COTU Ventures
cotu.vc Direct investor
COTU Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups in the Middle East, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds. They aim to support founders from pre-seed through Series A and beyond.
COTU Ventures is a venture capital firm. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A.
“Empowering MENA's Extraordinary with their First Check”
— COTU Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Middle East
Team, as COTU Ventures publishes it
- Amir Farha General Partner
- Ismail Chiboub Associate
- Ahmad Hammoudi Chief Operating Officer
- Nadeen Alzohri Investment Analyst
- Saeed Alajou Partner
- Pooja Varyani Finance Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on cotu.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 34 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Wamda Capital 4 shared companies: remotepass.com, careem.com, marti.tech, chatfood.io
- VNV Global 3 shared companies: vezeeta.com, swvl.com, propertyfinder.ae
- Raed Ventures 3 shared companies: swvl.com, bayzat.com, syarah.com
- MEVP 2 shared companies: careem.com, fresha.com
- STV 2 shared companies: careem.com, vezeeta.com
- Silicon Badia 2 shared companies: vezeeta.com, bayzat.com
- 212 1 shared company: remotepass.com
- A15 1 shared company: remotepass.com
- Flyer One Ventures 1 shared company: remotepass.com
- Khwarizmi Ventures 1 shared company: remotepass.com
and 24 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page COTU Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.cotu.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.cotu.vc/portfoliostage_min, stage_max
- https://www.cotu.vc/about-1people
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Record 1091 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence medium
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