Top 40 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in December 2024

Investor	Social Network Middle East investments
GEM Capital	3
Viola Ventures	2
Flat6Labs	2
Legziel Family	2
StageOne Ventures	2
Verizon Ventures	1
Proxima Ventures Ltd	1
Spark Capital	1
Cypher Capital	1
Evergreen Venture Partners	1
3TS Capital Partners	1
VCDE Venture Partners	1
XVC Tech	1
Spinach Angels	1
TRANGELS	1
Cipio Partners	1
Vertex Ventures Israel	1
Dtec Ventures	1
Khwarizmi Ventures	1
Shorooq Partners	1
NFX	1
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	1
S3 Ventures	1
Modus Capital	1
Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF)	1
Vertex Ventures	1
Eleven Ventures	1
Emkan Capital	1
KISP Ventures	1
Sarya Holdings	1
Plus Venture Capital	1
Falak Startups	1
Raed Ventures	1
WR Hambrecht	1
Draper Associates	1
Gobi Partners	1
Lima Ventures	1
M-Systems	1
Alpha Wave Ventures	1
Hashed	1

GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets. Leading venture capital investor in the games industry

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Cyprus, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AppMagic — Mobile market intelligence tool
OpenStreet — Invest in SpaceX and OpenAI with just $100. We purchase shares in premier private companies like SpaceX and OpenAI, then divide them into fractional pieces, making these investments accessible to everyone.
Eschatology Entertainment — Game developers on a quest to create a new generation of immersive hardcore shooters set in a unique apocalyptic world.

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

Portfolio highlights

Panjaya — Panjaya offers generative-AI dubbing technology to localize any video content. The company's AI replicates original content in a variety of languages with engaging results. Video content creators from a variety of industries can easily and accurately recreate videos that appeal to a global audience using Panjaya.
Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.
PayZen — Trusted by hospitals and healthcare systems, PayZen simplifies patient payments and provider collections using custom payment plans and AI-driven financial services.

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.
Zofa — Zofa provides integrated solutions that promote long-term change while improving productivity and patient care and enabling fast delivery of medical products.

Legziel Famliy

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Next Dim — Next Dim is a revolutionary, proprietary, high performance network analysis solution.
Pelles.ai — Pells.ai is leveraging generative AI and path-planning algorithms to create a new way to design and produce mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) building systems to save time, money, and materials.
Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.

StageOne Ventures, leads investments in exceptional Israel-related entrepreneurs. We focus on early-stage transformative deep tech startups solving complex enterprise challenges.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

definity — definity is a Data Application Observability & Remediation platform, helping Spark-heavy data engineering teams to seamlessly monitor data applications health + data quality + performance in-motion, detect anomalies in run-time, resolve incidents in minutes, optimize applications’ performance, and cut infrastructure cost – with zero codechanges.
Sedric.ai — Sedric is a compliance excellence platform for next-gen fintech companies. With AI-based real-time monitoring, detection and analysis of all customer interactions, Sedric ensures customer protection, minimizes risks, and expedites business growth. Sedric empowers compliance teams to quickly apply new laws and regulations across their growingbusinesses and enables them to focus on the events with the highest dollar value across all channels: voice, chat, email, social, and more.
Siit — Siit is a modern IT service management platform. Conversational, integrated and AI-powered service desk for IT and internal operation teams. Simplify internal operations today!

Verizon Ventures links entrepreneurs to the larger Verizon ecosystem, speeding development by sharing engineering knowledge, market insights and customer relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TileDB — TileDB is the modern data stack in a box. All data, code, and compute in a single product.
Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.
Origin AI — Origin's AI WiFi Sensing technology and products provide a solution to keeping homes safe and secure, while maintaining privacy and comfort. Home, health and automotive. Learn more today.

Proxima Ventures is focused on the management of investment portfolios for its customers. It offers them with financial products and consulting services. Proxima Ventures was acquired by Soluto in October 2013. Proxima Ventures was founded by Chaim Venezia and Uri Ra'anan and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

VerImmune — Located in Baltimore, Maryland, VerImmune is an Immuno-Oncology company developing a first-in-class cancer therapy known as Anti-tumor Immune Redirection. This strategy utilizes a proprietary tumor-specific, tumor type agnostic, virus-inspired platform termed Anti-tumor Immune Redirection Virus-inspired Particles (AIR-ViPs) that redirectspre-existing pathogenic or childhood vaccine immune memory towards tumors.
Yidianling — Yidianling is a psychological counselling platform that provides free mental health services such as free questions and answers, psychological tests, expert services, and training lectures.
Immune-Onc Therapeutics — Immune-Onc Therapeutics is a newly established bio-pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing innovative therapeutic antibodies for cancer treatment. The company applies the latest scientific insights and expertise in drug development to advance novel immuno-oncology products and bring new treatment options to cancer patients.

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
MatX — MatX, a manufacturer of computer chips, is dedicated to constructing a computing platform for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Their specialty lies in creating hardware that combines profound domain experience tailored for large language models, graphics processing units, and various machine-learning models. By doing so, MatX aims to empowerdevelopers and programmers to enhance the efficiency, speed, and affordability of AI applications.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

Cypher Capital Group is a a leading early-strategy venture firm focused on investing in Web3 infrastructure and applications that will drive the new digital economy for years to come.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.
Param Labs Inc — Param Labs is a startup that specializes in PC and mobile game development, AAA design, and unique technology development.
Satoshi Protocol — Satoshi Protocol is the first CDP built on BTC Layer 2, it allows investors to deposit BTC and borrow stablecoin $SAT, Unleash trillion dollars of BTCFi.

Evergreen was established in 1987 by Jacob Burak as one of Israel's first Venture Capital firms, and has grown into a leader, generating successful exits with tangible rewards for investors and entrepreneurs.Evergreen's current $650 million of venture capital funds under management invested in more than 120 technology companiesrepresent one of the largest portfolios in Israel.Evergreen's investments are focused on early stage Israeli companies in three main fields: communications, software and healthcare. Their investments are positioned in different segments of each of these markets to comprise a well diversified and balanced portfolio of companies.A professional investment team with extensive field expertise guides and supports entrepreneurs and portfolio companies throughout their life cycle, helping them to build a good idea into a leading company. With each member coming from a different background and contributing distinctive benefits, the investment team delivers a unique set of technical, operational and strategic skills.Evergreen has established strong ties with technological markets, creating an eco-system, from which they extract knowledge, understanding of the market needs and at the same time creating a valuable network to support their portfolio companies.Evergreen sees its entrepreneurs as a key asset and therefore invests in the relationship to build a true partnership. Consequently many of Israel's successful serial entrepreneurs have approached Evergreen with their next venture.Evergreen team's disciplined investment strategy has been crystallized through more than 14 years of investment experience as a team and is one of the key elements responsible for Evergreen's high rate of successful exits resulting in superior returns.Evergreen is directed by deep values of shared responsibility, rich interaction and dialogue, and hard work - its guiding principles since inception. They strongly believe in the continuity of their corporate culture which emphasizes investment in human capital, disciplined processes, professionalism and true leadership.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

eASIC — eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company, manufactures eASIC platforms that reduce the cost of ownership and time to production of customized silicon devices. It develops Nextreme family of devices that reduce development cost and turn-around times compared to standard cell ASICs, while reducing power consumption and unit cost for designs,Nextreme-3, a fourth generation eASIC platform, and Nextreme-2, a third generation eASIC platform. eASIC also provides easicopy ASIC that provides OEMs with a path from Nextreme-3, Nextreme-2, or Nextreme devices to a cell-based easicopy ASIC, which thereby helps OEMs reduce device cost and power consumption further, or increase performance, and eZ-IP alliance program to bring a wealth of verified eASIC-ready IP cores to help customers get to market faster. Its products are used in various applications that span from wireless infrastructure to consumer handheld devices. eASIC serves customers worldwide. Zvi Or-Bach founded eASIC in 1999, with its headquarters in Santa Clara in California with additional offices worldwide.
N-Trig — N-Trig is a startup that develops touch screens and pen styluses. With an extensive patent portfolio, N-trig also supports a variety of applications for different market segments including consumer, education, business, healthcare, graphic and industrial design, gaming, entertainment, and multimedia.Founded in 1999, N-trig is a global operation,maintaining its: R&D facility, corporate headquarters, and management in Kfar Saba, Israel; sales, OEM, and ISV support in Austin, Texas and San Jose, California; ODM, operations, and supply chain support in Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, China.
Inneractive — Inneractive is a leading independent mobile ad exchange focused on powering native and video ads. Their mission is to empower mobile publishers to realize their properties’ full potential by providing powerful technologies for the buying and selling of mobile ads.Inneractive is headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in San Francisco, New Yorkand London.

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Romania, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Boksi — Influencer marketing campaigns. Custom brand photos and videos with full usage rights. Over 10,000 amazing creators. All on one easy-to-use platform.
JENTIS — Mit JENTIS erheben Sie Ihre First Party Daten und leiten sie serverseitig DSGVO-konform an Ihre Marketing-Tools weiter. Jetzt Demo buchen.
Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.

VCDE Venture Partners was started in 2008 in Frankfurt/Germany and is a growth equity investment firm with a clear focus on technology companies in the field of software, the internet, mobile telecommunications and IT business services.Their main purpose is to build and develop successful growth companies. By partnering with outstandingentrepreneurs and management teams venturecapital.de delivers true value beyond financing and pro-actively works with portfolio companies to accelerate growth.They look for companies, that have a proven business model and through a strong value proposition address large markets and deliver real value to their customers be it consumers or enterprises. Out entrepreneurs‘ fund „venturecapital.de“ is funded by 150 European tech entrepreneurs, founders and industry veterans. It constitutes one of the strongest and most value adding business networks in Europe with an excellent platform for an exchange of expertise and know-how between investors, the fund and its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, SEO, Automotive
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, Turkey, India

Portfolio highlights

itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
123Fahrschule — 123fahrschule.de - consolidating and digitizing the German driving school market
StalkBuyLove — Shop the most premium and exquisite styles from stalkbuylove.com. Womens Tops, Dresses, Jumpsuits, Co-Ords and Trousers. Shop today and experience SBL2.0.

XVC Tech is a $125mn fund supported by founders of the XDC Blockchain Network that specializes in investing in early-stage Tech start-ups.

Investment focus

B2B, Blockchain, Fantasy Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, Sweden, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Fanzword — Fanzword: Where Football Passion Meets Prizes. Immerse yourself in the ultimate sports fan experience. Predict, discuss, and earn rewards while playing trivia and Fantasy Football. With $2,000 in monthly giveaways and a massive $10,000 season finale, the excitement never ends. Join the game and fuel your love for sports today!
Swiftcourt — Swiftcourt helps buyers and sellers to perform safe and smooth peer-to-peer-transactions, by providing them with smart digital contracts, e-signing and transaction-related add-on services.Swiftcourt was founded in 2016 and has since then helped over 70 000 buyers and sellers complete over 40 000 transactions. At the moment, the company is insuccessful partnerships with FINN.no, one of the most prominent classified sites in the world and with Mittanbud.no, the market leading service finder classified site in Norway. Recently, Swiftcourt also closed a deal with the biggest classified site in Sweden, Blocket.se.Swiftcourt aims to be a global standard of conducting safe and smooth online transactions and help buyers and sellers with their deals worldwide.
Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.

Spinach is a group of angel investors focused on Israeli Pre-Seed tech investments. Spinach was established in 2014 with the goal of supporting and financing innovative Israeli companies with early-stage funding.Spinach is not a classic VC or fund. It’s a pool of experienced angel investors, with collective net worth of over $2bn, who decidedto act together and provide financial and managerial support to entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of realizing their dreams and building their companies.We believe in super-simple deals, and move extremely fast so that the founders can focus on developing their products and businesses. We see ourselves as the founders’ ‘friends-and-family’ initial support.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightico — AI-Powered Intelligent Document Processing, IDP, Document Collection, eSignatures, ID Verification for Secure and Compliant Customer Processes
RapidSec — Orca Security provides agentless, workload-deep, context-aware cloud infrastructure security and compliance through our comprehensive cloud security solution all in a single platform.
PickyStory — PickyStory is an e-commerce conversion platform. It uplifts the revenue of e-commerce merchants by converting more visitors into buyers.

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

& New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Wire — Always-on end-to-end encrypted instant messaging, voice- and videoconferencing with up to 100 participants - future proof with MLS integration
Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
Israel, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nagish — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
FireDome — FireDome's revolutionary wildfire defense system takes a two-tiered strategy. First, a mechanical launcher quickly deploys a protective barrier to impede the direct route of advancing wildfires. Second, the system actively detects and promptly extinguishes spot fires created by airborne embers that bypass the primary barrier.
Seal Security — Streamline your open source vulnerability remediation without introducing the risk of breaking changes. Say goodbye to alert fatigue and start patching with Seal Security.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman

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 — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
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.

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. .

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Yalla Plus — Yalla Plus offers QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants, featuring integrated payments and easy menu management.
Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.
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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Corgea — Corgea is an AI-powered security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
PRYPCO — We are building the region’s leading real estate ecosystem, providing Real Estate Freedom for all.We open the doors to the entire real estate ecosystem, enabling everyone to access all things real estate without restrictions, hassles, or financial barriers. We empower our partners with the information and tools they need to succeed, ensuring theyhave everything required to navigate the market and achieve their goals.Real Estate Freedom is not just a concept—it's our promise.Our verticals include:- PRYPCO Mortgage - PRYPCO Exclusives - PRYPCO Golden Visa - PRYPCO Blocks
Colabs — Colabs is Pakistan’s fastest growing flexible workspace. Our community today has 1000 seats and over 100 companies across multiple facilities in Lahore. COLABS has a network of 100+ ecosystem partners across universities, VC funds, corporates, government and industry leaders. COLABS is constantly innovating, creating new work experiences, andredefining the future of work in Pakistan. Our mission is to knit together a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs across Pakistan.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

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.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136

Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

FinTech, Health Care, Life Science
Pre-Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.

Modus is a holistic Venture Platform in MENA that provides entrepreneurs with more than just the financial capital needed to succeed

Investment focus

Software, Apps, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
Koble — Our technology automatically identifies early-stage investment opportunities that outperform the market, capturing sustainable alpha for investors.
Oscar — Mitigate Supply Chain Risk and Grow your business Sustainably Oscar is the MENA's first automated sustainable procurement platform. We help you mitigate supply chain risk & align with national visions and net zero commitments. Request a demo What we do Oscar assesses suppliers on your behalf for sustainability and ESG related risks. We help you

The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (“ISSF”) is a private sector managed fund making investments in innovative startups and early stage SMEs. The World Bank has invested USD 50 million in the Fund which was complimented by the Central Bank of Jordan with an additional USD 48 million bringing the total working capital of the ISSF to USD 98million.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States

Portfolio highlights

gamiphy — GAMIPHY is a user engagement and retention platform that equips brands in different industries with tools proven to increase customer reach and loyalty such as branded mini games, playable Ads and digital loyalty programs. The tools and techniques offered by GAMIPHY can be either integrated into existing websites and apps, or can be used to createplatform-independent solutions. The available solutions are diverse, fully customizable, DIY, and are guaranteed to improve each customer journey, thus shorten the path to earn the loyalty sought after.
Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
Kader — Kader is an on-demand mobile application that connects pre-vetted quality workers with businesses in the hospitality, retail and service sectors using an advanced matchmaking technology based on location, experience and qualifications.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Trustero — Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise.
Deagent AI — DeagentAI is a decentralized artificial intelligence agent network to create a decentralized network platform.
Firefly — Firefly provides the cloud infrastructure management tools missing from traditional CMDBs

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
Vivian Lab — Vivian Lab is a women's digital health startup. It integrates menopause education, telehealth, personalized treatment regimens, community support, and AI assistants.
Cloud Office — Cloud Office Ltd specializes in providing solutions that leverage Google Cloud and Workspace to enhance business operations. The company offers services aimed at improving commercial terms for Google Cloud and Workspace, planning and executing strategies for Google technology adoption, and hosting specialized training sessions. With a focus on ITservices and consulting, Cloud Office Ltd caters to a diverse clientele, aiming to optimize their use of cloud technologies for better efficiency and innovation. The company also engages in events and expert sessions to keep businesses informed about the latest in Google's AI and cloud offerings, demonstrating a commitment to empowering businesses through technology.

Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hubpay — Secure & efficient Corporate FX for UAE businesses. Competitive rates, fast transfers & expert support. Book a demo and open a forex corporate account today.
InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.

KISP Ventures is a shariah compliant venture capital firm that invest in early stage technology companies in the MENA region. It is sponsored by KFH Capital, the investment arm of Kuwait Finance House (KFH). Its goal is to provide entrepreneurs with growth capital and the right strategic support to build innovative companies with acceleratedgrowth. The company’s shariah compliant ethics means it is committed to building an ecosystem in the region by encouraging ‘Founder-Friendly’ financing terms that give the portfolio companies a level playing field.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series B
Kuwait, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
COFE App — Coffee Ordering Fast & Efficient. Your very own online coffee marketplace!Home of your favourite coffee brands. Discover COFE App caters to all your coffee needs & essentials. It is designed to brew your coffee with top of the notch technological advancements. 1 2 3 1 COFE Nearby Select our Pick Up & Go, Get COFE ... Read more
CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.

Sarya Holdings is a private-owned company engaged in various sectors ranging from AgriTech, Chemical Manufacturing, and a strong emphasis on FMCG.

Investment focus

Social, Social Network
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Hayi — Hayi is a free, private social network for neighbourhoods in the UAE. The mobile application provides neighbours with an exclusive platform to connect, share information and befriend those in close proximity.

At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
Octa — Octa is a one-click automated system for collecting invoices that ensures timely payment to business-to-business firms.
Settle Payments — SETTLE automates enterprise's payments and manages all their bank accounts in one place for better cashflow decisions.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Wafeq — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
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.

WR Hambrecht + Co provides venture capital and early growth funding for disruptive companies worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Israel, China

Portfolio highlights

Gabbi — Your breast specialist. Assessing risk and navigating you to an early detection.
Buoy Health — Check your symptoms and clarify your options for care. The Buoy A.I. health assistant guides you on your way to well, the moment you feel sick.
PatientsLikeMe — PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network of an integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform.It helps people find new options for treatments, connect with others, and take action to improve their outcomes. The company has worked with every major pharmaceutical company and a range of government organizations to bringthe patient voice to research, development, and public policy. With more than 600,000 members, PatientsLikeMe is a trusted source for real-world disease information and a clinically robust resource that has published more than 100 research studies.The Boston, Massachusetts-located company was founded by Ben Heywood, James Heywood, and Jeff Cole in 2004

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Rosy Soil — Rosy Soil is a gardening solution focused on sustainable practices that support the health of soil, plants, and the environment.
CytoTronics — Visualize live cell function at scale for cell biology discovery with Pixel systems. Monitor cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, metabolism and more.
Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Jazro — Robotic Academy. Develop Digital Talents . Fun Ways To Learn Programming, Coding & Robotic. Give Your Child a Memorable School Holiday. Book Now. Courses: Jazro Mbot, Make X Training, Jazro Coding, Raspberry Pi Jazro, Jazro IOT Project, Jrone, Jazro DIY, Jazro Art & Craft & Jazro Autism Robot Class.
Bateriku — Bateriku provides emergency roadside assistance for car breakdowns and car battery delivery in Malaysia with nationwide coverage. Learn more here!
DCAP Digital — Reimagine Consumer Financing With Our Full Stack Financing Platform and Lending-as-a-Service Platform, first-of-its- kind in Malaysia

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
Enqura Information Technologies — Enhanced, Qualified and Rational KYC (Know Your Customers) and KYB solutions at Enqura. Discover our banking and finance security solutions.

M-Systems provides flash memory storage products for individuals and enterprises. It creates True Flash Filing System which presents the flash memory as a disk drive to the computer. The products of the company are DiskOnKey, DiskOnChip, and TrueFFS.M-Systems is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2008 and the company was acquired bySanDisk on July 30, 2006.

Investment focus

B2B, Electronics, Social Media
Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. — Semiconductor With the B2B website www.semiconductor-scout.com we create for you as a company a sustainable advantage through use of new media to everyday processes. Cause semiconductor-scout.com occupied a central position in the daily workflow between the semiconductor and microelectronic market operating companies.

Alpha Wave Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series C, Seed, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
Attralus — Our mission is to improve the lives of amyloidosis patients by developing transformational therapeutics focused on amyloid removal.
Hunch — Use Hunch to ask weird questions and get interesting answers. Know what people really think.

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.