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Sawari Ventures

Founders Ahmed El-Alfi Hany Al-Sonbaty Wael Amin

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 1.79
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Travel
Summary

In 2009 was created Sawari Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cairo. The company was established in Africa in Egypt.

This organization was formed by Hany Al-Sonbaty. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sawari Ventures, startups are often financed by Silicon Badia, Raed Ventures, Oman Technology Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DASH Ventures, BECO Capital, Vostok New Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vostok New Ventures, Vodafone Ventures, Saned Partners.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Sawari Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2011. Comparing to the other companies, this Sawari Ventures performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Egypt. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Search Engine, Mobile. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight almentor.net, Swvl.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pearl Semiconductor

Semiconductor
$4M08 Oct 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

almentor.net

Broadcasting
E-Learning
Education
Online Portals
Video
$10M16 Mar 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Blnk

Advice
E-Commerce
Finance
Lending
$12M10 Nov 2022 -

MoneyFellows

Credit
Financial Services
Software
$31M30 Oct 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

ADVA

Financial Services
$100K09 Jun 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

ExpandCart

CRM
E-Commerce
Information Technology
$2M17 Jan 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Axis

Financial Services
FinTech
$8M01 Jan 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Fatura

Consumer Goods
Internet
Mobile Apps
$3M14 Jun 2021 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

almentor.net

Broadcasting
E-Learning
Education
Online Portals
Video
$6M31 May 2021 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Total investments 25
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.79
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pearl Semiconductor

Semiconductor
$4M08 Oct 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

almentor.net

Broadcasting
E-Learning
Education
Online Portals
Video
$10M16 Mar 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Blnk

Advice
E-Commerce
Finance
Lending
$12M10 Nov 2022 -

MoneyFellows

Credit
Financial Services
Software
$31M30 Oct 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

ADVA

Financial Services
$100K09 Jun 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

ExpandCart

CRM
E-Commerce
Information Technology
$2M17 Jan 2022 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Axis

Financial Services
FinTech
$8M01 Jan 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Fatura

Consumer Goods
Internet
Mobile Apps
$3M14 Jun 2021 Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

almentor.net

Broadcasting
E-Learning
Education
Online Portals
Video
$6M31 May 2021 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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