Enabling Future

Enabling Future is a family office-backed venture capital firm headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The firm focuses on seed and early-stage investments across a diverse range of sectors, including consumer goods and services, data and enterprise technology, blockchain infrastructure, fintech, and gaming. Enabling Future aims to support entrepreneurs who seek to disrupt traditional markets and innovate for the future. To achieve this, the firm provides its portfolio companies with essential resources such as capital, strategic guidance, and access to a robust network, facilitating their growth and development in an ever-evolving business landscape.

Hubertus Thonhauser

Director

Saad Umerani

Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Dubai

NÜWATER

Venture Round in 2020
NÜWATER is dedicated to providing a sustainable alternative to plastic bottled water, addressing the environmental crisis caused by plastic pollution, which sees millions of tonnes enter the oceans annually. The company sources its water from a deep artesian spring, filtered naturally through volcanic rock, ensuring the water is enriched with essential minerals. This process not only purifies the water but also distinguishes it from energy-intensive desalination methods that strip minerals and produce toxic waste. NÜWATER's manufacturing operations are fully carbon neutral, with a goal of becoming a carbon net positive company. By promoting the use of recyclable canned drinking water, NÜWATER aims to lead the UAE in sustainability efforts, contributing to a cleaner and healthier world for future generations.

OfficeRock

Venture Round in 2017
OfficeRock is an online e-commerce platform dedicated to serving small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company provides a comprehensive range of business supply solutions, including office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry essentials, cleaning products, and uniforms. Through its user-friendly online catalog, OfficeRock facilitates e-procurement, allowing clients to efficiently order and receive their needed stationery items directly at their doorstep. This focus on convenience and accessibility positions OfficeRock as a key resource for businesses looking to streamline their procurement processes.

BulkWhiz

Seed Round in 2017
Bulkwhiz is the first hassle-free online bulk grocery shopping in the UAE, powered by the next generation artificial intelligence. It is the first local startup in its sector to develop its own proprietary AI-enabled technology that offers a personalized, simple online shopping experience for households and small businesses. Through its homegrown tech solution, Bulkwhiz delivers value and is designed to save time, money and effort for the busy working moms and dads, city dwellers and small businesses. Its one-click order offers door-to-door delivery service of branded bulk, shelf stable, household staples and office products. Carefully curating leading regional and international brands, Bulkwhiz allows shoppers to create a one-time smart and flexible shopping list that makes the arduous shopping of bulk products simple and easy.

OfficeRock

Seed Round in 2017
OfficeRock is an online e-commerce platform dedicated to serving small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company provides a comprehensive range of business supply solutions, including office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry essentials, cleaning products, and uniforms. Through its user-friendly online catalog, OfficeRock facilitates e-procurement, allowing clients to efficiently order and receive their needed stationery items directly at their doorstep. This focus on convenience and accessibility positions OfficeRock as a key resource for businesses looking to streamline their procurement processes.

OfficeRock

Seed Round in 2016
OfficeRock is an online e-commerce platform dedicated to serving small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company provides a comprehensive range of business supply solutions, including office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry essentials, cleaning products, and uniforms. Through its user-friendly online catalog, OfficeRock facilitates e-procurement, allowing clients to efficiently order and receive their needed stationery items directly at their doorstep. This focus on convenience and accessibility positions OfficeRock as a key resource for businesses looking to streamline their procurement processes.

Protein Bakeshop

Seed Round in 2015
UAE's First grain free bakery, making healthy foods accessible.

Babil Games

Angel Round in 2012
Babil Games LLC, established in 2012 and headquartered in Dubai with an additional office in Amman, specializes in developing and publishing mobile games tailored for Arabic-speaking audiences in the Middle East and North Africa. The company became a subsidiary of Stillfront Group AB in 2016. Babil Games aims to assist developers globally in penetrating international markets, particularly the rapidly growing MENA region, by providing culturally relevant and high-quality entertainment in local languages. The company's focus on creatively localizing game content has garnered significant success, highlighted by the popularity of its first title, Nida Harb, which quickly ranked among the Top 10 on the iOS App Store shortly after its launch. With over 20 million downloads, Babil Games continues to enhance gamers' experiences by offering engaging, free-to-play games that challenge and entertain.
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