# Top 10 Legal VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in October 2023

## lool Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

lool Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage Israeli startups.

## LionBird
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

LionBird is a Tel Aviv- and Chicago-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage software companies operating in the healthcare, commerce, and enterprise sectors. Founded in 2012, LionBird has developed an investment strategy around early-stage startups that leverages online technology to re-imagine traditional offline business processes andmodels.

## Brighteye Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Software

Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!

## Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Training, Education, Online Portals

Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is the Egyptian house of expertise. It brings together outstanding Egyptian scientists and experts from universities, research institutions, private sector, NGOs, policymakers, and prominent Egyptian scientists in Diaspora to deliberate country problems, propose and carry out scientific studies andfuture strategic basic plans to tackle these problems.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.

## Firstime Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.

## Zaldi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, E-Learning

Zaldi Capital is one of the fastest growing asset management companies in Egypt.

## Tanmia wa Tatweer Project
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, E-Learning

Tanmia wa Tatweer Project

## African Development Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belvédère, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Legal, Energy, E-Learning

African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It finances development projects and programs in cooperation with other national and international development institutions; offers technical assistance in the selection, study, and preparation of projects; and promotes investments of public and privatecapital in projects and programs designed to contribute to the economic and social progress of the regional member states. The company also provides sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public sector and non-sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public and private sectors; lines of credit for trade finance; agency lines; guarantees such as partial credit and risk guarantees; equity and quasi-equity trade finance; and risk management products comprising interest rate swaps, currency swaps, commodity swaps, interest rate caps, and collars. In addition, it offers trade finance services consisting of risk participation agreements, trade finance lines of credit, and soft commodity finance facilities as well as technical assistance. African Development Bank was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

## Shibolet Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Analytics, InsurTech

Established in 1973, Shibolet is one the most distinguished corporate law firms in Israel, with substantial international experience in dynamic and evolving market sectors.They are globally minded and build relationships that last. The world’s most respected banks and businesses turn to us for support on their most complex and challengingmatters, and on transactions that define and direct the market.From their office in Tel Aviv and desk in China, they deliver innovative, relevant and tailor-made legal solutions to their clients’ across a broad spectrum of industries worldwide.They have close working relationships with local law firms, banks and governments’ in all countries where their clients are investing. They also have an associated office in New York City.Their dedicated China practice contains specialists fluent in Chinese. They were also the first Israeli firm to establish a China desk and develop close working relationships with leading local Chinese law firms.They are the exclusive Israeli member of TerraLex – an international network of over 160 leading independent law firms in nearly 100 countries, serving the business and personal interests of clients whose requirements transcend their national borders. Membership is by invitation only and members are renowned and respected worldwide.They are the only major Israeli law firm to be ISO 9001:2000 certified for Legal Services.

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