OurCrowd is an Israel-based venture investing platform that enables institutions and individuals to invest in and engage with emerging companies. It vets and selects opportunities, invests capital, and provides its global network with access to co-investment, connections, talent, and deal flow. The platform supports portfolio companies with mentorship, industry advisors, and guidance through follow-on rounds, creating growth opportunities through its multinational partnerships. Headquartered in Jerusalem, it maintains offices in the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States, North America, and Australia. OurCrowd invests across sectors such as transportation tech, greentech, enterprise solutions, telecommunications, web and fintech, medtech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, digitally enabled agriculture, autonomous robotics, blockchain, and AR/VR, and also focuses on digital health, energy and agtech. It seeks to take board seats in portfolio companies and operates as an independent venture investment platform with a global footprint, supporting opportunities in Israel, Asia Pacific, and the United States.

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.

Viola Group is an Israel-based technology-focused investment group with multiple dedicated arms, including Viola Ventures, Viola Growth, Viola Credit, Viola Partners and Viola FinTech. Founded in 2000, the group provides long-term capital and value-added support to tech companies across stages, from early venture to growth and credit financing, with a broad geographic reach in Israel and globally. Viola Group manages over three billion dollars in assets and has backed more than 200 technology companies, leveraging specialized teams, extensive networks, and strategic partnerships to help portfolio companies scale in sectors such as software, cybersecurity, fintech, semiconductors, and deep technology. The firm operates as a multi-strategy house, allowing independent arms to pursue distinct investment approaches while sharing services and expertise to drive durable returns for global institutional investors and private partners. Its approach combines capital with hands-on partnership to build transformational technology businesses.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, it concentrates on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with notable focus areas including fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners manages over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies achieving an IPO. The firm combines capital with hands-on, right-sized software expertise to support portfolio companies on their growth journey from first investment to IPO.

Pitango Venture Capital is a Herzliya-based venture capital firm, founded in 1993, with additional offices in New York and Silicon Valley. The firm manages multiple funds, including Pitango First, Pitango Growth, and Pitango HealthTech, and pursues early to growth-stage investments across Israel and international markets. Its focus spans information technology, software and TMT, health tech and digital health, artificial intelligence, IoT, and related sectors. Pitango emphasizes hands-on support for portfolio companies, including strategy, talent, fundraising help, and scale-related guidance, and has a long track record with approximately 300 portfolio companies and 91 exits, backed by funds totaling several billion dollars.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

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.

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.

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.

Established in 2023, Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm serving as the investment arm of Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority. It focuses on early-stage investments in sectors such as fintech, edtech, digital health, logistics, future of work, impact investing, AI/ML, consumer products & services, and e-commerce within the United Arab Emirates.

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.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Israel. The firm backs early and growth stage start-ups across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, healthtech, cleantech, and information technology, and pursues opportunities in the United States, Asia, and Israel. It funds a broad range of rounds, including seed, early, later, and expansion, and also provides debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed focuses on helping entrepreneurs scale through capital, strategic guidance, and operational support, and maintains a diversified portfolio across enterprise, consumer, big data, mobile, and internet-enabled sectors.

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

Jerusalem Venture Partners is an Israeli-based venture capital firm founded in 1993 by Erel Margalit. It operates internationally with activities in Israel and New York, extending its reach across North America, Europe and Asia. The firm has raised about US$1.4 billion and invested in more than 140 companies, focusing on cybersecurity, big data, fintech, foodtech, agtech, digital health, enterprise software, storage, mobile, media and the Internet of Things. In addition to its main fund, JVP runs early-stage programs such as JVP Media Labs, which provides seed financing, hands-on management, workspace and strategic guidance, and JVP Cyber Labs, a cyber security and big-data incubator based in Beer Sheva with government support and industry partnerships. Through these platforms, JVP seeks to build category-leading startups and help them scale to international markets.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company based in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of electronics and device solutions. Its portfolio spans consumer electronics (mobile devices, televisions, home appliances, cameras), information technology products (PCs, peripherals, printers), semiconductors, memory and storage, and display technologies. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure and related services, and conducts extensive research and development to advance core technologies. With a global footprint across Korea, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of smartphones, memory chips, and displays, and it coordinates significant manufacturing and supply chain activities to support its varied product lines.

Maverick Ventures Israel is a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that focuses on early-stage technology startups in Israel, with a particular emphasis on software sectors. It makes investments across the country, typically committing 1 to 3 million USD per deal to Israeli companies.

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.

Bessemer Venture Partners is a long-established venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California, founded in 1911. The firm makes early-stage and growth investments across software, cloud, fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, biotech, healthcare, consumer services, marketplaces and other technology sectors, with global reach in the United States, Israel, Canada and India. It supports founders from seed to scale, providing strategic guidance and capital to build durable businesses. The firm has backed notable companies such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Shopify, Yelp, Twilio, DocuSign and Wix, among others, reflecting a history of funding transformative technology companies. Bessemer Venture Partners operates as a registered investment adviser and pursues opportunities across information technology, hardware and services worldwide.

VentureSouq is a venture capital firm headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with a global portfolio. Founded in 2013, it backs early-stage technology companies across sectors including fintech, software as a service, edtech, gaming, legaltech, and climate technology. The firm operates with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa and seeks scalable, innovative solutions, supporting portfolio companies through strategic guidance and capital.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Access Bridge Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Founded in 2020, it invests in startups across the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan, with opportunities outside these regions considered on a case-by-case basis. The firm focuses on healthcare, education technology, fintech, enterprise technology, software as a service, e-commerce, and marketplace models. It typically leads rounds and provides ongoing support as the first institutional investor to help portfolio companies grow.

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.

Magma Venture Partners, established in 1999, is a leading Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Israel's technology sector. Focusing on communication, semiconductors, internet, and media, Magma seeks innovative ideas and partners with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to shape the future of these dynamic markets. By leveraging its local market understanding and global influence, Magma fosters innovation from inception to industry leadership.

Peregrine Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Or Yehuda, Israel that invests in healthcare and life sciences, including digital health, medical devices, pharma, and biotechnology. The firm supports early-stage to growth companies, offering strategic guidance and deep industry knowledge to accelerate medical innovation. Its approach combines a synergetic investment model with hands-on support to help portfolio companies advance through development and commercialization. Peregrine seeks opportunities across Israel, the United States, and Europe, aiming to back ventures capable of delivering meaningful breakthroughs in healthcare and healthtech. The organization operates through multiple funds, reflecting a focus on long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs in healthcare technology and related sectors.

TLV Partners is a Tel Aviv-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on Israeli startups in cybersecurity, data, artificial intelligence, DevTools, fintech, biotech, and eCommerce. Founded in 2015, the firm partners with ambitious founders to turn disruptive ideas into category-defining companies and has backed a number of notable exits, including Granulate (acquired by Intel), Oribi (acquired by LinkedIn), Neosec (acquired by Akamai), Puresec (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), and Aqua Security. With assets under management exceeding $1 billion, TLV Partners supports portfolio companies with strategic resources and an extensive network to accelerate growth from day one.

Aleph is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2013, that focuses on early-stage investments in Israeli technology companies across software, IT, SaaS, big data, AI, and related sectors. It partners with entrepreneurs to build large, global brands and provides high-touch, partner-level support through its Ampliphy value-generation platform, which addresses talent recruitment, business development, and follow-on funding at scale. The firm has backed more than 50 companies, including Lemonade, Melio, Healthy.io, SparkBeyond, JoyTunes, Fabric, Freightos and Bringg, and seeks to support the broader Israeli tech ecosystem as it leverages new technologies to create transformative companies.

Aurum Ventures MKI is a venture capital firm based in Ramat Gan, Israel, that provides value-added growth capital to entrepreneurs in life sciences, healthcare, technology, and clean-tech. It backs cutting-edge technologies with strong commercial propositions that can mature into successful businesses and contribute to society. The firm deploys a hands-on, senior team that actively supports portfolio companies to strengthen strategy and execution and pursues a long-term investment horizon.

Battery Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1983. It invests in category-defining technology companies across sectors such as application software, infrastructure software, consumer internet and mobile services, industrial technologies, and life science tools. The firm supports growth across various stages and geographies, including the United States, Europe, and Israel, with emphasis on software, TMT, and related tech-enabled opportunities. As a registered investment adviser, Battery Ventures backs companies that build scalable platforms and transformative products, helping them compete in rapidly evolving markets.

Entrée Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It provides multi-stage investment to startups worldwide, spanning from pre-seed to growth stages, across sectors including AI, data, deep tech, fintech, cyber, software as a service, and crypto. The firm supports portfolio companies through active funding and strategic guidance, with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and San Francisco.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

Oryx Fund is a venture capital firm that makes early-stage technology investments, typically from Pre-Seed to Series A, with a focus on the MENA region and sectors such as Fintech, Healthtech, Enterprise tech, Logistics tech, and Edtech. The firm is described as backed by Hambro Perks and co-managed with Salica Investments, with bases in Abu Dhabi and London.

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.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It pursues investments across multiple sectors, including information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, and provides early to growth-stage funding coupled with strategic support to help founders build lasting, category-defining companies.

57 Stars is an independent asset manager and private equity and venture capital firm that pursues direct and fund-of-funds investments, including mezzanine opportunities. It focuses on investments outside the United States, particularly in emerging markets, and targets primary and secondary private equity partnerships as well as co-investments in select markets. The geographic scope includes India, China, Japan, Turkey, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Eastern Europe, Israel, Brazil, and other regions across Latin America, pan-Africa, and pan-Asia. The firm typically makes investments ranging from $15 million to $50 million. Founded in 2005, 57 Stars is based in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Munich, São Paulo, and San Diego.

83North is a London-based venture capital firm with an additional office in Herzliya that manages over $1.8 billion in assets. It invests across Europe, the United States, and Israel, spanning seed to growth stages in consumer and enterprise technology. The focus areas include software, fintech, health tech, cybersecurity, SaaS, data infrastructure, and other technology-enabled sectors. With a global investment approach, 83North backs category-leading startups and supports portfolio companies through multiple funding rounds, emphasizing building scalable businesses across Europe, the United States, and Israel.

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.

212 is a Luxembourg-based investment firm focusing on technology companies across Turkey, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa. It backs early- and growth-stage tech ventures, with a particular emphasis on B2B software, internet, mobile, e-commerce, and cloud sectors. The firm seeks companies with traction and clear product-market fit that can scale internationally, often taking minority stakes and providing hands-on mentoring and strategic guidance in addition to capital. Its approach combines regional insight with global execution, aiming to help portfolio companies expand beyond local markets. The team comprises seasoned professionals with backgrounds in multinational corporations and startups, focused on strategy, operations, and execution to cultivate a regional tech ecosystem.

Class 5 Global is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2018. It invests across seed, early, and later stages in consumer products, consumer services, information technology, e-commerce, software-as-a-service, and other technology-enabled sectors. The firm pursues a global footprint, backing companies across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and supporting growth from emerging markets to scale internationally.

Glilot Capital Partners is an Israeli venture capital firm based in Herzliya that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in information technology, software, cybersecurity, AI, big data, IoT, and related enterprise tech. Founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein, the firm primarily backs Israeli startups, often taking lead or co-investment roles in early rounds and offering flexible funding options alongside a strong industry network to help portfolio companies scale. The firm emphasizes B2B and high-tech sectors and maintains a community-driven approach to accelerating growth.

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.

Dubai Future District Fund is an investment platform and venture capital fund of funds based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, established in 2021. It targets technology-driven opportunities across proptech, healthtech, logistics tech, deeptech, circular economy and web3, aiming to expand startup and venture capital activity in Dubai and the region, support diversified GDP growth, and create jobs by fostering the next generation of industries and skills.

Phaze Ventures is an Oman-based venture capital firm with an office in Dubai. Founded in 2018, it provides equity investments across seed, early-stage, Series A and growth rounds to startups in deeptech, artificial intelligence, Web3, information technology, fintech, energy, logistics, and cleantech. The firm pursues opportunities globally, supporting portfolio companies operating in the Middle East, Europe, and North America.

Grove Ventures is a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in Israeli startups across technology-driven sectors, including software infrastructure, developer tools, IoT, biotechnology, healthcare, semiconductors, data centers, energy, cloud and data infrastructure, AI and automation, backing companies at the frontier of science and technology and aiming to support teams from inception through growth by prioritizing people, close collaboration, and value creation.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups through active, founder-first development programs. Its flagship initiatives HAX and IndieBio provide facilities, engineering resources, services, and laboratory equipment to accelerate product development and prepare companies for subsequent funding rounds. SOSV focuses on deep technology across health, environmental, and cross-border software sectors, aiming to solve human and planetary health challenges. In addition to providing capital, the firm emphasizes intensive programmatic support to help portfolio companies move quickly from seed toward growth, including customer acquisition and scale. The firm operates globally with a bias toward startups targeting rapid international expansion, especially in Asia, and tends to back a small cohort of high-potential companies to accelerate their progress and attract leading investors.

M12 is the corporate venture capital arm of Microsoft, investing in B2B software startups across North America and Israel. It focuses on cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical software as a service, and Web3 and gaming, and backs companies from early stages through growth rounds, including Series A to C. The firm supports portfolio companies with access to Microsoft resources and runs an accelerator program to help later-stage startups scale.

Derayah Financial is a Riyadh-based investment solutions firm founded in 2009 that offers local and international brokerage services, Islamic and conventional asset management, fund, wealth, and portfolio management, and financial analysis across Saudi Arabia, the GCC, and global markets. Through its venture capital arm, Derayah Ventures, established in 2019, the group also pursues minority investments in early-stage startups in the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on software, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, and IoT sectors.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.