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

Simon Sharp

Partner

Past deals in Egypt

Nexford University

Seed Round in 2021
Nexford University is an educational institution that provides online global education based on mastery of competencies that are relevant in the workplace. It caters markets such as the United States, the Philippines, Nigeria, and Egypt. The university was founded in 2017 and is based in Washington, District Of Columbia.

Buseet Corporation

Convertible Note in 2021
Buseet Corporation develops a bus platform that enables a user to book a bus ride. The platform enables the user to select pickup and dropoff points, pay using credit card, and get driver and bus information. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Proximie

Series B in 2021
Proximie is a secure software solution which expands virtual surgical collaboration enabling surgeons to share expertise using augmented reality tools before, during and after surgery. Bringing together experts remotely, it pushes the boundaries of time and distance for real and impactful scaling of surgical knowledge.
Buseet Corporation develops a bus platform that enables a user to book a bus ride. The platform enables the user to select pickup and dropoff points, pay using credit card, and get driver and bus information. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

AlgoDriven

Series A in 2021
AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs

Yodawy Inc.

Series B in 2021
Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.

Arrow Labs Solutions

Series A in 2018
Arrow Labs is a mobility software manufacturer specializing in niche applications and mobility solutions. Arrow Labs MIMS is a state of the art mobility platform designed for todays modern workforce. Based in Dubai, they provide their products & services to various size clients across their operational area. Their experience in designing and architecting critical medium and large scale solutions is paramount. Their obective is to provide advanced innovative mobility solutions that address specific niche requirements in today's demanding environment.

Arrow Labs Solutions

Series A in 2021
Arrow Labs is a mobility software manufacturer specializing in niche applications and mobility solutions. Arrow Labs MIMS is a state of the art mobility platform designed for todays modern workforce. Based in Dubai, they provide their products & services to various size clients across their operational area. Their experience in designing and architecting critical medium and large scale solutions is paramount. Their obective is to provide advanced innovative mobility solutions that address specific niche requirements in today's demanding environment.

Hakbah

Seed Round in 2023
Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.

Proximie

Series C in 2022
Proximie is a secure software solution which expands virtual surgical collaboration enabling surgeons to share expertise using augmented reality tools before, during and after surgery. Bringing together experts remotely, it pushes the boundaries of time and distance for real and impactful scaling of surgical knowledge.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2021
NowPay, Inc. develops and operates online fintech platform that helps to improve financial wellness of corporate employees. The company’s platform provides personal finance management services that allows users to manage and track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. It also develops mobile application. The company’s application provides detailed information on employees’ salary, balance, and the maximum eligible loan amount. The company collaborates with employers to provide advance salary to staff at any time of the month and pay back over multiple months with zero liabilities, using a mobile application. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

PayMob

Series B in 2022
Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that builds payments infrastructue technologies empowering the underserved with access to financial services. Paymob is bridging the financial inclusion gap in MEA region by enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from the power of digital payments and what it unlocks. Paymob was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

Abhi

Seed Round in 2021
Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages.

Aingel Corp.

Series A in 2021
Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs who have built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.

Valeo

Seed Round in 2021
Valeo allows you to optimize your health by empowering you to take control of your health using a personalized mobile health tracker.

Tabby

Series B in 2021
tabby provides consumers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases either in a deferred single payment or in multiple installments. tabby’s proprietary decision engine allows customers to check out instantly and pay later at no cost to the consumer.

Red Sea Farms

Series A in 2021
Red Sea Farms offers diverse products and services including produce technology and consultancy.Their lovingly-grown produce is not only sustainable,organic, and pesticide-free but also healthier and better tasting Their patent-pending technology enables greenhouse and hydroponic farms to grow more and better food with less water and energy - saving money and sustainably increasing profits.Their team of experts provides world-class technical advice design and project management for saltwater and desert agriculture.

Altibbi Ltd.

Series B in 2022
Altibbi Ltd. operates a digital health platform for doctors and users in the Middle East. Its platform provides information on various topics, including hypertension, eyes illnesses, allergy allergic, herbalists, and malignant tumors, as well as heart, dental, skin diseases. The company’s solution also includes medical dictionary, articles, guide, and news; and videos, encyclopedia of medicines, and questions and answers. In addition, the company provides services through its mobile applications. Altibbi Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Mamo Pay

Seed Round in 2020
Mamo Pay provides payments application intended to make money transfers accessible. It allows connecting bank account to its application and enables users to send money quickly and securely to friends and family. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Abhi

Series A in 2022
Abhi provides employees salary advances based on accrued wages.

Remedial Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and a wide selection of inventory to such retail business.

Supy

Seed Round in 2022
Supy is a B2B food marketplace servicing restaurants of all sizes streamlines their ordering process and equips.

Ogram

Seed Round in 2020
Ogram’s human-cloud platform offers on-demand temporary staffing solutions for on-site manpower, acting as a freelance marketplace connecting temporary workers to jobs in F&B, hospitality, retail, e-commerce, and logistics sectors, amongst others. The company solves staffing challenges such as limited access to reliable staff, lengthy and costly onboarding processes for temporary workers, and a lack of availability of staff at a short notice.

Vivoo

Venture Round in 2021
Vivoo is a wellness assistant that provides custom nutrition advice to the users based on their urine sample analysis. Vivoo translates the user's urine information into personalized nutrition and lifestyle advice that can easily fit in daily life. All of the Vivoo advice has been prepared by registered dieticians, nutritionists, and doctors. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Enhance Fitness

Series A in 2021
Enhance Fitness is disrupting the Middle East’s personal training industry by enabling individuals to access personal training on-demand and in different locations.

LUNCH:ON

Series A in 2019
MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for its restaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders

zid

Series A in 2021
Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in an easy and professional. Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Tarabut Gateway

Seed Round in 2021
Tarabut Gateway, a disruptor in its own right, is the first and only licensed Open Banking platform (AISP/ PISP) in the MENA region. By developing a single universal open banking API, Tarabut Gateway provides access to a global network of banks and FinTechs that allows money and information to flow securely, instantly, and at a low cost. Having been the first to obtain an AISP & PISP license in the Middle East and North African region, Tarabut Gateway is transforming the MENA financial services landscape by introducing new revenue streams to financial institutions and allowing Fintech to test & monetize on their solutions.

TeamApt

Series B in 2021
TeamApt is a financial technology company focused on, developing Digital Banking, Digital Business solutions, and running Payments Infrastructure by rethinking the needs of consumers, businesses, and the financial industry. Beginning operations in 2015, TeamApt was borne from a desire to create financial happiness, building solutions and tools for businesses and individuals to happily manage money. TeamApt is proudly Nigerian but globally focused, with an eclectic mix of backend, frontend, reliability, quality assurance, distributed data storage engineers to ensure critical solutions and products for our customers are built right, securely, scalably and reliably. Our end goal is to see our customers happy which can only happen when they succeed using our solutions to run their daily lives and businesses.

Proximie

Series A in 2019
Proximie is a secure software solution which expands virtual surgical collaboration enabling surgeons to share expertise using augmented reality tools before, during and after surgery. Bringing together experts remotely, it pushes the boundaries of time and distance for real and impactful scaling of surgical knowledge.

zid

Series A in 2021
Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in an easy and professional. Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Minly Ltd

Seed Round in 2021
Minly Ltd designs and develops online platform for celebrities and fans to connect. Its platform offers fans to book personalized videos from their favorite celebrities. Minly Ltd was founded in 2020 and is based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Mamo Pay

Series A in 2021
Mamo Pay provides payments application intended to make money transfers accessible. It allows connecting bank account to its application and enables users to send money quickly and securely to friends and family. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Remedial Health

Seed Round in 2022
We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and a wide selection of inventory to such retail business.

Helium Health

Series A in 2020
Helium Global Inc. develops an electronic health records and hospital management system for doctor’s visits, prescriptions, and billing. The software’s features include pay-as-you-go billing, intuitive health records, encounter notes, inpatients, lab and imaging integration, in-house pharmacy management, billing services, smart analytics, financial status of the facility, and reports. It also offers appointment management, SMS/email alerts, and patient forwarding services. The company is based in Delaware.

Yodawy Inc.

Series B in 2023
Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.

Democrance

Venture Round in 2021
Democrance develops software that enables insurers distribute, service, and administer insurance policies in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

PayMob

Series A in 2021
Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that builds payments infrastructue technologies empowering the underserved with access to financial services. Paymob is bridging the financial inclusion gap in MEA region by enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from the power of digital payments and what it unlocks. Paymob was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

Mumzworld.com

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.

HolidayMe

Series C in 2018
HolidayMe is an online portal offering offering on-the-fly customized travel solutions to customers across the Middle East. This includes the ability to design holiday packages, hotels, sightseeing activities and transfers for destinations all over the world. The website through its unique user experience allows the customer to choose from hundreds of curated itineraries created by experts for worldwide destinations and further personalize it according to one’s preferences. The customer can also book a completely customized package from scratch using the website’s simple user friendly platform. All packages can be booked instantly using multiple payment methods. The website offers over 300,000 hotels and over 8,000 activities to choose from. It also has airport pick up and drop facility across 300 cities globally. It has offices in Dubai, Riyadh, and Pune, with a team of over 200 employees across these locations. HolidayMe is published and maintained by Traveazy DMCC, Dubai (“Traveazy”).

Floranow.com

Series A in 2019
Floranow.com operates as an online floral market. The company offers cut flowers from selected growers in Holland, Kenya and Thailand to flower shops, hotels and event organizers across the GCC and Jordan. Floranow.com was founded in 2016 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

spiderSilk Security

Seed Round in 2020
spiderSilk Security operates as a cybersecurity firm. It helps companies to improve their cybersecurity by simulating real life cyberattacks and advising them to protect against the cyberattacks. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Mamo Pay

Seed Round in 2020
Mamo Pay provides payments application intended to make money transfers accessible. It allows connecting bank account to its application and enables users to send money quickly and securely to friends and family. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

GIBLIB

Funding Round in 2020
GIBLIB is a California-based company and is the "Netflix" of Medical Education. It is a place for surgeons to share medical lectures and surgical videos. Founded in 2015, GIBLIB is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Thndr

Funding Round in 2020
Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform. It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

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.

Buseet Corporation

Funding Round in 2019
Buseet Corporation develops a bus platform that enables a user to book a bus ride. The platform enables the user to select pickup and dropoff points, pay using credit card, and get driver and bus information. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

elmenus

Series B in 2020
Elmenus develops a food discovery platform. The application finds nearby restaurants and top dishes at each restaurant as rated by users. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Cairo, Egypy additionally it has offices in Alexandria, El Mansoura, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, El Gouna, El Ain El Sokhna, Ras Sudr, North Coast, Egypt.

Lean

Seed Round in 2020
Lean is a Saudi B2B company that builds developer-friendly APIs, which provide Fintechs with access to customer Financial data and payment initiation capabilities. Lean achieves this by partnering with Financial Institutions to provide them with a state-of-the-art API integration layer to complement their existing infrastructure, thus ensuring full transparency, oversight, and control over the data being shared by their customers. Fintechs can therefore, integrate with a multitude of Financial Institutions through a single platform - the Lean Universal API. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

PayMob

Venture Round in 2020
Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that builds payments infrastructue technologies empowering the underserved with access to financial services. Paymob is bridging the financial inclusion gap in MEA region by enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from the power of digital payments and what it unlocks. Paymob was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

Aingel Corp.

Seed Round in 2019
Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs who have built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.

Elsa

Series B in 2021
Elsa is a English Language Speech Assistant, a mobile application for pronunciation training and accent reduction using speech recognition. ELSA strives to improve your English pronunciation! Pronunciation is so important for learning English.
Mobile warranty and insurance for the MEA region

spiderSilk Security

Seed Round in 2021
spiderSilk Security operates as a cybersecurity firm. It helps companies to improve their cybersecurity by simulating real life cyberattacks and advising them to protect against the cyberattacks. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Altibbi Ltd.

Funding Round in 2020
Altibbi Ltd. operates a digital health platform for doctors and users in the Middle East. Its platform provides information on various topics, including hypertension, eyes illnesses, allergy allergic, herbalists, and malignant tumors, as well as heart, dental, skin diseases. The company’s solution also includes medical dictionary, articles, guide, and news; and videos, encyclopedia of medicines, and questions and answers. In addition, the company provides services through its mobile applications. Altibbi Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Ilara Health

Series A in 2020
Ilara Health brings accurate and affordable diagnostics to rural Africans through miniature, AI-powered diagnostic devices that are integrated via a proprietary technology platform and distributed directly to primary care doctors.

Tabby

Series A in 2020
tabby provides consumers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases either in a deferred single payment or in multiple installments. tabby’s proprietary decision engine allows customers to check out instantly and pay later at no cost to the consumer.