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Phoenician Funds

Founders George Haimari Jad Salame Mohamed Ibrahim

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 3.00
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Apps
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
Summary

Phoenician Funds appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Beirut. The venture was found in Asia in Lebanon.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by George Haimari, Jad Salame, Mohamed Ibrahim. The overall number of key employees were 8.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Phoenician Funds, startups are often financed by Shorooq Partners, 500 Startups, Wamda Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are B&Y Venture Partners, BeryTech Fund, Saned Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by B&Y Venture Partners, BeryTech Fund.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Lebanon. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Seez, Toters, NymCard. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Financial Services.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TWIG

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M01 May 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ostaz

Education
Education and Training Services (B2B)
Educational and Training Services (B2C)
Educational Software
Enterprise Software
Mobile Apps
Peer to Peer
$1M27 Sep 2020 Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon

Seez

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Image Recognition
Internet
Machine Learning
Mobile
Search Engine
$6M17 Feb 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sarwa.co

FinTech
Wealth Management
$8M20 Nov 2019 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

MoneyFellows

Credit
Financial Services
Software
$1M04 Aug 2019 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Sohati

Health Care
Medical
$1M01 Jul 2019 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Business Intelligence
Consulting
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M23 Jun 2019 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Polaire Group

Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Tourism
Travel
$2M13 Apr 2019 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Toters

Courier Service
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Food Delivery
Grocery
Marketplace
$4M01 Dec 2018 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

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Total investments 24
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 3.00
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TWIG

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M01 May 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ostaz

Education
Education and Training Services (B2B)
Educational and Training Services (B2C)
Educational Software
Enterprise Software
Mobile Apps
Peer to Peer
$1M27 Sep 2020 Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon

Seez

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Image Recognition
Internet
Machine Learning
Mobile
Search Engine
$6M17 Feb 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sarwa.co

FinTech
Wealth Management
$8M20 Nov 2019 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

MoneyFellows

Credit
Financial Services
Software
$1M04 Aug 2019 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Sohati

Health Care
Medical
$1M01 Jul 2019 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Business Intelligence
Consulting
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M23 Jun 2019 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Polaire Group

Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Tourism
Travel
$2M13 Apr 2019 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Toters

Courier Service
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Food Delivery
Grocery
Marketplace
$4M01 Dec 2018 Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
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