Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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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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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
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4 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Mobile Apps | $284k–$7.5M |
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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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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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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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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $420k–$50M |
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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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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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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $15k–$1.1M |
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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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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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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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Jonathan Doerr
Angel
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, VoIP, Credit | |
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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, Financial Services | $1.2M–$50M |
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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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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $550k–$5.6M |
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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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BECO Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software | $905k–$60M |
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Outliers Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $918k–$33M |
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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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Dany Farha
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services | $4M–$42M |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $100k–$157M |
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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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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 | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $219k–$20M |
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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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twofour54
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Publishing | |
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MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $250k–$11M |
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Venture MENA
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $28k–$10M |
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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: 1119
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; 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
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
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, Mobile Apps
- 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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2.2M–$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 —
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: 81
- Round size: Seed $155k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $136M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- vfrog — Egocentric data collected by professional workers on real jobs. Six cameras, hand tracking, signed consent on every hour.
- 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: 31
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $4.5M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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: 111
- Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $2.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
- 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.
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.
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, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$22M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- 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.
- OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
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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
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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 UAE's eyewear destination. Shop prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses in UAE. Fast delivery, great prices, trusted quality.
- 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.
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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- 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 connects marketplace benchmarking with practical real-estate AI for property portals, MLSs and real-estate organizations.
- 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.
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:Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 365
- Round size: Seed $15k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $49k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% 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.
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.
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
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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Browse database — It's Free!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.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- 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
- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
- Enhance Fitness — Enhance Fitness is a fitness and wellness company that provides personal training services through a mobile and web-based platform. The company connects users with certified trainers for one-on-one fitness sessions conducted at home, gyms, outdoor locations, or partner facilities. Its platform supports booking management, trainer matching, workouttracking, nutrition guidance, and progress monitoring. Enhance Fitness operates primarily in the Gulf region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, and also develops software tools for fitness businesses through its Enhance Tech platform..
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, 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 — With increasing global mobility, extended stays are rapidly emerging as one of the fastest-growing segments in hospitality and real estate. estaie is building the first global OTA uniquely focused on extended stays ranging from 15 - 365 nights.Incubated at in5 Dubai, estaie bridges the gap between travellers seeking short-term accommodation andlonger-term commitments by offering negotiated rates, on average, 32% lower than the market. Using an AI-driven dynamic pricing model and machine learning (ML) to personalise choices, estaie provides a seamless booking solution tailored to digital nomads, expats, and corporate travellers. By partnering with hotels, serviced apartments, and short-term rentals, estaie helps optimise inventory and revenue.Disruptive and scalable, estaie is positioned to resolve key challenges of inconsistent pricing and inventory inefficiencies, making it a game-changer for both guests and property partners withthe potential to transform the extended stay market.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
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
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, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $905k–$9.5M; Series A $2M–$27M; Series B $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
- Amaani — World-class beauty and wellness brands from the Middle East. Brands and products made for Arab consumers, with uncompromising global quality and a true reflection of Modern Arabia. Born in region, designed for the world. Backed by PeakXV, Formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA.
- 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.
Backing outlier founders who build different.
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- 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.
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
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $4M–$9.5M; Series A $4M–$19M; Series B $13M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% 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.
- BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
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.
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 still 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.
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.
Investing in innovative, sustainable and world-leading projects
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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.
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: 222
- 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!
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.
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
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- 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
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- Zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
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Browse database — It's Free!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: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $6.9M–$30M; Series B $1M–$157M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
- FlyAkeed — FlyAkeed is the only app that enables you to browse fully-booked flights and waitlist to issue your ticket once your seat becomes available again.
- ImmunoPrecise Antibodies — IPA is a biotherapeutic research and technology company that leverages systems biology, multi-omics modeling, and complex artificial intelligence systems to support its proprietary technologies in bioplatform-based antibody discovery. Recently, IPA was ranked by one of the pharmaceutical industry’s most trusted and independent market researchsources as having the highest competitive score for its antibody service portfolio.1The company represents a HUB of biotherapeutic intelligence that includes a hybrid of experts and technologies, providing highly specialized full-continuum therapeutic antibody discovery and development —with advanced omics and complex artificial intelligence technology [LENSai] that provide greater efficiency and accuracy than ever before. Our mission is to provide a HUB of the most advanced intelligence and technology to treat disease, bar none. Our goal is to support the advancement of novel biologics against even the most challenging targets, ultimately contributing to the treatment of diseases and the betterment of humankind.Footnote: 1. ROOTS 2022: Antibody Discovery Services and Platforms Market
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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.
We are venture capitalists investing in companies that use innovative technology to reinvent the business of fashion and retail.
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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: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- 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
- Kodesage — Kodesage captures your company's collective knowledge to help understand and modernize legacy code
- 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.
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.
twofour54 is a business incubator that offers production facilities, training, and support services to the media industry. It works with businesses in television, radio, film, publishing, online, mobile, music, gaming and animation to create local content and grow the Arab media industry. It is a tax-free media and entertainment free zone thatfacilitates the development of Arabic media and entertainment content in the region. The company offers its users with business setup, government and travel, film and television, professional training, creative lab, investment, and media zone authority services.twofour54 is a U.A.E.-based company.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Publishing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Collectionair — An online platform where invited curators showcase the work of artists from around the world through online exhibitions.
- Mumzworld — Shop at Mumzworld, the leading online store for newborn and child essentials across the Middle East and worldwide. Find motherhood must-haves and shop today!
- Silkroad Images — Silkroad Images is the only authentic oriental & Middle Eastern stock photography & editorial content library in the world. Their content, whether sourced from professional photographers or produced exclusively by their team, is handpicked based the most stringent standards of quality control. Their mission is to capture, accuratelyportray & disseminate the unique culture & traditions of the Middle East & beyond, treading along the Silk Road map. This cause fuels their team as many before us have overlooked the responsibility of authentically reflecting the beauty & diversity of the Middle East. They also aim to shed light on those who have no voice, such as the region’s minorities & refugees. By sourcing their content from, & collaborating with, hundreds of photographers from across the region, they take pride in giving them a chance to showcase their work on an international stage. Their generous compensation schemes also allow young, talented photographers to generate a healthy income & consequently develop their skills further. As a moral company with social responsibilities, they strive to impact those who are less fortunate in a positive manner by introducing & implementing special programs through which Silkroad Images can contribute to the poor, the refugees, the victimized children, & the terminally ill. Supporting these groups will always remain one of the company’s cornerstones & an inseparable part of their business model
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- 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.
Early Stage Venture Capital
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $225k–$10M; Pre-Seed $28k–$680k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
- Subsbase — Discover the future of recurring revenue management with Subsbase. Streamline your operations, boost growth, and elevate customer experiences with our cutting-edge platform.
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
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