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Business and Venture Capital in UAE

55 amazing VC (Venture Capital) firms in the UAE

  • 500 Global
  • BY Venture Partners
  • Mubadala Capital
  • Global Ventures
  • Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
  • MSA Capital
  • Shorooq Partners
  • Access Bridge Ventures
  • DCVC
  • BECO Capital
  • Entrée Capital
  • Nuwa Capital
  • RAED Ventures
  • Anamcara
  • Oryx Fund
  • HOF Capital
  • VentureSouq
  • Iliad Partners
  • COTU Ventures
  • ICEBERG Capital
  • Investible
  • MizMaa Ventures
  • Primal Capital
  • Target Global
  • Viola Ventures
  • Spartech Ventures
  • Eiffel Investment Group
  • e& capital
  • Natural Ventures
  • Stride Ventures
  • SparkLabs Group
  • Wamda Capital
  • Dubai Future District Fund
  • Panthera Capital (Investment arm of Fujairah Holding)
  • Plug and Play Tech Center
  • Flat6Labs
  • Lunate
  • AlphaWave
  • Modus Capital
  • Khalifa Fund
  • Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus – Dtec
  • Crescent Enterprises
  • Gulf Islamic Investments (GII)
  • Plus VC (+VC)
  • The CXO Fund
  • OurCrowd
  • Further Ventures
  • Techstars
  • Antler
  • Mindshift Capital
  • Arzan Venture Capital
  • EQ2 Ventures
  • Terra Venture Partners
  • Dubai Angel Investors – DAI
  • Oasis500

Navigating the UAE and specifically Abu Dhabi can be hard at times, so here is a helping hand for your research.

Sovereign Funds & Government Funds:
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)
Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC)
Emirates Investment Authority
Emirates National Investment
General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA)
Mubadala
ADQ

Mid-Size Abu Dhabi Investment Funds:
Waha Capital
Abu Dhabi Capital Group
Gulf Capital
National Holding
Alpha Dhabi Holding
Chimera Capital Holding
Lunate
Invest AD – Abu Dhabi Investment Company

Government Rebate Funds:
Abu Dhabi Investment Office

Royal Family Holding Groups:
Royal Group LLC
Das Holding LLC
Al Ain Holding
Yas Holding

Healthcare:
M42 Health
Mubadala Health

AI and Tech:
G42
Core42
e& enterprise IoT & AI

Defence & Aerospace:
Tawazun Council
EDGE

Energy:
Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company)
ADNOC Group

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In the UAE, there are a lot of different types of startup investors or LPs, each with a different approach to investing and different incentives for doing so. While they’d all prefer not to lose money, the differences in how their incentives and expectations are structured are critical in understanding how to decide whether or not to work with them, how to negotiate with them, and how to interact with them over the lifetime of your relationship.

VC Firm:
The classic startup investor that is primarily working to achieve returns for the funds they’ve raised from a set of Limited Partners.

  • Shorooq
  • Further Ventures
  • Strategic Development Fund (SDF)

Angel:
Usually a wealthy individual or Family member who invests their own money in startups. It comes with emotion and interest in the specific industry.

  • Emirates Angel Investors Association
  • Dubai Angel Investors – DAI

Accelerator:
Accelerators are, for the most part, a subset of VC firms where there are professional investors who raise funds from outside parties to invest in startups.

  • Plug and Play Tech Center
  • Flat6Labs
  • 500 Global

Family Office:
These are the private investment vehicles for super high net worth individuals and families. Investment is driven on business interest in the opportunity, that aligns with the family holdings current portfolio.

  • Al Fahim Group
  • AlNowais Investment

Corporate Investor (venture arm):
While corporate venture arms have some of the misaligned incentives of direct corporates, they generally have a mandate to generate financial returns for the company’s balance sheet.

  • e& capital
  • G42

Government:
Governments have many reasons for investing in startups. There are many government grants available in various countries that are designed to promote startups as way to increase job growth. There are also government agencies with their own venture funds, generally designed to fund technology that will help the government in the long run.

  • Khalifa Fund

Sovereign Wealth Funds:
These are the largest pools of capital in the world, and are essentially very large family offices for entire countries. These funds are large enough to invest in any and all asset classes that the managers believe will produce a return on investment.

  • Mubadala
  • Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)
  • ADQ
  • Emirates Investment Authority

Here are the Middle East sovereign wealth funds currently making all the rules:

  • Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)
  • Public Investment Fund (PIF)
  • Qatar Investment Authority
  • Kuwait Investment Authority
  • Oman Investment Authority
  • Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (“Mumtalakat”)
  • Mubadala
  • ADQ