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Fueling An Ecosystem: Meet 10 Of Egypt's Most Active Venture Capitalists The most active investors in Egypt, purely based on the number of deals, are primarily local.

By Ashok Raman

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Egypt boasts over 160 venture capital (VC) firms and investors supporting its startup ecosystem.

These include both local and international investors, which have collectively participated in over 800 deals in the five years between 2019 to 2023. The local investors have been a lot more active; however, the investor landscape is dominated by the presence of more international investors.

The most active investors in Egypt, purely based on the number of deals, are primarily local, with the top two being accelerators, Flat6Labs and Falak Startups. Out of the top 10, eight are local, while two are international with a regional focus—these include Global Ventures, a UAE-based VC firm that focuses on the region, while 4DX Ventures is a pan-Africa focused VC fund, based in New York.

1. Flat6Labs
Flat6Labs is a leading seed and early-stage venture capital firm with presence in Cairo, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Tunis, Manama, and Amman, and it runs multiple theme-focused programs.

2. Falak Startups
Falak Startups is a leading early-stage investment firm that is the VC arm of Egypt Ventures. The firm has already supported over 60 startups, through both the General Track and specialized Fintech Track, in partnership with EFG Hermes.

3. Algebra Ventures
Algebra Ventures is a leading tech VC firm, which provides multi-stage capital. The firm has been able to successfully raised two funds totaling over US$150 million, since its founding in 2016.

4. A15
A15 is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the MENA tech landscape, investing in pre-seed and seed stages in companies. The firm already has an impressive portfolio of 39 companies, of which it has successfully exited six companies.

Related: 10 Graphs You Need To See To Understand Egypt's Startup Ecosystem

5. Sawari Ventures
Sawari Ventures was one of the first to start VC investments in Egypt. Sawari Ventures is a growth-stage investment firm. The company has invested in over 20 companies and two seed-stage vehicles, including Flat6Labs.

6. Global Ventures
Global Ventures is a growth-stage venture capital firm based in Dubai. The firm has invested in 60 companies since establishing in 2019, across at least 12 different sectors, including healthtech, fintech, e-commerce, logistics, and supply chain.

7. 4DX Ventures
4DX Ventures is a pan-Africa-focused VC firm, established in 2017 with a focus across a range of industries including fintech, B2B e-commerce, healthcare, and logistics, and focused on the "big four" African markets of Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

8. Disruptech Ventures
Disruptech Ventures is a VC firm focused on early-stage fintech and fintech-enabled digital services, investing across 18 portfolio companies, all in Egypt.

9. Endure Capital
Endure Capital is an early-stage investment fund, which has invested $27 million across 52 startups (to date). It has a sector-agnostic approach, and it recently announced a $200 million Arak Fund.

10. Foundation Ventures
Foundation Ventures is an early growth stage venture capital fund focused on investments in Egypt, in partnership with US-based VC firm HOF Capital and Egyptian private equity company, BPE Partners. Since its establishment in 2019, Foundation has invested in 12 portfolio companies.

For more insights on Egypt's entrepreneurial ecosystem, check out the report, Investing in Egypt's Startup Ecosystem, here.

This article was originally published on Lucidity Insights, a partner of Entrepreneur Middle East in developing special reports on the Middle East and Africa's tech and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Related: A New Report By Lucidity Insights In Partnership With Entrepreneur Middle East Takes A Deep Dive Into Egypt's Startup And Investor Ecosystem

Ashok Raman is a storyteller who uses numbers as his medium. He loves to crunch data, analyze it, and investigate deeper questions until the stories begin to emerge on their own. Ashok comes from a finance and consulting background, having worked in the strategy consulting and private equity fields across the Middle East and Emerging Asia for over 15 years, prior to becoming a business writer. When it comes to tech stories, Ashok has a penchant for startups in the fintech, B2B software-as-a-service, artificial intelligence, and machine learning spaces. He loves writing about venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and the general investor landscape of startup ecosystems. Ashok holds a bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a diploma in finance.
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