Flat6Labs is a Cairo-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator in the MENA region. Since 2011 it has built a network of startup programs that support entrepreneurs from pre-seed through pre-Series A, and operates offices across the region including Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Manama, and Tunis. The firm regularly funds more than 100 startups annually and provides a range of investment tickets from 50,000 to 500,000, supported by a broad investor network and extensive mentorship, investor, and corporate connections. Flat6Labs focuses on accelerating the growth of technology-driven startups by combining capital with mentorship, partnerships, and opportunities to scale regionally.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

DisrupTech Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Giza, Egypt, founded in 2021. It invests in early-stage technology startups, with a primary focus on financial technology and fintech-enabled digital services, particularly in Egypt.

Shorooq Partners is a venture capital and alternative investment manager founded in 2017, focused on technology-driven companies in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond. The firm invests through venture capital and private credit funds, with expertise across fintech, platforms, software, gaming and Web3.0, and an emphasis on crypto and climate technologies. It maintains a pan-regional presence with offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Cairo and Seoul, reflecting a cross-border approach. Shorooq Partners aims to be founders' partners, builders and value investors, backing market-moving startups across the region.

Algebra Ventures is a Cairo-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology investments in the Middle East and North Africa. It targets Series A and Series B opportunities across sectors such as fintech, consumer internet, e-commerce, online marketplaces, and other technology-enabled businesses. The firm primarily backs startups in Egypt and nearby markets, with a footprint in Jordan, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, and Morocco. It seeks high-potential teams with a clear value proposition and the ability to scale, typically taking minority positions and making checks ranging from about 0.1 million to 4 million USD. Algebra Ventures emphasizes supporting capable founders and pursuing ventures that can generate meaningful regional impact and economic returns.

AUC Angels is the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region, based in Cairo, Egypt. It connects American University in Cairo alumni and friends with early-stage startups, building an active pipeline for angel investments, facilitating deal flow, and supporting startups through seed funding and post-investment guidance. In partnership with AUC Venture Lab, it provides access to vetted startups that have launched products and shown traction, with strong growth potential. The network helps startups develop robust investment cases through business and finance training, contributing to a dynamic Egyptian entrepreneurship ecosystem.

A15 is a venture capital firm based in Cairo, Egypt that invests in digital products and technology brands across North Africa and the Middle East, with a focus on Egypt. It supports portfolio companies with capital and ecosystem resources, helping them scale and expand into regional markets.

Founded in 2022, Nclude is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. It focuses on investing in early-stage and growth-oriented fintech and fintech-enabled startups based in Egypt and the Middle East & Africa region.

BECO Capital is a Dubai-based venture capital firm that provides growth capital and hands-on operational mentorship to early-stage technology companies in the Middle East and North Africa. It focuses on seed and early-stage investments in mobile, Internet of Things, software as a service, and other technology sectors, supporting entrepreneurs to scale their businesses across the region.

Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that supports high‑impact entrepreneurs through a global network spanning nearly 40 countries. It backs more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in combined revenues, employ more than 3.9 million people, and attracted more than $4 billion in capital in 2020. The organization offers an entrepreneur‑first model that connects founders with mentors, peers, and opportunities to scale and pay it forward. Its global ecosystem includes affiliates such as Endeavor Miami, which focuses on early‑stage technology firms and reflects the network’s regional and sectoral reach.

Sawari Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cairo, Egypt, that invests in technology-enabled companies across the Middle East and North Africa, targeting early to growth stage opportunities. It partners with local founders to translate regional potential into scalable global businesses, focusing on sectors such as software, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, fintech, health tech, education technology, and mobility as they scale in the MENA market.

EFG EV Fintech is a Cairo-based startup accelerator focused on fintech and related sectors, including insurtech, regtech, proptech, blockchain, and infratech. Backed by EFG Hermes and Egypt Ventures, it runs an integrated program that supports startups through funding, mentorship, training, and office space, with the aim of strengthening the domestic fintech ecosystem and facilitating expansion to international markets.

Ingressive Capital is a Lagos-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies across Africa. It pursues pre-seed to seed investments in fintech, SaaS and cloud, internet, health tech, and agritech, with a pan-African footprint including investments in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. The firm backs indigenous founders and aims to be a strategic partner on founders' cap tables, supporting growth through transformational tech-enabled solutions and contributing to Africa's value-chain development and GDP growth. By prioritizing B2C solutions for Africa's youth and B2B platforms that enhance value-chain ownership, Ingressive Capital seeks to accelerate entrepreneurial success across the continent.

Foundation Ventures is a venture capital company based in Cairo, Egypt, established in 2018. It makes early-stage and growth investments in technology-enabled companies, supporting portfolio firms as they scale. The firm helps founders access a broad regional network of distribution channels and market opportunities, enabling rapid expansion across the Egyptian market and neighboring regions. Foundation Ventures focuses on identifying ambitious teams building industry-defining products and providing strategic backing to accelerate growth, scale operations, and capture regional demand.

Egypt Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Cairo, Egypt. It prioritizes technology sector investments and supports the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators that nurture early-stage startups.

Edventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Nahdet Misr Publishing House, based in Giza, Egypt. It incubates, accelerates and invests in startups operating in education, culture and innovative learning solutions, focusing on seed and pre-Series A rounds with emphasis on Egypt, Africa and the Arab World. It provides technical and financial support tailored to each company's needs and maturity level to help ensure market success and continuity.

Alexandria Business Angels Network is an angel investment network based in Alexandria, Egypt, established in 2016. It brings together individual and corporate investors from the MENA region to fund early-stage ventures.

Seedra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm established in 2019 and based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The firm is dedicated to fostering disruptive innovations and trends throughout the region, focusing on sectors such as business-to-business, commercial services, business-to-consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology. Seedra Ventures aims to provide venture-building services and strategically invests in companies within Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, supporting their growth and development in a dynamic marketplace.

Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Founded in 2018, it focuses on investing in technology companies and supporting founders and ideas across emerging markets. The firm is described as having a diverse, collaborative team with experience in building and scaling companies.

Endure Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. It backs early-stage startups and partners with resourceful, mission-driven founders who solve meaningful problems and aim to build durable, high-growth companies with global reach, focusing on technology and innovation that can generate positive societal impact.

VNV Global is a Stockholm, Sweden–based investment company focusing on growth capital, venture investments, and select buyouts in unlisted online marketplaces, as well as consumer-focused and business-to-business companies. It targets ventures with strong network effects and potential for value creation, investing across incubation, seed and startup phases through late-stage venture and growth opportunities. The firm seeks significant minority or majority stakes and actively manages its portfolio through board representation, pursuing global opportunities (excluding China).

The Raba Partnership is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, focused on African technology companies in logistics, supply chains, and financial services. It partners with founders building technology companies that tackle hard problems in emerging African ecosystems and is backed by a select group of venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs, and families with global business experience.

Cubit Ventures is a Cairo-based venture capital firm that backs seed- and early-stage technology startups in North Africa and the Middle East, with an additional office in Minneapolis. The firm targets software, information technology, fintech, consumer tech, healthcare technology, and other tech-enabled sectors across the region. By leveraging a network of mentors and investors, Cubit Ventures supports portfolio companies through early growth stages and digital transformation initiatives in Egypt and neighboring markets.

Business Valley is a Cairo-based firm established in 2019 that focuses on venture capital funding for early-stage startups. In addition to investments, it operates coworking spaces, runs an incubator program, and maintains an angel investment network in Egypt.

Pride Capital is a Cairo-based venture capital firm focused on backing fintech and financial services startups in Egypt and across Africa. Founded in 2017, it concentrates on payments and transfers, consumer banking, insurance, capital markets and advisory, aiming to expand access to financial services for underserved markets.

Centamin is a gold mining company with its flagship Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt, operating both open-pit and underground mining to supply ore feed. The company engages in exploration, development, and production of precious metals across multiple regions, including Egypt and projects in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Jersey, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Centamin emphasizes responsible mining practices and aims to build long-term value through partnerships with local communities and stakeholders. Based in Saint Helier, Jersey, the firm has a history dating to 1970 and focuses on expanding its resource base while maintaining safety and environmental standards.

Sequence Ventures is a Cairo-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in seed and early growth DeepTech startups. It focuses on defensible technologies that address global challenges through scalable, R&D-driven innovations.

8X Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Chennai, India, that finances startups focused on deeptech and related technologies. It backs innovations in cleantech, smart logistics, smart mobility, and Industry 4.0, leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, 3D printing, robotics, and the Internet of Things. The firm operates across Asia (primarily India and Singapore), the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (primarily UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt), and Europe, supporting startups that aim to disrupt industries and create sustainable value.

Kabnoury Ventures is a founder-focused venture capital firm with operations in Cairo, Egypt and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It invests in finance, education, and technology solutions, seeking opportunities across the Middle East and Africa and beyond. The firm emphasizes backing the people behind ideas, offering strategic and financial support to help portfolio companies grow and navigate challenges. Guided by an experienced management team, Kabnoury Ventures aims to partner with ambitious founders to develop and scale innovative ventures across diverse industries.

IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

4DX Ventures is a Brooklyn-based early-stage venture capital firm that concentrates on technology companies across Africa. The firm partners with ambitious African founders to build transformative businesses, seeking entrepreneurs who are laser-focused, creative, growth-oriented, and gritty. Through Pan-African investments, 4DX Ventures supports startups at the forefront of Africa's tech sector and aims to help launch and scale companies that shape the continent's technological future.

Raed Ventures is a Saudi-based venture capital firm that provides seed and early-stage funding to startups in Saudi Arabia and the broader MENA region. The firm backs entrepreneurial teams aiming to transform markets and leverages its regional market knowledge and network to support portfolio companies in building and executing growth plans, including accessing opportunities in Saudi Arabia and GCC markets.

LoftyInc Capital is a venture capital firm based in Victoria Island, Lagos, focused on Africa's growth enterprises. Over the past decade it has invested over $25 million in more than 150 companies, including several unicorns, and attracted over $1.5 billion in follow-on funding to its portfolio. It has built an ecosystem of tech hubs, angel networks, and talent platforms to support portfolio companies. The firm has achieved multiple exits and delivered strong returns across its Afropreneurs funds.

Nama Ventures is a Riyadh-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that concentrates on seed- and early-stage investments in the MENA region, with a focus on Saudi Arabia. It pursues technology-focused startups and aims to enable entrepreneurs to succeed through a value-added investing approach, offering strategic support and resources to help portfolio companies grow.

Launch Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2020. It invests in early-stage technology and platform-enabled businesses across Africa, with a focus on fintech, healthtech, climate tech, agritech, edtech, transportation, logistics, mobility, e-commerce, software as a service, artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics, spanning both business-to-business and business-to-consumer models.

Orbit Ventures is an emerging markets venture capital firm that invests in technology companies aiming to digitize traditional industries and improve living standards in a sustainable way. The firm supports portfolio companies through a comprehensive, long-term program that includes partnerships, business development, fundraising and growth assistance, along with initial investment and subsequent follow-on funding. Its investment focus spans digitalization across e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics.

Khwarizmi Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm established in 2018 and based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is affiliated with Kadi Group Holding and Almoujil Group Holding. The firm focuses on investing in startups that leverage algorithms to enhance technology and improve quality of life. Khwarizmi Ventures targets seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies operating primarily in the e-commerce, financial technology, digital health, and property technology sectors within the Middle East and Northern Africa region. Through its investments, the firm aims to support entrepreneurs in realizing their visions and aligning their objectives with advancements in technology.

Prosus is the international internet assets division of Naspers and a global consumer internet group and technology investor. It blends venture capital and operating capabilities to fund, acquire, build and scale technology businesses across multiple platforms and geographies. The company operates across the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, pursuing investments and active management in internet services, e-commerce, fintech, and related sectors. It maintains meaningful holdings in large technology platforms and online services, including Tencent, Mail.ru, Ctrip and Delivery Hero. Through its operating model, Prosus aims to identify high-potential companies and provide them with strategic support to scale globally, contributing to growth in the communities where they operate.

Enza Capital is a Nairobi-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage African technology companies. It focuses on category-defining ventures across fintech, logistics and mobility, health, human capital management, education, energy, and climate-smart solutions, and partners with portfolio companies to support growth and scale.

Quona Capital is a venture capital firm focused on financial technology companies that promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. Founded in 2014, it backs startups developing innovative financial products and services beyond microcredit, including alternative lending, remittances, insurance, prepaid services, payments, and related software that expands access to banking and payments in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia (notably India and Southeast Asia), and Latin America. The firm invests across stages from seed to growth, typically in the range of one to ten million dollars, and supports ventures creating digital lending, SME lending, wealthtech, and adjacent sectors such as agriculture, health, education, commerce, and mobility finance. Quona maintains headquarters in Washington, DC, with additional offices in Bengaluru, Lima, Cape Town, and Mexico City, and it aims to scale inclusive financial services by leveraging technology to improve quality, access, and affordability for underserved consumers and businesses.

Established in 2020, P1 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. It focuses on investing in African industrial technology startups.

Outliers Venture Capital is an operator-led global venture capital firm that backs outlier founders building compounding businesses. It targets early-seed investments in cybersecurity, privacy, and data infrastructure in the United States, and also supports seed-stage startups in the Middle East and North Africa region developing the future of finance, digital retail, and new models of work and learning. Founded in 2020, the firm partners with founders who challenge norms and aim to create enduring, category-defining companies.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

Seedstars is a Geneva-based venture capital and accelerator firm focused on emerging and frontier markets. It funds and accelerates high-growth technology ventures at the pre-seed and seed stages and operates programs to support entrepreneurship across regions including Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. The firm targets sectors such as financial services, healthcare, education, energy, information technology, and other technology-enabled solutions, and it runs initiatives and events to help startups scale, create impact, and access global networks.

Delivery Hero Ventures is the venture capital arm of Delivery Hero, based in Berlin. It backs startups in B2B software, internet services, e-commerce, direct-to-consumer, food supply chain, retail automation, digital payments, and fintech, aiming to help portfolio companies grow by leveraging Delivery Hero's global network, distribution capabilities, and sector expertise.

Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vienna, with offices across Europe and in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology sectors including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, software as a service and infrastructure, climate tech, crypto, and emerging markets. The firm runs specialized investment teams aligned to these industries and offers an in-house Platform+ team providing tailored operational support, such as growth marketing, human resources, US business development and networking assistance throughout the portfolio journey. Speedinvest seeks to be a hands-on partner, sometimes taking operational roles for a period to help portfolio companies scale, and emphasizes hands-on collaboration with founders to accelerate growth.

Middle East Venture Partners is a Dubai-based venture capital firm with offices in Beirut, Bahrain, and Riyadh. It backs early and growth-stage technology companies across the GCC and Levant, pursuing cross-border investments in North Africa and Turkey. The firm focuses on sectors such as cloud-based software, ICT, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, digital services, consumer technology, logistics, and hospitality tech, typically taking minority stakes and investing about 0.2 to 5 million USD per deal. It manages around 260 million USD in assets and was founded in 2010.

STV is an independent venture capital investment firm based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founded in 2018. It is anchored by STC, the largest telecom operator in the MENA region, granting access to essential assets such as network infrastructure, customer analytics, and an extensive customer base. This support enables STV to assist its portfolio companies in scaling their operations effectively. The firm focuses on investing in early and later-stage companies, with a particular emphasis on the information technology sector.

Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm based in Amman, Jordan, that invests in technology companies globally, with a focus on the Middle East and the United States. It backs companies across enterprise software, B2B solutions, developer tools, and sectors such as education, finance, consumer, agriculture, health, life sciences, mobility, and logistics.

Signal Lake is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests across incubation, seed and later-stage ventures in technology companies. The firm focuses on software, communications and networking, broadband telecom, network infrastructure, information technology, cloud computing, embedded systems, semiconductors and green energy. It pursues global investment opportunities from a Northeast United States base, with offices in Westport, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts.