Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East Region with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With offices in Beirut, Dubai, Bahrain and Riyadh and more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management, MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in this region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

Sarrah AlJuaid

Managing Director

Ali Almajthoob

Associate Director

Jad El Boustani

Managing Director

Walid Hanna

Founder and CEO

Riyad Abou Jaoudeh

Managing Director

Ihsan Jawad

Venture Partner

Fahed Qteishat

Associate Director

Ankit Sarwahi

Associate Director

Gaelle Yammine

Associate Director

Past deals in Saudi Arabia

Nana

Venture Round in 2022
Nana is an online grocery platform based in Saudi Arabia that specializes in delivering groceries and home essentials directly to consumers' doorsteps. The platform features a diverse selection of products, including groceries, fresh fruits and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers. By enabling consumers to shop digitally, Nana streamlines the grocery shopping experience and ensures that a wide variety of items can be conveniently purchased and delivered to their homes.

Nana

Series B in 2020
Nana is an online grocery platform based in Saudi Arabia that specializes in delivering groceries and home essentials directly to consumers' doorsteps. The platform features a diverse selection of products, including groceries, fresh fruits and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers. By enabling consumers to shop digitally, Nana streamlines the grocery shopping experience and ensures that a wide variety of items can be conveniently purchased and delivered to their homes.

Nana

Series A in 2019
Nana is an online grocery platform based in Saudi Arabia that specializes in delivering groceries and home essentials directly to consumers' doorsteps. The platform features a diverse selection of products, including groceries, fresh fruits and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers. By enabling consumers to shop digitally, Nana streamlines the grocery shopping experience and ensures that a wide variety of items can be conveniently purchased and delivered to their homes.

Matic

Seed Round in 2016
Matic, LLC operates an online platform that connects customers with cleaning professionals in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Riyadh. Founded in 2015 and based in Dubai, the company provides a mobile application and website for users to easily book home cleaning and housekeeping services. Matic boasts a large network of cleaning service providers, ensuring that customers can quickly find and hire highly trained cleaning personnel for their homes. The service focuses on convenience, allowing users to schedule cleaning sessions with a simple tap, making the process efficient and hassle-free.

Shahiya

Venture Round in 2012
Shahiya.com is an Arabic food-focused social website. Millions of Arab home cooks use it to find, review and share recipes, food pictures and blog posts. All user contributions are monitored by a passionate editorial team, to ensure clarity, originality, and conformity to the local tastes and norms. Shahiya also caters to health conscious users in Arab countries. Under the supervision of its founding partner Carole Hani Makhoul (US Registered Dietitian), it provides the nutritional facts of each recipe published on the site - a service only shahiya offers in Arabic. Since going online in 2010, it has grown to become the biggest Arabic cooking website, organically attracting > 1,000,000 unique visitors/month. Its mobile applications have also been downloaded > 1,000,000 times, topping most of the Arab Apple app stores. Shahiya has attracted top international advertising brands, such as Galaxy, Arla Foods, Kraft, Moulinex, Kenwood, and Braun, as well as large Saudi / UAE based advertisers, including Safi-Danone, Al Walimah, Savola, Al Alali, and STC. In 2012, shahiya received a Series A investment from the Lebanon based VC fund MEVP.
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