Impact investor

Cotu Ventures

Investor type

PE / VC

Founded

February, 2020

AUM

$54 M

Location

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

$0-1 m

Investment Ticket

3-5 years

Investment Horizon

Seed, Series A

Investment Stage

Sale to strategic investor, IPO

Exit Strategy

Profile

COTU stands for Champions Of The Underdog. We are on a mission to reinvent how seed investing is done in the Middle East by backing extraordinary founders and showing them how to believe in themselves when they are at the loneliest, earliest, and most challenging parts of their journeys.

Industry

Business Services (B2B) Consumer Products Consumer Services (B2C) Education Edtech E-commerce/Marketplace Financial Services Fintech Marketing and Advertising Retail SaaS Software Blockchain/Crypto

Region of investment

North America Middle East

Cotu Ventures Funds

Name	Type	Industry	Stage	Region	Size	AUM	Launch date
COTU Ventures Fund I	Venture Capital (VC)	Consumer Products Consumer Services (B2C) Edtech Financial Services Fintech	Pre-seed Seed	Middle East Africa	$5-10 m	$54 M	February 2024