# COTU Ventures: portfolio, investments and team > COTU Ventures is a vc firm based in United Arab Emirates. 5 investments on record, 2 in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/cotu-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United Arab Emirates · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # COTU Ventures Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 5 cheques on record. Email Deploying now VC firm Pre-seed Seed Series A Proptech Fintech B2B Distribution Follow COTU Ventures and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fcotu-ventures) Deploying now **67%** of best year **2** **cheques in 12 months**, 5 on record Since the last cheque **53** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$5.2M** Rounds led **2 of 5** Mostly in **United Arab Emirates, 40%** Pitch COTU Ventures ## COTU Ventures highlights - 01 2 cheques in the last 12 months - 02 Mostly Seed and Series A: 80% of its rounds - 03 Led 2 rounds ## What they do > We are on a mission to reinvent how seed investing is done in the Middle East by backing extraordinary founders From their own website - **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified) - **Cheque size:** Not stated - **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B - **Sectors:** Proptech Fintech B2B Distribution - **Based in:** One Central, United Arab Emirates - **Cold pitches:** Not stated ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **5 appearances** - **2026** 2 rounds - **Sept** **[Keep Converting](https://millionrounds.com/company/keep-converting)** Pre-seed · AE · Wamda **$2.0M** *Led* - **May** **[Stitch](https://millionrounds.com/company/stitch)** Series A · SA · Ventureburn **$25M** With 4 others - **2025** 3 rounds - **Oct** **[Cercli](https://millionrounds.com/company/cercli)** Series A · AE · TechCrunch **$12M** With 5 others - **Jul** **[Rekaz](https://millionrounds.com/company/rekaz)** Seed · SA · Impact46 **$5.0M** *Led* - **Jan** **[MoneyHash](https://millionrounds.com/company/moneyhash)** Seed · EG · Disrupt Africa **$5.2M** With 14 others An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor. ## The team We hold **4** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them. ## What they claim to have backed From their own portfolio page (on their website) **16** of 21 we have independently watched raise [Ajar](https://millionrounds.com/company/ajar)[Bayzat](https://millionrounds.com/company/bayzat)[Careem](https://millionrounds.com/company/careem)[Chatfood](https://millionrounds.com/company/chatfood)[Dapi](https://millionrounds.com/company/dapi)[Duplays](https://millionrounds.com/company/duplays)[Fresha](https://millionrounds.com/company/fresha)[Marti](https://millionrounds.com/company/marti)[Maxab](https://millionrounds.com/company/maxab)[Propertyfinder](https://millionrounds.com/company/property-finder)[Proximie](https://millionrounds.com/company/proximie)[Remotepass](https://millionrounds.com/company/remotepass)[Swvl](https://millionrounds.com/company/swvl)[Tenderd](https://millionrounds.com/company/tenderd)[Vezeeta](https://millionrounds.com/company/vezeeta)[Wahed](https://millionrounds.com/company/wahed-invest) Kitopi Laimoon Syarah Tribal Uae Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded. ## The cheque Pre-seed Seed Series A Median round joined **$5.2M** the round, not its cheque Led 2 of 5 rounds **40%** - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Sept 2026 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed said *2* - Series A said *2* - Pre-seed said *1* - Series B said *-* Cheques by month Led Joined Nov 2023 Oct 2026 **Pitching COTU Ventures?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies COTU Ventures put money into. [**Keep Converting** $2.0M · Sept 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/keep-converting)[**Cercli** $12M · Oct 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/cercli)[**Rekaz** $5.0M · Jul 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/rekaz)[**MoneyHash** $5.2M · Jan 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/moneyhash) ## Mentioned on podcasts Episodes that name COTU Ventures in their description, not their title. - [Equity](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/equity) 28 Feb 2024 · 10 min Microsoft invests in yet another AI company Mentions [COTU Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cotu-ventures)[Zacua Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/zacua-ventures) Apple PodcastsShow page ## Quick answers about COTU Ventures ### What does COTU Ventures invest in? COTU Ventures invests most often at Seed and Series A (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Proptech, Fintech and B2B Distribution. ### How active is COTU Ventures? 5 investments on record, 2 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 2. The most recent was in Sept 2026. ### What has COTU Ventures invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Keep Converting (Pre-seed, Sept 2026), Stitch (Series A, May 2026) and Cercli (Series A, Oct 2025). ### How big are COTU Ventures's cheques? The median round it joins is $5.2M. ### Does COTU Ventures lead rounds? Yes: it led 2 of its 5 investments on record (40%). ### Where does COTU Ventures invest? Most of the companies it backs are in the United Arab Emirates (40%), Saudi Arabia (40%) and Egypt (20%). ### Is COTU Ventures investing now? Yes: it is actively investing, with 2 investments in the last 12 months. ### What kind of investor is COTU Ventures? COTU Ventures is a VC firm based in One Central, United Arab Emirates. ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=cotu-ventures) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=cotu-ventures)