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.

Yusuf Bashir

Managing Partner

Saad Umerani

Founding Partner

23 past transactions

NÜWATER

Venture Round in 2020
NÜWATER is a company committed to providing a sustainable alternative to plastic bottled water, addressing the environmental challenges posed by plastic pollution. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic entering the oceans annually, NÜWATER aims to foster a cleaner and healthier planet for future generations. The company's drinking water is sourced from a deep artesian spring, located 500 meters underground, and is naturally filtered through volcanic rock, enriching it with essential minerals. This process contrasts sharply with desalinated water, which is energy-intensive and removes natural minerals while producing toxic waste. NÜWATER's manufacturing operations are designed to be 100% carbon neutral, with aspirations to achieve a carbon net positive status by 2023. Through its innovative approach, NÜWATER not only delivers high-quality drinking water but also champions sustainability in the United Arab Emirates and beyond.

Volt Lines

Series A in 2019
Volt Lines is a transportation service provider based in Istanbul, Turkey, that offers subscription-based micro-transit solutions. Founded in 2017, the company operates an online platform and a mobile application that enables users to book seats on smartly routed mini-buses for their daily commutes. Volt Lines specifically caters to corporate clients, providing an alternative to public transportation and ride-hailing services. By focusing on shorter journeys and optimizing routes, the company enhances efficiency for employees, passengers, and drivers alike. Its innovative approach aims to alleviate the challenges of commuting in urban environments while delivering a reliable transportation option for businesses.

Trifacta

Series E in 2019
Trifacta is a developer of an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform that enhances the efficiency of data wrangling while ensuring data quality. The platform allows users to connect to any data from various sources, facilitating a self-service approach to data management. Trifacta enables users to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, thereby accelerating data transformation and automating robust data pipelines. With its open cloud platform, Trifacta empowers organizations to make informed decisions by unlocking the potential of their data. The company serves tens of thousands of users across more than 10,000 organizations globally, including prominent brands such as Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo.

Overline (prev. BC)

Seed Round in 2018
Block Collider operates a mineable multichain protocol that facilitates connections among various applications and enables trading across all digital assets. Established in 2017 and based in Chicago, Illinois, the company addresses the limitations of existing cryptocurrencies, which often function as isolated systems that cannot interact with one another. This lack of interoperability restricts innovation and forces users to rely on centralized exchanges or validators. By merging different blockchains, Block Collider creates a network akin to constructing roads between buildings, allowing users to engage with multiple platforms seamlessly. This approach enhances the efficiency and utility of digital assets, promoting a more interconnected and functional blockchain ecosystem.

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 is a sustainable financial platform focused on helping consumers and businesses achieve carbon neutrality. It offers a range of financial products, including debit and credit cards, that incorporate carbon reduction solutions, enabling users to automatically offset the carbon footprint of their purchases. With over 6 million consumers, Aspiration addresses the growing demand for climate action by providing accessible tools for individuals and enterprises to engage in environmentally responsible practices. For its enterprise clients, Aspiration delivers software-based carbon footprint monitoring, a comprehensive inventory of carbon-reducing assets, and features designed to make their products carbon neutral. Through these services, Aspiration aims to facilitate climate action in everyday 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 headquartered in Hünenberg, Switzerland, is a technology-driven investment firm that specializes in cryptoassets. With offices in Zurich, the company is led by experts in computer science and finance from both Switzerland and the United States. Base58 develops innovative software and infrastructure designed to enhance investment operations, reduce trading costs, and identify new opportunities for generating returns. The firm focuses on providing comprehensive asset management services and creating tools that enable investors to navigate the evolving crypto-asset ecosystem, which includes both centralized and decentralized platforms. Additionally, as a member of the VQF, Base58 is dedicated to maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements, including Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) protocols.

Kivu Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Kivu Technologies, established in Austria in 2016, is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, developers, data scientists, analysts, and security professionals dedicated to harnessing innovation for societal betterment. The company specializes in creating advanced network analytical platforms that utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance data intelligence within the security industry. By transforming complex data into visual networks, Kivu enables clients to address urgent security challenges effectively and efficiently. Their technology is particularly focused on combating issues such as terrorism, providing crucial real-time analytical services that support informed decision-making and enhance human security in an increasingly interconnected world.

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 Labs Limited, headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializes in developing bitcoin-based contract platforms. Its flagship product, RSK, is an open-source smart contract platform that facilitates a two-way peg with Bitcoin. This enables merge-mining, rewarding Bitcoin miners while allowing them to actively participate in the smart contract revolution. The company aims to enhance the Bitcoin ecosystem by facilitating smart contracts, near-instant payments, and higher scalability.

Cowlar

Seed Round in 2017
Cowlar Inc. is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets smart neck collars specifically designed for monitoring dairy cows. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, with a research and development office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Cowlar's waterproof and non-invasive monitoring system tracks each cow's temperature, activity, and behavior. This technology enables farmers to receive actionable insights aimed at enhancing milk yield, improving reproduction rates, and facilitating early illness detection. The company's product is user-friendly, easily installed, and maintained, offering significant benefits such as higher productivity, healthier cows, and reduced risk of losses. Additionally, Cowlar also develops dairy management software to further support dairy operations.

Alesca Life

Convertible Note in 2016
Alesca Life Technologies, Inc. is an innovative company based in Beijing, China, specializing in advanced urban farming solutions. The company manufactures agricultural machinery and provides technologies for hydroponic and aeroponic farming within shipping containers. Alesca Life offers a range of products, including Every Day Nutrition, which supports commercial-scale farming, and EDN Fresh, designed for onsite production of micro-greens and baby-leaf greens. Additionally, the company has developed EDN Sprout, a smartphone application that connects users to its analytics and optimization platform, enhancing the efficiency of urban farming operations. By addressing the challenges of limited arable land, Alesca Life enables clients, such as hotel owners, to increase agricultural productivity in urban environments.

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
Guaana OU, founded in 2014 and based in Estonia, is a community-oriented platform designed to enhance scientific collaboration and innovation. The company offers two main tools: Guaana Project, which facilitates networking around preliminary research and technology, and Connect, a database that connects open-minded scientists and innovators for potential partnerships. Guaana aims to streamline research funding and innovation processes by adapting successful methods from non-research sectors, thereby promoting efficiency and transparency. Its cloud-based platform enables organizations to distribute research grants more rapidly and effectively, run online hackathons to engage participants globally, and conduct workshops that eliminate travel costs while maximizing flexibility. Through these services, Guaana seeks to simplify the management of research submissions and foster collaborative environments in the scientific community.

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 Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
AlemHealth Technologies specializes in telemedicine solutions tailored for frontier markets. They facilitate cross-border collaboration among physicians and ensure accessible, high-quality healthcare at affordable prices for patients worldwide. Their core product is a teleradiology platform that securely stores, shares, views, and reports medical imaging studies using advanced AI algorithms and cloud-based technology. This platform enhances diagnostic quality and improves patient care across multiple facilities while maintaining HIPAA-compliant security.

GetSocial, a Keywords Studios

Seed Round in 2014
GetSocial BV, based in The Hague, Netherlands, is a company that develops a cloud-based mobile engagement platform for mobile application developers. Founded in 2014, the platform provides a suite of tools designed to enhance user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization. Its offerings include smart invite services, deep linking, retargeting capabilities, insights, webhooks, social graphs, user management, activity feeds, and social notifications. By leveraging these tools, app developers can better understand their users and address the challenges of traffic acquisition in a competitive marketplace. As of February 2019, GetSocial operates as a subsidiary of Keywords Studios PLC.

Babil Games

Angel Round in 2012
Babil Games LLC, established in 2012, is a Dubai-based company with additional offices in Amman, Jordan. It specializes in developing and publishing mobile games tailored to Arabic-speaking audiences in the Middle East and North Africa region. Babil Games became part of Stillfront Group AB in 2016. The company assists global game developers in entering international markets, particularly the MENA region, offering culture-adapted, high-quality free-to-play games with localized art and content. Babil Games' success is attributed to its dedicated team of artists and professionals who have achieved notable milestones, such as ranking among the Top-10 on iOS App Store shortly after releasing their first game, Nida Harb, which has garnered 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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