Global Ventures

Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm, investing in founders and ideas across emerging markets. They back global-minded founders that are leading growth-stage companies and using technology to transform emerging markets and the world. The Global Ventures team is a diverse, collaborative, talented and curious group of professionals who, combined, have years of experience and expertise building and scaling companies.

Eslam Darwish

Partner

Sacha Haider

Partner

Mona Khan

Senior Associate

Farah Osman

Principal

Simon Sharp

Partner

Past deals in Kuwait

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.

Mumzworld

Series B in 2018
Mumzworld.com operates an online shopping site that sells products for kids, babies, and moms. The company offers diapers, feeding products, toys, outdoor products, bathing solutions, clothes, safety products, nursery equipment, and books. It serves customers in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, and internationally. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with representative offices in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.