About MEVCA
The Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA) aims to serve the Middle East’s entrepreneurial and investment community through a concerted effort to advance the region’s venture capital industry and greater entrepreneurial ecosystem, by raising awareness about venture capital and through educational programs, seminars, and events.
As a forum for the regular exchange of experiences and ideas among the venture community, MEVCA serves as both a unified voice of the regional investment community, and as an advocate for venture-backed companies.
MEVCA’s board is dedicated to further developing the region’s venture industry in ways that protect the interests of both investors and investees. The board includes some of the region’s leaders in the venture capital space, including Global Ventures, AMK Investment Office, SVC, Raed Ventures, 500 Global, Oryx Fund, a16z, Kanoo Ventures, Nuwa Capital, Taylor Wessing. This board will establish regional best practices through regular and reliable research, the issuing of white papers on the venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and through holding frequent venture capital industry meetings.
To further ensure connectivity to the entrepreneurial community, MEVCA has also cemented partnerships with Endeavor, the National Venture Capital Association (US), and Arabnet.
Mission
To create a complete ecosystem for the venture capital industry in MENA, by acting as a forum for knowledge exchange, networking, policy advocacy, and sustainable best practices in the region.
Why Does the middle eastern vC community need an industry body?
Responsible investment is instrumental to value creation. We offer support to the growing community and act as the hub for venture capital and private equity firms, international investors and other offices by providing a mechanism to measure, manage and mitigate risks. With the establishment and education of best practices within the region, we aim to accelerate the region’s growth, presence and reputation to become a platform of innovation.
How Do We Achieve Our Mission?
Community Networking
Creating and hosting regular events with regional and global thought leadership
Policy & Advocacy
Contributing to advancing policy agenda to encourage best practices by global standards,
stimulating the venture capital ecosystem
Education & Advancement
Providing industry data & analysis, workshops & seminars & an Ecosystem Mentorship
program by leading VCs and global industry specialists
Mevca Activities
Members
Community
Members
Members by Type
Board Of directors
NOOR SWEID
Chairperson
Global Ventures
OMAR ALKHAWAJA
Vice Chairman
A M K Investment Office
OMAR A. ALMAJDOUIE
Board Member
RAED Ventures
KARIM BESHARA
Board Member
A15
ABDULLAH MUTAWI
Board Member
Taylor Wessing
H.E. DR. NABEEL KOSHAK
Board Member
SVC
AMAL DOKHAN
Board Member
500
IVO DETELINOV
Board Member
Hambro Perks Oryx Fund
REBECCA HALL
Board Member
YBA Kanoo
TALA AL JABRI
Board Member
STEPHANIE NOUR PRINCE
Board Member
Nuwa Capital
Najla Ahmed Al Midfai
CEO
Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa)
Omar Almajdouie
Founding Partner and CEO
RAED Ventures
Omar Sati
General Partner
DASH Ventures
Salman Jaffrey
Chief Investment Officer
Wa’ed Ventures – Saudi Aramco
Sonia Gokhale
Founding Partner
VentureSouq
Sonia Weymuller
Founding Partner
VentureSouq
Tala Al Jabri
Partner
HOF Capital
Thomas Tsao
Founder
Gobi Partners
Yasmin Almostehy
Executive Director
MEVCA
Best Practices Committee
The Best Practices Committee sits within the MEVCA Board, and ensures proper governance of the
Association, as per the official Terms of Reference, Governance Handbook, and Articles of Association.
Noor Sweid
Partner
Global Ventures
Omar Almajdouie
Founding Partner and CEO
RAED Ventures
Christos Mastoras
Founder & Managing Partner
Iliad Partners
Abdullah Mutawi
Chairman
Dubai Angel Investors
Legal Advisory Committee
The Legal Advisory Committee members volunteer their time to help the VC ecosystem by drafting and
publishing best practices for the industry across all of MENA
Abdullah Mutawi (co-chair)
Dubai Angel Investors
Grace Hunt (co-chair)
Allen Overy
Abdul Rahman Hammad
Hammad & Al Mehdar
Amit Agarwal
Trukker
Fawaz Elmalki
Support Legal
Hugo Cugnet
Global Ventures
James Stull
King & Spalding
Kareem Zureikat
Taylor Wessing
Osama Audi
Baker Mckenzie
Phillip Dowsett
Dechert Ltd
Tarek Bilani
Shorooq Partners
Victor Kiriakos
ADSMEhub
