# Top 20 Consumer Startup Investors in Jordan in October 2023

## Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

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.

## Silicon Badia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.

## Jabbar Internet Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology

The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)

## Algebra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

## Karim Kawar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Shopping

Karim Kawar is the president of Kawar Group, and the former ambassador to the United States and Mexico from Jordan. He is also chairman of Kawar Energy and of IrisGuard. As ambassador to the United States, Kawar led the EDAMA Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a green economy and was appointed by Royal Decree to the Board of Trustees of theKing Abdullah II Fund for Development. Previously, Kawar was appointed to the Economic Consultative Council by His Majesty King Abdullah II. He is the architect of the REACH Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a knowledge economy, founder and chairman of the Information Technology Association of Jordan, former president of the Jordan Computer Society, and a founding member of several business associations and NGOs, including AmCham and the Jordan Intellectual Property Association.

## Etihad Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Computer, Software, Staffing Agency

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## Select Ventures Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Electronics, Sporting Goods

Select Ventures Holdings is a UAE-based investment management firm.

## Edgo VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Computer

Edgo VC is the venture capital arm of Edgo, under which the group’s direct and indirect venture capital activities are consolidated. Edgo VC takes an opportunistic approach to venture capital investing and is sector, stage, and region agnostic.

## DASH Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

DASH Ventures is a Venture Capital firm operating at the forefront of MENA’s rapidly transforming economic landscape.

## Usama Fayyad
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Lending

Usama is Chief Technology Officer at OODA Health. Before OODA, he was Founder and CEO of Open Insights, where he consulted clients on artificial intelligence, big data strategies and new business models. Usama was the first Global Chief Data Officer at Barclays in London, after he launched the largest tech startup accelerator in MENA as ExecutiveChairman of Oasis500 in Jordan.His background includes Chairman and CEO roles at several startups, including Blue Kangaroo Corp, DMX Group and digiMine (Audience Science). He was the first person to hold the Chief Data Officer title when Yahoo! acquired his second startup in 2004. He has held leadership roles at Microsoft and founded the machine learning systems group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his work on machine learning resulted in the top Excellence in Research award from Caltech, and a U.S. Government medal from NASA.Usama has published over 100 technical articles on data mining, data science, AI/ML, and databases. He holds over 30 patents and is a Fellow of both the AAAI and the ACM. Usama earned his PhD in Engineering in AI and Machine Learning from the University of Michigan. He holds two BSE’s in Engineering, a MSE Computer Engineering and a MSc in Mathematics.

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Propeller Inc.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Computer

Capital is important, but your first customers, hires and product are fundamental to building great companies. As builders ourselves, we understand that product-market fit is the only thing that matters.

## Hummingbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

## Financial Horizon Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Finance

Financial Horizon Group is a family office that was established in 2014 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its services vary from Investment, Recruitment, and Consultancy.

## SANAD Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Computer, Internet

The SANAD* Fund for MSME views the micro, small and medium enterprise sector as an engine of economic development, job creation and prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This also makes it a vast and as yet untapped investment opportunity.To realize this potential, SANAD provides debt and equity financing to local partnerinstitutions for on-lending to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and fueling their growth.

## Samih Toukan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

## Vision Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

## Khwarizmi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

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.Ever since its launch in 2018, it has seed funded startups, assistedfounders, and scaled up several companies.

## HALA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Predictive Analytics

Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

## Ibtikar Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ramallah, West Bank, Palestinian Territory
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.

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