Shorooq Partners
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Shorooq Partners is a venture capital firm based in Abu Dhabi, investing in early-stage to growth-stage companies across the MENA region. It also manages a credit practice and offers multi-asset investment opportunities.
Shorooq Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to growth, in fintech, software, frontier Tech and platform. 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest early, right from the start of your journey, fueling your growth every step of the way.”
— Shorooq Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Invests in
- MENA, Middle East, North Africa, growth markets
- Sectors
- Fintech, Software, Frontier Tech, Platform, AI, Deeptech
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Shorooq Partners publishes it
- Mahmoud Adi Founding Partner
- Shane Shin Founding Partner
- Dr. Bilal Baloch Partner
- Yousef Albabtain Partner
- Kunal Savjani Partner
- Omer Zabit Partner
- Nathan Kwon Partner
- Abdul Hameed Arwani Partner
- Tarek Bilani General Counsel
- Tina Daher Principal
- Mouzaffar Alwan Principal
- Joseph Barron Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on shorooq.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. 126 co-investors found.
- Outliers Venture Capital 7 shared companies: breadfast.com, amwal.tech, penny.co, replit.com…
- VentureSouq 6 shared companies: mozn.sa, nymcard.com, nawy.com, postex.pk…
- Raed Ventures 5 shared companies: leantech.me, qlub.io, trukker.com, haloai.app…
- Salica Investments 4 shared companies: 4401.earth, amwal.tech, penny.co, sarwa.co
- STV 4 shared companies: qlub.io, intelmatix.ai, uselevers.com, wajeez.co
- MEVP 3 shared companies: sarwa.co, trukker.com, safqah.co
- Khwarizmi Ventures 3 shared companies: tamara.co, leantech.me, khazna.app
- Fatima Gobi Ventures 3 shared companies: leantech.me, colabs.pk, dealcart.io
- BY Venture Partners 3 shared companies: nymcard.com, pemo.io, seekdharma.com
- Oraseya Capital 3 shared companies: nymcard.com, vuz.com, feelvaleo.com
and 116 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Shorooq Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.shorooq.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.shorooq.com/portfoliostage_min, stage_max
- https://www.shorooq.com/teampeople
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Record 669 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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