Sami Nashwan

Enhance Ventures is the venture studio pioneer in the MENAPT region (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey). Enhance has three mandates: 1) At Enhance Ventures, our core venture studio, we build and invest in ventures for the future of finance and commerce. 2) At Enhance Innovation, our corporate venture studios, we work with corporations and government entities to build innovative ventures and venture studios together. 3) We research, generate intellectual property on the venture studio model and asset class such as our proprietary Global Venture Studio Database and the Venture Studio Boot Camp. We share our IP globally through our partnerships with the Global Startup Studio Network, Studio Hub and others. Our portfolio companies include the Middle Easts leading online gifting platform JoiGifts.com, SME digitization and payment platform Clevr.app, real estate investment disruptor Prop-AI, virtual assets exchange BNS, Middle Easts organic and sustainable mart BlueTerra.co among others. Led by partners Alper Celen, Ritesh Tilani, Ash Bhatia, Mohammad AlHokail, Enhances investors include institutional investors from the Middle East, US, and Europe including 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, Shorooq Capital, Merak Capital, Hala Capital, Khwarizmi Ventures, Two Culture Capital, and KI Group.

Beyond Capital is seed funded $10M from USAID and created through a joint partnership between Endeavor Jordan and Silicon Badia BeyondCapital supports start-ups and asset managers build high growth ventures, accelerate job creation, advance and develop the investment eco-system, and encourage increased equity investment in early and growth stage businesses in Jordan. BeyondCapital has been established to realize long-term ecosystem development and capital expansion in Jordan. The company will take a three pillar approach which consists of (1) Start-up Support (2) Existing and Aspiring Fund Managers Support and (3) Angel Investors Support.

Enhance Ventures is the venture studio pioneer in the MENAPT region (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey). Enhance has three mandates: 1) At Enhance Ventures, our core venture studio, we build and invest in ventures for the future of finance and commerce. 2) At Enhance Innovation, our corporate venture studios, we work with corporations and government entities to build innovative ventures and venture studios together. 3) We research, generate intellectual property on the venture studio model and asset class such as our proprietary Global Venture Studio Database and the Venture Studio Boot Camp. We share our IP globally through our partnerships with the Global Startup Studio Network, Studio Hub and others. Our portfolio companies include the Middle Easts leading online gifting platform JoiGifts.com, SME digitization and payment platform Clevr.app, real estate investment disruptor Prop-AI, virtual assets exchange BNS, Middle Easts organic and sustainable mart BlueTerra.co among others. Led by partners Alper Celen, Ritesh Tilani, Ash Bhatia, Mohammad AlHokail, Enhances investors include institutional investors from the Middle East, US, and Europe including 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, Shorooq Capital, Merak Capital, Hala Capital, Khwarizmi Ventures, Two Culture Capital, and KI Group.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

DAI invests in seed and early-stage technology companies with high growth potential. We are a fully-capitalised member-managed investment company made up of more than 100 power angels. We are passionate about entrepreneurs and teams that can take their ideas from proof of concept to traction to scale to exit with drive, energy, laser-focused determination and ambition. Together, we leverage our collective experience as well as our extensive network of contacts to add value to our investees through our ability to open doors and to mentor them. As initial investment, DAI typically deploys between $100,000 to $250,000 in our portfolio companies but our members can, and frequently do, personally co-invest alongside DAI. Total investment amounts can therefore range from $100,000 to $3,000,000 in a first round. We always look for opportunities to co-invest alongside established venture funds with whom we have close relationships. We are happy to act as lead investor where appropriate or required. Integral to our strategy is to double-down on our star performing portfolio companies by participating in the Series A or bridge rounds. We have already undertaken 8 follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies including 4 at Series A. We are very sector agnostic. As long as you are engaging with your customers via proprietary technology and you have a capital-efficient vision to scale the business, we will consider investing in your company.