COTU Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2020 · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

#21 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 1% in MENA

COTU invests in extraordinary founders across MENA, supporting their journeys from Seed to Series A, with a focus on fragmented, fast-growing markets and impactful solutions

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17 Portfolio companies+240% in 5 years

4 Unicorns

24 Investments

May 2026 Last investment

01 · Biggest holdings

COTU Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies COTU Ventures still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for COTU Ventures, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation

1 Property FinderUnicorn · Real Estate · UAE $2.0B
2 KitopiUnicorn · Food · UAE $1.6B
3 FreshaUnicorn · Wellness Beauty · UK $1.0B
4 HuspyFintech · UAE $236M
5 SyarahTransportation · Saudi Arabia $160M

Unicorns and thoroughbreds COTU Ventures has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Portfolio analysis

Where COTU Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 17 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

UAE25
Saudi Arabia6
USA5
Egypt2
UK2
Jordan1
Kuwait1
Pakistan1
Türkiye1

By sectorCount

Fintech13
Transportation9
Enterprise Software6
Food6
Real Estate6
Marketing5
Education4
Jobs Recruitment4
Health2
Event Tech1
Fashion1
Home Living1

By stage enteredCount

Seed15
Series A2

By growth stageCount

Breakout Stage17
Late Growth14
Early Growth13

03 · Portfolio market map

Inside COTU Ventures’ portfolio.

The 44 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 17 tracked.

Property Finder

Real Estate · Unicorn

Transportation · Unicorn

$3.1B

Fresha

Wellness Beauty · Unicorn

$1.0B

Swvl

Transportation

$11M

Tribal Credit

Fintech

$164M

Proximie

Health

$320M

Huspy

Fintech

$236M

Fetchr

Transportation

$60M

Vezeeta

Health

$160M

Syarah

Transportation

$160M

Bayzat

Fintech

$100M

Tenderd

Real Estate

$120M

Stitch

Fintech

$100M

Marti

Transportation

$229M

SellAnyCar

Transportation

$140M

RemotePass

Fintech

$70M

Safqah Capital

Fintech

$61M

MoneyHash

Fintech

$21M

Mnzil

Real Estate

$47M

Sager

Jordan

$40M

Supy

Food

$32M

Zenda

Fintech

$38M

Qureos

Education

$20M

Chatfood

Food

$12M

JadoPado

Fashion

$16M

Aydi

Food

$30M

Adalfi

Fintech

$30M

Dapi

Fintech

$12M

Rekaz

Marketing

$20M

Cercli

Jobs Recruitment

$16M

KINGPIN

Enterprise Software

$14M

englease

Education

$14M

Cassbana

Fintech

$8.0M

Duplays

Sports

Wrappup

Marketing

$3.2M

RoundMenu

Food

$2.8M

Laimoon

Education

$1.6M

Sirdab

Transportation

$500K

Revly

Marketing

Mayple

Transportation

Ajar

Fintech

04 · Portfolio founders

Where COTU Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

79 founders across the 44 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

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