Khwarizmi Ventures

Seed and Series A across the GCC with cheques from USD 1m to USD 5m. Fund II first-closed above USD 70m in May 2026 with SVC participating — tier one voting for a tier three firm’s graduation.

3 ACTIVITIESSCOPE

2021SINCE

INVESTMENT THESIS

Seed and Series A across the GCC with cheques from USD 1m to USD 5m. The only tier-three firm whose explicit mandate extends into Series A with fresh capital at institutional scale — which puts it on the first rungs of the bridge across the funding bottleneck.

FINTECH RECORD

An early investor in Tamara — the name its Fund II literature leads withParticipated in the Series A of SiFi alongside Raed, QED and SanabilMore than thirty portfolio companies and five exits since 2021

PORTFOLIO SAMPLE

Tamara · FINTECHSiFi · FINTECH

The Capital Ladder in motion — a fund that started small in 2021, proved its record, and was then given fuel by tier one to grow. At late seed or early Series A it offers a cheque of the right size and a partner still hungry.

WHAT IT DOES

ACTIVITIES CLEARED FOR

Buy now, pay laterSpend management & corporate cardsPayments & acquiring

WHY THERE IS NO ACTIVITY LIST

HOW TO ENGAGE

1 ROUTE

Warm introductions materially outperform cold outreach here. The local ecosystem is small enough that a referral is almost always available.

FUNDING

Investment conversation

Equity or growth capital. Fintech took 29% of all Saudi startup funding in 2025, so the category has attention — but regulatory readiness is diligenced hard.

WHAT YOU WILL BE ASKED FOR

Licence status stated plainly, including what you do not hold
Unit economics with the cost of compliance in them
A regulatory timeline the fund can underwrite

VIA A WARM INTRODUCTION WHERE POSSIBLE · TYPICAL TIMEFRAME 2–6 MONTHS TO CLOSE