Top 50 Startup Investors in Jordan (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF)
VC Fund
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12 | Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $150k–$2.4M |
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Silicon Badia
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $500k–$8M |
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Jordan, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $500k–$30M |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services | $500k–$47M |
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
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6 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology | $284k–$25M |
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Flat6Labs
VC Fund
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6 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Apps | $15k–$300k |
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Propeller Inc.
VC Fund
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5 | Jordan, Egypt, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Computer | $350k–$3.5M |
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MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $15k–$11M |
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Bank al Etihad
VC Fund
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4 | Jordan | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding | $2.3M–$6M |
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $60k–$25M |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $200k–$23M |
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Samih Toukan
Angel
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3 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services | $500k–$7.1M |
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $600k–$50M |
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed | Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software | $300k–$25M |
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail | $1.1M–$15M |
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GSV Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Peru | Seed, Series A, Series B | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $1.5M–$25M |
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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $1.7M–$37M |
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Beyond Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Jordan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Video, Gaming, Content | |
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Edgo VC
VC Fund
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2 | Jordan | Series A | FinTech, Finance, Computer | |
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AdamTech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Jordan | Seed, Series B, Convertible Note | CRM, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Fadi Ghandour
Angel
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2 | United States, Kenya, Jordan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Retail, E-Commerce, Software | $15k–$10M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $40k–$20M |
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Ibtikar Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $60k–$600k |
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Saned Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals | $800k–$20M |
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FMO
VC Fund
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2 | India, The Netherlands, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1.7M–$120M |
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BECO Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology | $800k–$60M |
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Endure Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $225k–$34M |
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Mufleh Akel
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Pre-Seed | Virtualization, Food and Beverage | |
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Select Ventures Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Seed | E-Commerce, Electronics, Sporting Goods | |
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Mindshift Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, Wellness, Health Care | $465k–$3.9M |
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Zuhair Shammout
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Pre-Seed | Virtualization, Food and Beverage | |
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LEAD Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Seed | Internet, Software, Advertising | |
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Ali Hoja
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Angel | E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace | |
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Karim Kawar
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Seed | Retail, Fashion, Shopping | |
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Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Turkey, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $600k–$50M |
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Mohammad Farah
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Angel | E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace | |
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MSA Novo
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, India, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1.5M–$11M |
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Valuta Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Jordan | Seed | E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Snack Food | $13k–$1.4M |
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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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Mahdi Mwas
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Angel | E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace | |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Mauritius | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Energy | $300k–$120M |
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Triodos Bank NV
VC Fund
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1 | Israel | CleanTech, Manufacturing, Sustainability | ||
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps | $100k–$3M |
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HALA Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Predictive Analytics | $284k–$9M |
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Mary Nazzal-Batayneh
Angel
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1 | Jordan | Pre-Seed | Virtualization, Food and Beverage | |
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace | $100k–$14M |
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GINCO Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, India | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Big Data, Food and Beverage | $120k–$1.2M |
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Injaz
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Pre-Seed | Virtualization, Food and Beverage | |
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Select Venture Equity
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Seed | Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | |
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TotallyAwesome
VC Fund
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1 | Jordan | Seed | EdTech, Education, Web Development | |
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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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $150k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- gamiphy — GAMIPHY is a user engagement and retention platform that equips brands in different industries with tools proven to increase customer reach and loyalty such as branded mini games, playable Ads and digital loyalty programs. The tools and techniques offered by GAMIPHY can be either integrated into existing websites and apps, or can be used to createplatform-independent solutions. The available solutions are diverse, fully customizable, DIY, and are guaranteed to improve each customer journey, thus shorten the path to earn the loyalty sought after.
- Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
- Kader — Kader is an on-demand mobile application that connects pre-vetted quality workers with businesses in the hospitality, retail and service sectors using an advanced matchmaking technology based on location, experience and qualifications.
Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $2.3M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- mtion interactive — mtion is a creating the metaverse for gamers to stream from, share with each other, and be in. mtion's platform provides gamers with the tools to create their own personalized 3D spaces in which the can create, build, and socialize with in.
- Userpilot — Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
- The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.
DASH Ventures is a Venture Capital firm operating at the forefront of MENA’s rapidly transforming economic landscape.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Jordan, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.3M; Series A $2.3M–$6M; Series B $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
- Caplight — Caplight is a platform that enables institutional investors to buy and sell derivatives of private equity.For the first time in the private markets, institutional investors can hedge positions, generate income on assets, and access true liquidity with public settlement-like mechanics.Caplight serves a broad range of QIBs including hedge funds,VC funds, family offices, pensions, endowments, mutual funds, and insurance firms.Securities are offered by North Capital Private Securities, member FINRA/SIPC, a partner of Caplight Markets LLC.
- Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $2M–$6.5M; Series B $3.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
- Believe — Believe Pte Ltd. is a global, Singapore-based FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products that suit their culture and life choices. From breakthrough personal care essentials to beauty products surpassing global standards, our worldwide team of experts use cutting-edgetechnology, scientifically proven methodologies and ancient knowledge to gift our customers
- Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
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 :-)
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $284k–$1M; Series A $800k–$25M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Repzo — Repzo is a mobile sales CRM (customer relationship management) app . Simply put, this application turns your smartphone or tablet into the ultimate standalone field force management tool.
- Bookme.pk — Pakistan's leading online ticket booking platform. Buy E-tickets for bus, flight, movie, hotel & cricket with discounts and deals.
- Jiye Technologies — Jiye Technologies is revolutionizing Agri Marketplaces of Pakistan
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
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Jordan, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Maqsam — Maqsam is MENA’s friendliest cloud communication suite for SMBs and Enterprises, replacing a bulky and expensive hardware-based solution used by businesses to communicate with their clients with a simple cloud-based pay-as-you-go solution. Maqsam provides its clients with local numbers from more than 200+ cities around the world (with a focus onMENA), and offers high quality voice calls, SMS, Whatsapp messaging, and seamless integrations to 10+ popular cloud CRMs.
- Gameball — Gameball is a one-stop platform to market your products and keep your customers engaged, leading to boosted conversion and increased RoI with a data-driven success strategy.
- BusinessChat Technologies Holding limited — BusinessChat : Make WhatsApp your #1 sales channel using Marketing Campaigns, WhatsApp chatbot for 24/7 automated replies.
Mena Venture Investments (MVI) is an angel fund that invests in early stage startups with strong growth potential in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and beyond. We work with entrepreneurs to build solid, scalable businesses and ensure access to capital at early stages of a venture to fuel their growth. Beyond financial investment,MVI offers support through mentorship, access to markets, networks, and clients, as well as cross-border operational support.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Series A $800k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
- Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
- Connecterra — Connecterra is a developer of software for the dairy industry. Connecterra is building an Artificial Intelligence that will grow food sustainably to feed future generations. Connecterra exists to give people a previously impossible understanding of the world around them so they can make more productive, humane and sustainable use of Earth’s naturalresources. They use machine learning to turn raw data into insight-driven efficiencies for the benefit of people, companies, and the natural habitats in which they operate
Bank al Etihad, previously known as Union Bank, is a Jordan-based financial and banking services institution, established in 1978 as a public shareholding company, with a paid up capital of JDs 110,000,000 and a capital base in excess of JOD 235 million and a capital adequacy ratio of 16.91%.Bank al Etihad operates a growing network of 37branches and is expected to reach 38 branches by end of 2014 in addition to 52 ATMs, a central exchange unit, in addition to one branch in Ramallah - Palestine. Bank al Etihad also fully owns a brokerage firm “Etihad Brokerage” which was established in (2006).
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $60k–$2.5M; Series A $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Haseel — The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age.
- Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
- RedBox — Don't wait for drivers to deliver your packages! Instead, use RedBox lockers to ship your packages and collect them at your convenient time. No human contact!
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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.
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.
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- Industry: Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.3M; Series A $2.3M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
- VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
- Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$6.9M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zid زد — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
- Gameball — Gameball is a one-stop platform to market your products and keep your customers engaged, leading to boosted conversion and increased RoI with a data-driven success strategy.
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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.
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- Industry: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3.5M; Series A $750k–$25M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
- Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
- Shift EV — Electrifying fleets in emerging markets.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.1M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- AIfluence — AIfluence uses advanced algorithms to accurately match influencers to brands, manage, predict and deliver measurable ROI on every influencer marketing campaign
- Hala — Hala is the UAE's first car insurance product that rewards you for driving safely. For each day you're accident free, you get hala coins which you spend on meals, gym memberships, and hotel stays.
GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Peru
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.3M; Series A $4.3M–$19M; Series B $4.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $180M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
- MagicSchool AI — Join thousands of teachers saving hours of time using AI to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more!
- Maximal Learning — Maximum Education utilizing AI to help each student reach their full potential. It collaborates on research with the Stanford Graduate School of Education. a pattern that Microsoft adopted when designing tools and is crucial to ensuring learning outcomes.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$19M; Series A $6.7M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $63M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- Baytonia — Baytonia is an E-commerce marketplace that is dedicated to customer happiness and consistently provides exceptional value in the form of distinctive and high-quality homeware collections.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
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.
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- Industry: Video, Gaming, Content
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BithTV — BithTV is an all-in-one free video editor to take your content to the next level. Create, edit, and publish videos in minutes.
- Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Computer
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
- POSRocket — Traditional cash registers are a thing of the past. POSRocket modernizes this near-obsolete system by providing business owners with an intuitive, user-friendly, cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) platform.
Adamtech is The result of three entrepreneurs joining their life experiences together.
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- Industry: CRM, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Repzo — Repzo is a mobile sales CRM (customer relationship management) app . Simply put, this application turns your smartphone or tablet into the ultimate standalone field force management tool.
- Mawdoo3 — Mawdoo3 is an online platform that provides content in the Arabic language on various topics. It aims to enrich Arab content on the Internet for more than 50 million unique visitors every month. Mawdoo3 features written content in a variety of fields, including health, education, and cooking.The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered inAmman.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $15k–$9.5M; Series A $3.5M–$6.3M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Onfleet — Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University.
- Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
- Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $431k–$13M; Pre-Seed $40k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
- Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $150k–$600k; Pre-Seed $60k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vatrin — Vatrin provides an easy way for small-business owners to set up a simple website to facilitate online orders, payments and a direct connection to WhatsApp for managing and tracking the final order.
- DataQueue — Unlock the true power of artificial intelligence with DataQueue. Our platform offers a transformative approach to AI lifecycle management, providing end-to-end solutions that cover every step of the process. From data labeling and automation to deployment and human-in-the-loop integration, we have
- Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Series A $800k–$4.5M; Series B $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
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- Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
- Mumzworld — Mumzworld.com is the largest e-commerce portal in the Middle East dedicated to all things mother, baby, and child. The Company serves over 2 million mothers in the MENA region and ships to more than 20 countries. Mothers can now shop faster and easier than ever before and find products not available anywhere else in the region.Mumzworld.com is acompany built by mumz for mumz, with the ultimate vision of becoming an indispensable online extension of a mother’s life. Mumzworld.com was created by the same team of Bayt.com (Alexa rank# 1,700), the largest job site in the Middle East. As a result, Mumzworld.com has:• Established the largest catalog of products for mothers in the region, bringing more than 200,000 products online from over 2,000 global and regional brands • Shipped over 60 tons of products to over 20 countries • Pioneered the e-commerce experience for mothers in the Middle East, being called the “Amazon for moms” by CNN. • Partnered with giant FMCGs, such as P&G and DANONE • Acquired exclusivity to a large selection of products, as well as exclusive distribution rights for a growing number of global brands
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, The Netherlands, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Series B $4.5M–$30M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
- AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital. It wasfounded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.
BECO Capital provides growth capital and hands-on operational support for early-stage technology companies. It is a technology-focused venture capital that supports entrepreneurs and financial sectors to raise funds.The company helps small companies with growth capital and hands-on operational mentorship in their early stage of development. Itwas founded in 2012 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.BECO Capital was founded on February 1, 2014, by Dany Farha and Amir Farha, and it is headquartered in Dubai.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6.4M; Series A $1M–$27M; Series B $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
- Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
- Pine Street Labs — A non-custodial API for managing wallets. Built for enterprises.
Endure Capital is an early stage investment fund headed by entrepreneurs looking for startup teams. They look for founders who are relentlessly resourceful and imaginative, solving genuine problems that matter to a lot of people and building high growth companies that endure.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $225k–$6.4M; Series A $1M–$34M; Series B $6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- Pylon — Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure.
- Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.
Mufleh Akel President at Akel consulting.
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- Industry: Virtualization, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
Select Ventures Holdings is a UAE-based investment management firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Electronics, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Martix — Martix is an online marketplace for consumer goods, electronics, and sporting goods.
Investing in global, female entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Education, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $465k–$850k; Series A $1.3M–$3.9M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Rosy Wellness — Rosy is the first-of-its-kind platform offering women a holistic approach to sexual health and wellness. Download the Rosy app today!
- Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
- Rebel Girls — Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the most inspired and confident generation of girls around the world through content, experiences, products, and community. Originating from an international best-selling children’s book, Rebel Girls amplifies stories of real-life, extraordinary women throughouthistory, geography, and field of excellence. With a growing community of nearly 20 million self-identified Rebel Girls spanning more than 100 countries, the brand engages with Generation Alpha through its book series, award-winning podcast, events and merchandise. In 2021, Rebel Girls launched the Dream On app to re-imagine sleep routines by sharing empowering stories with a screen-free audio experience; and inspired girls everywhere to Celebrate Black Girl Magic with a new book, merchandise and events. To date, they have sold 7 million books in 51 languages and reached 14 million podcast downloads.
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- Industry: Virtualization, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
LEAD CAPITAL IS A PRODUCT-FOCUSED, SEED-STAGE VENTURE CAPITAL FUND BASED IN AMMAN - JORDAN.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Edexy — Edexy connects people with great businesses, listings, deals, and events by providing a platform for businesses and consumers to engage and transact. We foster a review culture in our societies and revive word of mouth. We are the new version of business
Ali Hoja
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Muyawama — We make hiring local, trusted service professionals ridiculously simple - and help people use the time saved to pursue their passions
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.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Shopping
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $600k–$24M; Series A $1M–$35M; Series B $2M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.
Mohammad Farah
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Muyawama — We make hiring local, trusted service professionals ridiculously simple - and help people use the time saved to pursue their passions
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zid زد — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
Valuta Capital Partners is an advisory outfit with its headquarters in Istanbul providing management consulting services to its affiliates.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Snack Food
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $13k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tailster — Tailster is an iOS and Android mobile application that matches pet owners with people who are willing to care for their pets. It allows its users to track dog walks, real time photo updates, free insurance, and online payment services. Individuals shares their requirements and they can get in touch with the carers. They also can book the carersonline and over the telephone. It provides customer testimonials for new users to get an idea about the company and their experiences.Tailster is a U.K.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Indy Sangha.
- MyGoGames — My GO games (OTCQB: MYGG) is a publicly traded, on-line, ethical action game developer for outdoor enthusiasts. CEO Danny Hammett has extensive experience, leadership and sponsor contracts enabling the company to build a Games Universe of over 30 outdoors games. MYGG takes a proven outdoor action formula - recognized branding combined withfast paced hunting /fishing /riding/boating/camping, and outdoor enthusiast activities with a low barrier to entry - and puts it in a graphically rich MMO world specifically crafted for the over 500 million hunting, fishing, and outdoor enthusiasts, globally. Players can hike trails, camp out in the wilderness, try their hand at fishing, use firearms and bows against targets or various wild game animals, encounter numerous outdoor celebrities, and experience a variety of other games and activities with a central lodge focus. GO is designed to combine humanity’s oldest social experiences with the most powerful social networking tools available online.
- Quantemplate — Insurance data integration, automation, validation & analytics. Automate all your insurance and reinsurance data preparation, including Bordereaux Management, MGA Reporting, Exposure Management, Fleet Auto, Aggregation and Clash with integrated data quality assurance. Turn all of your insurance data sources into insights you can trust with the Quantemplate SaaS platform.
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.
Mahdi Mwas
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Muyawama — We make hiring local, trusted service professionals ridiculously simple - and help people use the time saved to pursue their passions
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Series B $8M–$40M; Debt Financing $300k–$120M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
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- Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
- Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
We make money work for positive change. We are more than a bank. We are a community.
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- Industry: CleanTech, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tipa — Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
- liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
- AlgoDriven — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
- Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Predictive Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $284k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$730k; Series A $500k–$9M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torod — Torod is an API aggregator that enables E-store owners to select the best shipper based on price, insurance, destination, and item value, with a single click set-up.
- El-Dokan — El-Dokan is the first enterprise eCommerce software designed for large and growing retail stores in MENA to help them optimize their operations and improve their sales conversion.
- intella — intella is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider which offers real-time intelligence services for businesses.
Chairperson of 17 Ventures.
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- Industry: Virtualization, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
- Muqbis — As the word Muqbis means, our main job is to connect talented hands and home based businesses to their targeted customers and support them to grow their businesses hassle free. On the other hand Muqbis opens a wide market to support customers find “the made with love home products and services” they look for and compare varieties, prices and findnearby providers. In Muqbis we believe that world is changing, life patterns are changing and for sure work styles are changing and we are here for it.
- Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
We invest in Seed through Series B companies around the world. Our focus is to invest in companies where we can add material value through our deep relationships in UAE government as well as decades of developing successful enterprise software implementations. We invest directly and through our partners at Techstars and Human Ventures.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Big Data, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
- Nestrom — An all around EHS platform, Gather Observations, Inspections, Audits & Data and Action work-orders from one platform through a mobile app and web
- Three Wheels United — Three Wheels United is a tech-enabled financier of light electric vehicles. Three Wheels United is a Global fintech lender for electric mobility in the Global South. The company is disrupting lending to low-income and less literate clients. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
INJAZ was founded in 1999 as a project under a USAID-funded program, Save the Children. In 2001, INJAZ became an independent, nonprofit Jordanian organization. Over the past 18 years, INJAZ has established itself as a leading solution provider linking the public, private, and civil society sectors to bridge the skills gap between the educationalsystem and the changing needs of the labor market.
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- Industry: Virtualization, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.
Select Venture Equity is a Venture Equity holding company that focuses on acquiring equity positions in forward-thinking companies in the Middle East, North Africa, and Canada. We are a multi-stage investment firm that distinguishes itself through our General Partners' deep knowledge, broad exposure to various industries, and superior businessdevelopment skills, which enable our portfolio companies to cross border into target markets and provide them with the growth scale required for increased market share and value.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shorooq Partners — Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
- Telescope Production — Telescope is a pioneer in media and technology that uses amusing, enlightening, and educational media material to have a good impact on society.
TotallyAwesome is the only youth-first engagement platform in APAC. We enable a youth-first and brand-safe digital ecosystem with more than 500 million monthly active users.
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Web Development
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MERAKI Academy — MERAKI Academy; is an Online Part-Time Coding Bootcamp that teaches programming from scratch. We provide a unique learning experience using the most up-to-date methods and technologies consisting of over 700 hours of support and guidance to prepare our students for the software engineering industry. MERAKI Academy has been a part of the techcommunity since the pandemic started. The IT sector was standing still during all that, and we believe in involving more capable people in it, and open opportunities for those who are passionate, willing to learn, and enthusiastic about being Software Engineers; through an intensive Online Part-Time Coding Bootcamp, consisting of two phases: • Phase 1 (5 months): The Training Phase lasts for 5 months [700 hours of training]. • Phase 2 (up to 8 months): The Support Phase lasts up to 8 months after graduation to help all graduates to land their first job in the IT field.Until this time, we’ve graduated four cohorts of students who have gone on to become Software Engineers in high-profile companies (local and international), currently, we are in the middle of the fifth cohort.Each student has a cost fee of $3100, we have our support system; study now and pay later where the student pays $700 upon registration which can be paid in installments then pays $2400 in installments after getting a job only and within 8 months after graduation (425 $ Registration Fees). We provide a high-quality learning experience for our students as we have our industry-driven curriculum, various teaching methodologies, and a system that competes with world-class Coding Bootcamps. I have no doubt this will end up being a significant success if we make it happen.What We Are Looking For? A strategic partner (investor) who can help us to open a new branch and move the business to the next level; in return, we offer a stake from MERAKI Academy.Please find attached MERAKI Academy’s profile to this email also, you can find more details on our Online Part-Time Coding Bootcamp (youtu.be/a5ic81DheuU). Outcomes Statistics: Graduates Salary Range: $493 - $4500 Graduates Employment Rate (overall): 85%-95% (within 8 months after graduation)
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