • Consio — Consio is the only AI-native phone platform built specifically for commerce merchants. Call, connect, and convert your top prospects into loyal customers.
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Infinity Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Laying the infrastructure for the future of fintech and commerce.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$12M; Series A $10M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Card91 — Card91 offers plug & play payment infrastructure as a service for the businesses who wants to issue, control, view and approve payments
  • Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
  • Sensible Weather — Sensible Weather is a climate risk technology company that is de-risking weather for travelers and travel partners.
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Founded in 2010, Orbit is the Emerging Markets VC investing in tech companies that digitize traditional industries and help people raise their living standards all in a more sustainable way. Orbit provides a lifetime program with hands-on support for partnerships, business development, fundraising, growth, and an initial investment package andfollow-on funding. The firm focuses on digitalization across e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pickitapp — Simplify the way you manage your home business and improve your customer experience. Your financial growth is one click away. Start your journey now!
  • ChaosGround — ChaosGround is accelerating the growth of gaming-based web3 projects. Their mission is to provide expert guidance in strategy, advisory, and business development, empowering projects to navigate the complexities of the ecosystem and achieve their growth objectives efficiently.
  • RenovateNow — RenovateNow is a proptech platform digitizing the fragmented home improvement and renovation market across the Middle East. It connects homeowners with verified professionals through a data-driven matching engine that simplifies discovery, communication, and transactions. The platform operates on a transaction-based model that scales efficientlywithout asset ownership. By combining trust verification, behavioral data, and workflow automation, RenovateNow is building the infrastructure layer for property improvement services. Every interaction strengthens its network effects and data moat, driving defensible growth across the region.
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Robert Kay
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Robert Kay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
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Upper90
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Upper90 provides tailored growth capital to top disruptors in eCommerce, FinTech, and Supply Chain Finance. Founded in 2018 by executives from Seamless-GrubHub and Goldman Sachs, the firm has grown AUM to $1.2B and has originated over $1B of additional co-investment capacity to LPs through SPVs and direct opportunities. Industry leaders likeThrasio, Clearco, Crusoe Energy, Clutch, Settle, and Octane have each secured an initial credit facility from Upper90, helping their founders scale with less dilution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$25M; Series A $11M–$30M; Debt Financing $25M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $180M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • e2log
  • Fig Loans — Fig partners with Family Houston to offer you a loan that is 80% cheaper and designed to get you out of debt. Fig helps you through financial emergencies and build credit towards a better future.
  • Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
  • OTO — OTO is SaaS company that helps retailers implement their Omni-Channel strategy by enabling them to ship their online orders directly from the physical stores with the best delivery partners in just 2 hours! Also, we provide Online Retailers and E-commerce companies access to ship packages with more than 80 delivery & carrier companies shipping domestically and internationally.
  • One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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GS Shop
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$4M; Series A $891k–$7.5M; Series B $2.1M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
  • Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
  • Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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Wiktor Namysl
Angel · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Wiktor Namysl is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Brand Marketing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates 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: 842
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
  • Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
  • Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
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COTU Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups, 9 in the past 12 months

COTU stands for Champions Of The Underdog. We are on a mission to reinvent how seed investing is done in the Middle East by backing extraordinary founders and showing them how to believe in themselves when they are at the loneliest, earliest, and most challenging parts of their journeys.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$10M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $12M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
  • 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.
  • Safqah Capital — Safqah Capital is an innovative fintech and proptech company headquartered in Riyadh. We specialize in structuring and distributing Sharia-compliant Sukuk for small and medium-sized real estate developers. Safqah's digital investment platform enables secure participation from both retail and institutional investors, backed by rigorous duediligence, transparency, and smart governance. Safqah operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and real estate, positioning itself as a key enabler of Vision 2030’s housing and development goals.
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Hosam Arab
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Hosam Arab is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the CEO and Co-founder of Tabby. Hosam previously worked at Namshi.com as a CEO. Hosam Arab attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
  • 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.
  • Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Tushar Ahluwalia is based out of Germany and is the CEO and Co-Founder of GeneralMind. Tushar previously worked at Razor Group as a Co-CEO and Co-Founder. Tushar Ahluwalia attended London Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Mexico, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$50M; Pre-Seed $3.3M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
  • Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Arab Emirates Retail startups

Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $7.5M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
  • Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.
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Retail Investor funding in United Arab Emirates at a glance

Stats across 65 deals from 104 investors.

104
investors
in United Arab Emirates Retail startups
65
deals
in United Arab Emirates Retail startups
$3.5M
median round
in United Arab Emirates Retail startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
23%
Seed
most common funding stage
90/10
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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