Top 5 Travel VC Funds &amp; Investors in United Arab Emirates (May 2026)

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

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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B&Y Venture Partners is a MENA based Venture Capital firm that invests globally at both seed and growth stage. We invest in visionary and high-impact founders aiming to create new markets or transform existing ones.

Investment focus

Industry: Travel, Tourism, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

DHARMA — DHARMA empowers iconic people and brands to create and sell travel experiences.
SystemOne — SystemOne approaches infectious disease challenges from a systems point-of-view, moving critical data to enable rapid decision-making around resource allocation, training, ROI evaluations and, most importantly, to ensure every positive diagnosis is linked to a patient and treatment is confirmed.

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Created in 2017, Convivialité Ventures, is the venture arm of Pernod Ricard and is based in San Francisco . By nurturing entrepreneurship, Convivialité plays a key role in the development of innovative and inspiring new offerings that not only embrace, but also shape, the future evolution of socializing.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Marketplace
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 30
Round size: Seed $2.5M–$9.6M; Series A $9M–$16M; Series B $23M–$80M
Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
EloElo — Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free
Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.

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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.

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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