Investor profile

Shorooq

Venture Capital, Private Equity · Founded 2017 · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Alternative investment firm in the MENA region providing multi-asset venture capital and credit solutions

85 portfolio companies Venture Capital, Private Equity · $1.4B invested · 140 investments · Investor rank #2,166 · Last investment 5/2026

Portfolio companies ↑ 155% 5y

Decacorns

Thoroughbreds

Portfolio analysis

Where Shorooq's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 85 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

Saudi Arabia18
UAE16
USA15
Egypt9
Pakistan7
South Korea6
Jordan3
Bangladesh2
Hong Kong2
UK2
Bahrain1
India1

By sectorCount

Fintech26
Enterprise Software14
Transportation11
Food8
Marketing7
Real Estate5
Energy3
Health3
Robotics3
Event Tech2
Legal2
Media2

By stage enteredCount

Seed54
Series A26
Series B+4

By growth stageCount

Early Growth41
Breakout Stage34
Late Growth9

Portfolio market map

Inside Shorooq's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 85 tracked.

Tamara

Fintech · Unicorn

$1.0B

Pure Harvest Smart Farms

Portfolio founders

Where Shorooq's portfolio founders come from.

159 founders across the 85 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.

LocationCount

Saudi Arabia33
United Arab Emirates32
Egypt23
United States22
Pakistan9
United Kingdom8
India6
Jordan4
South Korea4
Türkiye4

UniversityCount

Stanford University14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
King Saud University8
Stanford University Graduate School of Business7
Ain Shams University6
The American University in Cairo6
Harvard Business School4
London Business School4
MIT Sloan School of Management4
Carnegie Mellon University3

Previous companyCount

McKinsey & Company13
Careem5
EY4
IBM4
Microsoft4
Procter & Gamble4
Accenture3
Boston Consulting Group3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Meta3

How Shorooq stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Shorooq.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.