Investors in Oman

Oman Brunei Investment Company SAOC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in in acquisitions, buy-outs, and buy-ins investments. It focuses from startups to mature and medium sized companies. The firm invests in aviation finance, infrastructure, transportation, aquaculture, manufacturing, hospitality, food, real estate, education, oil and gas, minerals, mining, tourism, healthcare, telecommunication, and utility sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in Oman, Brunei, and GCC countries. It makes equity investments between $2 million and $25 million for a stake of 20 percent and upwards. The firm prefers minority stake and board seat in its portfolio companies. It makes direct participation and joint venture or may invest in public companies traded on regional stock markets. Oman Brunei Investment Company SAOC was founded in 2009 and is based in Madinat Al Erfaan, Oman with an additional office in Muscat, Oman.

Oman Investment Corporation (S.A.O.C) is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in start-ups, early venture, mid venture, growth capital, industry consolidation, and buyout investments. The firm prefers to invest in privately held small and medium sized businesses. It invests in companies in the energy, real estate, wellbeing, healthcare, infrastructure, logistics, education, consumer products & services, asset and project management services. The firm typically invests in Middle East region more focuses on Oman and the adjacent regional and emerging markets. It invests between OMR 1 million ($2.59 million) and OMR 10 million ($25.93 million) in companies with enterprise values between OMR 2 million ($5.19 million) and OMR 30 million ($77.80 million). The firm prefers majority stake. It seeks to co-invest and take a board seat and controlling interest in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit from its portfolio companies through initial public offerings and private placements. The firm’s portfolio is made up of medium to long term holdings. It makes investments through its balance sheet and shareholder capital. Oman Investment Corporation (S.A.O.C) was founded in September 2005 and is based in Muscat, Oman. It operates as a subsidiary of Gulf Investment Corporation.

Oman International Development and Investment Company SAOG is a private equity firm specializing in buyout investments. The firm also seeks to invest in marketable securities. It seeks to invest in banking, financial services, commercial, tourism, energy, and industrial sectors. The firm also seeks to invest in steel, aluminium, plastics, detergents, chemicals, tourism, and food products. It prefers to invest both locally and internationally. The fund prefers to take majority stake in its portfolio companies. Oman International Development and Investment Company SAOG was founded in 1983 and is based in Muscat, Oman.

Bank Muscat SAOG provides financial services that includes corporate banking, retail banking, investment banking, treasury, private banking, and asset management. The Bank has international operations.

Templewater is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, mid-market control buyout. The firm seeks to invest in consumer and retail, mobility, essential services, advanced industrial and manufacturing businesses, energy transition, and environmental services. The firm seeks to invest in Asia Pacific and selective European opportunities. It prefers to invest in selective significant minority stake. Templewater was founded in 2018 and is based in Hong Kong with additional offices in Singapore and Oman. It operates as a subsidiary of Investec Group.

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.

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iGan Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in early-stage, startup, series A, growth capital, expansion capital, and buyouts investments. The firm seeks to invest in interactive home entertainment, B2B commerceAI-enabled MedTech, information technology, medical instrument, equipment and devices/healthcare, healthcare Information technology, digital health, business-to-business software, financial services, software, internet, manufacturing, traditional industries, resources, other specialty retail, diversified financial services, multi-sector holdings, specialized finance, and real estate. It seeks to invest in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Estimates, North Africa, North America with a preference for Canadian companies especially the Greater Toronto Area. The firm prefers to invest between $2 million and $5 million. It seeks to invest through preferred equity or convertible debt. iGan Partners was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in San Diego, California and Bridgetown, Barbados.

IDO Investments is the Sultanate’s technology investment firm accelerating the proliferation of a knowledge-based economy in Oman. We invest in established growth stage startups which deliver disruptive and innovative products or solutions globally. We strive to identify the most promising opportunities, and aim to actively contribute to their success.

Kitara Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed capital, early stages, growth capital, and PIPEs investments in medium sized businesses. The firm makes both direct investment and fund of funds investment. With direct investment the firm makes equity investment between $10 million and $15 million. With fund of funds investment the firm makes investment between $2 million and $4 million. The firm is sector agnostic. It invests both locally and globally. The firm also provides co-investment opportunities. It invests in both publicly traded and privately held companies. The firm seeks to invest in portfolio companies for return over a three to five year investment horizon. Kitara Capital was founded in 2008 and is based in Muscat, Oman with additional offices in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Central, Hong Kong, and Mumbai, India.

Phaze Ventures is a venture capital firm and innovation platform founded to transform the region by unlocking the untapped potential of our youth, start ups and corporates. Headquartered in Oman, our goal is to enable innovation through early stage investments and strategic partnerships.​Our insights are informed by our deep collaborations, network and technical team and our focus is on early stage technology investments from pre-seed to series-A.

Hamilton Bradshaw is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in any stage, from seed, start-up, early stage, development and growth to restructuring and recapitalization. For private equity investments, it primarily invests in management buyouts and development capital, mid-market, expansion, special situations including turnarounds, recapitalization, restructuring, and acquisitions. The firm invests in small and mid-cap businesses in the SME sector. It invests in recruitment and real estate opportunities in the UK. It seeks to invest in companies with turnover more than £150 million per annum. It seeks to invest above £0.5 million ($0.79 million) in each individual transaction and can co-invest above £10 million ($15.96 million). Within buyout situations, it seeks to invest in growth development capital buy-outs, management buy-outs and buy-ins of non-core divisions of larger corporations and management buy-outs and buy-ins and privatization of small to medium cap listed businesses that are perceived as undervalued by the public capital markets. It seeks to invest in financial services; electronics and industrial technology; business services; communications; healthcare; retail, food products, and leisure; information technology and software; oil and gas; social/domiciliary care; digital sector, and natural resources and renewable energy. Within the financial services sector, the firm focuses on sector trade receivables, specialist brokering, and providers of technology infrastructure. Within the electronics and industrial technology sector, the firm focuses on semiconductor packaging technology and wafer testing technology. Within the healthcare sector, it seeks to invest in specialist care services, support services, financing or funding services, and specialist asset-based facilities. Within the retail, food, and leisure sector, the firm focuses on health clubs, restaurants, franchise groups, catering services, and specialist retailers. Within the information technology and software sector, it seeks to invest in professional services, business process engineering, customer relationship management, infrastructure solutions for system management, application performance management, storage management, and security and data center management. Within the natural resources and renewable energy sector, the firm seeks to invest in conservation of forests and species, renewable energy, and prevention of greenhouse emissions. Within the business services sector, it focuses on business process outsourcing, commercial and facilities management, customer support services, direct marketing services, distribution, air, freight & logistics, and financial and database information services. Within the communications sector, the firm seeks to invest in companies that provide niche services to telecom companies, such as businesses that provide outsourced services or services to increase revenues, reduce costs or enhance customer satisfaction. For venture capital investments, the firm seeks to invest in early, mid, and late stage investments. It also makes start-up, early stage and later stage investments in the human capital sector with a focus on recruitment. The firm invests globally with a focus across across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and New Zealand. The firm seeks to invest above £0.25 million ($0.39 million) in individual transaction and can co-invest above £1 million ($1.59 million) and has more than £1 billion ($1348.05 million) in enterprise value. It typically invests in early stage companies with a minimum EBITDA between £0.5 million ($0.82 million) and £3 million ($4.97 million). It prefers to exit its investments between three to five years. The firm typically invests in as a lead or sole investor and prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. Hamilton Bradshaw was founded in 2003 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Dublin, Ohio.

Founded in 1960, by H.E. Easa Saleh Al Gurg, KCVO, CBE, the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group LLC (ESAG), is a multidivisional conglomerate with 27 companies. The Group has a range of diverse product and business interests that predominantly include retail, building and construction, industrial and joint ventures. With an active presence throughout UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia; its reach stretches across Asia, Middle East, and African continent, parts of America, Australia and New Zealand.

OM Venture Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in startup, seed to series A. The firm focuses on fintech, deep tech and climate tech. Within deep tech, the firm focuses on the foundational technology, tools, and systems required to support the development, deployment, and management of artificial intelligence, quantum computing as well as the next iteration of the internet. Within climate tech, the firm focuses on software, communication systems, development tools and other special purpose tools that support the development and deployment of renewable energy, carbon trading, sustainable agriculture and circular economy initiatives. The firm typically invests in the North America which included United States and Canada, Asia-Pacific which included Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam and the Middle East which included Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Oman and Israel, excluding China and India. The firm prefers to invest between $250,000 ($0.25 million) and $2 million, depending on the needs of the business and our intended equity stake. OM Venture Capital is based in United States.

Tamkeen Investments is a venture capital firm specializing in seed/startup and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in the science, technology, agri-tech, sustainability, and innovation sectors. The firm seeks to invest in Oman. Tamkeen Investments was founded in 2021 and is based in Muscat, Oman.

Instrata Capital BSC (c) is an investment firm specializing in shariah-compliant structured investments.It prefers to invest in the GCC and MENA regions with a focus on Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Turkey

Digital Venture Partners is venture capital arm of Qatar Insurance Company Q.S.P.C. specializing in seed, startup, incubation, emerging growth and early stage investments .The firm seeks to invest in insurance industry, insurtech sector. North Africa, Middle East (Morocco to Oman) but are open occasionally to Africa, Europe, US and Asia according to suited strategy. The firm typically invest between $0.1 million to $1 million. The firm takes minority stakes between 5% to 15% and also do co-investments. Digital Venture Partners is an investment arm of Qatar Insurance Company Q.S.P.C. Digital Venture Partners was founded in 2022 and is based in Qatar.

BeyondTeq Venture Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in startup investments. The firm prefers to invest in emerging technologies sector with a focus on fintech, edtech, agri and food tech, healthcare, AI & cybersecurity, AR & VR tech and hospitality sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in India, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and Canada. BeyondTeq Venture Capital is based in India with additional offices in Dubai, Oman and London.

GroFin Capital (Pty) Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing debt, equity, growth capital and mezzanine. It invest in all stages of business development, from start-ups, early venture, mid venture, late venture, through growth to expansions. The firm invests in outright purchases, management buy-outs, buying of businesses, management buy-ins, self-liquidating debt and franchises. It does not invest in primary agriculture (agricultural pursuits outside of a ‘controlled’ environment), not-for-profit organizations (NGO’s), informal or micro-enterprise, on-lending (fund-of-fund) activities, self-help groups, co-operatives, proof-of-concept or R&D programs. It also do not support any businesses which do not comply with applicable environmental, legal and social requirements as detailed in our ESG (environmental, social and governance policy). It does not consider seed capital, grants, soft loans, or short-term bridging finance. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on specialized finance, consumer services, consumer goods, air freight and logistics, agricultural services, agricultural machinery and equipment, fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, including franchises, education, healthcare, manufacturing, labour intensive businesses and key services (water, energy and sanitation). The firm seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses in South Africa, Iraq, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Jordan, Zambia, Oman, Egypt, and Tanzania. It also prefers to invest in the Middle East and North Africa region. It prefers to invest in companies with an annual turnover not exceeding $5 million and gross assets not exceeding $3 million. The firm's deal size ranges between $0.01 million and $3 million per investment. It seeks to invest for a period of three years with the maximum being eight years. The fund prefers to take majority or minority stakes between 10 percent and 49 percent. GroFin Capital (Pty) Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Bambous, Mauritius with additional offices in East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa and Middle East & North Africa.

Ascent Private Equity, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, growth capital and mezzanine investments. The firm typically invests in medical device industry and other medical technology companies with a focus on clinical research, manufacturing, lab, and intellectual property. It seeks to invest in medical innovation through companies which have technologies sufficiently innovation to effect dramatic changes in the treatment of serious global health issues such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. The firm prefers to invest in the companies based in the United States with focus on Upper Midwest and Minnesota, which in turn invest in joint ventures or wholly owned subsidiaries located in the Middle East with a focus on Jordan and Oman or business establishing directly in Middle East. It seeks to own less than 50 percent of all investee companies but prefers a board position. It seeks to invest a minimum of $1 million per individual investor and $5 million per institutional investor. Ascent Private Equity, LLC was founded in 1997 and is based in the New York, New York. It is a subsidiary of Ascent Group.

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

Kuwait Life Sciences Company is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in start up, seed and growth capital investments. The firm supports both public and private sectors to access emerging technologies. The firm invests in life sciences, medical technology, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and healthcare service industry which address critical and prevalent diseases. It invests in the GCC, MENA region focusing on Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, and also globally. It acts as a medium to long term investor. It can lead or co-lead the investments. Kuwait Life Sciences Company is based in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

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