Kuwait Investment Office

Kuwait Investment Office is a sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Kuwait. The firm manages income from excess oil reserves. It primarily invests in real estate, private equity, public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe with a focus on Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Within fixed income investments, the firm seeks to invest government bonds. It prefers to invest in private equity funds investing in buyouts, recapitalizations, and the development of capital opportunities. The firm was founded in 1953 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Kuwait Investment Office is a subsidiary of Kuwait Investment Authority.
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Abdulaziz Faha Alhudaib

Investment Manager and Head of Risk Management and Performance Measurement

13 past transactions

Tyba

Seed Round in 2014
Tyba is an online platform that gives large, medium and small-sized businesses access to its junior talent database using cloud-based recruiting tools. Students and recent graduates create Tyba sites with on average 3x more information then are on their CV, which allows Tyba's search algorithm to efficiently match them to talent requirements. Tyba was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Jawbone

Private Equity Round in 2016
Jawbone makes personal technology comfortable, usable, and beautiful. The flagship product, the award-winning Jawbone Bluetooth headset with NoiseAssassin™ technology set a new standard for mobile voice quality. Unmatched in the industry, Aliph’s NoiseAssassin technology was originally perfected with DARPA for battlefield applications. It eliminates background noise and provides unparalleled call clarity in all environments.

Careem

Series C in 2015
Careem designs an online booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. Its platform offers a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their selected credit card, which helps passengers have access to affordable and advantageous transportation. Abdulla Elyas, Magnus Olsson, and Mudassir Sheika founded Careem on June 15, 2012, with its headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

TAE Technologies, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Their core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. Their groundbreaking work has led to industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics, and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on their results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow.
TouGas Oilfield Solutions GmbH, a technology company, develops and commercializes chemistry based solutions for customers in the oil and gas industry in Germany and internationally. It offers products for applications, including acid fracturing, acidizing with specialty corrosion inhibitors, well stimulation in high-temperature and high-pressure reservoirs, polymer flooding enhanced oil recovery, hydraulic fracturing without fresh water, and friction reduction. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany with sales offices in Houston, Texas; and Tokyo, Japan. TouGas Oilfield Solutions GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Allessa GmbH.

Apttus Corporation

Series C in 2015
Apttus enterprise-class software drives the vital business process between the buyer’s interest in a purchase and the realization of revenue. Delivered on the world’s most trusted and comprehensive cloud platform, the Salesforce Platform, Apttus’ Quote-to-Cash solutions increase sales and maximize visibility and control. Applications include Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ), Contract Management, Renewals and Revenue Management. Additionally, Apttus’ patent pending X-Author technology enables Microsoft Office to be a user-interface with full interaction and control between Salesforce and Microsoft Office. Apttus is based in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in London, UK and Ahmedabad, India.

IndiaMART

Venture Round in 2019
IndiaMART is India’s largest online B2B marketplace, connecting buyers with suppliers. The online channel focuses on providing a platform to SMEs, large enterprises as well as individuals. Founded in 1996, the company’s mission is ‘to make doing business easy’. 5.98 Crore+ Buyers | 47 Lakh+ Suppliers | 5 Crore+ Products IndiaMART for Buyers - Convenience of connecting with sellers anytime, anywhere - Wider marketplace with a range of products and suppliers - One-stop-shop for all requirements IndiaMART for Suppliers - Enhanced business visibility - Access to buyers from across the globe - Increased credibility for your brand IndiaMART has over 3600 employees located across 80+ offices in the country, and with customers spanning across 200 nations. Its existing investors include Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital, WestBridge Capital & Quona Capital.

NantHealth

Series B in 2014
NantHealth is a transformational healthcare company converging science and technology through an integrated clinical platform that’s empowering physicians, patients, payers, and researchers to transcend the traditional barriers of today’s healthcare system. NantHealth solutions are advancing diagnostics to better identify and target specific disease characteristics; transforming clinical delivery with clinical data and promoting wellness for a healthier, happier world. They are building an integrated, evidence-based, genomically-informed, personalized approach to the delivery of care and the development of next generation healthcare solutions.

Advanced Enzymes

Venture Round in 2016
Advanced Enzyme is a research driven company manufacturing enzymes and probiotics and dedicated to marketing eco-safe solutions to a wide variety of industries like pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, animal healthcare, baking, agriculture, waste management, textile, leather, distilling, grain processing, brewing, juice processing, etc. Advanced Enzyme Technologies Ltd. aims to replace all harsh drugs and chemicals used in treating healthcare as well as industrial problems with eco-safe solutions using enzymes and probiotics.

Morgan Solar Inc.

Series C in 2016
Morgan Solar Inc began with a mission in 2007 – to develop highly efficient, low cost solar technology. Until now, all the real advancements in solar power always seem to be “10 years away”. John Paul Morgan, a Physics Engineer, with a background in optics, medical imaging and photovoltaics, developed an idea to make solar energy more affordable. His idea was to design an optical concentration system that would elegantly solve many of the problems of existing CPV systems. There first product to market, the Sun Simba HCPV, is designed for solar farm applications. Demonstration and test installations will begin in 2009, and our first commercial systems will be available in early 2010. The second set of products, the Sun Stream Window and the Sun Block Panel, are designed for building applications and smaller scale demonstration and test systems are also scheduled for 2009, with sales begining sometime after mid 2010.

NantHealth

Series B in 2014
NantHealth is a transformational healthcare company converging science and technology through an integrated clinical platform that’s empowering physicians, patients, payers, and researchers to transcend the traditional barriers of today’s healthcare system. NantHealth solutions are advancing diagnostics to better identify and target specific disease characteristics; transforming clinical delivery with clinical data and promoting wellness for a healthier, happier world. They are building an integrated, evidence-based, genomically-informed, personalized approach to the delivery of care and the development of next generation healthcare solutions.
Nippon Life Asset Management Limited is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm launches and manages equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It also manages exchange traded funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income and commodity markets. Nippon Life Asset Management Limited was previously known as Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Limited. Nippon Life Asset Management Limited was founded on February 24, 1995 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Alkem Laboratories

Venture Round in 2015
Alkem Laboratories is a manufactures and sells pharmaceutical generics, formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) primarily in India and also in United States, Australia, UK. Alkem has been among the top ten pharmaceutical companies in India for the past 12 years.