Mindshift Capital invests in women-led early-stage tech companies in the Middle East and globally at the post-seed round. Through a global network, Mindshift identifies companies with scalable technology, exceptional leadership and high growth potential. We invest with a gender lens, ensuring diversity of thought while narrowing the funding gap for female-led ventures.
Founders, apply for funding here! https://gust.com/organizations/mindshift-capital/funding_applications/responses/startups/new
Founders, apply for funding here! https://gust.com/organizations/mindshift-capital/funding_applications/responses/startups/new
Location: United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2019
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 16
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 14.12.2022 | Orbillion | orbillion.com | $5M | United Sta... |
| 14.12.2022 | Motivo | motivohealth.com | $14M | United Sta... |
| 14.12.2022 | Valeo | feelvaleo.com | $3M | United Ara... |
| 16.05.2022 | Wellbees | wellbees.co | $2.2M | United Sta... |
| 01.03.2022 | Rebel Girl... | rebelgirls.com | $13M | United Sta... |
| 16.11.2021 | Rosy | meetrosy.com | $3M | United Sta... |
| 24.06.2020 | shiokmeats | shiokmeats.com | $25.6M | Singapore |
| 20.11.2019 | Sarwa ثروة... | sarwa.co | $24.7M | United Ara... |
| 29.01.2019 | MunchOn | uae.munchon.com | $3.9M | United Ara... |
| 12.01.2019 | Vivoo | vivoo.io | $6M | United Sta... |
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Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.09.2025 | Mercy BioAnalytics: $59 Million Closed To Advance Early Cancer Detection With Liquid Biopsy | Mercy BioAnalytics has announced the successful close of a $59 million Series B funding round to accelerate the development and commercialization of its early cancer detection technologies. The round was co-led by Novalis and Sozo Ventures,... |
| 26.04.2025 | Seesaw expands its learning solutions globally by acquiring Little Thinking Minds | The top PreK–12 learning experience company in the world, Seesaw, has announced that it has acquired Little Thinking Minds, a leading edtech company founded by women in the MENA region that specializes in Arabic literacy solutions. With thi... |
| 28.03.2025 | MENA Digest: Valeo Health nets Series B; Nayla Finance, enza, Lumi AI get seed money | The Valeo Health team Valeo Health, a UAE-based healthtech platform that delivers personalised real-time insights and tailored wellness solutions, led funding activity in the Middle East and North Africa this week. At least three fintech st... |
| 11.10.2023 | MDisrupt raises $3M seed to bring medical expertise to healthtech innovators | It's the people, platform, and data that make a successful product These days, you don’t have to have a medical degree to develop innovative health technology. But you still need lots of in-depth medical intelligence. Well, for that, you ca... |
| 03.03.2022 | Women-led VC fund Mindshift Capital invests in global empowerment brand Rebel Girls as part of its $13M funding round | As we all know, female-led ventures are disproportionately overlooked by venture capitalists at multiple stages of the entrepreneurship pipeline. But women-led startups are creating more jobs than ever. In 2017 alone, for example, more than... |
| 16.12.2021 | Women-led VC fund Mindshift Capital doubles its fund size, attracts leading global investors to its inaugural fund | Back in April 2019, we wrote a piece titled, “Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting More Funding?” The article was about a woman-owned startup based in San Francisco and how the founder linked her inability to raise enough funding to her ge... |
| 16.11.2021 | Femtech Startup Rosy Wellness Secures $2M for Women’s Sexual Health | What You Should Know: – Femtech startup Rosy Wellness, the app changing the sex lives of women across the country, announced today it raised an additional $2 million in seed funding led by Austin-based True Wealth Ventures with additional p... |
| 21.07.2021 | BREAKING: Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million. AFN estimate... |
| 21.07.2021 | Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million. AFN estimate... |
| 25.06.2021 | Future Food 🎙️: Diving deep with Shiok Meats’ Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood | The conversation around cultured meat is typically focused around cell-based beef and chicken – the proteins favored across much of the world, and high-income Western countries in particular. However, given that most of the world’s populati... |
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