# Top 15 Enterprise Startup Investors in Lebanon in October 2023

## Phoenician VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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 ...

## Kafalat iSME
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Education, Grocery, Internet

The iSME Programme is a USD 30 million initiative funded by the Government of Lebanon and the World Bank.

## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

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.

## Saned Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals

Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.

## Hala Fadel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Social Media

Hala is a partner at leap ventures, a late-stage venture capital firm based in Beirut and Dubai, and the founder and chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the pan-Arab region, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship and organizes among other things the MIT Arab startup competition. She is also an Angel investor in start-up companies inthe Middle East and Europe, and has launched a co-working space in Beirut called Coworking+961. She recently founded MIT Technology review Arabic, the Arabic edition of the MIT Technology review Magazine, that covers science and innovation in the Arab region.Hala was previously for 12 years a portfolio manager for European Equities at Comgest, a euro Equity 20bn fund. She graduated from HEC in France in 1997 with a Masters in Financial Economics and attended the Berkeley Haas School of Business, she holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. While at MIT she participated and won part of the MIT 50K business plan competition with Booleo, a telecom software business, later acquired as an internal solution by a client.

## Draper University Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce

Upon graduation of the Hero Program at Draper University, alumni get a chance to pitch their business ideas for venture capital. Submit your business plan.

## B&Y Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## BluePeak Private Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Service Industry, Telecommunications

BluePeak Private Capital is an alternative asset management firm based in Tunisia.

## Cedar Mundi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Apps, B2B, Medical

Cedar Mundi Ventures specializes in the fields of venture capital and financial services. It also specializes in cross-border technology investments covering Europe & the MENA region.
It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Beyrouth, Lebanon.

## Crescent Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Medical, Enterprise Software

Crescent Capital is a Belfast based venture capital fund manager

## Dalia Al Sulaiman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer

Dalia Al Sulaiman

## Mulcan International Investments.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, 3D Printing, Health Care

MULCAN is the ideal partner for businesses seeking liquidity, growth capital or recapitalization.

## Mr. Tarek Jallad
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Education

Mr. Tarek Jallad

## Dr. Lama
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer

Dr. Lama

## BeryTech Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Apps, Training

Berytech Fund II is a 51 million US Dollar Beirut-based Venture Capital Fund that invests in Innovative Lebanese startups with high-growth potential

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