Enabling Future

Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies with capital, experience, strategy and network.

Yusuf Bashir

Managing Partner

Saad Umerani

Founder and Managing Partner

23 past transactions

NÜWATER

Venture Round in 2020
NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure our future generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less

Volt Lines

Series A in 2019
Volt Lines is a transportation service provider based in Istanbul, Turkey, established in 2017. It operates an online platform that offers subscription-based micro-transit services, allowing corporate clients to provide their employees with an alternative to public transportation and ride-hailing. Users can book seats on intelligently routed shared mini-buses for their daily commutes, enhancing efficiency by minimizing walking distances and optimizing routes. The service aims to reduce the workload for employers, passengers, and drivers alike, making commuting more convenient and streamlined. In addition to its web platform, Volt Lines also offers a mobile application for user convenience.

Trifacta

Series E in 2019
Trifacta offers a data engineering cloud platform focused on enhancing the efficiency of data wrangling and ensuring data quality. The platform allows users to connect seamlessly to various data sources, enabling them to evaluate, correct, and validate the quality of their data. With an AI-assisted and collaborative approach, Trifacta facilitates accelerated data transformation and the automation of data pipelines, making data consumable at any scale. The company serves tens of thousands of users across more than 10,000 organizations, including prominent names such as Deutsche Boerse, Google, and PepsiCo, helping them unlock the full potential of their data through its innovative solutions.

Overline (prev. BC)

Seed Round in 2018
Cryptocurrencies are "walled gardens" which cannot reuse, trigger, or execute transactions with other blockchains. If Alice wants to execute Bob’s smart contract, she can only send cryptocurrency from the blockchain on which Bob deployed the smart contract. This lack of cooperation stifles innovation and forces users to place unwarranted trust in validators or centralized exchanges. Merging blockchains together into Block Collider is like building roads between buildings. Hypothetically, one could build a building that has everything, but in practice some buildings are built to work in, some are built to live in — as long as citizens want to be in multiple buildings at different points in time, roads are valuable and necessary.

OfficeRock

Venture Round in 2017
Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.

Aspiration

Series B in 2017
Aspiration operates a sustainable financial platform designed to assist consumers and businesses in achieving carbon neutrality. The company offers financial products, including debit and credit cards, that integrate carbon reduction solutions, allowing over 6 million consumers to offset the carbon footprint of their purchases. In addition to serving individual consumers, Aspiration provides enterprise clients with software for carbon footprint monitoring, a comprehensive inventory of carbon-reducing assets, and features that enable businesses to make their products carbon neutral. The rising demand for climate action has driven Aspiration's growth, as both consumers and enterprises seek to incorporate sustainability into their daily activities.

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.

Change

Equity Crowdfunding in 2017
Change is on a mission to remove the complexities and barriers to wealth creation. Change enables users to invest as little as €10 into cryptocurrencies, stocks and other assets. No minimum balances or high commissions. All possible by secure blockchain technology and the smartphone in your pocket. Buy Change shares from Funderbeam: https://www.funderbeam.com/market/changegroup/trades More investor materials like audits, results and updates: https://www.changeinvest.com/investor

Base58

Seed Round in 2017
Base58 Capital AG, founded in 2017 and based in Hünenberg, Switzerland, is a technology-driven investment firm specializing in cryptoassets. With offices in Zurich, the company is staffed by experts in computer science and finance from both Switzerland and the United States. Base58 focuses on developing software that enhances the efficiency of its investment operations, reduces trading costs, and identifies new investment opportunities. The firm offers a range of services and tools designed to facilitate access to both centralized and decentralized crypto-asset investments. As a member of the VQF, Switzerland's leading self-regulatory organization, Base58 adheres to strict regulatory standards, including Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance.

Kivu Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Kivu Technologies, established in Austria in 2016, is a multidisciplinary team comprised of engineers, developers, data scientists, analysts, and security professionals dedicated to enhancing human security through innovative technology. The company specializes in providing a network analytical platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver real-time data analytical services for the security industry. This platform enables clients to visualize data as interconnected networks, facilitating rapid responses to time-sensitive questions. Kivu Technologies aims to address complex challenges related to security and safety in an increasingly connected world, believing that advancements in technology are essential for creating a safer environment.

OfficeRock

Seed Round in 2017
Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.

RSK Labs

Seed Round in 2017
RSK is the first open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards the Bitcoin miners via merge-mining, allowing them to actively participate in the Smart Contract revolution. RSK goal is to add value and functionality to the Bitcoin ecosystem by enabling smart-contracts, near instant payments and higher-scalability.

Cowlar

Seed Round in 2017
Cowlar Inc. specializes in developing and manufacturing smart neck collars for dairy cows, aimed at enhancing farm productivity. These waterproof and non-invasive collars monitor individual cows' temperature, activity, and behavior, providing farmers with actionable insights to boost milk yield, improve reproductive rates, and detect illnesses early. The collars are designed for ease of use, installation, and maintenance, making them accessible to farmers. In addition to the hardware, Cowlar also offers dairy management software to streamline operations. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, the company has a research and development office in Islamabad, Pakistan, further supporting its innovative approach to dairy farming.

Alesca Life

Convertible Note in 2016
Alesca Life Technologies, headquartered in Beijing, China, specializes in urban farming solutions by manufacturing agricultural machinery designed for commercial-scale operations. The company produces innovative products such as the Every Day Nutrition solution, which facilitates large-scale farming, and EDN Fresh, which allows for the onsite production of hard-to-procure micro-greens, baby-leaf greens, and wheatgrass. Additionally, Alesca Life offers EDN Sprout, a smartphone application that connects with its analytics and optimization platform. The company's technology focuses on hydroponic and aeroponic farming systems housed within shipping containers, providing essential technical assistance and software to clients like hotel owners. This approach addresses the challenges of urban agriculture, particularly in areas with limited arable land.

Synova Power

Venture Round in 2016
Synova's waste-to-chemicals technology is a superior form of chemical recycling designed to displace the need for virgin fuels and reduce climate impacts. Synova is focused on enhancing the circular economy of plastics and helping consumer product and petrochemical companies achieve targets for reducing waste and utilizing more recycled plastics. Synova's patented technology is uniquely poised to close the current gap in the plastic value chain. Able to process MSW, including mixed plastic waste, the technology also features a 'best in class' cleanup train that removes 99.5% of unwanted tars and uses the energy value to create a highly efficient process with a better CO2 footprint. The result is a gas made up of high value molecules that have numerous applications, including BTX and olefins (the building blocks for new plastics), RNG and electricity. Synova's technology has more than 8,000 hours of independently-verified testing.

OfficeRock

Seed Round in 2016
Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.

Eventornado

Angel Round in 2015
Founded in 2014, from Estonia; the worlds most digital country, Guaana is a community-based platform to run online innovation & research challenges. Guaana builds creative solutions for research funding and innovation. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, we adapt approaches from non-research focused applications used to solve challenges similar to those faced in research funding and implement them into the evaluation of scientific work in ways that enhance collaboration and transparency in the process. Guaana works with governments and organizations from all over the world, helping them to: * Distribute research grants - 6x times faster, and 75% more efficient * Run online hackathons - remove manual activities, and engage globally * Gather ideas through an online workshop - remove travel time & expense, infinite scale, ​more flexible use of time, global reach, low admin requirement Everything in one app, no more juggling files and data between multiple different systems.

Protein Bakeshop

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

G mobile

Seed Round in 2015
G-Mobile is a Mongolian's newest mobile phone operator. It is focusing its operations in rural areas. It uses CDMA2000 at 450 MHz and provides internet services with cell phones as modem or proper modem.

AlemHealth

Seed Round in 2015
AlemHealth specializes in telemedicine and digital health solutions tailored for frontier markets. The company develops a teleradiology platform that facilitates the storage, sharing, viewing, and reporting of medical imaging studies. Utilizing advanced technology, including artificial intelligence algorithms and secure cloud-based storage, AlemHealth's software enhances the management and reporting of studies from various healthcare facilities while ensuring HIPAA-compliant security. This innovative approach allows physicians to collaborate across borders and specialties, ultimately improving patient care and diagnostic quality. AlemHealth's mission is to provide accessible, high-quality healthcare for patients at affordable prices.

GetSocial, a Keywords Studios

Seed Round in 2014
GetSocial is a cloud-based mobile acquisition and engagement platform that empowers any mobile app developer with tools to maximize user acquisition, engagement, and retention.

Babil Games

Angel Round in 2012
Founded in 2012 and based in Dubai and Amman, Babil Games became part of Stillfront Group AB, listed on First North Premier Growth Market in Stockholm, in 2016. Babil Games helps developers from around the world to successfully navigate international markets, with a focus on the MENA region, the world’s fastest-growing games market, and bring gamers culture-adapted, high-quality entertainment in their native tongue. Babil’s success stems from its passionate, creative, high-spirited, and dedicated team of talented artists and experienced professionals. Within a few months of the release of its first game, Nida Harb, Babil Games ranked in the Top-10 on iOS App Store for its outstanding strategy-action game. *With over 20 million downloads

The Priomha Group

Seed Round in 2010
The Priomha Group is a sports hedge fund manager focused on the burgeoning markets of sports and event investment. In this nascent sector, they provide unparalleled investment intelligence, funds management expertise, and through the use of technology, customer service. It offers investors an alternative product to shares, bonds, property, and other traditional investment vehicles and asset classes.
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