United Arab Emirates private equity and venture capital (PE & VC) market map

We compiled an extensive United Arab Emirates private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) market map that shows key United Arab Emirates investors and investment funds. We hope this is useful for your startup fundraising. Find below the list of investors from the market map and links to their websites.

Investors in UAE are mostly concentrated in Dubai. Even PE/VC/Angels from nearby countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia prefer to have an office in Dubai, where there is access to global international companies, investors. As there are a lot of UHNWI in UAE it is self evident that there plenty Dubai angel investors, who are ready to invest from 100k USD into promising projects. Investors in Dubai (and other parts of United Arab Emirates) are mostly generalist investors that invest in literally any asset class and without any strict sector preferences. Most of UAE PE funds are family-owned, have large investment tickets and generally follow global investment trends such as investing in UBER, WeWork and other unicorns.

United Arab Emirates PE/VC market map 1
United Arab Emirates PE/VC market map 2

The funds present on the market maps are:

For more information on investment funds (their investment criteria, funds sizes, region preferences and etc.) in United Arab Emirates go to UAE PE/VC funds database on privateequitylist.com

If you are raising capital, we would love to hear about you and help you find the right investors! If you want to be featured on our website as a startup looking for investments or if you want to add a PE/VC to this list, please email at privateequitylist@gmail.com.

We hope our platform will help you find the right investors for your startups!

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Private Equity List team