Saned Partners is a Beirut-based venture capital firm that operates as an independently managed early-stage investment firm in the Middle East and North Africa. It backs startups across information technology, telecommunications, media, light manufacturing, food and beverage, and consumer services sectors, with a focus on helping them grow and reach profitability. The firm pursues partnerships with entrepreneurs by providing resources, guidance, and access to networks to turn ideas into scalable, best-in-class businesses, aiming to catalyze economic and social development in the MENA region.

Established in 2015, IM Funding is a Beirut-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage businesses in Lebanon. It offers a six-month acceleration program for early-stage Lebanese startups.

Established in 2016 and headquartered in Capellen, Lebanon, Globivest is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage, tech-focused startups with a positive social impact. It aims to build long-term relationships with entrepreneurs, providing strategic guidance and operational support alongside financial investment.

CapB is a wealth management firm and data-driven investment office based in Bab Idriss, Lebanon. Founded in 2020, CapB discovers, promotes, and finances ventures across industries and geographies to serve its clients, sponsors, and associates. It operates by mediating and guiding opportunities with careful regard to incentives, supported by an executive management team.

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).

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.

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.

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.

eWTP Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that invests in technology sectors and accelerates growth for portfolio companies. It seeks markets with high growth potential in technology-driven industries, including opportunities in digital economies and improving the quality of consumption.

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.

Tenami Capital is a venture capital firm based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 2021, that concentrates on investing in early-stage ventures and supports founders with non-dilutive, revenue-based funding.

Saudi Technology Ventures is a Riyadh-based venture capital firm that invests in early‑stage and growth‑stage technology companies across the Middle East and beyond. The firm focuses on sectors such as fintech, healthtech, e‑commerce, artificial intelligence, and other digital innovations, supporting founders with capital, expertise, and regional market access. As part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, it aims to foster a diversified economy by nurturing high‑growth tech enterprises and creating new opportunities for the Kingdom’s workforce.

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.

Crescent Enterprises is a multinational company with diversified operations across strategic sectors. It operates a private equity arm, Crescent Enterprises Invests, and a corporate venture capital platform, CE-Ventures, which invests in early to growth-stage technology-enabled startups and select venture funds regionally and globally.

Maersk is a Danish global shipping and logistics company that provides container shipping, container terminals, ports, logistics, warehousing, distribution, and integrated supply chain solutions, including cold chain services and 4PL capabilities.

Cedar Mundi Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2016 that pursues cross-border technology investments across Europe and the Middle East, with activity in sectors including B2B, B2C, healthtech, information technology, e-commerce, edtech, and fintech.

Wamda Capital is a Dubai-based venture capital firm that invests in seed and growth-stage technology companies in the MENA region. It seeks to guide portfolio companies through multiple rounds of financing toward an exit. The firm targets sectors including financial services, consumer goods, software, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on high-growth startups. By backing entrepreneurs across the MENA ecosystem, Wamda Capital aims to accelerate digital transformation and build regional tech leadership.

iMENA Group is a holding company and venture capital investor focused on the consumer Internet opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa. It invests in and partners with technology-enabled firms across the information and internet sectors, supporting founders with strategic and operational services to build, grow, and create value from online businesses in the MENA region. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the group emphasizes backing proven technology and business models and helping companies scale through the region’s hyper-growth phase.

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.

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.

Unpopular Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on technology companies. It makes active investments across a broad range of startups, supporting companies through various growth stages. Since inception it has deployed approximately 75 million dollars across roughly 500 startups, including Zepto, Jeeves, and Yassir, reflecting a high level of ongoing deal activity.

BackBone Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Zurich, with an active footprint in Frankfurt. It invests in seed and early-stage technology companies across Israel, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with focus on information and communications technology, food technology, and disruptive technologies. The firm pursues an ecosystem-oriented approach and provides hands-on support to founders to help them reach milestones, aiming to be a trusted partner for both entrepreneurs and investors.

Crescent Capital is a Belfast-based investment firm specializing in venture capital and growth investments in Northern Ireland. Founded in 1995, it focuses on information technology, life sciences, manufacturing, and related sectors, providing equity financing to companies across early to growth stages. The firm typically makes initial investments in the hundreds of thousands to a few million pounds, with total commitments potentially higher as rounds progress, and may take majority or minority positions, often appointing a non-executive director. It aims to support portfolio companies through growth with planned exits in approximately five to seven years, frequently via trade sale. The firm operates from Belfast, with an additional office in London.

Faith Capital is a Kuwait-based venture capital firm that invests in technology and consumer startups across the MENA region. Owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience in the GCC, it focuses on e-commerce and related sectors with high growth potential and backs founders across seed to later-stage rounds, targeting information technology, software as a service, mobile, Internet of Things, and e-commerce ventures.

Catcha Group is a venture capital firm based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, focused on backing disruptive technology companies. It has a track record of investing in small- to medium-sized businesses to achieve rapid growth, profitability, and potentially an IPO, by taking sizeable stakes and mentoring portfolio companies to unlock their potential. The firm emphasizes supporting its portfolio teams through challenges and helping them become leaders in their fields, with a hands-on approach to value creation.

Döhler Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Darmstadt, Germany, established in 2014. It pursues long-term, entrepreneurial investments in early-stage startups across sectors including B2B, information technology, healthcare, e-commerce, food technology, and health technology, with a particular focus on nutrition and technology ecosystems.

Iris Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm focused on the digital economy. Established in 1986 and headquartered in Paris, it supports start-ups from early stage to growth, assisting portfolio companies with international expansion through a network of corporate partners including Orange, Publicis, Valeo and BRED. The firm backs companies across platforms, SaaS, AdTech, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, with investments spanning Europe and beyond, including North America and Asia. Iris Capital seeks to back leaders in AI, data, fintech and insurtech, enterprise software as a service, and other technology-enabled sectors, often taking lead or co-lead positions and participating in follow-on rounds, with portfolio companies guided by strategic input from its network of partners.

Hummingbird Ventures is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary founders building fast-growth technology companies. Founded in 2010 and with a presence in London, Ghent and Istanbul, the firm backs early-stage to growth-stage startups across sectors including blockchain, healthcare, deep tech, fintech, marketplaces, gaming, hardware, software as a service and biotech. It provides capital alongside hands-on operational support to help portfolio companies accelerate growth, leveraging an international network and operational know-how. Notable investments include Deliveroo, Showpad, Kraken, Peak Games and Gram Games, among others. The firm focuses on late seed to Series A opportunities and emphasizes helping fast-growing digital businesses scale through strategic guidance and access to resources.

Gulf Islamic Investments LLC, established in 2014, is a Dubai-based financial services company specializing in Shariah-compliant investments. It focuses on private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, and real estate, with a regional emphasis on the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The firm invests in various sectors, including healthcare, technology, education, consumer services, and real estate, typically committing $10 million or more per investment.

EQ2 Ventures is a Dubai-based venture capital firm investing in seed to series B-stage startups across various sectors such as ad tech, edtech, e-commerce, fin-tech, health tech, and SaaS. Founded in 2015, the firm leverages its network of strategic investors and mentors to support talented entrepreneurs building sustainable companies.

A venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Saint Helier, United Kingdom, B&Y Venture Partners makes investments across sectors including big data and analytics, e-commerce, gaming, health tech, online marketplaces, fintech, cybersecurity, software as a service, direct-to-consumer, enterprise software, property tech, and food tech.

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.

Nucleus Ventures is a venture builder and advisory firm focusing on corporate innovation and venture building. It partners with clients to ideate, construct, and scale new ventures, having created and operated multiple incubators and accelerators, with over 140 startups graduated, more than 280 million dollars raised, and upwards of 2,000 jobs created. The company maintains a cross-regional presence with offices in Paris, Beirut, and the United States, and activity across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, serving global corporations, funds, family offices and governments. It also collaborates with external programs and talent initiatives to enhance skills and capacity in tech and entrepreneurship. Founded in 2015, Nucleus Ventures positions itself as a leading player in innovation venturing advisory, helping clients unlock assets and capabilities to convert industry shifts into growth.

Vulcan Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Vulcan, a global technology and investment organization founded by Paul G. Allen. It engages in investments across all stages of corporate development, including leveraged buyouts, growth and early-stage ventures, distressed/turnaround opportunities, and select public market strategies. The firm targets sectors such as healthcare, software, media and entertainment, Internet services, mobile, telecommunications, energy, data intelligence, and infrastructure, with a global reach focused on the United States, Europe, and Asia. Typical deal sizes range from about $10 million to $100 million, and investments can be held for up to a decade. Vulcan Capital is headquartered in Seattle, with an additional office in Palo Alto.

TDF Capital is a venture capital firm targeting early and growth-stage opportunities in the information technology and consumer sectors in Greater China. Based in Shanghai with a Hong Kong office, it functions as the venture capital arm of Venture TDF and typically makes investments ranging from $3 million to $10 million. Founded in 2000, the firm backs technology-driven companies across sectors including green technology, life sciences, telecommunications, media, healthcare, and retail, with activity in Asia and Silicon Valley. Its focus is on early and expansion-stage opportunities, leveraging experience in TMT, consumer and healthcare markets to support portfolio companies in China and the broader region.

XRC Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded in 2015 that funds and mentors early-stage companies in retail technology, consumer goods and consumer healthtech, focusing on pre-Seed to Series A rounds. It has invested in more than 130 startups, including early backers of Billie, Recurate and MD Integrations. The firm's portfolio spans consumer brands, next-gen commerce, generative AI, consumer healthtech, marketplaces, e-commerce technology, store tech, data infrastructure, on-demand manufacturing, supply chain, analytics and marketing technology. It emphasizes diversity and inclusion, with a significant share of portfolio founders and leadership roles held by women and BIPOC entrepreneurs, and a leadership team that is itself majority female. XRC operates three funds: the Accelerator Fund for pre-Seed to Seed, the Opportunity Fund for Seed to Series A, and the Brand Capital Fund for Seed to Series A consumer products in Beauty, Personal Care, Home Goods and Health and Wellness, and it collaborates with about 25 strategic partners and 370+ mentors to support its portfolio, along with industry conferences like NRF Retail Big Show and Shoptalk.

Hassad Food is a Doha-based investment company backed by the Qatar Investment Authority. It focuses on agriculture and food production, pursuing long-term investments across the agri-business value chain, including startups, green-field projects, joint ventures, and equity acquisitions in private or public companies. The firm maintains diversified interests in Qatar, Australia and Oman and seeks to expand its global footprint in animal proteins, grains, rice and sugar production.

TURN8 is a Dubai-based venture accelerator and venture capital-as-a-service platform established by DP World to foster global entrepreneurship and innovation. It serves as DP World's investment arm, providing seed investments, incubation, and a startup studio that builds startups through TURN8 Venture Studio. The program uses structured acceleration and incubation phases designed to move early-stage ideas to market, with participating teams receiving seed funding typically around $24,000 to $30,000 and ongoing mentorship and post-program follow-on support. TURN8 focuses on technology businesses, including web and mobile applications, e-commerce, Arabic content, education and e-learning, sustainable living technologies, crowdsourced services, social networking, and healthcare technologies.

Oasis500 is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Amman, Jordan, that supports early‑stage startups across multiple sectors, including technology, education, health, fintech, agtech, consumer solutions, and more. It identifies aspiring entrepreneurs, provides initial investment, and accelerates selected ventures for about 180 days through an intensive program that emphasizes growth, capability building, and access to a network of mentors. Startups in Oasis500’s program benefit from mentorship and connections to investors to facilitate follow‑on funding as they scale. By facilitating entrepreneurship and innovation, Oasis500 contributes to the development of Jordan’s and the wider MENA region’s startup ecosystem.

Passion Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that concentrates on early-stage technology companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, with a focus on pre-seed and seed investments. The firm emphasizes hands-on support from entrepreneurs and operators to help founders scale their businesses, particularly in AI, fintech and related tech sectors. Its portfolio includes notable companies such as GoCardless, Monzo, Lendable and Marshmallow, among others, reflecting an active role in backing digital finance and technology ventures. Passion Capital aims to foster a collaborative ecosystem and executional excellence in Europe, helping founders turn ambitious ideas into scalable businesses.

ACE & Company is a Geneva-based private equity and venture capital firm with offices in London, Cairo, Hong Kong, and New York. It makes global private market investments across multiple stages and strategies, including angel, early, growth, mature, buyout, special situations, and secondaries, and engages in co-investments and leading or participating roles. The firm operates on a sector-agnostic basis, targeting opportunities across technology, financial services, healthcare, energy, consumer goods, and services, and seeks to deliver long-term value by tailoring investment exposure to each company's development stage and risk profile.

Lumia Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that backs expansion-stage technology companies, focusing on internet and software sectors such as SaaS, mobile, cloud computing, infrastructure, and big data. It uses a hands-on approach that couples Silicon Valley insights with global networks to help management teams scale and pursue international growth. The firm typically invests between a few million and around thirty million dollars and participates in primary and secondary transactions using common and preferred shares. Its geographic focus includes the United States and international markets in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, Southeast Asia, and other regions, supporting portfolio companies as they expand across borders.

Prime Ventures is a European venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled companies. It provides capital, strategic guidance, and an active network to help portfolio firms become global category leaders. Founded in 1999, the firm is headquartered in Amsterdam and maintains offices in Cambridge and Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It invests in software, information technology, consumer internet, e-commerce, digital media, mobile computing, semiconductor and related sectors across Europe, with a regional emphasis on the Benelux, United Kingdom, France, Finland, Sweden and other Western European markets. Prime Ventures typically participates as a lead investor or co-investor, often takes a minority stake and a board seat, and engages in multiple financing rounds. Initial commitments commonly span several million euros, with follow-on rounds expanding to mid-market sizes, aligning with growth and expansion plans.

An independent asset management company founded in 1998 and based in Florence, Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia focuses on private equity and venture capital investments in unlisted SMEs across Central Italy. It provides growth capital through equity, semi-equity and debt instruments to start-ups, SMEs and mid-caps operating in sectors including textiles and fashion, food and wines, technology, biotech and information technology. The firm manages four closed-end funds with a total committed capital of around 140 million euros, and aims to act as a growth partner and strategic operator to strengthen investees’ capital structures and create value for the regional economy, employment and entrepreneurial culture.

Sprout helps creative professionals build rich media HTML5 ads. Its AdVine platform integrates with leading mobile ad networks, publishers, ad servers, and social networks, enabling campaigns to run across environments where consumers spend time online. The company serves large brands including Disney, Warner Bros., HBO, Federated Media, Intel, Technorati, Toyota, and MTV. Backed by Polaris Venture Partners, Sprout is based in Honolulu, Hawaii and San Francisco, California.