Top 10 Art VC Funds & Investors in Middle East (October 2023)
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$50M |
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Firstime Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$19M |
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Colombia | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile | $800k–$25M |
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Big Data | $600k–$15M |
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.5M–$60M |
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Pitango VC
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $2M–$42M |
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L Catterton
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Private Equity, Series B | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $23M–$200M |
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Flat6Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Apps | $15k–$300k |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $200k–$23M |
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Morningstar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Germany | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.2M–$10M |
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We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $3.7M–$25M; Series B $7.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cypago — End-to-end intelligent compliance solution for any security standard including SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX-ITGC, and HIPAA
- Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
- NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.
Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Series A $500k–$10M; Series B $17M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Pixellot — Pixellot is a leading sport media company that offers automatic production solutions for the amateur and semi-professional market. Pixellot’s patented technology streamlines the production workflow by deploying an unmanned multi-camera system that covers the entire field. Advanced algorithms enable dynamic coverage of the flow of play and highlightgeneration. The company streams more than 11,000 live video hours each month to fans, players, and coaches on a variety of platforms. Founded in 2013 by seasoned video and media technology experts, Pixellot has sold over 2,000 systems around the world, deployed with minor leagues, high schools, as well as at youth academies and top league clubs. Pixellot’s partners include ESPN, PlayOn Sports, the US’ biggest high school sports media company and right holder, Sporttotal.tv, Germany’s largest amateur league media platform, global coaching solution provider STATS, SeeUPlay in Mexico and Hockey TV, North America’s largest non-NHL ice hockey streaming platform. The company also works directly with leading clubs such as Bayern Munich, Spain’s Real Sociedad, Dutch AZ Alkmaar and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
- Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
- Maverick Medical AI — Maverick Medical AI Deep Learning Autonomous Medical Coding Platform with guaranteed 85% Direct-to-Bill rate upon go live with 97% accuracy
Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $5.9M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
- CoreTigo — CoreTigo provides high-performance IO-Link Wireless communication solutions for machine builders, system integrators & industrial equipment manufacturers.
- Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.
Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21 is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
- Tastewise — Tastewise pairs the largest data-set in food intelligence with proprietary machine learning algorithms to analyze and distill information, and predict consumer
- K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of an open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broadportfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 247
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SuperSight — SuperSight (https://supersight.xyz/), a UK-based start-up, is building crypto-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionise the way we interact with crypto data. With 420 million crypto users but only 30,000 able to code for onchain insights, SuperSight bridges the gap, enabling easy access to information from a range ofboth on-chain and off-chain sources like Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Mirror, Podcast Transcripts, and news sites. Beyond just collecting data, SuperSight uses AI to improve the search experience, making it personalised, accurate, and ultimately, more insightful.
- GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.
- Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.
Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 243
- Round size: Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $7M–$35M; Series C $7.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
- QuantHealth — QuantHealth is an AI company that provides a platform to simulate clinical trials in order to accelerate and de-risk drug development.
- Gina Life — At Nevia bio, we are focused on women's health. Our mission is to use innovative technologies to provide early detection of diseases through vaginal secretions analysis, enabled by Nevia's Machine Learning Platform.
L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds, as well as investment capital to support a company's continued growth and development. They consider investments across a number of targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail andrestaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.L Catterton was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Series B $23M–$105M; Private Equity $60M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Withmal — Withmal provides veterinary services. It focuses on treating pets and is considered as an alternative to succession planning concerns by aging physicians by managing small pet clinics.
- Gooder Foods — Gooder Foods re-imagines Mac & cheese that's stealthily healthy and unbelievably delicious. It was launched in 2020 and operates in Santa Cruz, California.
- Chuangjian Medical — Chuangjian Medical is a technological innovation company that focuses on the creation, sale, and research & development of novel protein- and nucleic acid-based medicines.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $15k–$300k; Pre-Seed $32k–$230k
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Midient — We help restaurants collect, analyze, and act on their customer data to increase customer satisfaction and increase revenue.
- Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
- Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Dtonic — Efficient Spatio-Temporal Big Data Processing across Smart-X Industries
- The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
- Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $1.4M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 37xDubai — 37xDubai is a space where Art and Technology come together to create the most unique expressions of creativity.
- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
- CryptoSimple — CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo.
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