Sawari Ventures

Status

Active

Location

Giza, Egypt

Total investments

25

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.79

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BroadcastingE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesE-LearningOnline PortalsMobile AppsVideoTravel

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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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoSudan Show 1 more
Check size
100K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 150000000
Fund raised date
2024-01-01

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
6
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.79
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (6)
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Internet (5)
  • Software (4)
  • Travel (4)
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Investments by region
  • Egypt (17)
  • United Arab Emirates (3)
  • United States (3)
  • The Netherlands (1)
  • Lebanon (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.68
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Facet 16 Nov 2021 Software, Computer Early Stage Venture 13M United States, California, San Francisco
Fatura 14 Jun 2021 Internet, Consumer Goods, Mobile Apps Seed 3M Cairo Governorate, Cairo, Egypt
Pearl Semiconductor 08 Oct 2023 Semiconductor Seed 4M Noord-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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