Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) is a Dubai-based venture capital firm established in 2010, with additional offices in Beirut, Bahrain, and Riyadh. It focuses on investing in early and growth-stage companies in the GCC and Levant regions, targeting sectors such as e-commerce, cloud-based software, education, digital services, consumer technology, and financial technology. MEVP seeks to support innovative small and medium enterprises, primarily investing between $0.2 million and $5 million while typically holding a minority stake of 15% to 30% in its portfolio companies. With over $260 million in assets under management, MEVP is recognized as one of the largest and most established venture capital firms in the Middle East, demonstrating a strong appetite for cross-border investments.
Emirates Financial Towers, North Tower, Office 703, DIFC, Dubai PO Box: 23025, AE
Sarrah AlJuaid
Managing Director
Jad El Boustani
Managing Director
Walid Hanna
Founder and CEO
Riyad Abou Jaoudeh
Managing Director
Fahed Qteishat
Associate Director
Gaelle Yammine
Associate Director
Past deals in Saudi Arabia
Nana
Venture Round in 2022
Nana is an online grocery platform based in Saudi Arabia that specializes in providing doorstep deliveries of a diverse range of products. The platform offers an extensive selection of groceries, fruits, vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers, allowing consumers to conveniently purchase items online. By focusing on home delivery, Nana aims to simplify the shopping experience for its users, making it easier for them to access essential goods from the comfort of their homes.
Nana
Series B in 2020
Nana is an online grocery platform based in Saudi Arabia that specializes in providing doorstep deliveries of a diverse range of products. The platform offers an extensive selection of groceries, fruits, vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers, allowing consumers to conveniently purchase items online. By focusing on home delivery, Nana aims to simplify the shopping experience for its users, making it easier for them to access essential goods from the comfort of their homes.
Nana
Series A in 2019
Nana is an online grocery platform based in Saudi Arabia that specializes in providing doorstep deliveries of a diverse range of products. The platform offers an extensive selection of groceries, fruits, vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers, allowing consumers to conveniently purchase items online. By focusing on home delivery, Nana aims to simplify the shopping experience for its users, making it easier for them to access essential goods from the comfort of their homes.
Matic
Series A in 2017
Matic, LLC operates an online platform that connects customers with cleaning professionals in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Riyadh. Founded in 2015 and based in Dubai, the company provides a mobile application and website for users to easily book home cleaning and housekeeping services. Matic boasts a large network of cleaning service providers, ensuring that customers can quickly find and hire highly trained cleaning personnel for their homes. The service focuses on convenience, allowing users to schedule cleaning sessions with a simple tap, making the process efficient and hassle-free.
Matic
Seed Round in 2016
Matic, LLC operates an online platform that connects customers with cleaning professionals in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Riyadh. Founded in 2015 and based in Dubai, the company provides a mobile application and website for users to easily book home cleaning and housekeeping services. Matic boasts a large network of cleaning service providers, ensuring that customers can quickly find and hire highly trained cleaning personnel for their homes. The service focuses on convenience, allowing users to schedule cleaning sessions with a simple tap, making the process efficient and hassle-free.
Shahiya
Venture Round in 2012
Shahiya.com is an Arabic food-focused social website. Millions of Arab home cooks use it to find, review and share recipes, food pictures and blog posts. All user contributions are monitored by a passionate editorial team, to ensure clarity, originality, and conformity to the local tastes and norms. Shahiya also caters to health conscious users in Arab countries. Under the supervision of its founding partner Carole Hani Makhoul (US Registered Dietitian), it provides the nutritional facts of each recipe published on the site - a service only shahiya offers in Arabic. Since going online in 2010, it has grown to become the biggest Arabic cooking website, organically attracting > 1,000,000 unique visitors/month. Its mobile applications have also been downloaded > 1,000,000 times, topping most of the Arab Apple app stores. Shahiya has attracted top international advertising brands, such as Galaxy, Arla Foods, Kraft, Moulinex, Kenwood, and Braun, as well as large Saudi / UAE based advertisers, including Safi-Danone, Al Walimah, Savola, Al Alali, and STC. In 2012, shahiya received a Series A investment from the Lebanon based VC fund MEVP.
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