# Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Middle East in October 2023

## BECO Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology

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.

## Raed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

## 4DX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services

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. 

## Nuwa Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.

## Shorooq Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

## Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) is a venture capital fund investing in early stage technology companies around the globe. The fund is interested in post-revenue Seed through Series-B opportunities. RTF was founded by Riyad Capital Co. and TAQNIA and is backed by leading Saudi institutional investors.

## MSA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Biotechnology

MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.

## Tenmou
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Droichead Uí Bhriain, Clare, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Internet, SaaS

Tenmou is Bahrain´s first Business Angels Company, which provides both mentor-ship and capital to high-potential, innovative Bahraini entrepreneurs from the seed stage. Through the support and mentor-ship provided by our Angel shareholders, all of whom are established businessmen and successful entrepreneurs in their own right, we look to givethese new entrepreneurs the greatest chance of success.

## PeakBridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valletta, NA - Malta, Malta
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care

PeakBridge is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager and Investment Services Firm specialized in FoodTech.

## COTU Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Education

COTU Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture firm in the Middle East. We partner with incredible founders at the beginning of their journey; taking companies from Pre-seed through to Series A and beyond, accelerating their path to product-market fit, and ensuring that they get access to the right capital and expertise along the way.

## David Buttress
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Food Delivery, E-Commerce

David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.

## Crescent Enterprises
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Delivery, Restaurants, Food Delivery

Crescent Enterprises operates across four distinct platforms, which work together in synergy to develop innovative, sustainable, and profitable businesses.

## Rawaz Rauf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine

Rawaz Rauf

## Subhi Khudairi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine

Subhi Khudairi

## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

## Shwan Ibrahim Taha
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine

Shwan Ibrahim Taha

## Valia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

Valia is a venture capital firm backing founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.

## Bassam Falah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Retail, Internet, Shopping

Bassam Falah is a Founder and Managing Partner of Innovest Middle East VC.

## Iraq Tech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine

Iraq Tech Ventures provides minimum investment to approved startups in Iraq and the Middle East region.

## PICO Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Big Data

Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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## 6G Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Restaurants

6G Capital is the family office arm of the Allana Group, which invests in diverse sectors ranging from retail, healthcare, and fintech.

## Algebra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software

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

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit.

## Hope Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manama, Al Manamah, Bahrain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Coffee, Delivery

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## Heaventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Heaventures strives to join in exceptional early-stage startups as a team member and contribute with its time, expertise, network and money.

## Youcef Oudjidane
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food

Youcef Oudjidane is the founder of Byld Ventures and co-founder of Bloom (YC W22)

## Apostolos Apostolakis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

Apostolos is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He started his career at Boston Consulting Group where he spent 2 years consulting businesses. On his entrepreneurial path, he has co-founded e-shop.gr, Openfund, e-food, doctoranytime and was a key investor in Taxibeat. Since 2010 he has invested and supported a large number of startups with afocus on e-marketplaces and SaaS. He studied civil engineering at NTUA and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

## Soner Casur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Debt Financing
- Focus: Apps, Restaurants, Retail Technology

Soner Çaşur is Co-Founder at TaksidePOS. He attended Columbia Business School.

## Musa Bin Adi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Restaurants, Food Delivery

Musa is an entrepreneur, author , and a senior business leader who worked in various managerial positions with many years of experience specializing in management and compliance, marketing, business risk management, project management, operational risk, and enterprise infrastructure and operations for clients in the oil & gas, manufacturing,engineering, and food industries. Musa holds a master's degree in International Management from the University of Liverpool, a certificate in cybersecurity management from the University of Toronto, a diploma in Project Management, and a BSc degree in electrical power engineering technology.

## Kybele Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Food and Beverage, Sales and Marketing

Kybele started its operations in 2018 and since then created a diversified portfolio of Turkish and Global companies.

## MSA Novo
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.

## Saudi Venture Capital Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Software

SVC has backed 31 VC and PE Funds and 5 Angel Groups that supported 525 Startups and SMEs via $1.6 Billion AUM    
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## Strauss Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Petah Tiqva, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Retail

Strauss Group is an international corporation with a portfolio of five companies, which provide a response to two leading world trends – Health & Wellness, and Fun & Indulgence.

## Pioneer Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

## Spade Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Marketplace, Restaurants

Spade Ventures is an angel syndicate that invests primarily in early stage.

## SEEDRA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Predictive Analytics, FinTech, Financial Services

SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.

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

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

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Pinnacle Financial Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Music, Apps, Cloud Security

Pinnacle Financial Partners is a bank headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee operating in middle and East Tennessee.

## Cyrus Angel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, B2B, SMS

Cyrus Angel Fund is an angel fund that funds early seed startups. They are very actively involved, believing that this can help improve a startup’s odds of success. Their domain includes SaaS, consumer Internet and other software ventures.

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

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

## Zinal Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Zinal Growth is an investment firm.

## Sukna Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, SaaS

Sukna ventures is a venture studio and fund based in Saudi Arabia.

## Bugshan Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Snack Food, Restaurants, Food Processing

Bugshan Investment serves as a vehicle for the Group to participate in Joint Ventures, invest in international and domestic money markets and real estate, and co-invest in private equity deals in local, regional, and global markets.

## Abdulelah Algosaibi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Abdulelah Algosaibi is the Saudi angel investor.

## Abdul Majeed Al Hokair
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Abdul Majeed Al Hokair is an individual partners.

## SnackFutures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: East Hanover, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Food Processing

SnackFutures is Mondelēz International's new innovation hub that is dedicated to unlocking emerging snacking opportunities around the world. SnackFutures will capitalize on new trends and mobilize entrepreneurial talent and technologies to build and grow small brands with large-scale potential, and leverage other growth opportunities acrosssnacking.

## Vulpes Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Residential

Uninhibited Venture Investing Southeast Asia & Australia-New Zealand

## Cyfr
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Marketplace, Restaurants

Cyfr operates as an investment firm.

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