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Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Middle East (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Middle East Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
10 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $600k–$33M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
7 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$30M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.3M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
6 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace $150k–$30M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
Hetz Ventures
VC Fund
5 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $3.6M–$90M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$109M
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $180k–$25M
Oqal
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$32M
Maxis
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $100k–$2.5M
INT3
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Cyber Security $700k–$30M
Logo Ventures
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway Seed, Series A Software, Retail, SaaS $600k–$22M
AUC Angels
VC Fund
4 Egypt, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Retail $40k–$1.2M
DFF Ventures
VC Fund
4 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Marketplace $808k–$30M
Abercross Holdings
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity B2B, Retail, Software $6.7M–$6.7M
Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $100k–$12M
Alex Angels
VC Fund
3 Egypt, Denmark, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Logistics, Food and Beverage $28k–$1.6M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $60k–$27M
AgFunder
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$29M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Sales $1.1M–$15M
Falak Startups
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$2.4M
Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$37M
Terra Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$30M
Touma Group
VC Fund
3 Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed SaaS, Retail, FinTech $200k–$300k
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, E-Commerce, FinTech $170k–$3M
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software $1.5M–$43M
Lyra Ventures
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States, France Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Retail, E-Commerce $3.5M–$27M
Target Global
VC Fund
3 Germany, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $2.7M–$110M
AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund
3 Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Internet, E-Commerce $70k–$750k
Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund
3 Iraq Seed, Convertible Note Retail, Internet, Shopping
212
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $250k–$27M
Champel Capital
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Switzerland Series B, Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Nuwa Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
SOSV
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
NFX
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Elm
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, E-Commerce
Vertex Ventures Israel
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3.3M–$100M
Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $31k–$2.8M
PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security $600k–$54M
PeakBridge
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing $571k–$50M
Strauss Group
VC Fund
2 Israel Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Retail $7M–$15M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Ghana, Kenya Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Inventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$7M
Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Point72 Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $3M–$104M
Good Seed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology $25k–$21M
MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
2 United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $250k–$11M
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 10 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Shorooq Partners is the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 7 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • obilet.com — Obilet.com, founded in 2012, is an end-to-end ticketing platform listing hundreds of bus operators, airlines and ferry companies as well as offerings from hotels and car rental companies. Obilet also provides bus operators with its best-in-class Inventory Management System (IMS) as a SaaS.Obilet is the indisputable market leader in Turkey both inB2B and B2C segments with 400+ bus carriers using its IMS software, 25 million visitors per month, and 15 million app downloads.Obilet is projected to sell more than 40 million tickets annually in 2024, making it one of the top-3 bus ticketing platforms in the world. Obilet also set its vision to be the one-stop-shop for whole needs of users regarding the tourism and travel products by expanding its category offerings with the addition of hotel booking and car rental services. Moreover, Obilet has launched its international expansion project in H2 2022, has one of the largest coverage of markets globally.
  • Meal Box — Meal Box is both on-demand and subscription based meal delivery player of Turkey; getting orders only by online channels (web, mobile, phone); serving healthy, delicious, everyday food in award-winning presentation with affordable prices in delivery service format.
  • StratiFi — An AI-powered client investment workflow software for wealth managers
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 307
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $32k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • lululittle — lululittle combines storytelling with cultural themes to create empowering personalized books where your children are the heroes. We use the power of personalized storytelling to create inspiring and engaging reading experiences, placing your kids at the center of these stories. Our stories are inspired by relevant cultural themes that aim toempower kids in their diverse cultural environments. Our first story is inspired by the Arab world's rich culture and is suited for kids age 0-10. lululittle's easy to use online platform lets you personalize, preview, and order their book in just a few minutes.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • Ouda W Dar — Ouda W Dar is an online platform that helps hosts and guests book unique short-term accommodations.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Conversational Al, for Everyone. Real phone calls. Real-time automation. Built for real operations.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Anecdote
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
  • Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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 — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
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Hetz Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 15 in the past 12 months

We are Hetz Ventures, a team of investment professionals backed by some of Europe's most successful and best-connected investors. We driven by professional and open communication and swift decision making. We help startups to create.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$20M; Series A $10M–$90M; Series B $15M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Aligned — Aligned provides sales teams with a customer-facing digital portal that can be used to manage and share their marketing content, conversation and sales process with prospective buyers. The Saas B2B startup is growing at a fast pace and looking for top talents to join its core team.
  • Oak — Oak is the identity operating system born complete: one AI-native platform that discovers, understands, and governs every human, machine, and AI agent identity.
  • Arrakis Security — Secure the enterprise agents where they're deployed. Total visibility, governance, and remediation for the autonomous workforce.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 677
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$63M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $180k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yasmina — Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services.
  • yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 971
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hardal — Cookieless, first-party, server-side attribution tracking to improve ROAS. Unified attribution across Web, iOS, Android & Shopify Apps.
  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri — Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. manufactures and exports a variety of sanitary products, including cosmetics, personal care items, and home cleaning products. The company is known for its private label wet wipes, which are produced with botanical ingredients. Sapro adapts its processes and products to meet the needs of the Earth andall living beings, emphasizing sustainability and innovation in its operations.
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INT3
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

The Israeli founders fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • V-Count — V-Count works with 550+ brands, 25.000+ locations in 105+ countries.
  • Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
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AUC Angels
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

What is AUC Angels? AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region. Angel investors are individuals who are interested in investing in early-stage startups with growth potential which in turn supports the growth of a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Egypt, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Angel $100k–$230k; Pre-Seed $40k–$200k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
  • InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
  • UNLOCK — Companies looking to outsource certain department functions should look no further than Unlock EPN. A complete and diverse business directory of agencies and companies in Egypt. All are available with direct contact information for your convenience.
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DFF Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Dutch Founders Fund is a (pre) seed venture fund that backs founders building the marketplaces of tomorrow. We like platforms that reimagine traditional supply chains and SaaS-enabled marketplaces.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.8M; Series A $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Investing in privately owned, profitable, high growth, medium sized UK companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $6.7M–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
  • Complete Business Solutions — Complete Business Solutions provides affordable business solutions for accounting, payroll, human resource, and personnel needs.
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 44 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 311
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $2.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
  • Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Alex Angels
VC Fund · Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Alexandria Business Angels Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Egypt, Denmark, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $28k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • AgriCash — AgriCash is 1st AgriFinTech app Provides PNPL service for the agricultural sector in Egypt
  • Poultry Sync — Take your poultry production operation to the next level and leverage artificial intelligence to boost performance, save cost, control fraud, and increase efficiency.
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $190k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
  • DEEP.SA — DEEP.SA develops artificial intelligence engines and intelligent agents that support both consumer-facing and government-focused applications. It offers secure platforms for controlled access to AI models, incorporating knowledge graph-driven tools such as GraphI to convert complex data relationships into actionable insights for decision-making.The company deploys virtual assistants (for instance, KADI) and AI-powered search capabilities tailored to structured and unstructured data environments. Its offerings emphasize compliance with privacy and regulatory standards while enabling technology-driven transformation across different client domains.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.4M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
  • Atomo Coffee — Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reverse-engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee.
  • Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coraly — Coraly helps real estate teams create listing-ready content, qualify leads, manage transactions, and share client-ready Packs from one AI-powered platform.
  • Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
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Falak Startups
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $6k–$360k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
  • Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms. .

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.5M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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Terra Venture Partners
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We are an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with inspiring entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M; Series A $2.1M–$14M; Series B $15M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • ViewNetic — ViewNetic is an AgTech startup developing unique imaging and machine learning technologies for early, pre-propagation detection of pests and diseases in high-value crops.
  • Infiniplex — Infiniplex is an Israel-based startup whose mission is to utilize routine blood testing to screen for genetic tumor biomarkers and to offer preemptive, preventive, and follow-up cancer screenings at a more accessible and affordable cost. Our goal is to identify common and rare cancer types through a standard, inexpensive blood test that could becarried out as part of routine checkups, leveraging existing laboratory equipment and know-how. We aim to include tumor genomic testing as part of people's standard blood test checkups. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Yokne'am Illit, Israel.
  • Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
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Touma Group
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Business Investments, Import & Export

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
  • AlgoDriven — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
  • Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
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Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

JVP is a top VC firm with $1.9B AUM and 165 companies built, leading in AI, Cyber Security, Fintech, Insurtech and Climatech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 191
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $4.3M–$24M; Series B $10M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Reduxio — Overcome data gravity with ionir, a Kubernetes Data Services platform built for enterprises and optimized to run in Kubernetes.
  • ThetaRay — ThetaRay's big data analytics solutions are based on AI & machine learning, empowering businesses to find opportunities and threats hidden in their big data
  • Altair Semiconductor — Altair is a fabless semiconductor company based in Israel that is developing state of the art, ultra low power mobile WiMAX silicon solutions optimized for handsets and handheld devices.Altair was founded in May 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives with extensive broadband and wireless silicon experience. Their products are thesmallest, lowest power solutions in the industry, offering superb mobility performance and enabling the migration of WiMAX from a fixed wireless PC technology to a true next generation mobile technology.Altair's management and technology executives were among the founding team of Libit Signal Processing, a fabless chip company acquired by Texas Instruments in 1999 for $365 million. The company's world class scientists, algorithm, VLSI and software engineers have in the past, jointly developed over twenty complex mixed-signal silicon products, spanning six different broadband wired and wireless technologies.Altair is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum and a member of the IEEE802.16e.
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Lyra Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • LIZEE — Implement rental or second-hand solutions. The future is circular. Partner with the best software technology and circular experts.
  • Threedium — Threedium is a 3D engine. We believe that democratizing the creation and distribution of 3D and AR experiences represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people buy and sell products.
  • SuperCircle — SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste.
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Target Global
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$23M; Series A $4.2M–$34M; Series B $11M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Endel — Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.
  • Mercuryo — Scale your business with fiat-to-crypto on ramp solution. Enable users to buy and sell crypto seamlessly with credit card, debit card, Apple Pay, & more.
  • Alta — Alta leverages data and AI to drive business growth 24/7.
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AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Repzo — Repzo is a mobile sales CRM (customer relationship management) app . Simply put, this application turns your smartphone or tablet into the ultimate standalone field force management tool.
  • Abwaab — Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outsidethe classroom.
  • Faylasof — Because the storage space is limited in the traditional bookstores, and it is always under pressure to advertise only the best-selling books. And for the special needs of readers Faylasof has brought the solution to this troubled approach to current technology, only very little space to store large amounts of data and be able to quickly find thebooks they need, of course, books can provide readers with a variety of consulting needs.Faylasof is one of the largest advisor books online bookstore in the Middle east. That allows ordinary users to conveniently easy find books, offering more than 1 million titles of Arabic and English books with home delivery and customized payment methods .Faylasof Mission: provide people with what is needed to read more in a very technical and professional way, inspire them with EducationFaylasof Vision: Create a generation of Readers by building an international strategy to become the best books providers nationally, and internationally
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Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Al Sharqiya TV is Iraq's first privately owned satellite channel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Iraq

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $250k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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Champel Capital
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

As a young and dynamic company with a spirit of entrepreneurship, we look first and foremost at the vision leading the entrepreneur. We believe that we should be investing in people, before everything else. We want to be investing in companies led by entrepreneurs who are capable of envisioning and growing great companies with products and/or services meeting real market needs in large and growing markets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lynxight — Lynxight creates computer vision applications for underwater operations. The company offers a platform with a set of applications utilized across multiple industries: pools, aquaculture, energy, maritime security and infrastructure, among others. Powered by proprietary AI technology, Lynxight enables superior capabilities to manage safety risksand improve operational performance: object detection, measurement and recognition, behavioral analysis, action classification, trajectory optimization and anomaly modeling to predict and forewarn of unplanned situations.Lynxight is hardware agnostic and can be applied in any environment using imaging from above/below water.
  • Treetoscope — The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology.
  • Intelligent Traffic Control — Intelligent Traffic Control is an adaptive AI-based traffic light real-time management system. It uses advance Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms to make a real-time analysis of the intersection situation, recognize the traffic pattern and tendencies, and changing the green light allocation per lane accordingly, assuringminimum waiting time at the intersection by maximizing the intersection capability.ITC mathematically proved that there are many traffic jams that the system can prevent. It accumulates the algorithm based on a complex mathematical equation and set of algorithms.
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Nuwa Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aydi — We are more than a platform. We are a global voice of modern agriculture, built with growers, powered by innovation, and driven by the responsibility to feed the future with dignity and confidence.
  • Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
  • Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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NFX
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 19 in the past 12 months

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 271
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
  • Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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Elm
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $4.7M–$35M; Series C $5.6M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Aternity — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
  • Seal Security — Streamline your open source vulnerability remediation without introducing the risk of breaking changes. Say goodbye to alert fatigue and start patching with Seal Security.
  • Quantum Art — Quantum Art develops scalable, multi-core quantum computers with advanced trapped ion qubits and multi-qubit gates, accelerating breakthroughs in AI, finance, and materials science.
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
  • Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $4M–$20M; Series B $11M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Tastewise — Tastewise is a consumer intelligence platform transforming food insights with AI. Discover trends, predict preferences, and drive innovation
  • FUSE Autotech — Leveraging Technology To Future Proof The Dealership. FUSE delivers an intuitive, transparent, and fast way to buy a car. FUSE eliminates operational inefficiencies and provides a seamless transition from online shopping to the in-store purchase. It’s a one-of-a-kind customer experience only made possible with a system created from the ground upfor dealers by dealers.Deals get done faster with a lower cost to sell. Customers get the best, most competitive terms. Everyone wins
  • ORION Security — ORION detects and prevents data loss across SaaS, email, cloud, AI tools, and endpoints using intelligent, context-aware, proprietary AI agents.
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PeakBridge
VC Fund · Valletta, NA - Malta, Malta · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

PeakBridge is a highly networked, global impact VC that funds and connects the people, technology and processes that will shape the future of food. We invest in visionary pioneers, from early stage to Series A-B, with scalable, protectable climate and health-focused technologies. At their core: a deep commitment to disrupting our food system whiledriving positive impact. Our team is spread across seven countries and includes pioneers of FoodTech investment and decades of deep Agri-Food operational and financial experience. Together, we create exceptional value for bold FoodTech entrepreneurs and investors. A member of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity partnership, PeakBridge is also the only venture capital firm that is an official partner of the world’s largest Agri-Food innovation initiative, EIT Food.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $571k–$11M; Series A $4.9M–$17M; Series B $11M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $106M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUS — One easy-to-use tool to grow traffic, make online sales, seamlessly handle orders and drive retention. Built for food entrepreneurs, built with taste.
  • Ilant Health — We offer a comprehensive solution that take the stress and stigma out of obesity treatment. We increase access, improve quality, and drive reduction in total cost of care.
  • KÄÄPÄ Biotech — Medicinal mushrooms, biotechnology, mycology, forestry, agroforestry, and food production.
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Strauss Group
VC Fund · Petah Tiqva, HaMerkaz, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Strauss Group is an international corporation with a portfolio of five companies, which provide a response to two leading world trends – Health & Wellness, and Fun & Indulgence.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $7M–$15M; Series A $12M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
  • Torr FoodTech — Torr is an innovative food tech startup, aiming to challenge multi-ingredient snacking categories with our breakthrough technology. Torr dreams develop and produce snacks that serve a unique, tasty, and much healthier bite.
  • Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
  • Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
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Inventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cenoa — Cenoa - The smartest way to get paid globally!
  • ELTA360 — ELTA360 transforms the way we experience properties in the digital realm. Creating 3D tours can appear complex, hence ELTA360 designed an uncomplicated learning journey that simplifies the process for anyone to start crafting digital twins of properties. It serves as the optimal instrument for real estate agents, architects, hospitality serviceproviders, and anyone else aspiring to showcase their spaces innovatively and incorporate them into their marketing channels
  • Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital funds YouTubers and influencers worldwide. Apply for global creator funding to grow your channel, scale your influence, and earn more.
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
  • Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
  • Branchsight — Branchsight enables you to manage the digital marketing activities of your multi-location brand from a single center. Branchsight's dealer-friendly, easy-to-use platform is an excellent tool designed to increase your global leverage by strengthening the awareness of your locations in the local market.
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Point72 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 243
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$12M; Series A $10M–$35M; Series B $15M–$104M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
  • zerohash — zerohash provides API-first technology and turnkey regulatory infrastructure to launch and scale compliant crypto and stablecoin products quickly and securely.
  • Range Media Partners — Range Media Partners provides artists, directors, writers, professional athletes, and others with management and representation services.
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Good Seed Ventures
VC Fund · Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Good Seed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that exclusively invests in sustainable food tech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$7M; Series A $6.7M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
  • Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
  • Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
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MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Mena Venture Investments (MVI) is an angel fund that invests in early stage startups with strong growth potential in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and beyond. We work with entrepreneurs to build solid, scalable businesses and ensure access to capital at early stages of a venture to fuel their growth. Beyond financial investment,MVI offers support through mentorship, access to markets, networks, and clients, as well as cross-border operational support.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3.2M; Series A $800k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
  • Connecterra — Remove data silos across your systems, quantify your decisions with data, get insights and analysis powered by advanced AI delivered to your inbox and to your wider team.
  • littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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