Investors in Egypt

Egypt Ventures is an investment firm focused on empowering the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators and co-investing in high-growth enterprises. With the mandate of catalyzing investments in startups and high-growth potenital businesses, our aim is to fully transform the investment landscape and unlock Egypt’s entrepreneurial potential.

Egypt Kuwait Holding Company (S.A.E.) is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions. It seeks to invest in companies in oil, gas and power, fertilizers, Information Technology, utilities, infrastructure, transport, energy, petrochemicals, manufacturing, and insurance sectors. The firm seeks to invest in Africa and Middle East including; Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, and also in the high-growth emerging markets like Algeria and Sudan. The firm seeks to invest in greenfield projects. It also seeks to acquire controlling stakes and takes management control in its investments. Egypt Kuwait Holding Company (S.A.E.) was founded in 1997 and is based in Giza, Egypt

The Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund (EAEF) is a private investment fund established by the U.S. Congress to promote the development of the Egyptian private sector through long-term investment.

Saudi Egyptian Industrial Investment Co is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in start-up and expansion stage. The firms prefers to invest in industrial sector. It typically invests in Egypt. It prefers to invest up to $15.87 million (EGP 250 Million). It prefers to take minority stake. It prefers to exit from investments within three to five years. Saudi Egyptian Industrial Investment Co is based in Cairo, Egypt.

A15 is a venture capital firm that backs daring founders in the Middle East and North Africa region, adopting a founder-first approach to investing in early-stage tech startups.

DenVC is an accelerator and a venture capital firm specializing in early and startup investments. The firm typically invests in technology-enabled startups, financial inclusion, better education, women empowerment, health and longevitiy, saving environment, and job creation. The firm also invests in digital health including genetics and digital therapeutics; basic needs efficiency- driven and distribution; transportation and automotive including fast transportation, electrical vehicles, sharing and route modeling, and optimization; and fintech enabled financial services and marketplace sectors. The firm invests in emerging markets in Africa, the Arab region, and the MENA region. DenVC was founded in 2022 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware and has an additional office in Cairo, Egypt.

The Abraaj Group is a private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firm specializing in early venture, seed, growth capital, emerging growth, mid venture, late venture, expansion capital, industry consolidation, mezzanine, subdebt, PIPES, buyouts, bridge, recapitalization, infrastructure, and buy and build in mature companies. It seeks to invest in small and medium sized enterprises in emerging markets. The firm typically invests in oil, gas and consumable fuels, metals and mining, agricultural machinery and equipment, agricultural services, auto parts and equipment, leisure facilities, pharmaceuticals, services outsourcing, water utilities, real estate, health care and clean energy, manufacturing, food products, FMCG, construction, healthcare services, industrials, telecommunications, resource and infrastructure services, education, information technologies, aviation, materials and logistics, agribusiness, energy, and food industries. It focuses on consumer goods and services, within which it also focuses on fast moving consumer goods manufacturing, retail, and food & beverage. Within financial services it also focuses on banking, non-bank financial institutions (such as mortgage or consumer finance specialists), insurance companies (life, general and reinsurance), and payments and fintech businesses. Within healthcare it focuses on hospitals & clinics and other type of service providers in the healthcare domain. Within education, it focuses on private K-12 schools and traditional graduate and post-graduate, campus-based universities. We are also investing in clean energy power generation, i.e., renewable power generation assets. We will also selectively invest in base-load gas-fired power generation assets and select midstream and downstream energy infrastructure assets including transmission and distribution assets that complete the value chain. It invests in companies based in Far East, the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Asia with a focus on Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, Pakistan, Turkey, the Palestinian territories and the six Gulf Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. The firm also seeks to invest globally with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa including Ivory Coast region; Latin America including Argentina, Brazil; Central Asia; and Southeast Asia including India and the Philippines. The firm seeks to make equity investments between $0.5 million and $100 million; typically investing $10 million to $100 million in private equity investments as well as in real estate. It prefers to invest between $100 million and $300 million in its portfolio companies. It prefers to invest in companies with revenue between $6 million to $35 million. The firm acquires controlling or significant interest and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. It typically exits its investments within a period of three years to five years through structured exits to strategic and trade buyers or onto public markets in the region. The firm seeks majority and minority positions in public enterprises ranging between 10% and 49%. The Abraaj Group was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with additional offices across Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Ezdehar is a private equity fund manager based in Egypt that partners with mid-market businesses to steer them towards superior growth and long-term sustainability through a hands-on approach.

Swicorp is a private financial services group providing solutions in the spheres of investment banking, private equity and asset management in the Middle East and North Africa (KSA, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Turkey).Founded in 1987 by current chairman Kamel Lazaar, Swicorp today has grown to be one of the region’s premier financial services providers, with close to 100 employees worldwide.Licensed by both the Saudi Capital Market Authority and the Dubai Financial Services Authority, our teams leverage our regional and international network, servicing clients and investors who are seeking lucrative opportunities.Our local expertise, combined with our world-class financial solutions, has allowed us to gain a robust client base amongst leading financial institutions and regional corporations. Furthermore, it established trust with our clients to enable us to raise in excess of $1 Billion in private equity funds. Through our extensive principal investment network, we are also able to activate significant proprietary investments for MENA and international opportunities across various asset classes.

Boasting an unrivaled reputation as the top private business school in Egypt and one of the best in Africa and the Arab world, the AUC School of Business is dedicated to transforming the young eager minds of today to the responsible change agents of tomorrow, all while developing relevance and leadership in an evolving ecosystem. Situated within the top private university in Egypt and enjoying nearly seven decades' worth of history, the School offers a wide range of programs that extend beyond the classroom to provide a holistic and engaging learning experience. Undergraduate programs focus on merging a liberal arts foundation with a deep understanding of business, economics and accounting, ensuring students’ full interaction and constant engagement. The graduate and executive education programs on offer are similarly world class and provide hands-on, practical and integrated perspectives in dynamic fields of study to aspiring professionals.

Bidayat SA is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and growth capital investments. The firm prefers to invest in consumer industries, Luxury, Fashion, Leather Goods, Jewellery, Cosmetics, Lifestyle, Digital, Marketing & PR, Branding, Supply Chain, Enablers, Entrepreneurship, Investments, Hubs, Academy, Distribution, and Creative Industries accessories, beauty and wellness. The firm prefers to invest in Europe, Middle East and North America region. The firm prefers to invest up to $0.5 million to $10 million. The The firm prefers majority stakes. Bidayat SA was founded in 2021 and is based in Lugano, Switzerland with additional offices in London, United Kingdom, Milan, Italy, Istanbul, Turkey and Cairo, Egypt.

Disruptech is Egypt's leading fintech venture capital firm focusing on investing in early stage fintech & fintech-enabled startups. We aspire to be the first call for rising fintech founders, and first money in. The founders we do support are our strongest champions making us the investor of choice for lucrative rounds.

EdVentures is a corporate venture capital specialized in serving the fields of Education, Culture, and Innovative Learning Solutions. Being the first of its kind in the Arab world. EdVentures invests in startups and supports entrepreneurs by offering them a second-to-none environment that is powered by the long successful history of Nahdet Misr Publishing Group.

At Alexandria Angels, we help you invest in promising, early-stage companies with strong management teams, in and outside of Alexandria- Egypt. Our Angel Network brings together an extraordinary group of business and technology leaders for the benefit of local entrepreneurs and the wellbeing of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Not only do we aim to create compelling business opportunities in large markets, we also help angels gain access to the right people and resources to grow their business, their way.

138 Pyramids is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, growth capital, startups, early stage investments. The firm prefers to invest in food and beverage, fashion and apparel, and services. The firm seeks to invest in Egypt. It seeks minority stake in its portfolio companies. 138 Pyramids is based in Cairo, Egypt. and has additional office in Giza, Egypt.

The Cairo Angels is Egypt’s first formal angel investment network; investing in and supporting early-stage startups in Egypt and across the MENA region. Established in 2012, Cairo Angels convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees that meet the Cairo Angels investment criteria. Members may join virtually or physically in either Cairo or London. While angels make their own investment decisions, Cairo Angels facilitates due diligence for opportunities that receive interest from investors, negotiates terms and finalizes deal closing. Post-investment, the Cairo Angels can also provide portfolio management services for its investors. Angels invest their personal money in return for a minority equity stake in the business, and collectively make investments that range between 250K to 2M Egyptian Pounds per Company.

Fajr Capital Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in early venture, mezzanine, growth capital, buyout, infrastructure investments. It makes its investments with a commitment to Shariah principles. The firm invests in companies operating across diversified sectors with a focus on financial services, infrastructure, healthcare, energy and resources, education, food and beverage sector, logistics, oil and gas services, industrial manufacturing, and renewable energy. The firm also makes investments in waste water treatment, hospitals and healthcare centers, schools, marine ports and services, road and rail, marine, water, sewer and pipeline construction, petrochemicals, oil and gas storage and transportation sectors. The firm primarily makes its investments in high-growth Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) markets focusing on Algeria, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The firm invests between $50 million and $100 million in its portfolio companies. Fajr Capital Limited is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with additional offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and London, United Kingdom.

Innoventures, LLC is an innovation platform with a mission to turn creative ideas into successful businesses that change the world. The firm is based on a unique business model more compatible with the Egyptian and Middle Eastern markets on which it focuses, to make more efficient use of VC money, and to more effectively identify and support only the most innovative and valuable business ventures. Innoventures also provides a shared business resource center, and a support network of entrepreneurs, which affords lower costs for the start-up ventures, and increases their chances of success.

MBC Group (Middle East Broadcasting Center) is the largest and leading private media company in the Middle East & North Africa region that enriches people’s lives through information, interaction and entertainment. In 2002, nearly a decade after the launch of MBC1 in London, back in 1991, and as the 1st private free-to-air Arab satellite TV channel, MBC Group moved its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates, where it remains.Today, MBC Group includes 18 TV channels: MBC1 (general family entertainment); MBC2 and MBC MAX (24-hour western movies); MBC3 (children’s edutainment with a mix of both local productions and western acquisitions); MBC4 (entertainment for young families with a female-focus); MBC Action (an indigenous adrenaline-packed channel targeting young males with local and homegrown productions); MBC Variety (Western films and general entertainment with uninterrupted broadcasting); Al Arabiya News Channel (24-hour Arabic language news channel); Al Hadath (an extension of Al Arabiya News Channel with a specific focus on real events in the Arab world and beyond); Wanasah (24-hour Arabic music channel); MBC DRAMA (24/7 Arabic drama); MBC MASR (general family entertainment geared towards the Egyptian family); MBC + Drama (a joint paid-for channel between MBC and OSN); MBC Bollywood (delivering the freshest in Bollywood content geared towards the region via an Arabized interface); and most recently four sports channels, MBC PRO SPORTS (geared towards the “Saudi Football Premier League” fans in the Kingdom).In July 2011, seven channels within MBC Group began to broadcast in HD across the MENA Region: MBC1 HD, MBC2 HD, MBC4 HD, MBC Action HD, MBC Drama HD, MBC Max HD and Al Arabiya HD. In 2013, MBC3 HD joined the bouquet of HD channels followed by MBC Variety HD in 2014.MBC Group also includes two FM radio stations: MBC FM (Gulf music) and Panorama FM (contemporary Arabic hit music); as well as O3 Productions, a premium content drama production company. Furthermore, MBC Group includes online platforms: www.mbc.net, www.alarabiya.net, www.shahid.net (the first free VOD and catch-up portal in the Arab world) and www.actionha.net, and www.mbcprosports.net among others.

Beta.Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in Pre-Seed, Series A, startups and early-stage investments. It seeks to invest in digital technology with focus on finance, pure tech, logistics, education, agriculture, web3, climate/clean energy and healthcare; scaling tech and tech-enabled companies. The firm typically invests in Africa with a primary focused on Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana and South Africa and often globally. The firm typically invests between invest $0.1 million to $0.5 million. Beta.Ventures is based in Lagos, Nigeria with an additional office in Manhattan, New York.

Asime Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in angel, pre-seed and seed investments. The firm prefers to invest in East and West Africa, notably Ghana, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Togo, Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa. It typically invests between $0.05 million and $0.1 million. Asime Ventures was founded in 2020 and is based in Accra, Ghana with additional offices at Nairobi, Kenya and Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

We finance Fintech companies and Fintech-enabling companies in Egypt.

We invest in tech startups in Egypt; one of the fastest growing economies in the world and undergoing a massive digital transformation.

EFG EV FINTECH is an Accelerator specializing in, series A, early stage, post- seed and later stage startups. The firm takes equity stake ranging between 5 percent and 10 percent. It seeks to invest disruptive technology such as fintech, payment, Insurtech, regtech, proptech, money transfer, saving, investing, block-chain enabled platform, infrastructure technology, borrowing, capital raising, Robo-advisor and wealth management. The firm prefers to invest in Egypt. It seeks to invest in E£1 million ($0.06 million) via accelerator and up to E£5 million ($0.32 million) in funding via direct investment. They offer a four-month program. Typically, the firm would select ten companies twice a year. The accelerator prefers investing in teams of at least two founders. EFG EV FINTECH is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Our mission is to find and empower talented and ambitious early-stage tech startup founders and help them thrive in the region’s rapidly changing entrepreneurship landscape. Our sector-agnostic program focuses on improving startups’ product-market fit, finetuning their business, operating and revenue models, growing their customer base and raising follow-on investments. Through our renowned 6-month acceleration program we arm entrepreneurs with the necessary tools, resources, and networks to develop their strategies and expand their businesses. Our program entails equity investment, growth hacking, networking, mentorship, trainings, and a wide variety of perks and benefits. Each cycle culminates in a Demo Day, where founders showcase their startups to potential investors, policy makers, stakeholders, and partners. Our support does not end on Demo Day as we continue to back our portfolio companies throughout their journey. Falak Startups’ new maximum investment size of 1,000,000 EGP is unrivaled and provides the leverage startups need to gain momentum and accelerate their growth, whilst we work together on securing follow-on investments from venture capital firms, angel investors, and corporates. Although Falak Startups is industry agnostic and focuses on tech-enabled and scalable startups, we have an additional focused track that specializes on Financial Technology powered by EFGEV. We also foster sub-tracks that are sector specific with the support of key industry partners. Our accelerated startups reside in our fully-equipped state of the art, 700m2 office, in the heart of Downtown Cairo, that meets all their office space needs during the program.