Dubai Angel Investors

Dubai tech investment firm Riva Technology and Entertainment announced investment of $2.5 million in Rogue Games, a gaming company based in Los Angeles.

Riva Group, Chaired by Paul Roy, is an entertainment development firm which owns and operates a group of enterprises for providing entertainment related services like 3d printing, animation, theme parks development, visual effects and property franchising. (Rogue Games, headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in San Mateo and Seattle, has a portfolio of games, which spans mobile, console and PC, features titles including Oz: Broken Kingdom among others)

Dubai Riva Technology and Entertainment is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code MK77.

Dubai-based angel investor Neelesh Bhatnagar has invested $1 million in mobile health and fitness start-up HealthifyMe.

Founded in 2012, HealthifyMe is a fitness mobile application that uses technology and human services to target weight-loss. It had earlier raised $6 million from IDG, Inventus and Blume Ventures. (Neelesh Bhatnagar is a Dubai-based angel investor, managing director of NB Ventures, owner of the UAE Royals International Premier Tennis League, a former board member of Landmark Group and former CEO of Emax Electronics).

To see a list of angel investors from Dubai similar to Neelesh Bhatnagar, check the Middle East Investors Directory.

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Dubai investment firm Alabbar Enterprises has invested $112 million in Italian online firm YOOX Net-a-Porter.

YOOX Net-a-Porter has a team of over 3,500 people, spanning 11 offices and nine distribution centers across the world. It reaches more than 2 million customers and 24 million unique visitors through its combination of six e-commerce sites, 39 online stores and 5 publications. Alabbar Enterprises is a company that operates and invests in businesses in the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa across a variety of sectors, including luxury, fashion, retail and e-commerce.

To see a list of investment firms similar to Alabbar Enterprises check Middle East Investors Directory.

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Fadi Ghandour, one of the most notable angel investors from Dubai and the Middle East, today announced a new venture capital fund with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as co-investor.

Fadi, an early investor in Maktoob internet portal that was sold to Yahoo for $164 million, is the chairman of logistics firm Aramex and an active investor from the Middle East. His other investment firms are Wamda Capial and MENA Venture Investments.

(More details about his firm "MENA Venture Investments" can be found in the Middle East Investors Directory under the code SINX1)

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Dubai angel investors Arya Bolurfrushan and Paul Kenny just announced the launch of a new venture capital firm, Emerge Ventures, with three investments already made from their pipeline.

Paul Kenny is the ex-CEO of daily deal site Cobone which was sold for a reported $40 million to Tiger Management. Arya Bolurfrushan of Bolurfrushan family, a prominent industrial and mercantile family of Iranian origin, is a young Harvard-educated angel investor with a track record of 24 investments. (Emerge Ventures has already made its first three investments: The Impact Hub, an incubator, Lumba, a silicon valley based mobile gaming company, and Elevision, a digital media network.)

Emerge Ventures is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code SINDE1.

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BECO Capital, an investment firm based in Dubai, and a group of angel investors from Dubai and Silicon Valley, announced investing in a regional property website PropertyFinder.ae

PropertyFinder employs over 60 people across its four offices in the UAE, Qatar, Egypt and Lebanon. Other investors include Evren Ucok, the co-founder of Trendyol and Peak Games, Patrick Grove, the founder of property portal iProperty Group, some Silicon Valley investors and Dubai-based angel investor Mustafa Abdel-Wadood of Abraaj Capital.

BECO Capital is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code SINOC9.

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BECO Capital, an investment firm based in Dubai, and a consortium of angel investors announced investing $1 million in the hotel booking website TravelerVIP.com.

The website offers its members up to 50% discount on luxury hotels and has deals with 1,000 hotels. The angel investors in this round included Soha Nashaat, former CEO of Barclays Wealth MENA & Turkey, and Jakob Beck Thomsen, CEO of SaxoBank MENA & Turkey.

BECO Capital is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code SINOC9.

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The only thing as hot as launching a group buying website in the Middle East: launching a startup incubator / seed fund.

Tenmou, which calls itself a "business angels' company" and had a soft launch a couple of months ago, just announced its official launch with an initial start up capital of $2.7 million.

Tenmou joins a relatively long (and young) list of incubators and seed funds from the region like Oasis500, Seeqnce and SeedStartup. We sincerely hope they end up in a better place than similar firms like Intilaq, a business incubator launched by Bayt.com, which died very early; very quietly.

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