Leap Ventures

Leap Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in January 2015, with offices in Beirut, Lebanon, and Dubai, UAE. The firm specializes in investing in startups within the information technology sector, focusing on areas such as healthcare and media. Leap Ventures primarily targets the Middle East and North Africa region, with a particular emphasis on Lebanon. The firm typically invests between $5 million and $10 million in promising companies, with the potential to increase this amount to $12 million through collaborations with other investment partners.

Past deals in Arab Countries

NAR

Seed Round in 2017
NAR, established in Beirut, Lebanon in 2016 and now a subsidiary of B3Bar Holdings LLC, specializes in developing advanced aerial inspection technologies. The company's flagship product is Raven AI, an innovative platform designed to automate the analysis of drone data for oil and gas pipeline inspections. Raven AI pinpoints areas of interest in real-time, identifies intrusions such as carbon deposits, cracks, corrosion, and defective insulators, and captures high-resolution images of these issues. As of August 2020, NAR's technology has been utilized for over 5,000 hours of aerial inspections.

HedgeGuard

Venture Round in 2016
Founded in 2006, HedgeGuard specializes in cloud-based portfolio management software tailored for hedge funds, asset managers, and family offices. They offer outsourced middle office services, serving clients such as Trecento Asset Management and Quadra Capital Partners LLP. With headquarters in Paris, France, the company maintains additional offices in London and Beirut.

Bookwitty

Series B in 2016
Bookwitty is a knowledge-sharing platform and marketplace based in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 2007. The company specializes in book discovery, offering a vast catalogue of approximately 26 million books from around the globe, with an emphasis on fair pricing and free worldwide shipping. Catering to an intellectually curious audience, Bookwitty connects bloggers, academics, industry professionals, and book lovers, facilitating the discovery of meaningful content. Since its inception, the platform has sold 10 million books in 149 countries, aiming to empower users by providing personalized recommendations that enhance their navigation experience. By focusing on the vast number of undiscovered titles in the literary world, Bookwitty seeks to guide individuals in finding the right book amidst the overwhelming abundance of online content.
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