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Top 25 Frontier markets venture capital companies based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 232 frontier markets venture capital companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 3,273 professional contacts across them, including 530 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers frontier markets venture capital companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest frontier markets venture capital companies based in the United Arab Emirates
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 521 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Disrupt.com builds, backs, and invests in the next generation of AI-driven ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arqaam is the leading institutional investment bank in the region specializing in emerging and frontier markets Emerging Markets Emerging Technologies” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KEF Holdings we invest in businesses that are innovative, sustainable, cost-effective and deliver positive disruptive solutions across core business sectors encompassing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm, investing in founders and ideas across emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2012, BECO Capital is a Gulf-focused institutional venture capital firm with over $820 million in assets under management across early-stage (pre-seed to Series A) and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We actively seek out investment opportunities, partnerships, and ventures that demonstrate a drive for growth, innovation, and a positive impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative technology companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Enlightened Minds Investments is a forward-thinking investment firm dedicated to catalyzing the capital growth of dynamic companies by facilitating their expansion or relocation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cypher Capital is a vertically integrated investment and asset management platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Simba Investments is a venture capital firm that backs dynamic companies led by bold entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Iron Pillar is a growth stage investor specializing in enterprise and consumer technology companies building their core products “from India for India and the world”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alcazar Capital Limited (ACL) is an Investments Advisory Firm based in Dubai International Financial Center.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SRH Inc is an investment company which aims to create a positive impact through nurturing entrepreneurial ventures via pairing growth focused capital with transformative ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wamda Capital is a leading Venture Capital Firm in Dubai, UAE established in 2014, focused on deploying early stage capital in the Middle East and North Africa's leading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At SVVI, we generate outstanding returns by investing in the best VC opportunities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We just love to grow startups, that's it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Frontera Capital is a boutique investment firm which focuses exclusively on deploying capital in frontier markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Oraseya Capital is the $136M VC fund of Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority, investing in early stage startups from pre Seed to Series-B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an innovation powerhouse Building, Supporting, and Investing in Sustainable Futures in frontier and emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Dale Ventures is a global venture capital and investment holding group dedicated to empowering visionary leaders and building transformative, enduring businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Iliad Partners is a Venture Capital firm based in the UAE that invests in early stage technology companies with a focus on the MENA region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We enable entrepreneurship by bringing ideas, capital, knowhow, and talent together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “COTU stands for Champions Of The Underdog.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This one is for the founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Phoenix Venture Partners came together to become a Technology Venture Capital firm led by a well-knit & diverse team, investing in disruptive technologies of the Digital Age.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: frontier markets venture capital companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names frontier markets venture capital companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of frontier markets venture capital companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name frontier markets venture capital companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Frontier markets venture capital companies based in the United Arab Emirates at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Arab Emirates, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Arab Emirates, over 232 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among frontier markets venture capital companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates whose own description of what they do matches “frontier markets venture capital companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names frontier markets venture capital companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among frontier markets venture capital companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Arab Emirates are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 530 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names frontier markets venture capital companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many frontier markets venture capital companies are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 232 frontier markets venture capital companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
disrupt.com, headquartered in Dubai, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most frontier markets venture capital companies?
Dubai leads with 171 headquartered companies, followed by Abu Dhabi (22) and Dhabi (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 530 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 232 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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