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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2023)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Middle East Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Flat6Labs
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Apps $15k–$300k
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
5 Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed Marketplace, E-Commerce, Software $300k–$25M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
5 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services $500k–$47M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
5 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $150k–$6.6M
Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $600k–$50M
AUC Angels
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Finance $40k–$2M
Terra Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1M–$14M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $200k–$23M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$247M
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $100k–$3M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail $1.1M–$15M
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software $1.5M–$25M
Alex Angels
VC Fund
3 Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps $28k–$1.2M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
3 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $490k–$21M
Millenium Food-Tech
VC Fund
2 Israel Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Agriculture $2.5M–$10M
LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $100k–$15M
Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $700k–$2M
Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Colombia Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile $800k–$25M
XT Hi-Tech
VC Fund
2 Israel Seed, Series A Health Care, Agriculture, Medical Device $3.2M–$7M
Hosam Arab
Angel
2 Canada, United Arab Emirates Seed, Debt Financing B2B, Retail, Banking
PeakBridge
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care $536k–$6.4M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$3M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $60k–$25M
Point72 Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $800k–$116M
Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
2 Mexico, United Arab Emirates Seed, Debt Financing E-Commerce, Retail, Consumer Goods
Good Seed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology $2M–$3M
Global Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services $870k–$60M
Faith Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $100k–$8M
Saned Partners
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals $800k–$20M
Firat Isbecer
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, SaaS $24k–$9M
DASH Ventures
VC Fund
2 Jordan, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $500k–$30M
Vertex Ventures Israel
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Canada Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$100M
Sawari Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, Lebanon Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software $100k–$42M
AgFunder
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Series B Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $1.1M–$30M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $88k–$2.4M
Champel Capital
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Switzerland Series B, Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Machine Learning $5M–$120M
Signet Jewelers
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States Seed, Grant SaaS, Retail, Software $3M–$8M
Logo Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Retail $500k–$11M
Strauss Group
VC Fund
2 Israel Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Retail
Inventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail $1.9M–$4.3M
Jonathan Doerr
Angel
2 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Credit, Retail, FinTech
Hetz Ventures
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.5M–$22M
Flat6Labs Egypt
VC Fund
2 Egypt, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Internet, Software $10k–$2M
Angel Effect
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $25k–$1.1M
Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology $284k–$25M
Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund
2 Iraq Seed Retail, Internet, Shopping
Abercross Holdings
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity B2B, Retail, Software
NFX
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Marketplace $120k–$30M
Wellborn Ventures
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics $440k–$12M
NB Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Health Care, Apps, Food and Beverage $500k–$12M
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Flat6Labs
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$2.5M; Series B $825k–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
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Arzan Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 4 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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AUC Angels
VC Fund · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

What is AUC Angels? AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region. Angel investors are individuals who are interested in investing in early-stage startups with growth potential which in turn supports the growth of a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dKilo — dKilo is a technology company in the AdTech space. It offers smart out of home advertising solutions using the internet of things and AI.
  • Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
  • Sprints — home page Description
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Terra Venture Partners
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We are an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with inspiring entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $2.1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
  • Arugga AI Farming — Arugga intends to transform greenhouse vegetable farming into a data-driven, automated and efficient field by designing the first autonomous robot which will monitor and treat every individual plant in the greenhouse.
  • Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 54 in the past 12 months

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$165M; Series B $10M–$247M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Josys — Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog operations in corporate IT, reduces operational costs, and improves security levels.
  • Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Investment strategy is spearheaded by a deep expertise in identifying companies from inception and building global industry leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $10M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Akeyless Security — Akeyless Vault platform built to secure IT and DevOps resources, credentials, and access, on hybrid cloud and legacy environments.
  • BioBetter — BioBetter is a foodtech company that develops plant-based platforms for the production of complex growth factors used in cultivated meat. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Israel.
  • Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
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Alex Angels
VC Fund · Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Alex Angels is an investment management company that helps investors to invest in early-stage companies with strong management teams. The company specializes in the fields of financial services, financial exchange, and investments. Alex Angels was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Al Iskandariyah, Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $28k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CardoO — Welcome To Our InnovationsExplore
  • SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
  • 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.
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 3 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; Pre-Seed $490k–$11M; Series A $2.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mozn — Confidently screen customers, monitor transactions and assess risk with powerful AI and seamless automation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Millenium Food-Tech
VC Fund · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Millennium Food-Tech is an R&D partnership traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that specializes in investment in and betterment of companies in food-tech sectors,. Millennium seeks to invest in companies that specialize in identifying and developing innovative, and transformative ideas in the food, drinks, and nutrition industry. Millenniumhas experienced management, proven solutions, and a supportive network to develop ideas and start-ups from early-stage to maturity to exit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4.1M; Convertible Note $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% 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.
  • Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
  • Supersmart — Supersmart is the world's leading loss-prevention solution for self-scan transactions. Supersmart uses its proprietary machine-learning, AI algorithm to validate all self-scanning transactions in physical stores. Our solution enables retailers to confidently provide self-scanning options to their customers, enhancing customer experiencewithout sacrificing potential loss.The Israel-based company was founded in 2014 by Yair Cleper and Amir Ayalon.
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
  • EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
  • Medialyzer — Measure, analyze and increase the online impact of TV advertising.
  • artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $5.9M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
  • CoreTigo — CoreTigo provides high-performance IO-Link Wireless communication solutions for machine builders, system integrators & industrial equipment manufacturers.
  • Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.
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XT Hi-Tech
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Established in 1997 as the venture arm of XT Holdings, XT Hi-Tech is one of the early investors in Israeli startups. Since inception, we have invested in over 80 companies in various technology categories and at different stages, including Phytech, Checkmarx, Enzymotec, Cymbio, Sofwave, and Lumenis.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$6.5M; Series A $6M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
  • BioT Medical — Cloud-based platform for medical devices designed to instantly connect patients with caregivers to ensure a seamless continuum of care.
  • Beyeonics — Beyeonics Surgical technologies began operating in 2012, led by a team of Elbit Systems senior engineers with a mission to revolutionize the visualization and information presented during surgery. Future products include visualization systems for other surgical applications as well as solutions for spine surgery, minimal invasive procedures,robotic surgery and use in cardiovascular catheterization labs. Operating from Israel, Beyeonics is working in collaboration with Prof. Anat Lowenstein the Head of Ophthalmic Department and Prof. Adiel Barak the Head of the Retina Department in Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and with Dr. Pravin Dugel managing partner at Retinal Consultants of Arizona.
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Hosam Arab
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia provides a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. They buy businesses with a long-term competitive advantage and strong home-grown brands. They know that selling a business can be stressful and difficult, which is why they have streamlined the process so that you can receive money in your accountwithin just 6 weeks of starting the process.
  • Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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PeakBridge
VC Fund · Valletta, NA - Malta, Malta · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $536k–$5.2M; Series A $3.1M–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $107M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbisk — One-third of all food produced (worldwide) is wasted. Orbisk helps professional kitchens to get a grip on their food waste.
  • Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
  • WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
  • Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Point72 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$8M; Series A $7M–$60M; Series B $16M–$116M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexusflow — Nexusflow is a generative AI business that works in the cybersecurity market.
  • Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Mexico, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia provides a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. They buy businesses with a long-term competitive advantage and strong home-grown brands. They know that selling a business can be stressful and difficult, which is why they have streamlined the process so that you can receive money in your accountwithin just 6 weeks of starting the process.
  • Valoreo — Valoreo acquires, operates, and scales outstanding e-commerce brands with superstar products. We focus on brands with excellent customer reviews and merchants that have proven success by being top-seller in niche categories with high-growth potential.
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Good Seed Ventures
VC Fund · Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Good Seed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that exclusively invests in sustainable food tech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perfeggt — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
  • Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
  • Nosh Biofoods — Nosh Biofoods is a developer of traditional meat.It produces technical-functional components and nutritional protein by utilising manufacturing technologies to explore natural microbial biodiversity.
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Global Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $870k–$13M; Series A $2M–$34M; Series B $8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
  • Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
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Faith Capital
VC Fund · Sharq Hawalli, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Faith Capital is a venture capital firm investing in talented MENA founders building long-term value by developing sound operations at home and abroad.A Kuwait based venture capital fund owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience and success in the GCC.The principal focus of Faith Capital is on e-commerce businesses,based in the region, which have high growth potential for the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
  • Playbook — Playbook accelerates career growth for women through expert-led Masterclasses and an engaged community that enables women to keep learning and leading.
  • One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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Saned Partners
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $727k–$9M; Angel $24k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$320k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nomad Data — NoMad Data develops a data management platform that provides differentiated data to help businesses make better decisions. It connects businesses to a world of data for better decision making, marketing, storytelling, customer visibility, and more. The company was founded in 2020 and based in New York.
  • Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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DASH Ventures
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

DASH Ventures is a Venture Capital firm operating at the forefront of MENA’s rapidly transforming economic landscape.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Vertex Ventures Israel
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We partner early with global-minded entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt large markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $3M–$33M; Series C $3.6M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Navina — Navina uses medically-informed AI to replace disorganized patient data with an intuitive Patient Portrait - a logical grid that makes it possible for every primary care physician to assess even the most complex cases in minutes. Designed for and loved by physicians, Navina allows for high quality and empathic patient care, resulting in better treatment, reduced missed diagnoses and enhanced financial performance for providers and payers.
  • Unity SCM — Data across your entire supply chain easily collected and organized in one place
  • Trigo Vision — Trigo tech-powers grocery stores with market leading touch-free checkout and digitized operations. AI-driven and fully automated, our proven solution layers digital commerce capabilities onto existing spaces with zero downtime to business.
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Sawari Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

The Middle East/North Africa is the next great investment opportunity. The Middle East has a collective population larger than the US, the vast majority of whom are ‘digital natives‘ (e.g.; under 30) with great appetites for consumer technology products and services. The region boasts higher per capita GDP and more disposable income than Indiaor China. In short, the Middle East is one of the technology sector’s high-growth regions, and offers tremendous potential for expansion in mobile, internet, social media and eCommerce services.Like the BRIC’s and other emerging markets, local partners are key to success. Sawari Ventures is at home in the Middle East, and knows its culture, context and business climate. They have experience and relationships working with technology and investment leaders world-wide. They know how to translate local visionaries into global hits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.3M; Series A $2.1M–$4.5M; Series B $2.7M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
  • 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.
  • Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 17 in the past 12 months

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $4.2M–$14M; Series B $2.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Azaneo — Azaneo develops lightning-fast electric weeding technology. Using only electrons - herbicide free.
  • Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
  • Nium — Nium is creating nanotechnology that has a patent application, significantly reducing temperature, pressure, and overall emissions to produce cleaner, cooler, and greener ammonia. They formed carbon 13 for the climate emergency.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 26 in the past 12 months

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $88k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Juphy — Unify social conversations, deliver excellent customer service, and sell via personalized messaging. #1 tool for social selling & support.
  • Poliark — AI for Built Environment
  • Syntonym — Syntonym state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies provide customers with seamless anonymization by protecting visual data values within the high standards. Syntonym applications use a cloud-native approach to provide customers with seamless integration at the EDGE, Cloud and on-premises servers.
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Champel Capital
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

As a young and dynamic company with a spirit of entrepreneurship, we look first and foremost at the vision leading the entrepreneur. We believe that we should be investing in people, before everything else. We want to be investing in companies led by entrepreneurs who are capable of envisioning and growing great companies with products and/or services meeting real market needs in large and growing markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$12M; Series B $6M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lynxight — Lynxight creates computer vision applications for underwater operations. The company offers a platform with a set of applications utilized across multiple industries: pools, aquaculture, energy, maritime security and infrastructure, among others. Powered by proprietary AI technology, Lynxight enables superior capabilities to manage safety risksand improve operational performance: object detection, measurement and recognition, behavioral analysis, action classification, trajectory optimization and anomaly modeling to predict and forewarn of unplanned situations.Lynxight is hardware agnostic and can be applied in any environment using imaging from above/below water.
  • Clarifruit — First automated fruit and vegetable fresh produce quality control software solution by Clarifruit. Optimize your fresh produce QC >>
  • Intelligent Traffic Control — Intelligent Traffic Control is an adaptive AI-based traffic light real-time management system. It uses advance Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms to make a real-time analysis of the intersection situation, recognize the traffic pattern and tendencies, and changing the green light allocation per lane accordingly, assuringminimum waiting time at the intersection by maximizing the intersection capability.ITC mathematically proved that there are many traffic jams that the system can prevent. It accumulates the algorithm based on a complex mathematical equation and set of algorithms.
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Signet Jewelers
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Signet Jewelers engages in the retail sale of jewelry and watches in the United States, the United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STOREE — STOREE: Chat GPT for Retail
  • Akron Children’s Hospital — Ranked a Best Children's Hospital by US News & World Report, Akron Children's is the largest pediatric provider in northeast Ohio. With two pediatric hospitals, and 20 primary care and 67 pediatric specialty locations, we handle more than 600,000 patient visits a year. We also serve as a major teaching affiliate of Northeast OhioMedical University, and offer a number of pediatric subspecialty fellowship programs.
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Logo Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2.4M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
  • Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool
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Strauss Group
VC Fund · Petah Tiqva, HaMerkaz, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
  • Vanilla Vida — We are here to help the world consume more natural vanilla by establishing a vertical integration company.
  • Torr FoodTech — Torr is an innovative food tech startup, aiming to challenge multi-ingredient snacking categories with our breakthrough technology. Torr dreams develop and produce snacks that serve a unique, tasty, and much healthier bite.
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Inventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
  • Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
  • Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
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Jonathan Doerr
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Jonathan Doerr is the CEO of Daraz. Prior to this, Jonathan served as the managing director of Jumia Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opontia — Opontia provides a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. They buy businesses with a long-term competitive advantage and strong home-grown brands. They know that selling a business can be stressful and difficult, which is why they have streamlined the process so that you can receive money in your accountwithin just 6 weeks of starting the process.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Hetz Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 12 in the past 12 months

We are Hetz Ventures, a team of investment professionals backed by some of Europe's most successful and best-connected investors. We driven by professional and open communication and swift decision making. We help startups to create.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$14M; Series A $10M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Digma — Digma runtime linter lets developers quickly identify risky code, potential errors and bottlenecks in complex codebases. IntelliJ plugin.
  • DeepChecks — Continuous validation for machine learning. Validate and monitor your data and models during training, production and new version releases.
  • Silk Security — Silk Security is a platform that enables businesses to adopt a comprehensive strategy for addressing code, infrastructure, and application risk. It incorporates AI technology to automate prioritizing, combining, and contextualizing data from various detection systems.
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Flat6Labs Egypt
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

MENA’s leading seed and early stage VC firm, and the manager of the most renowned startup programs in the region. We are Accelerating the Future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$340k
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Filtareeq — Empowering your logistics department in ecommerce journey
  • 3attar.com — Healthy Super App
  • Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
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Angel Effect
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $211k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $25k–$996k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • & New Me — Andnewme is a health platform that serves with the motto "only aesthetics". You can get information about aesthetic treatments and find the doctor you are looking for!
  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Al Sharqiya Television
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Al Sharqiya TV is Iraq's first privately owned satellite channel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Iraq

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
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Abercross Holdings
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Investing in privately owned, profitable, high growth, medium sized UK companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Complete Business Solutions — Complete Business Solutions provides affordable business solutions for accounting, payroll, human resource, and personnel needs.
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NFX
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups, 25 in the past 12 months

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 269
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.5M; Series A $7.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
  • Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
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Wellborn Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

Wellborn is seeking companies and game-changing ideas to invest in that will shake up the industry and brighten our technological future. By teaming up with innovative and passionate entrepreneurs Wellborn's mission is to facilitate the transformation of seed and early stage companies into category global leaders. Through collaboration,professional guidance and strategic support our team is dedicated to converting visionary ideas into mature successful brands in order to transform existing markets as well as enabling the creation of new ones. Wellborn is focused on investing in the sectors of: Information technology Software / Cloud / Big Data Cyber Security / Internet / Mobile If you strive to be an industry leader and are seeking financial aid and company backing, contact us and let the revolution begin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $440k–$3.5M; Series A $2M–$5M; Series B $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bugatone — Bugatone adds software-only sensors to any earphone
  • Vi — Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.Our cloud-based SaaS product, Vi Engage, supercharges the reach and efficiency of health experts, so they can provide more value to the masses by delivering the right content to the right people at the right time.Vi also produces engaging fitness & wellness experiences that focus onactive play and real-time coaching, including the award-winning Vi Trainer app, adaptive coaching experiences through a partnership with Bowflex JRNY, and exciting movement-powered games like Torch and Torch Royal for the iPhone.
  • The-Roy — The-Roy is an business intelligence firm focusses on information analysis, and operations to assist in business and legal interests.
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NB Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Retail startups

NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Apps, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.6M; Series A $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Suraasa — Suraasa is an online platform for teachers to get mentorship, teaching diploma courses, and access to best job opportunities that transform their careers
  • ElectricPe — ElectricPe are racing ahead to provide smart, affordable, and clean Electric Mobility to a billion Indians.
  • STAGE — Indian languages content platform for artist led entertainment, such as poetry, comedy and storytelling etc.
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