Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Qureos is a Dubai, UAE-based company offering an AI-driven hiring platform that automates sourcing, screening and interviewing for enterprise recruiters. Its technology matches candidates to roles across the broader market by analysing fit and growth potential, aiming to shorten time-to-hire and improve placement quality. Built in the Middle East, the platform already serves customers and candidates across MENA and in the United States. The company was founded by Alexander Epure and Usama Nini. Qureos plans to deepen its artificial-intelligence capabilities, enlarge its go-to-market organisation and expand geographically through enterprise and agency partnerships. The recently raised US$5 million seed round provides the financial runway to execute these initiatives.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2025

Founded in 2020 by Joseph Choueifaty, Antoine Bénéteau, and Aurore Pinon-Jacques, Goodvest positions itself as the first fintech to offer investment solutions fully aligned with the Paris Agreement. Its product suite spans life insurance (including children’s policies), retirement savings plans, savings accounts, and private equity, all designed to exclude exposure to fossil fuels, tobacco, and companies breaching the UN Global Compact. Goodvest’s transparent methodology was enhanced in 2024 to integrate biodiversity impact, and a 2024 Reclaim Finance study ranked its Goodvie life insurance as the least exposed to fossil fuels. Since launch, the company estimates its portfolios have avoided more than 100,000 tons of CO₂e while allowing savers to customise allocations based on personal preferences. Partnerships with impact-focused players such as Helios, Sycomore, and CFCAL-Banque (Crédit Mutuel Arkéa) bolster its product distribution and credibility. Retail investor demand for ESG solutions underpins Goodvest’s growth ambitions, and the firm is now scaling a private wealth management service introduced in the spring. The newly raised capital will support product expansion, additional partnerships, and targeted hiring to consolidate its leadership in responsible savings.

Participated · Series A · May 2024

Iyris commercializes SecondSky, a proprietary additive for polyethylene and other greenhouse materials that blocks near‑infrared radiation while allowing photosynthetically active radiation to pass through. The company sells SecondSky polycarbonate, polyethylene, nets and soon‑to‑launch shade screens through manufacturers and local distributors and serves both large international growers and smaller farmers via partners. Iyris says its technology (including resilient plant genetics) can reduce energy and water consumption by up to 90%, extend growing seasons, increase yields and deliver a payback within a year. The business originated from innovations at KAUST and was co‑founded in 2018 by CEO Ryan Lefers, plant scientist Mark Tester and Derya Baran; it initially grew and sold tomatoes before commercializing the tech. Iyris has expanded from Saudi/UAE beginnings into markets across 11 countries — including the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, the U.K., the U.S., Portugal, Spain and Mexico — with clients such as Silal, Armando Alvarez Group and Criado & Lopez. The company reports it brought in more customers and sold more products (or made more revenue) in Q1 2024 than it did in the whole of 2023 and plans to grow hectares covered, regions served (including India and China) and square meters installed.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2023

Vibrant Planet’s core product is Land Tender, a cloud-based SaaS that combines remotely sensed data (including satellite and lidar) with tools to model how different landscape-management approaches affect ecosystems and wildfire risk. Prices for Land Tender are based on the number of acres managed rather than per-seat, and the product is currently being used on about 7 million acres. Customers to date have included governments and nonprofits focused on land conservation and species preservation, and the company has signed a deal with large utility PG&E and is in talks with other utilities. Vibrant Planet has assembled a science team with hires from academia, the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and NASA. The company sees a broader market in any organization substantially exposed to wildfire-adapted ecosystems and is positioning to expand beyond its initial conservation and government customers. Financially, the company has received government grants in addition to venture funding, bringing its total capital raised to date to $34 million. Vibrant Planet develops Land Tender, a SaaS "operating system for forest restoration" that helps land managers prioritize objectives and model landscape treatments. The platform centers on a lidar-based map of California, with machine learning to fill lidar gaps and AI to update maps using cheaper satellite imagery. Land Tender is sold via per-seat licenses aimed at federal land managers and stakeholders and is priced at $3,500 per seat. The company plans to make the platform available across California by the end of the year and to expand to other Western states next year, with additional regions added depending on lidar availability. A second business plank is providing data and analysis to develop carbon credits, though the company has not disclosed details. Vibrant Planet has built a team of about a dozen ecologists, foresters, geospatial experts and engineers drawn in part from Big Tech.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2023

Kwara provides back-office software and banking-as-a-service to credit unions (Saccos), automating paper-based processes and enabling new products and member onboarding. Its platform includes a next-generation neobank app that gives Sacco members access to instant loans, third-party services like insurance, and direct deposits into Sacco accounts. The company has expanded internationally with a presence in South Africa and the Philippines and was co-founded in 2019 by Cynthia Wandia and David Hwan. Kwara grew its client base from 50 to 120 over the past year while maintaining 100% customer retention, and its neobank app user base has grown 35-fold since launch. The startup plans to double down on Kenya, invest in enterprise-grade features for larger Saccos, improve the neo-banking experience with personalized goal features, and add more third-party partnerships. As part of its growth strategy it is set to acquire IRNET and has signed an exclusive digital solutions distribution agreement with Kuscco to access over 4,000 Saccos. Kwara, launched in 2019, provides a proprietary backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform to help credit unions (SACCOs) digitize operations. Its platform supports core banking functions and enables members to view and download statements, apply for loans, and make repayments. Kwara's client count grew from two to 50 in just over two years; it currently serves about 60,000 SACCO members and has supported $40 million in transactions on its platform. Clients using its technology have seen membership growth of over 19% year-on-year and a 46% increase in loan base, and the beta uptake of the upcoming app ranged from 60% to 90%. Kwara is building a neobank app to let individuals sign up with preferred credit unions and access instant loans and third-party services such as insurance, with a full launch planned for mid next year. The company has expanded into South Africa and the Philippines and aims to triple its credit union customers to 150 and cross 100,000 members next year, with a long-term goal to serve 1 billion people by 2030.