Crescent Enterprises

Crescent Enterprises is an investment firm established in 2007 and headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. The firm focuses on managing strategic investments, corporate venture capital, and business incubations. Through its corporate venture capital platform, CE-Ventures, Crescent Enterprises invests in early to growth-stage technology-enabled startups and selects venture funds on a regional and global scale. This approach allows the firm to foster innovation and support the development of promising technologies and businesses.

Ghada Abdelkader

Vice President, CE-Invests

Samer Choucair

Director of CE-Creates

Siddharth Havaldar

Venture Investments

Badr Jafar

Chief Executive Officer

Tushar Singhvi

Director of CE-Ventures

Past deals in United Arab Emirates

NorthLadder

Convertible Note in 2022
North Ladder is an online B2C (and B2B) portal that brings sellers of personal items to the ‘best priced’ and geographically closest buyer with the additional optionality for the seller to ‘buyback’ their item in the near future.

Vezeeta

Series D in 2020
Vezeeta is the digital healthcare platform in MEA that connects patients with healthcare providers and health services. Patients are able to search, compare, book and review the best doctors in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Lebanon. It also provides innovative SaaS solutions to healthcare providers in the region. Vezeeta empowers millions of patients through data and the ability to better access healthcare in the region. With over 200,000 verified reviews, patients are able to search, compare, and book the best doctors in just 1 minute. Doctors also provide Patients with seamless healthcare experiences through our clinic management software.

Kitopi

Series B in 2019
Kitopi Catering Services LLC operates as a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to expand their delivery reach. The company enables restaurants to open delivery-only locations by providing the infrastructure and software. The company’s in-house suite of applications optimizes all aspects of kitchen operations in real-time to operate ghost kitchens in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London, Kuwait, Riyadh, and New York. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Kitopi

Series A in 2018
Kitopi Catering Services LLC operates as a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to expand their delivery reach. The company enables restaurants to open delivery-only locations by providing the infrastructure and software. The company’s in-house suite of applications optimizes all aspects of kitchen operations in real-time to operate ghost kitchens in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London, Kuwait, Riyadh, and New York. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Vezeeta

Series C in 2018
Vezeeta is the digital healthcare platform in MEA that connects patients with healthcare providers and health services. Patients are able to search, compare, book and review the best doctors in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Lebanon. It also provides innovative SaaS solutions to healthcare providers in the region. Vezeeta empowers millions of patients through data and the ability to better access healthcare in the region. With over 200,000 verified reviews, patients are able to search, compare, and book the best doctors in just 1 minute. Doctors also provide Patients with seamless healthcare experiences through our clinic management software.

Kitopi

Seed Round in 2018
Kitopi Catering Services LLC operates as a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to expand their delivery reach. The company enables restaurants to open delivery-only locations by providing the infrastructure and software. The company’s in-house suite of applications optimizes all aspects of kitchen operations in real-time to operate ghost kitchens in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London, Kuwait, Riyadh, and New York. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.