Dubai Investors - VC, Private Equity and Real Estate

UAE conglomerate Al Habtoor Group is eyeing hotel acquisitions in London and Paris but will steer clear of investments in the Arab world outside the Gulf region - the Reuters is reporting.

"We invested in the UK and we are happy about it. If there are opportunities in London and Paris, I won't hesitate to go there", says Khalaf Al Habtoor the chairman of the group.

(To see more Dubai-based investors like Habtoor Group, check our investors directory)

More details follows from Reuters

The New York-based firm Eternal Mind Productions said it has signed a deal worth $200 million with Dubai film investors.

Al Muhaymin Film Fund is the establishment providing the funding. Eternal Mind Productions is started by Nagendra Karri and Peter James Elias in 2008.

To see a list of investment firms from the Middle East similar to Al Muhaymin Film Fund check our Middle East Investors Directory

More details follows from their release

Aramex, a Dubai-based logistics firm, has acquired Berco Express, a South African logistics and transportation firm, for $55.5 million.

Established in 1982 and traded on the NASDAQ from 1997 to 2002, Aramex today is a publicly traded company in Dubai employing more than 9,000 people.

(Fadi Ghandour, founder and CEO of Aramex is an active angel investor from the Middle East. More details about his investment firm "MENA Venture Investments" can be found in the Middle East Investors Directory under the code SINX1)

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Medrar Financial, a Dubai-based asset management firm, has just announced acquisition of a majority interest of Diamond Aircraft Holdings for an undisclosed amount.

Diamond Aircraft is a manufacturer of modern composite aircrafts and operates production facilities in Canada, Austria and China. It has contracts worth $350 million already secured. Jamil Marmarchi is the CEO of Medrar.

To see a list of investment firms from the Middle East similar to Medrar Financial check our Middle East Investors Directory

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Today The Next Web has an article about Laimoon, a new job site in the Middle East which is the first venture launched by HBT Ventures.

HBT Ventures (Honeybee Tech Ventures) is a newly established investment company based in Dubai with an exclusive focus on consumer internet ventures across the Middle East. The company will focus on identifying, developing and launching high impact online ventures with a wide reach to consumers in the region. (Let's wait for their website to launch on hbtventures.com which is currently under construction)

The partners in the firm are Ihsan Jawad, Zaid Jawad and Husain Makiya the co-foudners of Zawya (a Middle East business portal). They founded and run Zawya for a good ten years and then left it last year. The other partner in the firm is Abdulrahman Tarabzouni who is the regional manager of Emerging Arabia at Google.

We wish them the best of luck!

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