Operating Accross
The MENA Region

At Plus VC, we employ a unique investment strategy to support emerging market entrepreneurs. By investing early and diversifying risk, we provide crucial funding and guidance to help startups navigate from seed stage to Series A, ensuring their growth and success.

What We Do

+VC is a venture capital firm focused on investing in tech and tech-enabled startups across the MENA region and beyond, assuming an early leadership role with founders to ensure their success. We invest our initial check at the seed stage and provide follow-on funding to top-performing portfolio companies up to Series A.

Our Experience

As fund managers dedicated to the MENA region, we have been investing since 2010. With over 200 transactions under our belt as a team, we possess deep insights into what works and what doesn’t. We are often the first investors and have guided companies to successful exits. These cumulative experiences cultivate empathy towards the founder’s journey, emphasizing our commitment to working for our founders’ success.

Investment Thesis

Our investment strategy is unique, employing a two-pronged approach to invest early and often in emerging market entrepreneurs. We target 100-120 initial investments for risk diversification, averaging $100k at the seed stage, with follow-on allocations up to $0.5m. Our fund allocation is split 50% for initial investments and 50% for follow-ons, depending on the final fund size.

We’ve developed an intuitive rubric to make fast investment decisions using efficient processes. Closing a funding round quickly is crucial for young startups. While our high-frequency, high-volume investing may seem less serious to some, our selection and due diligence processes remain more rigorous than most.

What We Do

+VC is a venture capital firm focused on investing in tech and tech-enabled startups across the MENA region and beyond, assuming an early leadership role with founders to ensure their success. We invest our initial check at the seed stage and provide follow-on funding to top-performing portfolio companies up to Series A.

Our Experience

As fund managers dedicated to the MENA region, we have been investing since 2010. With over 200 transactions under our belt as a team, we possess deep insights into what works and what doesn’t. We are often the first investors and have guided companies to successful exits. These cumulative experiences cultivate empathy towards the founder’s journey, emphasizing our commitment to working for our founders’ success.

Investment Thesis

Our investment strategy is unique, employing a two-pronged approach to invest early and often in emerging market entrepreneurs. We target 100-120 initial investments for risk diversification, averaging $100k at the seed stage, with follow-on allocations up to $0.5m. Our fund allocation is split 50% for initial investments and 50% for follow-ons, depending on the final fund size.

We’ve developed an intuitive rubric to make fast investment decisions using efficient processes. Closing a funding round quickly is crucial for young startups. While our high-frequency, high-volume investing may seem less serious to some, our selection and due diligence processes remain more rigorous than most. 

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+Founders

Founder focused is a term that gets used a lot. Through our collective experience starting our own companies, and working at top firms such as Google, 500 Startups, Admob and Tenmou, we understand what it means to create an environment in which our founders not only receive investment and guidance, but feel like they are part of a community dedicated to continuous development and growth.

+Values

Investing in startups is our mission and we love to back missionary founders. As true trailblazers in the MENA region, our responsibility to invest fairly in diverse and inclusive companies extends throughout our portfolio and we’re proud that a quarter of our previous investments have at least one female founder. As investors, we aspire to promote and enhance our portfolio of companies founded by people of all backgrounds and we recognize the need to build startup ecosystems with diversity and representation at the core.

Our Future Together

+VC goes beyond offering funding, to including operational resources and support through our unique growth model. +Growth will be available to all our portfolio companies to offer value-add at any stage throughout their startup journey, where they will receive curated coaching and mentorship from former entrepreneurs and a breadth of online resources.​