Top 20 VC Funds & Investors in Iraq (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund
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3 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
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Euphrates Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Iraq | Seed, Series A | AgTech, Automotive, Agriculture | |
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain | $1.8M–$120M |
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Majid Al Futtaim Holdings LLC.
VC Fund
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2 | Iraq | Seed | Taxi Service, Transportation, Public Transportation | $11M–$11M |
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March Holding
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Transportation, Public Transportation, Information Technology | $3M–$11M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$32M |
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Vostok Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Iraq, Ukraine | Series B, Seed, Series A | Transportation, Bakery, EdTech | $6M–$120M |
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GS Retail
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Iraq, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Information Technology | $186k–$15M |
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MSA Capital
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Egypt | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services | $1.4M–$130M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $15k–$1.5M |
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Iraq Tech Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine | |
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Edita Food Industries
VC Fund
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1 | Iraq | Corporate Round | Snack Food, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods | |
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Snoonu
VC Fund
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1 | Iraq, Jordan | Series A, Corporate Round | Accounting, Restaurants, Food Delivery | |
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EQIQ Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Iraq | Pre-Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology | |
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MSA Novo
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, India, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1.5M–$32M |
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Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Iraq, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology | $5k–$16M |
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Valuesystem
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Iraq | Series B, Seed, Series A | Gaming, Chemical, Software | $6k–$9.3M |
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EQIQ
VC Fund
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1 | Iraq, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed | Banking, Internet, Logistics | $150k–$1.5M |
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Iraq Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Iraq | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
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Starlight Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Iraq | Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
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Al Sharqiya TV is Iraq's first privately owned satellite channel
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Euphrates Ventures invests in a concentrated portfolio of high growth early-stage private companies operating in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. Euphrates Ventures LP and The Euphrates Iraq Fund Ltd. are managed by Euphrates Advisors LLC.
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- Industry: AgTech, Automotive, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nakhla — Nakhla provides cultivation, harvesting, and cleaning services to date palm trees. Users can subscribe to the company's services in exchange for a subscription fee and a revenue share of the palm tree harvest and users can adopt a date palm tree planted in a public space.
- iQ Cars — iQ Car is the largest car listing app in Iraq that focuses on enhancing the automotive buying experience in Iraq. The mobile app provides a car listing solution for car showroom owners across Iraq.
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $7.5M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mesh —
- 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.
Majid Al Futtaim is a leading integrated lifestyle provider with brands across industries such as shopping malls, Hotels, Cinema, Hypermarket & much more.
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- Industry: Taxi Service, Transportation, Public Transportation
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $11M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
March Holding makes Investment in Commercial Enterprises & Management.
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- Industry: Transportation, Public Transportation, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $3M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
- GamerG — Online tournament platform for skill-based games, where players can compete and win prizes every day.
- Lyve Global — Lyve reimages logistics through advanced and agile solutions and technology innovations that connect organizations and opportunities.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 842
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
- Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
Vostok Ventures makes seed and early stage venture investments in IT projects from Eastern Europe. It focuses on mobile applications, e-commerce, cloud services, and the gaming industry. Vostok Ventures was co-founded by Michael Kharenko and Svyatoslav Pogrebnoy, and is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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- Industry: Transportation, Bakery, EdTech
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Iraq, Ukraine
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $11M–$11M; Series B $6M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
- Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
- Breadfast — Fast & smooth shopping experience for the household.
GS Retail sells beauty and skincare products, candles, gifts, perfumes, bathroom accessories and other products.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $186k–$1.6M; Series A $2.2M–$5.3M; Series B $2.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PO:DL — PO:DL is a beauty and skincare brand. It develops and retails a variety of skincare products, including hydrating masks, pore-cleansing balms, and skin care packs. Its flagship product, the 'Gongju Balm Balm-to-Foam Cleanser,' is a gel-type cleanser that utilizes balm ingredients and eliminates the need for double cleansing.
- The Grit — The Grit manufactures multi-use container and collection boxes.
- CafeWhale — the AI intelligence layer transforming physical retail into a continuous, data-driven ecosystem. By integrating real-time machine telemetry, customer behavior analytics, and automated engagement, MoonWhale connects the physical and digital, enabling retailers to optimize conversion, retention, and operations through a unified, adaptiveinfrastructure.
MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Series A $3.5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
- Flextock — Discover efficient order fulfilment with Flextock. We streamline your inventory, orders, and shipping, ensuring accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
- Westlake Lingxi — Westlake Lingxi develops brain-computer interface technologies, including neuro-prosthetic systems and neural decoding solutions, to support rehabilitation for people with language and movement disorders.
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: 269
- Round size: Seed $15k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $45k–$550k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- DarDoc — Book certified nurses, weight loss programs, and IV drips at home in Dubai & Abu Dhabi. Trusted by 10,000+ families. Download the DarDoc app today.
- Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
- Lum!ere — Lum!ere is a designer and manufacturer of radical style brass, sterling silver, and gold plated jewelry.
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Edita manufactures, packages, markets and distributes a range of selected confectionary products such as jam, juices, ready-made meals, baked snack products and pastries, chocolates, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, meat products, and other food related products and ingredients used in the manufacturing of said products. The company is ableto engage in alternative operations and activities in addition to amending its primary purpose in accordance with the Investment Law and with the explicit permission of the General Authority for Free Zones and Investments (GAFI). Edita is also capable of pursuing ownership stakes in other companies as well as entering into joint ventures of any kind, in accordance with Egypt’s laws and regulations.
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- Industry: Snack Food, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Corporate Round
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tuama Jebur Abbas — Tuama Jebur Abbas is a family-owned snack manufacturing company that provides quality-based packaged snacks.
Order food from your favorite restaurants and many more online. Delivery in 30 minutes.
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- Industry: Accounting, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Iraq, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HASIF — HASIF provides AI-powered cloud accounting software for SMEs focused on invoicing, reporting, and compliance.
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
EQIQ Ventures is a venture capital fund.It supports startups and aims to build a robust ecosystem of innovation, entrepreneurship in Iraq.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wayl — Wayl is an e-commerce platform. It aids in the transition of social media merchants into genuine businesses. It receive online payments without having to register a business or join up with a payment gateway.
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
Hyundai Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that mainly invests in early-stage companies and is based in South Korea.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.2M–$6.4M; Series B $5k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CafeWhale — the AI intelligence layer transforming physical retail into a continuous, data-driven ecosystem. By integrating real-time machine telemetry, customer behavior analytics, and automated engagement, MoonWhale connects the physical and digital, enabling retailers to optimize conversion, retention, and operations through a unified, adaptiveinfrastructure.
- Scone — Scone provides virtual youtuber and video conferencing services.
- Cafe Manwolgyeong — Cafe Manwolgyeong is a customer-centered cafe brand that values different cafes and related products.
Korean asset management company.
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- Industry: Gaming, Chemical, Software
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series B $6k–$9.3M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CafeWhale — the AI intelligence layer transforming physical retail into a continuous, data-driven ecosystem. By integrating real-time machine telemetry, customer behavior analytics, and automated engagement, MoonWhale connects the physical and digital, enabling retailers to optimize conversion, retention, and operations through a unified, adaptiveinfrastructure.
- LDCarbon Co. — LDCarbon Co. is a manufacture of green carbon black, pyrolysis oil, and waste tire powder.
- LISCure Biosciences — LISCure Biosciences is a developer of bacteria-mediated immunotherapy designed to treat tumors as well as degenerative neurological, autoimmune and metabolic diseases. The company currently has seven pipelines of medicine and two pipelines of health-functioning food and is considering the introduction of two more pipes.
EQIQ is a venture capital and venture builder headquartered in ADGM, focused on Iraq. EQIQ is building the first wave of tech champions in Iraq.
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- Industry: Banking, Internet, Logistics
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Iraq, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wayl — Wayl is an e-commerce platform. It aids in the transition of social media merchants into genuine businesses. It receive online payments without having to register a business or join up with a payment gateway.
- Boxy — Boxy is a tech-enabled logistics solution that meets small businesses and social sellers' diverse delivery needs. Our platform simplifies shipping, providing efficient, reliable, and scalable solutions for everything from local deliveries to national shipments. Whether you're a growing business or an independent seller, Boxy handles itall—from pick-up to delivery—allowing you to focus on your business while we manage your logistics.We offer customizable delivery options, transparent pricing, and seamless tracking, making it easier for businesses to serve customers. With Boxy, you can streamline your operations, optimize costs, and ensure your products reach customers quickly and securely. Our tech-enabled platform integrates with your existing sales channels, offering a simple, all-in-one solution to manage your delivery operations.Boxy is your trusted partner in delivering excellence, designed to help small businesses and social sellers grow without worrying about logistics.
- InstaBank — InstaBank operates as a digital bank.
Iraq Venture Partners is an early-stage fund, that invests in the pre-seed, seed, and pre-series A stages. It invests in high-growth technology startups.
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kudwa —
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Starlight Investments founded in 1999, is an agent-only investment bank that specializes in merger & acquisition and PIPEs (private investments in public equities) for mid-stage, profitable private and public companies in the US and abroad. Whereas most of the firm's investment banking clients have annual EBITDAs of at least $3.5 million,the company provides a range of corporate financial services to companies of all sizes. Recent successful fundings have been completed in several industries including Energy, Real estate, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Financial services, Manufacturing and Retail, however, most of the firm's current engagements and expertise lie in Energy, clean technology and alternative fuel sources. Starlight team members are working on financing a geothermal project in Indonesia, a biodiesel plant in the Southeast U.S. and a wind-based electricity system manufacturer in Canada, among others.
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
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