Welcome to Nama Ventures!
Nama Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia.
Nama Ventures prides itself on being an investment fund committed to nurturing ideas that guide founders to create exceptional companies.
If you are an entrepreneur who is ready to take the entrepreneurial plunge, it would be our privilege to join you on the start of your journey.
Nama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willing to partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.
Let’s take a ride down this road together.
"The father of SSL" , Salesforce , Netscape
Maktoob, Souq, Jabbar, etc...
Mentor, Souq Founder, Amazon MENA
TECHINVEST, Sakhr, Global Investment House
MD Dubai Media City
CTO Bayt.com
CEO GEN Saudi, advisor Babson, World Bank
Rakuten, KYUBE, Yellow Pages, SOAJS, etc...
Netscape, Yahoo!, Admob, VMware, multiple startups, etc.
Zawya , Honeybee Ventures, etc...
Facebook - Head of Marketing META
Cisco, Motorola, Techwadi, DSO, etc...
Marcom, CMO Aramex
Managing Director, Endeavor Saudi, Yatooq
Nana, Tamara
We have some basic filters that we use to gauge startups. Below are what we look for in a startup
Notice the word “team.” Creating a solo startup can be awfully lonely. We invest in teams, it's our most important criteria
We like to see a tough problem presented—and then your solutions to address it. If you choose to go the entrepreneurial route, make sure you are trying to solve at least one hard problem. Hard is good; hard is interesting.
We love seeing a transaction where you are earning revenue selling a product or providing a service. This makes us bigger fans of eCommerce, for instance, than gaming startups.
We want to be right there investing in you after you have your three F’s (friends, family, and founders). We are a pre seed fund and we want to stay that way. We want to be the first institutional capital that you raise.
We don’t want to see just an idea, where your core is outsourced. Your team has to have the Doers and the Sellers, the Doer being a technical co-founder
"Nama" in Arabic is derived from the word meaning "to grow", and we can't help you grow if we are taking a backseat and watching others grow around you! We want to be there helping you grow from a seed to a forest, rolling up our sleeves and pruning you to realize and reach your full growth potential.
The entrepreneurial journey is an emotional rollercoaster, some days you'll feel you are on top of the world, other days you'll feel underground. Only passion will carry you thought these times and give you the needed push to persevere.
If you are not willing to lend a helping hand along your entrepreneurial journey then you are in the wrong profession. Entrepreneurship is a team sport, there is no place in it for arrogance and meanness. you have to be willing to always learn and always teach.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us using the form below and we’ll make sure to respond in a timely fashion.
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