# Top 30 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in October 2023 ## Flashpoint - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds. ## RTP Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred. ## HIMAngel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments. HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah. ## ACT Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing Early stage deep tech investor ## BITKRAFT Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media. ## WPP - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Corporate Round, Series B - Focus: Advertising, Software, Marketing WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. ## Gal Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: AgTech, Recruiting, Information Technology Identify innovation, harness the energy of the founders and provide the commitment and support required for an epic ride ## Goal Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Software Goal Ventures is a venture capital firm. ## Sony Innovation Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society. ## Digital Disrupt - Type: VC Fund - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best. ## Aurelia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Equity-free programs for B2B SaaS founders - 1:1 Coaching with each founder team - Community of 200+ B2B founders - $1.25M+ Perks & Benefits. ## Oqal - Type: VC Fund - Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas. ## NaHCO3 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Gaming, Biotechnology, Education Helping people rise to their potential. ## Axel Springer - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Real Estate, Internet Axel Springer is a media company engaged in publishing newspapers, magazines, and digital sales channels.Axel Springer founded the publishing house in Hamburg in 1946; the editors spent the first year working above a warehouse for tea and spices, often without electricity, and using borrowed typewriters. As a result of consistentinternationalization and digitization, Axel Springer SE today is not only market leader in the German print business, but is also active in more than 40 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures and licenses. Now it is a question of pressing ahead with digitization even faster and more vigorously. For Axel Springer SE, informative and entertaining journalism is a viable business model also in future on the Internet, along with marketing and classifieds, the other two business segments in which the company is traditionally strong.In the tradition of its founder, who fostered journalistic and technological innovations in his time, Axel Springer SE is breaking new ground. The company is consistently pursuing the objective of building up a fast-growing and profitable digital portfolio and for this reason is networking today more than ever before with the current generation of founders: digital start-ups. Along with the transformation of their established strong media brands, their own new developments online and strategically-oriented acquisitions of web companies, this network is one of the building blocks of the company's international digitization strategy: Axel Springer SE wants to become the leading digital publisher. ## MizMaa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology MizMaa Ventures is a principal investment firm that specializes in investments in technology companies in Israel. ## twozero Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment. ## Marker - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Software, Video, Enterprise Software Marker LLC: Venture Capital. Intelligent investing. Enlightened model. New York, NY and Herzliya, Israel. ## Alumni Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own. ## Kaedan Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS Kaedan Capital is a private investment group active for over 15 years. We are entrepreneur centric investors with co-founder mentality, focused on Israeli related, seed to early stage ventures in diverse technology areas. ## Gaingels - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments. ## HBSE Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Media and Entertainment, Sports, Broadcasting HBSE Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on sports-tech. ## Eureeca - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, eSports, Internet Eureeca is the first and most regulated global online crowdinvesting (or Equity Crowdfunding) platform where businesses can source funding from the crowd in exchange for equity in their business. Harnessing the power of the internet and social media, Eureeca’s platform connects Angel and Institutional investors to small & medium enterprises(SMEs) online to pool their funds and resources - creating a game-changing alternative to traditional funding. We operate across 3 continents and over 100 countries. We have pioneered cross border investing; building a digital solution to enable investors to build a portfolio of early growth stage investments from around the globe.From our offices in Dubai, London, Kuala Lumpur, and Amsterdam, Eureeca offers high-yield potential investment opportunities from the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia to its investor network who range from casual and angel investors to institutional firms. Businesses raising funds can leverage this network for capital, strategic connections, and expansion into new markets.Eureeca was recently highly ranked in the MENA Forbes “Top 100 Startups 2017” and won “Innovator of the Year” by Forbes in 2017. Other accolades include “Innovator of the Year” at the 2014 Gulf Business Awards and “Most Innovative Online Platform” by Frost and Sullivan in 2015. ## DLA Piper - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific to help clients with their legal needs around the world. ## Legziel Family - Type: VC Fund - Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Legziel Famliy ## StartupFon - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019. ## Charlton LTD - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Artificial Intelligence Charlton ## La French Tech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, iOS La French Tech is a global initiative that supports and promotes French communities of startups and entrepreneurs around the world. It assists all the professionals working towards startups’ growth and international promotion, including entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, designer, developers, corporate companies, R&D centers, governmentagencies, incubators, co-working spaces, and more.La French Tech was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France. ## Shaked Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Internet Shaked Ventures is a private investment fund by the founders of 888 Holdings Investing at seed stage B2B Enterprise Saas startups. ## Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Blockchain Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $20K - $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups. ## Beyond Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Video, Gaming, Content Funded by USAID, Beyond Capital is an LC created through a joint partnership between Endeavor Jordan, a leading non-profit that supports high-impact entrepreneurs, & Silicon Badia, a global venture capital firm focusing on investments in the tech sector. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co