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.

Comanche is an information technology solutions company based in Thailand. We have more than 20 years’ experience in the hotel IT industry, creating management systems that provide seamless integrated solutions for hotels and serviced apartments. Our name and reputation have been established since 1996. We now have more than 600 customers in 17 countries, with hotels ranging in size from 19 rooms up to 1,300 rooms. More than 30 percent of our current customers are hotels that have converted from other software systems. Along with our home base of Thailand, we have customers Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Maldives, Malaysia, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore.

Catalyst Romania is the first private equity and venture capital fund designed for Romania. Initially sponsored by 3TS Capital Partners, one of the leading private equity and venture capital firms in Europe, Catalyst Romania is mainly funded by the European Investment Fund (EIF), through the JEREMIE initiative, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Catalyst Romania is currently managed by a local team based in Romania and aims to make early stage venture capital investments in Romanian SMEs from the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors, with investments in the range of €200,000 up to €2,000,000. Together with EIF as the largest contributor of Catalyst, there are also other investors in the fund: BT Asset Management (BTAM), a company member of Banca Transylvania, 3TS Capital Partners and some other private investors.

I invest in early-stage companies and am industry-agnostic. I look at TAM, product differentiation & its initial traction (to assess the potential to grow), competitive landscape, & Founders. All are important to me, and have to make sense on a deal-by-deal basis.

Since 2013, Scale Investors have been activating investment activity for early stage female founded companies in an effort to close the entrepreneurial gender gap. We are committed to building innovation skills in Australia. Our work today is creating the jobs and companies of the future. The need for women to participate and to succeed is absolutely critical to deliver real equality.The evidence is clear female-led businesses achieve outstanding investment returns:Generate 12% more revenue than male-led companies and earn 35% higher returnHighly efficient with capital, running companies with two-thirds of funds compared to male counterpartsMore likely to achieve higher valuations

WomanKind Ventures is an investment group focused on funding women and non-binary led early-stage startups. Partnering with Hive Founders, they provide a pathway for women to become investors and access high-growth deal flow in the US, UK, and Europe.

Oresa is a private investment company owned by a Swedish entrepreneurial family, active in Central and Eastern Europe since 1995. They focus on long-term value creation, partnering with entrepreneurs to build market leaders through equity investments and M&A expertise.

Eksim was established in Istanbul as a foreign trade company in 1986. In a short time period, the company succeeded to become one of the important player in the market by trading grain (wheat, barley, oat, etc.), oilseeds (soybean, sunflower, corn, etc. ). In the following years, Eksim has started to invest such as Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Romania. Especially in food sector, the group has succeeded to establish a continuous supply chain from the producer to the end user in the agricultural products through its own companies and its local contacts. In the year of 2000s, Eksim decided to make investments in different sectors, according the changing dynamics in the world. And today, Eksim has become one of leading groups in Turkey, in the energy, food and real estate sectors. Especially, Eksim has a wide portfolio of projects in the field of renewable energy. With the 464 MW wind farm license, Eksim is one of the pilot companies in Turkey in the wind energy field. In the sector of hydroelectric energy which is another section of renewable energy, Eksim holds over 874 MW capacity project portfolio. Eksim’s first HPP, 63 MW Uzundere – I HPP which was built on the İncesu creek, has already been commissioned on May 2010. Eksim has intensive interest in the Real Estate sector and is implementing many prestigious projects which have their own special concepts. The Aquacity 2010 project in Sancaktepe region, the Ak-Asya project in Acıbadem region, the Ottomare project in Zeytinburnu region, the KAT project in Ataköy region are being developed by Eksim and strategic partner SİNPAŞ company. Sinangil which is the first packaged flour supplier company in the Turkish market, and Eksun Food and Altınapa Milling Company which are in the list of top 500 Turkish Industrial Enterprises, are being operating under the Eksim umbrella in the food sector.

Oriens is a private equity firm specializing in providing growth and expansion capital at middle market stages. It also specializes in making investments for bolt-on acquisitions. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing, services, business services, healthcare, media, retail, financial services, macroeconomics, information and communication technology services, energy, and environmental services sectors. The firm typically invests in Central Eastern European businesses with a focus on Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, South Poland, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria. It seeks to invest between €2 million ($2.23 million) and €15 million ($16.75 million) in companies with enterprise value between $10 million and $15 million. The firm invests for a period of three to five years. It invests through equity or equity-type securities via capital increases and in some cases, partial buyout of shares. It takes a prudent approach to debt in its transactions. The firm invests in companies where the original owners retain a stake. It acquires controlling stakes in its portfolio companies and takes a seat on their Boards. The firm prefers to take majority positions in its portfolio companies. It also prefers to make follow-up acquisitions and integrate the portfolio companies onto the platform. It provides capital to increase capacity, develop and roll-out a service offering or a product, finance add-on acquisitions, and secure working capital for the growth of the companies. Oriens was founded in 2007 and is based in Budapest, Hungary with additional offices in Warsaw, Poland; Sofia, Bulgaria; Singapore, Singapore; Prague, Czech Republic; and Bucharest, Romania.

EnerCap is a specialist clean energy Investor and Adviser with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. EnerCap manages an extensive portfolio of energy investments in Poland, Romania, Croatia and the Czech Republic. The project assets under management exceed €450 million, providing clean energy to over 200,000 households and saving 130,000 tonnes of carbon p.a.

JSC Rietumu Banka is one of the largest banks in the Baltics States, specialized in corporate banking and affluent individuals. Headquartered in Riga, Latvia, the Bank is well represented in the global market, providing services to customers all over Europe, the Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Romania, Armenia, and other regions.

2006ROSSIUM Concern was created by Roman Avdeev as a holding company consolidating his assets. The first and key asset of the Concern was CREDIT BANK OF MOSCOW’s shares.2010Domus Finance real estate agency was created; it was later refocused on the development business and evolved into INGRAD Group.2016The Concern started to develop its pension management franchise, by acquiring 75% of shares in PPF Soglasie, now merged into PPF Evolution.2017Credit Bank of Moscow was added to the Bank of Russia's list of systemically important credit institutions.Nikolay Katorzhnov became an investor of the Concern.2019Sergey Sudarikov, the main beneficial owner of REGION Group, and Roman Avdeev, the main beneficial owner of ROSSIUM Concern, signed a strategic partnership memorandum to consolidate their assets and leverage on related synergies. Rossium Concern has become the centre of consolidation.In order to develop their real estate franchise, they created a subsidiary, METRIKA INVESTMENTS, an investment fund operating in the commercial real estate segment, and owning and managing grade A+/A and B+ offices.2020Sergey Sudarikov has become an investor of the Concern. To achieve maximum synergies in the development and financial businesses, the Concern has acquired National Mortgage Factory (ipoteka24.ru brand) and NPF UMMC-Perspective.2021ROSSIUM Concern acquired Investment management company REGION Asset Management and Insurance company Ugoria Insurance Group.Limited liability company ROSSIUM Concern was created in 2006 and today is a versatile, diversified investment holding company, the key investments of which relate to the financial sector and real estate.The Concern’s core assets are Credit Bank of Moscow, PPF Evolution, INGRAD Group and UGORIA Insurance Group.The ROSSIUM Concern has a B+ long-term credit rating (raised twice in 2021) with stable outlook of the S&P Global Ratings agency in national and foreign currency.Based on its current strategy, ROSSIUM Concern is pursuing acquisition of new assets which are likely to provide a high shareholder value growth at a 3-to-5-year horizon and which represent key sectors of Russia’s economy.

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.

ARALON AG is a private equity firm specializing in middle market buyout transactions including management buyouts and buy-ins, growth financing, succession solutions and spin-offs, shareholder replacement, platform strategies for market consolidation over buy and build, cross-border expansion in small and medium sized companies. The firm prefers to invest in mid-cap companies. It makes investments in healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing especially with strong aftersales element, industrial technologies and products and services, business services including logistics, consumer goods and retail, and clean technologies including environment and energy. The firm targets investments in companies based in Eastern Europe, Middle Eastern Europe, Central Eastern Europe, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, bordering the Black Sea Region including Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Turkey, Baltics, Hungary; South East Europe including the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Russia, and Belarus; and the Caucasian Region and selected countries of the former Soviet Union (Commonwealth of Independent States). It makes investments between €3 million ($4.36 million) and €20 million ($29.04 million) in companies with turnover of up to €100 million ($145.19 million). The firm seeks to acquire majority ownership equity up to 100 percent. However, it may also acquire an influential minority stake. The firm prefers to be a lead investor or co-investor with others, especially if equity commitment is more than €20 million ($29.04 million). It typically, invests for a period between three and six years, though sometimes longer. It targets to achieve an annual gross IRR of more than 30 percent. The firm does not invest through third parties and does not pay dividends. ARALON AG was founded in 2005 and is based in Pfäffikon, Switzerland with an additional office in Bucharest, Romania and Egg, Switzerland.

We target Seed and Series A stage Deep Tech B2B start-ups with potential for global expansion, having relevant traction and driven by outstanding teams. In a dynamic and growing start-up ecosystem, we are committed to supporting passionate and thoughtful founders who drive to become global entrepreneurs. Founded by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs, GapMinder plans to invest and support the most disruptive and bold innovations pushing limits and positively impacting the community and society. Innovation, People, Impact. These are the 3 pillars of our investment vision. We are growing disruptive technologies, daring ideas and strong leaders and we value creativity, value creation and the potential of the businesses to impact markets. We are creating a major hub for innovation and entrepreneurship for Romania which will help us positioning among the leaders in European Innovation. We focus on Seed and Series A stages.

Morphosis Capital is a Romanian private equity fund with 50 million euro committed capital. Established in December 2018 by four Romanian entrepreneurs, the Fund aims to contribute to the development and transformation of the Romanian SMEs. The European Investment Fund (EIF), the main financing platform for European SMEs, co-financed through the Regional Operational Programme is the anchor investor in Morphosis Capital while Banca Transilvania, international and local entrepreneurs as well as the founders themselves are the co-investors in the Fund. Morphosis Capital invests between 5 to 10 million euro in high growth Romanian companies from sectors such as FMCG, niche healthcare, technology, and B2B services, which have a strong potential for international expansion and an EBITDA of a minimum half a million euro.

Seedmoney is out of business. it is a venture capital firm specializing in startups and seed capital investments. The firm typically invests in online projects. It primarily invests in Romania. The firm typically invests between RON10000 ($2824.26) and RON50000 ($14121.3) for a maximum of 20% from the project. The firm supports it's portfolio companies in further financing. Seedmoney was founded on September 9, 2008 and is based in Bucharest, Romania.

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.

AIR Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed, series-A, seed/startup, early stage investments. The firm is sector and technology agnostic with focus on artificial intelligence, space tech, biotech, brain-computer interfaces, advanced organs-on-chip, nuclear fusion, blockchain, robotics, clean energy, advanced mobility, Internet of things, biomanufacturing, long-read sequencing, advanced computing, bioinformatics, electric vehicles, synthetic biology, foodtech, agtech and nanotech. The firm seeks to invest globally including US, Europe, Israel and Latin America. AIR Capital was founded in 2021 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Run Capital, the Investment Fund, was founded in April 2014 by a successful Russian entrepreneur Andrey RomanenkoRun Capital is focused on seed and early stage investments in IT & Tech sectors internationally. The company is managed by serial entrepreneurs and founders of Qiwi, a NASDAQ-listed e-wallet and payment system. We are currently seeking to expand the investment portfolio with international growth companies that could benefit from extensive entrepreneurial experience and contact base of our managers.

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.

NRG Ventures is founded with a mission to be the most value-add investor for startups. It comes from the personal story of our founder Roman Tyan. To make a long story short, Roman was the youngest director at venture fund in Eastern Europe. After several years working in venture capital, Roman launched his own startup in Europe which was featured by BMW and McKinsey Digital. It was a very difficult founder's way where Roman faced a high conservative approach and total misunderstanding of its needs by early-stage investors. After selling his business, Roman launched a new type of venture fund that will meet the needs of modern startups and become a strong business partner for startups.Founder of 12 startups, the most recognized is AnyWay.city (selected by BMW and McKinsey Digital)Advisor at 45+ startups ($10+ bln in total value)Invested in such startups on early-stage: Uber (IPO), Tufin (IPO), eToro, Mobeewave (acquired by Apple), LendingHome, Ocon