The Taken Seat
thetakenseat.com Direct + LP
The Taken Seat is a Kuwait-based venture builder that founds, funds and operates companies across the Gulf, and also invests in technology companies outside the Gulf through special-purpose vehicles and funds. It holds stakes in Gulf companies it seeded or backed without operating control.
The Taken Seat is a venture studio headquartered in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, at seed, in technology, on-demand delivery, equipment rental and HR, payroll and compliance software.
“We build and operate companies in the Gulf, and invest beyond it.”
— The Taken Seat, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture studio
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Invests in
- Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, GCC, global
- Sectors
- technology, on-demand delivery, equipment rental, HR, payroll and compliance software, food delivery, rapid grocery delivery, online payments, luxury fashion and lifestyle
Team, as The Taken Seat publishes it
- Abdullah Almutawa Co-CEO, The Taken Seat
- Musab Almutawa Co-CEO, The Taken Seat
- Amel Mabrouk Chief Business Officer
- Hussain AlGhayeb Chief Financial Officer
- Tiago Ferreira Chief Technology Officer
- Walid Salamah Head of Administration
Names and roles exactly as listed on thetakenseat.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page The Taken Seat publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://thetakenseat.com/name, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, status, confidence
- https://thetakenseat.com/investments/is_investor, layer
- https://thetakenseat.com/about/stage_min, description
- https://thetakenseat.com/companies/sectors
- https://thetakenseat.com/team/people
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