Shorooq Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Total investments

143

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

69

Rounds per year

17.88

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.51

Exits

1

Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyB2BFood and BeverageMarketplace

Summary

Shorooq Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Abu Dhabi. The company was established in Asia in United Arab Emirates.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Shorooq Partners, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Arzan Venture Capital, Raed Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Wamda Capital, Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), 500 Startups, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).

The current fund was established by Shane Shin. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Impact Guru, LUNCH:ON, Tank Utility Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are mHealth, Financial Services.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Fintech
Stage focus
Series BSeries APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
AlgeriaBahrainCyprusEgyptIran Show 18 more
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
143
Lead investments
19
Exits
1
Rounds per year
17.88
Follow on index
0.51
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (32)
  • Financial Services (27)
  • FinTech (27)
  • Information Technology (20)
  • Marketplace (18)
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Investments by region
  • Saudi Arabia (23)
  • United Arab Emirates (44)
  • Egypt (15)
  • Pakistan (13)
  • United States (19)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
8

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