Pioneering Venture Capitalism,
Fresh from the Bay.

The GCC Powerhouse behind AI and

Deep Tech Entrepreneurs

Najm GCC & Egypt is $20Mn Multi-staged Venture Capital Fund, focusing primarily on startups of stable currencies revenue generating businesses in Egypt and Riyadh.

Startups have been proving their long-term value. Acquisition of tech-enabled startups is exponentially growing all over the world.

With a 25yrs+ track record in the venture capital world and a seasoned team on investors, investment professional, Big Data & AI Experts, with wide expertise and a solid

track-record in technology and technology driven markets worldwide, Najm ventures aims to bridge the gap between the MENA region and the Bay Area to help guide GCC startups towards global expansion through funds, consultancy, and expertise.

Our Experts will be supervising and actively managing Najm Ventures' Funds; however our management team is not only about track-record...

This team has much more to offer!

Our Team

Our 25 years veteran venture capitalist, entrepreneurs, and AI experts in the

startup space in the MENA region.

Ahmed Gomaa

General Partner

Gomaa is a veteran venture capitalist having run funds and cvc portfolios since 1999, at EFG Hermes (Egypt’s largest investment bank) Gomaa ran 4 funds and two corporate venture capital CVC portfolios with an AUM $150 Mn,

Success stories include Fawry and RAYA IPOs , ITWORX, Yahoo, Siware, Otlob, Masrawy, Paynas and Fatura.

Ashraf Almansoury

Partner

Over 25 years of experience leading transformation and scaling technology ventures across FinTech, EdTech, and AI.

At ITWorx Ashraf managed the global delivery for United Technologies (Raytheon RTX) achieving CMMI Level 3 certification.

As a COO at DXwand, driving innovation in GenAI, RAG, Conversational AI, and Document Intelligence, while embedding growth hacking and operational clarity across products and go-to-market execution.

A former software engineer turned business leader, blending deep technical expertise with agile, data-driven growth strategies.

Amr Awadallah

Venture Partner

A serial investor and entrepreneur with 45+ investments and 13 successful exits including acquisitions by Intel, Google, LG, Yahoo.

As an Entrepreneur, Awadallah’s startup Viva Smart was acquired by Yahoo and Cloudera’s IPO was valued at USD 5.7Bn. His latest startup is Vectara, a leading startup in API-driven LLM-powered search.

Eetedal AlNajem

Partner

A Saudi Businesswoman , a founder & CEO of PBS consulting company from 2014, PBS is considered one of the fast-growing companies at Tomah program by Monshatt. The Company has finalized 75% of preparation needed to release an IPO.

Eetedal has 22 years experience in the telecom and tourism sector.

In 2000 she started at Alhokair group in the tourism and Entertainment sectors.
Eetedal worked in Mobily during 2004 – 2014 during which she served as was a national segment Director for postpaid packages.

She was awarded most innovative Entrepreneurs by Forbes in 2014.

Ahmed Metwally

Managing Partner

An accomplished Tech Professional with 20+ years leading and delivery products at Amazon, and Microsoft. His products include: XBOX One, XBOX Live Apps, Visual Studio, VS Code, Azure, Alexa and AWS Workspaces.

Voted an Endeavor Global Entrepreneur and One of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 by the Ottawa Business Journal in 2010.

What will we be Investing in?

Najm GCC/Egypt is a USD 20Mn niche fund investing in Smart Services startups in MENA,

leading them towards regional and global expansion.

Najm Ventures backs ambitious Smart Services startups with the vision and capacity to scale globally. Our name embodies what we stand for — discovering regional stars, fueling their growth, and guiding them to shine on the global stage

Startups -

Process Automation

AI-Driven SAAS startups have been one of the ecosystem’s fastest growing startups throughout the past 5 years as stated by many research houses; due to their asset lean models, diversified business verticals, easy access to new markets and increasing global demand.

This sector has the strongest acquisition market across the board on all levels which makes it an appealing sector for investment.

Deep Tech Startups -

Substantial R&D

MENA has a versatile deep-tech sector with numerous new startups every year producing innovative ideas

transforming industries.

As it becomes increasingly difficult to realize big exits in the years ahead, the deep tech startups transforming entire industries offer some of the only paths to “10x exits.”

A Focused Fund

NajmVentures is focused on AI and Deeptech startups as management believes that both sectors within 5 years are expected to mature

Our team expertise will help us

Better Identify Good Investment

Talk the Same Language with Startup Founders

Help Support Startups Effectively

Our Value Proposition

Our Team Promises to take Global Solutions Startups from the Region to ...

Largest Scale Markets

Connect them to Deep Pocket Investors

Connect them to Highly Talented Skills

The Najm Ventures Investment

Typically we expect our portfolio to be driven by early stage investments pre seed , seed and pre series A stages but we also expect to follow on investments to reach series C