Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
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4 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $284k–$7.5M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $155k–$15M |
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce | $170k–$3M |
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States | Seed, Series B, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet | $600k–$44M |
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $400k–$30M |
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HB Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage | $3M–$27M |
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EquiTrust
VC Fund
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2 | Philippines, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Sales, Retail, Eyewear | $100k–$1.1M |
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Faith Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $300k–$50M |
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Hosam Arab
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Canada | Seed, Series A, Debt Financing | B2B, FinTech, Software | |
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Sales | $1M–$15M |
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $420k–$50M |
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Global Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, FinTech, Software | $1.2M–$50M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $15k–$1.2M |
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NB Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce | $500k–$21M |
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Presight Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services | $2M–$125M |
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The Greenhouse
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | Retail, Travel, Manufacturing | |
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
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2 | Germany, Mexico, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Retail, InsurTech, Insurance | $3.4M–$50M |
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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $550k–$5.6M |
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Women Spark
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, Gift, Education | $1.1M–$2M |
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $1.8M–$120M |
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Jonathan Doerr
Angel
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, VoIP, Credit | |
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AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, Internet, E-Commerce | $70k–$3M |
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce | |
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Red Swan Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $1.2M–$75M |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $100k–$10M |
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Mu Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $675k–$20M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $225k–$50M |
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Infinity Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Series A, Seed | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $4M–$20M |
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Hayaat Group
VC Fund
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1 | Pakistan, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.2M–$7.5M |
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COTU Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $300k–$37M |
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Enabling Future
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$30M |
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States | Series A, Seed | iOS, Apps, Video | $1M–$2M |
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Wiktor Namysl
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Series A | Retail, E-Commerce, Brand Marketing | |
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Robert Kay
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | SaaS, Retail, Software | |
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Sanabil
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Series B, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$157M |
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Upper90
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Mexico, Germany | Seed, Debt Financing, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $5M–$225M |
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Teqvisory
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Retail, Software | |
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Sturgeon Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $125k–$17M |
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Lyra Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, France | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Retail, E-Commerce | $3M–$27M |
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Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Sports, Fitness, Gaming | $650k–$20M |
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Delivery Hero
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Colombia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Delivery | $1.8M–$50M |
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VentureFriends
VC Fund
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1 | Greece, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $219k–$20M |
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Salman Butt
Angel
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS | $1M–$4M |
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$37M |
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Abu Dhabi Media Company
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Private Equity | Mobile, Retail, Lifestyle | |
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BECO Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology | $905k–$60M |
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Dany Farha
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology | $4M–$42M |
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French Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, China | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, SaaS | $2M–$29M |
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- 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 —
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
A Diez Venture Capital Arm. Fueling Dubai's New Business Ideas.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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!
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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- 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.
HB Investments is the private investment office of the founders of Huda Beauty, working closely with exceptional entrepreneurs to build and scale their companies.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Humantra — We're a global supplements brand on a mission to put thriving health within reach for everyone. We'll help you recharge and perform at your highest potential every day, starting with our 100% clean and highly effective electrolyte formula. Plant-based | Non GMO | Gluten Free | Non Gut-Disrupting
- Uptime — The AI capability platform for enterprise teams: five-minute sessions from named experts, in Microsoft Teams, Slack and the Uptime app. 30,000+ expert resources.
- 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.
EquiTrust Life Insurance Co operates as an insurance company and it provides life insurance and fixed annuity services to its clients.
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- Industry: Sales, Retail, Eyewear
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Philippines, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $100k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eyewa — Eyewa is the region's leading omnichannel multi-brand eyewear hub. Discover fashionable glasses, sunglasses, and lenses at best prices and great quality across GCC
- Assured Allies — Prevent what you can. Prepare for what you can’t.That's the simple yet powerful philosophy that drives us. There are proven tools and techniques that are available - right now - to help millions age successfully and prevent what we used to think of as inevitable. But many people don't know about them, or how to apply them. That'sthe gap we're filling - so more of us can make active - even aggressive- efforts to keep aging from disrupting our lives. But we all don't age in the same way. So we use data to identify different "course calculations'' - predicting a particular individual's aging curve. We then apply insights derived from large datasets to make effective personalized recommendations for successful aging. That's the "Prevent what you can '' half of our mission. The second half - preparation for the unexpected - is why we offer our platform through America's Most innovative and trusted insurance companies. The combination of prevention and preparation benefits individuals, their families, and society.Because our mission touches science and behavior change, we are a cross-disciplinary team of experienced entrepreneurs, clinicians, with offices in Tel Aviv and Boston, and backed by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors.
- Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3.6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VUZ — VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh.
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.
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- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Software
- 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).
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2023
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.
- Keyper — Keyper simplifies real estate management for property owners, tenants, and partners. Manage portfolios, get market insights, apply for rent with flexible payment options, and explore partnership opportunities to earn passive income. Join Keyper today!
- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.
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- 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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$70M; Series B $11M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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
Discover Chalhoub Greenhouse, the hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. Explore our startup studio and market access programs.
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- 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.
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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- 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 $3.4M–$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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- 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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- Industry: Apps, Gift, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stllr Network — Stllr Network streamlines authentic video content production by creators on web or API.
- Taffi — We help fashion retailers drive more sales with agentic solutions that personally inspire and support shoppers
- 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.
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $7.5M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Mesh — Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges.
- 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.
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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- 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.
Adamtech is The result of three entrepreneurs joining their life experiences together.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- 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 a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $225k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $300k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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 — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
Laying the infrastructure for the future of fintech and commerce.
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- 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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.5M; Series A $1.2M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
- Bagallery — Bagallery has 100% authentic and lowest price in Pakistan of top beauty, cosmetics, skincare, fashion and lifestyle brands.
- Bookme — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3.5M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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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- 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
Wiktor Namysl is a Partner at Orbit Capital.
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- 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.
Robert Kay
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- 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
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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- 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: 68
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $6.9M–$30M; Series B $1M–$157M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
- 1001 AI — 1001 is the AI-powered intelligence layer helping enterprises transform decisions, orchestrate actions, and accelerate outcomes.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $5M–$25M; Series A $11M–$30M; Debt Financing $25M–$225M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $9.2M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
- Natural — Natural powers agentic payments
- General Compute — Prefill on GPUs, decode on purpose-built silicon. Dedicated racks across SambaNova, Cerebras, Positron and d-Matrix, under one contract.
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- 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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- KLIPY — KLIPY is the expression platform for GIFs, memes, stickers, clips and mini games. Discover, create and share content across apps and communities.
- Surfaice — Surfaice does lease administration, store construction and facilities work. At a fraction of the cost and 10x the speed.
- 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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- 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.
Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV) is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with companies in the sports, gaming, human performance and interactive media industries.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
- FutureSports — FutureSports is a new index provider that transforms professional and college sports data into rule-based financial benchmarks.
- Pinpoint — Pinpoint automates SMS and email flows within Instagram and TikTok DMs, converting audience interactions into transactions. It collects contact information, sends campaigns, and manages customer engagement at scale. The platform integrates with Shopify, Klaviyo, Attentive, and Postscript for workflow management.
Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Colombia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $3M–$17M; Series A $1.8M–$9.1M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- qlub — Qlub is the fastest, most secure form of digital menu & contactless payment for customers at restaurants, clubs & lounges.
- Buo — BUO researches and negotiates with secondary brands that, in its opinion, are of comparable quality to the big names but at a lower price. BUO believes in providing local and smaller firms a chance that are having difficulty getting a foothold with traditional wholesalers.
- OlaClick — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Seed $448k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $219k–$3.4M; Series A $2.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $113M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- NeuralTrust — NeuralTrust is the leading security platform for generative AI, offering a unified command center for real-time defense and offense. Its open source AI gateway delivers the fastest performance in the market for managing LLM traffic, while its automated red teaming engine proactively uncovers vulnerabilities, ensuring robust protection for your AIsystems.
- Valeria HR — Valeria HR is a digitized workforce management platform driven by AI.
Salman Butt - Co-Founder & Chief Expansion Officer @ Salla
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
- Byzanlink — Byzanlink: Access Institutional Grade Yield On-chain Bridging TradFi and DeFi with RWA Tokenization for stable, institutional-grade yields
- MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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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- 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
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $905k–$10M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Algebra AI — Algebra AI designs and runs agentic AI workflows that turn complex, manual operations into reliable, production-ready systems with human oversight and real accountability.
- Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
- Property Finder — PropertyFinder owns and operates real estate portals across Dubai. Available in both English and Arabic, its websites provide visitors with search facilities covering residential and commercial properties for rent or for sale, real estate news, home advice, and buying and selling guides.PropertyFinder provides its users with the tools to helpconsumers find the properties that fit their needs. It works with brokers to list properties in one convenient site, and make it easier to see all of the information about those properties while browsing from its users’ desktop or on the move.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $4M–$9.5M; Series A $4M–$19M; Series B $30M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $2M–$24M; Series A $2.9M–$29M; Series B $15M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reebelo — Reebelo operates as an online marketplace specializing in refurbished and pre-owned electronics. The company offers a selection of certified devices, including smartphones, tablets, and laptops, aiming to provide alternatives to new products through a sustainable approach. Reebelo manages quality assurance processes to ensure device functionalityand condition. The platform facilitates buying and selling while providing warranties and customer support related to its products. The company serves both individual consumers and businesses seeking refurbished technology solutions.
- 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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