Top 20 Social Impact VC Funds in Middle East

Investor	Social Impact Middle East investments
Oryzn Capital	3
Good Company	3
Vertex Ventures	2
Viola Ventures	2
Israel Innovation Authority	2
Cerca Partners	2
Signal Peak Ventures	2
Emkan Capital	2
Neome	1
AltaIR Capital	1
Stormbreaker Ventures	1
BECO Capital	1
Sarona Ventures	1
TAU Ventures	1
Mad'a Investment Company	1
Mensch Capital	1
State of Mind Ventures	1
Matias Ventures	1
Cresson Management	1
Aditum Bio	1

Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

DataRails — Datarails is an FP&A software solution providing finance experts with an easy way to conduct FP&A, budgeting, and forecasting.
IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

Good Company Fund is investing in early-stage companies that leverage deep technologies to solve the world’s biggest problems. The firm is constantly seeking bold entrepreneurs who are building frontier technology solutions. Good Company Fund is generally looking to invest in innovative, hyper scalable, software solutions. It is especially excitedabout: Future of Energy, Future of Work and Education, Future of Work, Circular Economy, Precision Farming, and Digital Health. However, it is constantly learning and looking for additional opportunities in other verticals and aiming to invest in the "Operating System of the New, Sustainable World".Good Company's studio brings together multinational corporations, entrepreneurs and capital, in order to solve the world’s biggest problems. Good Company Studio is a home for entrepreneurs who want to create businesses with a purpose. The Studio is a pre-seed platform that provides entrepreneurs with capital, network, go-to-market, mentoring, and support.

Investment focus

Social Impact, Recruiting, Skill Assessment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
TULU — TULU is a smart platform and amenity services provider to over 10,000 people in 50 buildings across the United States, Europe and Israel. Founded in 2019, TULU provides urban tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand name appliances, grocery staples, micro-mobility and entertainment devices, and more. TULU’s IoT-based modular units arecustomized to provide the most necessary and useful items, while leveraging advanced machine learning tools to analyze behavioral patterns, optimize usage, refine inventory, and create a personalized experience for our users. The outcome is a new way of living, encouraging more responsible consumption, reducing the cost of living in the city, and consistent with the trend to smaller and smaller living spaces.
ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CloseFactor — CloseFactor uses machine learning to reimagine the business to business sales process, bringing the benefits of greater automation and precision targeting to sales teams.
ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early-stage techology companies, in key market segments including FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and AgTech.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
Alive — Alive is building a globally leading decentralized artificial intelligence platform supported by a global community of developers, individuals, economists and technologists.The Alive Foundation is a steward, and will support and grow the Alive community until it becomes self-sufficient. Time51 Labs helped launch Alive, and currently serve asadvisors to the Foundation and operators.

The Israeli innovation agency, the Innovation Authority, was established in 1965 as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and was designed as a body that supports R & D conducted in the framework of government research institutes. Industrial development in order to increase industrial exports of high-techproducts. The Chief Scientist focused on reducing the risk by participating in financing the project, which the private companies chose and led.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Mali

Portfolio highlights

Enzymit — Enzymit's platform technology can build molecular machines that enable never before seen chemistry aiming to solve humanity's greatest challenges
BloomX — Helping nature do its magic with the power of technology
MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable

A leading follow-on VC fund with a sustainable advantage of unique insights and access to the best Israeli startup investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Descope — Add passwordless authentication, user management, and authorization to your app with a few lines of code. Choose from our drag-and-drop workflows, SDKs, or APIs.
Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.

Signal Peak is a venture capital firm with more than $550 million of committed capital under management. The fund invests in information technology companies and looks for entrepreneurial teams with the potential to transform markets and create lasting value. Specific areas of focus include Internet, SaaS, enterprise software, communications,security, and mobile computing—all markets in which the firm has deep expertise.Our strategy includes providing a level of operational assistance that creates additional value. We take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach by making early introductions to key customers and strategic partners, and by helping to recruit top executives and co-investors.Collectively, the Signal Peak team has founded and served as senior officers or board members in dozens of companies. The team has a combined history of successful company leadership and private equity investments that span over 60 years. As a result, our team has the resources, decision-making experience, and strategic relationships to meet the demands of today's passionate entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
Spendflo — Let Spendflo buy and renew your SaaS for you. Get more visibility on your vendors, automate procurement and spend less on every tool.
Monarx — Automatic malware protection for PHP web hosting providers.

Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Transportation, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Hubpay — Global payments for modern businesses. Pay suppliers, partners, employees using Hubpay's market leading FX, multi-currency accounts, collections, payments and more
Trukkin — Trukkin is the best logistics company within GCC and Pakistan. Contact us for cargo logistics solutions and truck transport services.
InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!

A collaborative community of women sharing experience and expertise who create their own investment portfolio of israel leading start-ups.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
Better Juice — The innovative Better Juice process removes all types of sugar from freshly squeezed, pasteurized or concentrated juice. Non-GMO
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
Hints — Taking notes is not enough
Giraffe — Giraffe develops an investment engine to help individuals and companies to improve the world. It provides an engaging learning environment about impact and investing. Giraffe is located in New York, New York.

Stormbreaker Ventures partners with the high-velocity, high-conviction companies that stand out from their peers because they are driven to build efficiently.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Frontdesk — Frontdesk powers short-term stays for modern dynamic living.
Custimy.io — Custimy.io is the most accessible Customer Data Platform software for B2C E-commerce businesses enabling longer and more profitable CLVs through better and...
Globish Academia (Thailand) — Globish Academia (Thailand) is beyond just for native English countries, it already has become global. How nice would it be if EVERY THAI can speak English with confidence a little more. Thais can befriend the whole world. When Global English meets Innovation and Change-makers, Globish Academia was established for those who are actively making aa better society through innovating EVERYDAY education. We do want to change the fact that “English Proficiency” is rank 2nd of “Thai Youth Fear Toward AEC Competitiveness”, with only 3% lower than our unfortunate political problem.

BECO Capital provides growth capital and hands-on operational support for early-stage technology companies. It is a technology-focused venture capital that supports entrepreneurs and financial sectors to raise funds.The company helps small companies with growth capital and hands-on operational mentorship in their early stage of development. Itwas founded in 2012 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.BECO Capital was founded on February 1, 2014, by Dany Farha and Amir Farha, and it is headquartered in Dubai.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
Pine Street Labs — A non-custodial API for managing wallets. Built for enterprises.

By entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Sarona Ventures is a unique investment fund applying world-class business practices to leverage our investments and pro-actively transform promising technology driven companies into international organizations.We invest in companies to which we can significantly contribute by applying our domain expertise andbusiness execution. We identify talented entrepreneurs, match them with hyper successful Senior Peers from their industry, accommodate the company in our coworking facility and together, we pave the way to success.We work pro-actively with our companies to tackle day-to-day execution such as business model, planning, customer acquisition and recruitment. Our frequent engagement increases resilience when facing unexpected challenges throughout the entrepreneurial journey.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
Cosmo Connected — Cosmo Connected is a French start-up born in 2015, whose mission is to secure all people in mobility (users of bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and scooters). Cosmo Connected has developed a unique technology, combining hardware and software, which ensures visibility and security for the urban commuter. The device integrates different ignition modes(brake light, position light, hazard warning light, turn signals) designed to make users more visible. Connected to an application, it also has a fall detector, which alerts relatives or emergency services in the event of an accident. Our technology is patented in more than 150 countries. Our vision is to put our technology at the service of as many users as possible in order to make roads safer and greener, by promoting the use of soft mobility. Our goal is to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services that adapt to everyone's needs.
Depoint — By digitizing every single human action, process, and operation. depoint enables retail organizations’ innermost workings to become instantly visible, accountable, and trackable. Allow managers to operate more accurately, beating their KPIs for greater short and long-term gains.

TAU Ventures is an early-stage focused venture capital fund affiliated with Tel Aviv University, investing in the next generation of impactful home-grown technology companies. At the heart of the start-up nation, TAU Ventures invests the first capital into startups and is dedicated to helping them transform their ideas into global businesses.TAU Ventures cultivates an innovation ecosystem by combining the resources and global network of Tel Aviv University, strong industry connections, and a supportive home-base for founders. Together with its world-leading team of experienced mentors, TAU Ventures empowers startups in their critical, early steps. At its 1000 sq meter co-working office space located in Tel Aviv, the team works shoulder to shoulder with their portfolio companies, nurturing their growth by drawing on the strength of its innovation ecosystem on a daily basis.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
InnerPlant — InnerPlant transforms fields into living sensors with biotech, remote sensing, and data science. We enable plants to express stress within hours of emergence.

Mad’a Investment Company is a Private Equity firm headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and a wholly owned subsidiary of Abdul Aziz Al Othaim & Sons Holding Company (ASO&SONS). We aim to assist businesses to reach their true potential by unlocking values which otherwise could not have been realized. We strive to create exceptional value tobusinesses through our team of investment and operating professionals working collaboratively with the management of our portfolio companies. We, as a Saudi Company, are committed to contributing to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and our Investment Strategy is aligned with the Vision 2030.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Teeela — Teeela is the GCC’s fastest growing and most innovative gifting platform, built to provide families with the easiest, quickest and most personalized gifting and toy buying experience
RedBox — Don't wait for drivers to deliver your packages! Instead, use RedBox lockers to ship your packages and collect them at your convenient time. No human contact!
SmartCrowd — Smart Crowd is a real estate investment platform that provides you an opportunity to access the UAE real estate market with low minimum investment amount from a simple online portal.Smart Crowd’s innovative approach enables investors to treat their investment properties more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation rather than dealingwith the hassles of researching and buying vacant properties that need to be leased and managed. This creates significant time and cost savings. By allowing low minimum investment you diversify your properties, allowing you to build a well-diversified investment property portfolio without taking on too much leverage and risk.

Mensch Capital acquires the rights to valuable Intellectual Property and executes customized monetization strategies that maximize the value of those Intellectual Assets and ensures the strongest financial return possible to the People and Institutions that deserve it most.

Investment focus

Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Evermile — We’re Evermile, and we’re redefining the way retailers manage local deliveries. Offering a solid delivery service has always been a challenge for smaller retailers. Now that customer expectations are higher than ever, and delivery performance can make or break a store, many business owners feel like they don't stand a chance. But withEvermile, they do. The Evermile Platform empowers merchants to provide the delivery experience today's customers expect. They can offer more delivery options, streamline the delivery process, and gain the control and flexibility they need to boost revenues and customer loyalty. It's a game changer.Built by former Via and Optibus executives, we’re proud to leverage mobility-grade optimization technology and purpose-designed workflows to empower small, locally-owned businesses. Through Evermile, we’re helping them create a new standard in local retail delivery for millions of customers who want to continue buying locally.

State of Mind Ventures is a seed and early growth stage venture capital fund, focusing on the people that drive our world forward.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ask-AI — ASK's AI & NLP analyzes text-heavy company knowledge and customer communications to reveal critical product insights and precise answers for CS teams.
Rezonate — Rezonate empowers security and IAM teams with real-time visibility, security optimization, and identity-driven threat elimination.
MOV.AI — MOV.AI gives you the freedom and control to create great robots. Quickly build, deploy and operate intelligent robots with ROS for Enterprise

Investing in early stage startups, led by Yossi Matias (VP Search, AI @ Google) and Michael Matias (Stanford CS, 8200).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
Firmbase — Firmbase is the modern financial planning and analysis platform for tech companies. Our founders have strong leadership, product and software development experience from Facebook, Stanford and Unit 8200. Our group of top-tier investors include unicorn startup founders and senior executives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

Cresson Management

Investment focus

Software, Farming, Medical
Seed, Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Proggio — Proggio - The adaptive project portfolio management platform. Drive results with complete clarity across your entire project portfolio to respond quickly when things change. Book a Demo!
Healthee — Insurights is an AI-powered digital platform that allows employees to utilize their health benefits and coverage. It provides employees on-the-spot answers to their health coverage and benefits questions, helps them find lower-cost providers, and lets them know about relevant preventive care benefits to ensure they are healthier.

Aditum Bio is a new model of biotech venture capital, uniquely positioned to rapidly translate scientific discoveries into innovative new medicines.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Life Science, FinTech
Series A
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Hubpay — Global payments for modern businesses. Pay suppliers, partners, employees using Hubpay's market leading FX, multi-currency accounts, collections, payments and more
Versanis Bio — Versanis Bio is advancing bimagrumab, a human monoclonal antibody to the activin type II receptors that blocks the binding of ligands including activin A and myostatin. Bimagrumab has been studied by Novartis in more than a dozen controlled clinical trials that enrolled more than 1,500 people. Across key studies bimagrumab treatment consistentlyand potently induced significant loss of fat mass without loss of lean mass, and additionally improved HbA1c and other cardiometabolic parameters.
Via Nova Therapeutics — Via Nova Therapeutics is committed to discovering novel therapies for viral diseases, especially those arising from acute & subacute infections, and to pioneer sustainable business strategies to deliver these treatments to the clinic.