Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in United Arab Emirates (August 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 | $500k–$32M |
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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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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Apps, E-Commerce, FinTech | $170k–$3M |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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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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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $284k–$25M |
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Women Spark
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, Education, B2B | $1.1M–$2M |
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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 | $1.1M–$15M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $15k–$1.3M |
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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 | $100k–$50M |
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $155k–$15M |
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NB Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce | $500k–$13M |
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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $550k–$5.6M |
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $1.8M–$120M |
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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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DASH Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States | Seed, Series B, Series A | Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce | $600k–$44M |
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $420k–$50M |
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Sturgeon Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $125k–$17M |
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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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Antler
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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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–$30M |
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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 | $3.5M–$27M |
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $100k–$12M |
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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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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 | E-Commerce, SaaS, Beauty | $4.5M–$7.5M |
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Delivery Hero
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Colombia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Delivery | $1.9M–$17M |
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VentureFriends
VC Fund
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1 | Greece, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $219k–$20M |
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Aavishkaar Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Bangladesh | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Manufacturing, Financial Services, Information Technology | $137k–$11M |
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IvyCap Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $300k–$33M |
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UzVC National Venture Capital fund
VC Fund
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1 | Uzbekistan, Georgia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Software, Education | $100k–$1.9M |
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Core Vision Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Internet | $150k–$5M |
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Global Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, FinTech, Software | $1.2M–$50M |
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Enabling Future
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | $500k–$2M |
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AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, Internet, E-Commerce | $70k–$750k |
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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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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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GS Shop
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps | $327k–$24M |
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Rachel Zoe Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Retail, Apps | $3M–$200M |
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Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Sports, Gaming, Fitness | $650k–$20M |
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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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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, Information Technology | $905k–$60M |
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twofour54
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, China, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Publishing, Gaming, Mobile | |
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Sanabil
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Series B, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$157M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $589k–$50M |
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Upper90
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Mexico, Germany | Seed, Debt Financing, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $5M–$225M |
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Venture MENA
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $28k–$10M |
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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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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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- 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.
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: 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.
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, 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.
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: 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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$75M; 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
The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $284k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.5M; Series A $800k–$25M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
- Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
- Blueground — Rent beautiful, fully furnished apartments for monthly stays in the best locations around the world. Thousands of furnished flats for short and long-term stays.
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, Education, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
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 $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.
F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 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.
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: 28
- Round size: Seed $100k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VUZ — VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh.
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $155k–$15M; Series A $700k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- vfrog — The full physical AI loop. Any robot. Any model.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
- MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $3M–$13M
- 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
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, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- estaie — Flexible furnished stays from weeks to a year. Stay longer and save across hotels, serviced apartments, and managed holiday homes with one simple payment and no hidden fees.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $7.5M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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.
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.
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, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $4.5M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HeyBreez AI — Conversational Al, for Everyone. Real phone calls. Real-time automation. 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!
MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
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- One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- KLIPY — Discover KLIPY, the largest library of localized GIFs, Memes, Stickers and Clips! Make your conversations fun and expressive with the best content.
- Surfaice — Surfaice automates repeatable project deployments, allowing businesses to scale efficiently and focus on innovation.
- PeopleForce — PeopleForce is one of the BEST and fastest growing online HR Software service provider, we consist of highly qualified and experienced members with dedicated team. we love the fact that our solution and software is making HR service more convenient and easy for our customer. Our Product Include Applicant Tracking Software: Our service help youfind the right person more faster and easier Staff Onboarding: Every phase of onboarding process with a new employer is important. By using our onboarding software you will increase employee retention and save more money and stress. Leave tracking: Leave tracking will help you to easily record leave for holidays, vacations, half-day etc.Electronic signatures: Tool to sign your documentHR Reporting: This prove report on all employee on annual salary and current employment status with date range.Performance management: Measure the effective and efficient manner to employee process that enhances your employee’s performance through aligned goals and development. employee directory: Employer master database, thus providing all the information about employee. Custom workflows: Design a custom workflow to fit your organization needs. At PeopleForce , we understand the difficulties in getting the best hands. We also understand the necessity to use good and reliable software and service. We're here to help all of our customers and their unique needs. PeopleForce we “OFFER THE BEST”
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: 116
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.8M; Series A $3.5M–$18M; Series B $14M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- KLIPY — Discover KLIPY, the largest library of localized GIFs, Memes, Stickers and Clips! Make your conversations fun and expressive with the best content.
- Expo — Expo is the fastest way to build native apps for iOS, Android, and the web with React.
- Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2214
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 43
- Round size: Seed $2M–$24M; Series A $2.7M–$30M; 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.
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
- 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.
Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.
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- 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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- 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.
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, SaaS, Beauty
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
- 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.
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
- Geography: Germany, Colombia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $3M–$17M; Series A $1.9M–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- qlub — Qlub is the fastest, most secure form of digital menu & contactless payment for customers at restaurants, clubs & lounges.
- Buo — BUO researches and negotiates with secondary brands that, in its opinion, are of comparable quality to the big names but at a lower price. BUO believes in providing local and smaller firms a chance that are having difficulty getting a foothold with traditional wholesalers.
- OlaClick — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $219k–$3.4M; Series A $2.6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- NeuralTrust — NeuralTrust is the leading security platform for generative AI, offering a unified command center for real-time defense and offense. Its open source AI gateway delivers the fastest performance in the market for managing LLM traffic, while its automated red teaming engine proactively uncovers vulnerabilities, ensuring robust protection for your AIsystems.
- Valeria HR — Valeria HR is a digitized workforce management platform driven by AI.
Aavishkaar Capital pioneered the venture capital approach of investing in early-growth stage. They focus on geographies and sectors that were often overlooked and challenging.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, Bangladesh
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $137k–$6.6M; Series B $4.9M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 91% lead, 9% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zouk — 100% Vegan bags from India. We make contemporary bags from Indian handcrafted fabrics. We have a strong manufacturing base in Mumbai
- Gnani.ai — Empowering businesses to build Multilingual Conversational AI for customer service automation and omnichannel analytics.
- FREED — FREED help debt burdened consumers resolve their debt and regain their financial freedom.
IvyCap Ventures has launched a venture capital fund guided by an entrepreneur-centric investment approach. We celebrate excellence, innovation, fresh ideas in sunrise industries and, most importantly, the entrepreneurial zeal that is at the core of a business venture.Our vision is to build a portfolio of world-class enterprises, driven byexceptional entrepreneurs and powered by IvyCap Ventures.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3.5M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Purplle — Purplle is an online store selling cosmetics, fragrances, skin, and hair care products. It gives an online space to beauty and wellness needs that showcases some of the beauty brands and products. Purplle aims to take shopping experience to a different level. Purplle was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Taskbob — AtDoorstep: #1 Home Improvement Services in Dubai. Handyman, Maids, Computer, Laptop, iPhone, Mobile repair services in Dubai, UAE. Call 045490500 for Help.
- Celcius Logistics Solutions — India's Largest 'ONLINE " cold chain network.Book reefer vehicles, Cold Storages or get booking for your vehicle and cold storages across India instantly with the best price
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Browse database — It's Free!UzVC is a state fund of funds to develop the local VC and a startup ecosystem.
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- Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uzbekistan, Georgia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $100k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $150k–$350k
- 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
- Cargon — A simple, fast and innovative industry leading service with powerful analytical tools.
- TASS Vision — A startup company specializing in computer vision based on artificial intelligence and embedded technologies. The company develops and implements technologies such as recognition, detection, tracking and classification, which runs on small embedded computers. In other words: A company that is essentially your second eyes.The company was foundedin 2019.
Core Vision Investments operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oumla — Secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure for businesses, enterprises, and governments to manage digital assets with ease and compliance.
- Moneymoon — Moneymoon is the first peer-to-peer (P2P) lending app in Saudi Arabia, offering a one-month, salary-tied loan model that connects individual borrowers and lenders directly—without intermediaries or paperwork.Borrowers can request small, short-term loans—typically between SAR 1,000 and SAR 5,000—repaid in a single installment upon their nextsalary. With no long-term debt, no paperwork, and no friction, the process is entirely digital and remarkably fast. From request to disbursement, funds are typically received in minutes—showcasing a user experience built for today’s pace of life.Lenders, meanwhile, gain access to a new asset class of short-duration lending. With transparent borrower scoring (A, B, C, D) and one-month maturity, Moneymoon offers clarity, liquidity, and control. Auto-Lend allows lenders to reinvest automatically based on risk preferences, further simplifying portfolio management.Licensed under the Saudi Central Bank’s Regulatory Sandbox in 2024, Moneymoon has seen viral adoption across the Kingdom—driven by the platform’s simplicity, ethical structure, and intuitive user experience.Moneymoon is personal finance, reimagined.
- Zetta Technologies — Zetta Technologies is a Device as a Service (DaaS) provider with a unique business model. With us you get a complete service that enables sustainability, increases your flexibility, simplifies your operations, gives financial control, and decreases the total cost of ownership.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
- PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
- Antimatter — Antimatter builds AI infrastructure designed for real-world limits: energy, geography, and deployment time. Faster to deploy and lower cost than hyperscale models.
Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
- Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
- Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
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: 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
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.
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: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $918k–$11M; Series A $1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grove — Grove is a Riyadh-based company building technology for freshness in the fresh-produce sector. Grove connects farms, markets, and households through an integrated, demand-driven operating system that coordinates planning, quality, logistics, and service as one loop. Demand signals from multiple channels are unified to guide upstream decisions andensure every grade of produce has an optimal path to market. Quality is treated as a managed process across the chain—not a final inspection—so produce reaches consumers ripe, flavorful, and reliable.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
- Global Settlement Network — Global Settlement is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services.
GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $327k–$4M; Series A $891k–$7.5M; Series B $2.1M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AB180 — AB180 is a marketing technology company that develops software for app growth, user acquisition, engagement, attribution, and monetization. The company provides a full-stack AI platform that helps businesses measure marketing performance, optimize customer acquisition, improve user retention, and maximize revenue across mobile apps, games, anddigital services. Its product portfolio includes Airbridge, a mobile measurement partner (MMP) and attribution platform; DeepLink Plan, a deep linking and user journey optimization solution; and Airflux, an AI-powered monetization platform for mobile games. Together, these products enable businesses to measure cross-platform marketing performance, predict customer lifetime value (LTV), detect ad fraud, automate in-app advertising and purchase optimization, and deliver personalized user experiences.AB180 also provides AI-driven analytics, customer engagement, and marketing automation solutions that integrate with enterprise platforms and advertising ecosystems. Its technologies leverage machine learning to optimize marketing campaigns, improve conversion rates, automate monetization experiments, and generate actionable insights from user behavior. In addition to its proprietary products, the company is a strategic implementation and consulting partner for platforms such as Amplitude and Braze, helping organizations deploy and optimize data-driven growth strategies.
- Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
- Vroong — Mesh Korea is an IT-based logistics startup, which established Korea's first last-mile logistics network and became the primary provider of integrated logistics services with in-house logistics solutions.VROONG, Mesh Korea's logistics brand, creates new value not only by providing delivery services, but also by connecting information.Currently, VROONG provides four services; premium delivery services, 'VROONG Prime', integrated logistics management solution, 'VROONG TMS', premium fresh food delivery services, 'VROONG Fresh', and premium delivery magazine, 'VROONG Collection.'With more than 80 VROONG Stations and 13,000 riders across the nation, VROONG provides faster and more accurate delivery services.
Rachel Zoe Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on disruptive consumer technology platforms and solutions.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $12M–$40M; Series B $28M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- firmly.ai — Make every moment shoppable.
- Nori — The Nori premier steam iron and fabric shaver lets you easily steam, press, de-pill and remove lint from your clothing. Try Nori and change how you care for your clothes today.
- BREAD BEAUTY SUPPLY — Bread Beauty Supply creates haircare basics for not so basic hair. You make good hair, we make good hair products for curl types 3a-4c. Shop the official site.
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, Gaming, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $905k–$10M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $6.8M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Algebra AI — Algebra AI designs and runs agentic AI workflows that turn complex, manual operations into reliable, production-ready systems with human oversight and real accountability.
- Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
- Property Finder — PropertyFinder owns and operates real estate portals across Dubai. Available in both English and Arabic, its websites provide visitors with search facilities covering residential and commercial properties for rent or for sale, real estate news, home advice, and buying and selling guides.PropertyFinder provides its users with the tools to helpconsumers find the properties that fit their needs. It works with brokers to list properties in one convenient site, and make it easier to see all of the information about those properties while browsing from its users’ desktop or on the move.
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: Publishing, Gaming, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sakkini — Sakkini is a relocation portal that empowers users with information and tools to make smarter decisions about relocating and settling into a new country.
- Unnyhog — At Unnyhog, they are gamers and they used to play a lot. They have been always noticing a lot of minuses in games, especially on mobiles. That’s why they decided to develop their own games. So far they have developed 3 games, and their games were downloaded more than 4 million times.
- 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.
Sanabil Investments is a sovereign wealth fund specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. Its investments are concentrated in direct equity investments, primarily in the Kingdom, and in funds, as well as in diversified investment portfolios. These investments support the growth of the Kingdom’s economy while building internationalinvestment capability and transferring expertise to local Saudi talent.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $6.9M–$30M; Series B $1M–$157M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
- 1001 AI — 1001 is the AI-powered intelligence layer helping enterprises transform decisions, orchestrate actions, and accelerate outcomes.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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: 192
- Round size: Seed $589k–$8.4M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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!
Upper90 provides tailored growth capital to top disruptors in eCommerce, FinTech, and Supply Chain Finance. Founded in 2018 by executives from Seamless-GrubHub and Goldman Sachs, the firm has grown AUM to $1.2B and has originated over $1B of additional co-investment capacity to LPs through SPVs and direct opportunities. Industry leaders likeThrasio, Clearco, Crusoe Energy, Clutch, Settle, and Octane have each secured an initial credit facility from Upper90, helping their founders scale with less dilution.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $5M–$25M; Series A $11M–$30M; Debt Financing $25M–$225M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $180M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Fig Loans — Fig partners with Family Houston to offer you a loan that is 80% cheaper and designed to get you out of debt. Fig helps you through financial emergencies and build credit towards a better future.
- Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
- General Compute — The world's fastest inference provider. Deploy AI models with unmatched speed. Sub-millisecond TTFT, high throughput, OpenAI-compatible API.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $225k–$10M; Pre-Seed $28k–$180k
- 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.
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: 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.
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: 26
- Round size: Seed $3M–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $675k–$4M; Series A $7.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kingpin — Kingpin is the AI revenue engine built to modernize how brands, distributors, and retailers transact and scale. It replaces fragmented B2B Retail systems with one intelligent infrastructure that helps Sales Leaders Find, Reach, and Convert their B2B buyers globally.
- Consio — AI voice agents on inbound. Power dialer on outbound. All built specifically to delight and convert your customers.
- Neurometric AI — Making Intelligence Free | https://t.co/ZxWxeMBJt2 | https://t.co/W8nlLqYwQi
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