# Top 20 Automotive Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2026

## Phoenician VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Founded in 2015, Phoenician Funds is at the heart of thriving capitals of digital innovation and startup ecosystems in the Middle East and North Africa ...

## B&Y Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software

B&Y Venture Partners is a MENA based Venture Capital firm that invests globally at both seed and growth stage. We invest in visionary and high-impact founders aiming to create new markets or transform existing ones.

## Dtec Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps

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.

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit.

## Social Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

## DP World Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B, Private Equity
- Focus: Logistics, Transportation, Travel

DP World is a leading enabler of global trade and an integral part of the supply chain. Container handling is the company’s core business and generates more than three quarters of its revenue. In 2015, DP World handled 61.7 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across our portfolio. With its committed pipeline of developments and expansions,the current gross capacity of 79.6 million TEU is expected to rise to more than 100 million TEU by 2020, in line with market demand.The company operates multiple yet related businesses from marine and inland terminals, maritime services, logistics and ancillary services to technology-driven trade solutions.

## Afzal Modak
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Payments

Afzal Modak is the Director at VitalProbe Inc. Afzal Modak attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

## Audacia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Beauty, Rental, Fashion

Audacia Capital is a Dubai based focused investment bank with a primary focus on private equity.

## Flat6Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

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.

## Automotive Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Software, Electric Vehicle

Welcome to Automotive Ventures, founded by Steve Greenfield.  We offer fundraising, growth strategy and transaction guidance advice to automotive technology entrepreneurs and strategic buyers. We support the success of automotive entrepreneurs, businesses and investors.   

## Polar Light Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Polar Light Ventures provides early stage capital to technology firms in Europe

## Crealize
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Automotive, E-Commerce

We empower humans to crealize positive marks, cultivating a worldwide movement of entrepreneurs.

## Prime Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Transportation, Logistics, Brand Marketing

Prime Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital fund, headquartered in Dubai, UAE; They make investments all over the world with a particular focus on MENAT and the USA. They want to support entrepreneurs with ties to the MENAT region, but who may be operating elsewhere. At Prime, They want Their footprint to be global with a local mindsetto finding entrepreneurs solving real problems. To us, it’s more than just business – They want to be the best at finding entrepreneurs who aspire to modernize large, traditional industries. Prime seeks to be the firm entrepreneurs seek out if they hope to disrupt giant industries.

## Global Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

## Simile Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Simile Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focusing on internet, mobile and technology startups across the world. It was founded by a team with domain expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Its priority markets are in Europe, South-East Asia, India, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.For more information, visit:www.simileventure.com (http://www.simileventure.com/)

## Orbit Startups
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.

## EQ2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail

EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.

## B&Y
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Search Engine

B&Y

## Anonymous
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology

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## Glowfish Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Automotive, E-Commerce Platforms

Glowfish Partners is a boutique business builder that invests in and creates early-stage companies within the Middle East and Africa. We believe in the 'old' VC model where we are actively involved in our ventures. We provide our exceptional talent with funding, expertise, and mentoring for ambitious projects that can quickly become realbusinesses.Glowfish prefers to invest in booming industries, in growing economies where opportunities are plenty but real talent is scarce. Glowfish is based out of Dubai. It was founded in 2013 by Wim Torfs and Ali Malik, both McKinsey & Co alumni.

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