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COTU Ventures

Pre-seed/seed specialist — 'Champions of the Underdog'.

What
Pre-seed and seed equity investment.
Cost
Equity
Backed by
Saudi Venture Capital (SVC)Dubai Future District Fund
Status
Active

cotu.vc · How we check ↗

In detail

COTU Ventures is a venture capital in the UAE. Pre-seed/seed specialist — 'Champions of the Underdog'.

Amount
Pre-seed and seed · fund size and cheque size not published
Focus
Pre-Seed & Seed
Portfolio
  • Huspy
  • MoneyHash
  • Kingpin
Status
Active

What the source says

“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.”

cotu.vc · seen September 2026

“That being said, we invest as early as Pre-Seed, mostly at Seed, and sometimes at Late Seed.”

cotu.vc/our-manifesto · seen September 2026

“We can write checks as small as $150k to as big as $2m initially, and we reserve more for follow-on, even when you need a little more time to figure things out.”

cotu.vc/our-manifesto · seen September 2026

“For us, this means GCC, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, that's where our network is strongest, and we are slowly widening this scope as we grow.”

cotu.vc/our-manifesto · seen September 2026

Closing soon on the map

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29 Sep 2026closes

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4 Oct 2026closes

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Sources

Primary source · cotu.vc