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Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on empowering entrepreneurs globally. The firm is stage agnostic, investing in companies across various sectors, including internet, software, fintech, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Global Founders Capital typically invests in the equity of young technology companies, with a preference for startups located in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Vietnam, Colombia, Europe, the United States, and China. Investment amounts range from €0.01 million to €10 million, with specific allocations varying by stage: seed investments typically between €0.1 million and €1 million, early-stage investments between €1 million and €3 million, and growth-stage investments between €3 million and €8 million. The firm often seeks to be the lead investor and aims to secure board representation in its portfolio companies.

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Marc Samwer

Co-Founder & Advisor

Oliver Samwer

Co-Founder & Investor

Past deals in Saudi Arabia

Tabby

Series B in 2022
tabby provides consumers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases either in a deferred single payment or in multiple installments. tabby’s proprietary decision engine allows customers to check out instantly and pay later at no cost to the consumer.

Tabby

Series B in 2021
tabby provides consumers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases either in a deferred single payment or in multiple installments. tabby’s proprietary decision engine allows customers to check out instantly and pay later at no cost to the consumer.

Tabby

Series A in 2020
tabby provides consumers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases either in a deferred single payment or in multiple installments. tabby’s proprietary decision engine allows customers to check out instantly and pay later at no cost to the consumer.

Lean Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Lean is a Saudi B2B company that builds developer-friendly APIs, which provide Fintechs with access to customer Financial data and payment initiation capabilities. Lean achieves this by partnering with Financial Institutions to provide them with a state-of-the-art API integration layer to complement their existing infrastructure, thus ensuring full transparency, oversight, and control over the data being shared by their customers. Fintechs can therefore, integrate with a multitude of Financial Institutions through a single platform - the Lean Universal API. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Tabby

Seed Round in 2019
tabby provides consumers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases either in a deferred single payment or in multiple installments. tabby’s proprietary decision engine allows customers to check out instantly and pay later at no cost to the consumer.