Sawari Ventures
sawariventures.com Direct + LP
Sawari Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cairo, investing in knowledge and innovation-based technologies across North Africa. It focuses on early and growth-stage startups in sectors like fintech, edtech, healthtech, and e-commerce, and also invests in seed stage vehicles.
Sawari Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2010. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to growth, in fintech, edtech, healthtech and deeptech. 70M USD under management and 19 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We focus our investments on growth and early-stage startups across industries, in sectors including consumer internet, fintech, edtech, healthtech, deeptech, and e-commerce and enabling infrastructure.”
— Sawari Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- North Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco
- Sectors
- fintech, edtech, healthtech, deeptech, logistics, e-commerce, consumer internet, enabling infrastructure
- Founded
- 2010
- Assets under management
- 70M USD
- Portfolio
- 19 companies
Team, as Sawari Ventures publishes it
- AHMED EL ALFI Partner & Chairman
- Anta Ndiaye Principal
- Basmat Al-Sabbah Fareed Associate
- DALIA EL MOHAMADY CFO
- Farah Abd El-Gawad Principal
- Farah Yehia Associate
- FATIMA-ZAHRA BENNANI Principal
- HANY AL SONBATY Managing Partner
- Ibrahim Ramadan Partner
- JENNIFER SCHOEBERLEIN Partner, ESG & Impact
- KHALED EL TANANY Head of Compliance and AML Manager
- NADER MAGED Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on sawariventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 15 co-investors found.
- Shorooq Partners 2 shared companies: pearlsemi.com, proteinea.com
- MEVP 2 shared companies: moneyfellows.com, instabug.com
- Algebra Ventures 2 shared companies: blnk.ai, goodsmartegypt.com
- Partech 1 shared company: almentor.net
- COTU Ventures 1 shared company: swvl.com
- DASH Ventures 1 shared company: swvl.com
- Raed Ventures 1 shared company: swvl.com
- VNV Global 1 shared company: swvl.com
- VentureSouq 1 shared company: proteinea.com
- 4DX Ventures 1 shared company: moneyfellows.com
and 5 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Sawari Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://sawariventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://sawariventures.com/about-us/stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, founded, aum
- https://sawariventures.com/people/people
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Record 882 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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