Wamda Capital

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Total investments

112

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

69

Rounds per year

11.20

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRetailInformation TechnologySaaSMarketplaceShopping

Summary

Wamda Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The company was established in Asia in United Arab Emirates. The main department of described VC is located in the Dubai.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Wamda Capital performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Wamda Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Wamda Capital, startups are often financed by STC Ventures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), Saned Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), Jabbar Internet Group, Arzan Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Saned Partners, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), Jabbar Internet Group.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Mobile. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Arab Emirates. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Careem Networks, Twiga Foods, littleBits Electronics.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
ManufacturingConsumer/RetailBlockchain/Crypto/Web3EcommerceEdtech Show 9 more
Stage focus
Series BSeries A
Geo focus
AlgeriaBahrainDjiboutiEgyptIraq Show 11 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 75000000

Analytics

Total investments
112
Lead investments
11
Exits
2
Rounds per year
11.20
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (33)
  • FinTech (19)
  • Internet (18)
  • Software (16)
  • Information Technology (16)
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Investments by region
  • United Arab Emirates (51)
  • Egypt (6)
  • Singapore (5)
  • United States (6)
  • Turkey (12)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
95M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Dukkantek 15 Aug 2022 Information Technology, Retail Technology, Digital Marketing, Business Development Early Stage Venture 10M Dubai, United Arab Emirates
qeen.ai 05 Jun 2024 Seed 2M Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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