Valia Ventures

Valia is a global venture capital firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and across the GCC. We invest from seed stage to growth in enterprise and consumer companies, partnering with visionary entrepreneurs and helping them turn their ideas into market-leading businesses. Our team and investors are comprised of the Middle East and North Africa's industry leaders, providing entrepreneurs with global ambitions the key resources and networks needed to expand into a dynamic market.

Khaled Jalanbo

Managing Partner

Riley Rodgers

Principal

Omar Sebai

Associate

Past deals in Palestine

Relativity Space, Inc.

Series E in 2021
Relativity Space, Inc. manufactures and supplies orbital rockets. It also provides production, testing, and launching services for satellites in the United States. Relativity Space, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Long Beach, California.

Six.travel

Seed Round in 2021
SIX is the easiest way to discover and book expert-curated hotels and retreats. A New York based, data-driven company, SIX is transforming the travel landscape for travelers, creators and hotels. The SIX app enables travelers to book seamlessly at their moments of discovery – Instagram, articles and mobile ads. A Travel Affiliate PlatformTM, SIX connects hotels, brands and creators. SIX Insights provides real-time analytics to measure impact and drive direct bookings.

Yada

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Yada is a platform for teens to share and gather advice. Our app allows for the easy creation and collection of “threads,” which are tappable cards that pair written content with expandable media.

Unstruk Data

Seed Round in 2021
Unstruk Data is a provider of unstructured data warehouses for autonomous vehicles, sports data, and drone analytics industries. The company also builds an unstructured data warehouse for automating data preparation via metadata enrichment, integrated compute, and graph-based search. Unstruk Data Warehouse provides a secure, scalable repository for the wide variety of captured data formats, and for the growing volume of data captured every day. It also offers a central system to house the various forms of inspection data that they collect, tie that data to assets to track condition over time, and provide a way for their teams to view similar data at other sites. Unstruk Data was founded by Kirk Marple in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Six.travel

Series A in 2021
SIX is the easiest way to discover and book expert-curated hotels and retreats. A New York based, data-driven company, SIX is transforming the travel landscape for travelers, creators and hotels. The SIX app enables travelers to book seamlessly at their moments of discovery – Instagram, articles and mobile ads. A Travel Affiliate PlatformTM, SIX connects hotels, brands and creators. SIX Insights provides real-time analytics to measure impact and drive direct bookings.

Cobalt Software

Seed Round in 2015
Cobalt Software enables private equity and venture capital firms can collect, analyze, and report on fund and portfolio company metrics the way they want. Cobalt works with management, finance, valuations, investor relations, and deal teams at private equity and venture capital firms to build a suite of data and reporting solutions that suit their firm size and investment style. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Shield Bio

Series A in 2018
At Shield, we’re ensuring that antibiotic resistance doesn’t become more deadly than cancer. In 2050 more people will be dying of antibiotic resistant pathogens than cancer. Infections that were once treatable with a simple oral antibiotics are now requiring complex, painful treatments and resulting in serious health complications for patients. Gonorrhea is one such infection, having become resistant to over 10 different antibiotics, they have only one treatment that is still effective and resistance to this has already begun to emerge. With 820,000 new infections every year in the US, antibiotic resistance will spread quickly, which is why the CDC has resistant gonorrhea at an urgent threat level, the highest level available. Shield's novel genomic testing platform enables STI clinics to identify the antibiotic resistant strains of gonorrhea and other pathogens that their patients have, so they can select the correct antibiotics and halt the spread of antibiotic resistance.

Seed Health

Series A in 2021
Seed Health, Inc. is a microbial sciences company pioneering applications of bacteria to impact human and environmental health. In collaboration with leading academic partners, our foundry model accelerates breakthrough science to develop live biotherapeutics and consumer innovations. Our Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of leading scientists with expertise in microbiology, immunology, genetics, metabolomics, gastroenterology, pediatrics, environmental sciences, and women’s health. Learn more—seedhealth.com Our consumer portfolio, Seed®, develops next-generation probiotics for specific developmental stages and various ecosystems of the body—seed.com

Manara

Seed Round in 2021
We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our website to learn more.

Supy

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

Manara

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our website to learn more.

Humane Inc

Series B in 2021
Humane Inc is a technology company that creates and sells consumer hardware, software, and services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Supy

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Supy is a B2B food marketplace servicing restaurants of all sizes streamlines their ordering process and equips.

Six.travel

Series A in 2021
SIX is the easiest way to discover and book expert-curated hotels and retreats. A New York based, data-driven company, SIX is transforming the travel landscape for travelers, creators and hotels. The SIX app enables travelers to book seamlessly at their moments of discovery – Instagram, articles and mobile ads. A Travel Affiliate PlatformTM, SIX connects hotels, brands and creators. SIX Insights provides real-time analytics to measure impact and drive direct bookings.

UmbaBox

Seed Round in 2020
Umba is an African digital bank, offering free bank accounts and financial services to our customers. We provide an ecosystem of connected financial services that allows the customer complete control of their finances all in one App.

DermBiont, Inc

Series A in 2019
DermBiont is a biotech company that develops skin microbiome therapeutics to treat and prevent skin diseases. It is at the intersection of two highly active sectors: dermatology and the microbiome. They harness naturally occurring microbes on the human skin that have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to compete with pathogenic microbes (fungi, bacteria, viruses, etc.). The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with a satellite office in Emeryville, California.

MakeSpace

Series C in 2017
MakeSpace aims to make storage convenient and consumer-friendly, creating a tech-enabled storage experience. Customers pay only for the space they need, and schedule pickups, drop-offs, and other services through an app and digital photo inventory. The company is now available in 31 markets across North America.

LiquiGlide

Series B in 2017
LiquiGlide Inc. develops custom-designed liquid-impregnated coatings in the United States. It offers its products for various slippery surfaces, such as teflon, superhydrophic, and oil surfaces. It serves manufacturing, oil and gas, processing, aviation, utilities, power plants, water, chemical, and medical industries; and food and beverage, health and beauty, and household product industries. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

Relativity Space, Inc.

Series C in 2019
Relativity Space, Inc. manufactures and supplies orbital rockets. It also provides production, testing, and launching services for satellites in the United States. Relativity Space, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Long Beach, California.

Lendtable

Seed Round in 2020
Lendtable is a financial services company that specializes in providing income-constrained individuals with wealth-building cash advances. The company also specializes in the fields of fintech, tech, investing, and wealth and it gives people cash advances to build their wealth. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Naadam Cashmere LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products. The company mills and crafts its products to the standards so they become softer with time and design their garments to complement the way people live, not constrain it. Naadam works to protect the planet through anti-desertification programs, clean energy-powered factories, and tree planting nonprofit work. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Lyft

Series H in 2017
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Proven Skincare

Seed Round in 2018
Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles. The company uses an artificial intelligence system that analyzes the skin conditions of customers, and allows for product customization down to the individual ingredient, enabling consumers to access a personalized skincare regiment that will work specifically for them.

Legacy

Seed Round in 2019
Legacy (YC S19) was incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs before joining Y Combinator's accelerator program, winning TechCrunch Disrupt and receiving Gold at MassChallenge Boston. Founded by a team of healthcare and fertility experts, Legacy aims to change outdated views around around fertility with a straightforward, accessible, and trusted product for men. We work only with leading hospitals, clinics, fertility partners, and innovative employers. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures and Section 32, and you can learn more about the company in recent coverage by the Washington Post, Economist, New York Times, Financial Times, CNBC, and others. Meet us at https://www.givelegacy.com/team

Lendtable

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Lendtable is a financial services company that specializes in providing income-constrained individuals with wealth-building cash advances. The company also specializes in the fields of fintech, tech, investing, and wealth and it gives people cash advances to build their wealth. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Humane Inc

Series A in 2020
Humane Inc is a technology company that creates and sells consumer hardware, software, and services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Area9 Lyceum

Series A in 2018
Area9 Lyceum ApS develops personalized and adaptive online learning modules for schoolchildren, students, and professionals to be trained. The company provides education through computer or other devices. It also provides learning technology and high-technology computer science for companies in call centers, legacy systems migration, and process optimization. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Akins Army

Seed Round in 2019
AARMY is a coaching experience with a full line-up of the highest standard Cycling and Bootcamp practice sessions. It is headquartered in New York, New York.

Legacy

Seed Round in 2020
Legacy (YC S19) was incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs before joining Y Combinator's accelerator program, winning TechCrunch Disrupt and receiving Gold at MassChallenge Boston. Founded by a team of healthcare and fertility experts, Legacy aims to change outdated views around around fertility with a straightforward, accessible, and trusted product for men. We work only with leading hospitals, clinics, fertility partners, and innovative employers. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures and Section 32, and you can learn more about the company in recent coverage by the Washington Post, Economist, New York Times, Financial Times, CNBC, and others. Meet us at https://www.givelegacy.com/team

Built Robotics Inc.

Series B in 2019
Built Robotics Inc. develops automation technology solutions for the construction industry. It develops AI guidance systems to transform heavy equipment into autonomous robots, which combines various sensors, such as GPS, cameras, and Lidar with advanced software. The company’s guidance systems are deployed on earthmoving equipment, and used to build critical infrastructure, such as wind farms, oil and gas pipelines, mining, and new housing developments. Built Robotics Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Humane Inc

Seed Round in 2019
Humane Inc is a technology company that creates and sells consumer hardware, software, and services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Good Money

Series A in 2018
Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.