# Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in October 2023 ## Mark Ransford - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Angel Investor ## Startup-O - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Finance, Artificial Intelligence Startup-O is a global venture platform for startup assessments, investments & cross-border scaling. It is well recognized for its 'Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs' ethos, data-driven startup assessments, and venture scaling networks for 'post revenue' startups. Established in 2016, Startup-O is trusted by 2000+ startupsfrom 40+ countries by mid-2021. A proprietary methodology combining experts-led online evaluations and ranking algorithms determines top-rated tech opportunities. This provides deserving founders access to associated venture funds and global partner networks spread across 15 countries that help build the startup venture collaboratively. 24 companies on the platform have raised seed to pre-series A size funds successfully, while another 20+ companies are engaged with cross-border venture scaling and scores of other startups have benefitted from the community resources. Startup-O has also partnered with Enterprise Singapore to enable 17 first-time founders with SG Founder grant and has helped commercialize the deep tech company incubated as a partner with Deep Tech institution A*Star Accelerate. It has established its presence with AseanLabs in Japan in May 2021.In 2019, its awarded the No.1 slot in Asia for its outstanding contribution to building the startup ecosystem in a contest among 247 participants including leading VCs, incubators, accelerators, and corporate innovation entities. ## Integrated Networks - Type: VC Fund - Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Mobile, Internet INTEGRATED NETWORKS CO. LTD. “INET” is a private organization founded in 2001 by a group of prominent Saudi investors, with an aim to provide unique blend of system integration using top-of-the-line products, revolutionary technology and proven expertise & experience.Authorized service provider licensed by Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency forproviding Payment Solutions, including; Point-of-Sales connectivity & management, ecommerce and Loyalty Solutions.Authorized Service Provider licensed by Communication and Information Technology Commission for providing Internet Services as well as network operation services. ## Atka Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Apps, Cryptocurrency Atka Capital invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. ## n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault ## Suniel Shetty - Type: Angel - Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Fitness Sunil Veerappa Shetty is an Indian film actor, producer and entrepreneur who is predominantly active in Bollywood films. ## Zephyrus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency capital ## Addicted hunters - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Addicted hunters ## Arweave - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology Arweave is an information technology company that specializes in data storage, blockchain, and serverless web. It features a software platform thet offers unparalleled levels of data replication and security for users and financial incentives for participants in the network. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England. ## CMT Digital Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists ## Mask Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Your Portal To The New, Open Internet. ## Next Web Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 Global blockchain and Web3 accelerator based in Tokyo and Singapore ## Arcanum Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dover, Delaware, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Arcanum Capital is a growth-driven investment in decentralized protocols. ## SevenX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology SevenX Ventures is a Research-driven Crypto Venture Capital founded in 2020. ## Magic Eden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games Magic Eden is the leading community-centric NFT marketplace. Home to the next generation of creators. Discover the best and latest NFT collections today. ## Polygon - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem. ## PrimeXM - Type: VC Fund - Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Blockchain, Incubators, Cryptocurrency PrimeXM is an IT & technology providing company in the finance sector focusing on providing aggregation software & other IT services. ## Foresight Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Foresight Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency industry. They invest early and make quick judgments, and their ecosystem, which includes the crypto-exchange Bitget and the crypto-wallet BitKeep, provides extensive assistance. They are committed to identifying disruptive innovation prospectsfor the future decades in the Web3.0 space, while maintaining transparency, multidisciplinary collaboration, internationalization, and long-termism, and offering a complete spectrum of assistance for initiatives from zero to one till success. Foresight Ventures was founded in 2021 and is based in Singapore. ## Deniz Devrim Cengiz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Apps Deniz Devrim Cengiz ## Cypher Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Cypher Capital is a web3 and blockchain venture capital investment firm. ## Samih Toukan - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region. ## C2 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Bridging the gap between founders and capital through content, connections and experience. ## Omar Darwazah - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021. ## YellowSpoon Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Yellow Spoon Capital is a community based investment firm that brings high marketing support and growth strategic partnerships specialized in GameFi, Web 3.0, Metaverse, Defi, and other fields in the blockchain. They are working with quality KOLS to achieve good visibility on the French market. They also help projects by connecting them to theirnetwork for following needs. ## OPgames - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 Arcadia is a platform for discovering indie games, competing in tournaments, and the homebase of the Arcadian NFTs. ## 1776 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Education, EdTech, Software 1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare. ## Chainridge - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming Chain Ridge Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and decentralized finance. ## Afzal Shaikh - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency CEO of HFM Global • Entrepreneur with 3 decades of experience across India, Middle-East and South East Asia • Have been in Gold trading business for more than a decade. ## BR Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software investment strategies - blockchain - digital assets - DAO - crypto - currency ## Undeads - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. 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We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit. ## Cipholio Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Cipholio Ventures is a research-driven investment firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain projects that have the potential to reshape the trillion-dollar markets. ## Oracles Investment Group - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency 3 ways to boost your metabolism after 60 | sixty and me dragonpharma amazon offering $50 off 11-piece percussion massager bundles for today only (up to 42% off) Oracles investment group About Us Investing in the future Fitness steroids buy online athleticpro fitness floor mats [31x31cm] - 18 floor mats ... 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On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system. ## Al Tamimi & Company - Type: VC Fund - Location: Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency The largest and most dynamic non-affiliated law firm in the Middle East with 17 offices across 9 countries and comprising 330 Fee Earners (partners are included).Over the years they have advised, and continue to support, government, government-owned entities, local, regional and international companies, banks and financial institutions along withboth international and regional law firms.Their core strength is their people and the diversity of their experience and local knowledge. Their reputation for excellence and regional experience extends beyond their network of offices in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.As a firm, their ability to practice local law in each of these jurisdictions – and the ability of each of their licensed litigators to have rights of audience before local courts – is a unique strength that truly sets us apart from their competitors. ## Hande Enes - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media Hande Enes ## TeraSurge Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology TeraSurge Capital is a premier Crypto Hedge fund and Web 3.0 focused venture fund that generates extraordinary returns for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. ## Cogitent Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Cogitent Ventures operates as a venture capital firm. ## Boğaziçi Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision. ## Titan Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Insurance, Blockchain Titan Ventures is an investment firm. ## Contango Digital Assets - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Bitcoin Contango Digital Assets is Investing in the future of Web3, Defi, Metaverse, P2E, NFT, TeFi. ## RTE Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency RTE Ventures ## Amir Sarhangi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Amir Sarhangi is the VP of Product and Delivery at Ripple. Amir Sarhangi attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. ## Game7 - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Other, Gaming Game7 is an Autonomous Institution with a $500m treasury managed and deployed by its community. This community will shape capital allocation decisions, define GameFi standards, fund open-source software and help make the gaming industry sustainable by ensuring it’s equitable and fair. ## Permanent Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Blockchain, SaaS Permanent Ventures is a fund focused on investing in decentralized applications which will exist forever. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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