Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

Status

Active

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Total investments

101

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

55

Rounds per year

7.21

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSAppsMarketplace

Summary

In 2010 was created Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beirut. The venture was found in Asia in Lebanon.

The fund was created by Walid Hanna. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), startups are often financed by Wamda Capital, Saned Partners, EquiTrust. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wamda Capital, Saned Partners, Endeavor Catalyst. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wamda Capital, 500 Startups, Saned Partners.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Financial Services. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Arab Emirates. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wego, Matic, Toters.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Series DSeries ASeries ESeries FSeries B Show 1 more
Geo focus
AlgeriaBahrainEgyptKuwaitLibya Show 8 more
Check size
3M — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 150000000
Fund raised date
2023-06-01

Analytics

Total investments
101
Lead investments
10
Exits
2
Rounds per year
7.21
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (24)
  • Software (21)
  • SaaS (20)
  • FinTech (17)
  • Apps (17)
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Investments by region
  • Egypt (8)
  • United Arab Emirates (39)
  • Saudi Arabia (8)
  • Bahrain (3)
  • United States (13)
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Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
36M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.95
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
scriptr.io 10 Feb 2016 Software, Apps, Internet of Things Early Stage Venture 4M United States, New York, New York
Stake Properties 10 Jun 2024 Real Estate, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Residential Early Stage Venture 14M Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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