Middle east investors summit
riyadh
Welcome to the Middle East Investors Summit!
Our sponsors are at the heart of the Middle East Investors Summit, bringing invaluable expertise and support to elevate this event. These industry leaders and innovators have made it possible to create a unique platform for growth, networking, and discovery. We invite you to explore our sponsor partners and discover how their vision and commitment are helping shape the future of investment across the region.
Adit Ventures
Adit Ventures
Adit Ventures is a New York-based growth equity manager specializing in pre-IPO investments in high-growth sectors, including AI, cloud, fintech, and wellness. Notable exits include Palantir, SoFi, Airbnb, and Spotify, while current investments feature SpaceX, Klarna, and Dataminr.
With a 10-year track record and over $400M returned to investors, Adit leverages the current private market landscape for strategic growth investments. The firm targets a 3x-5x ROI within a 6-year fund life and maintains a diversified portfolio across industries and geographies. Adit is raising $250M for new opportunities, with a minimum commitment of $1M.
Alpine Investment Management
Alpine Investment Management
The Alpine Flagship Fund is a Hong Kong-based, China-focused long/short equity hedge fund that integrates a global macro-overlay strategy. Founded by former Goldman Sachs executive Tony Song, the fund combines top-down and bottom-up research to target high-potential investments in Chinese companies and global firms with strong China exposure. Using macro instruments like currencies, rates, and commodities, the fund effectively hedges against market volatility.
Since November 2021, Alpine Flagship has achieved a 68.5% gross return, outperforming the MSCI China index, even amid challenging market conditions. The fund emphasizes macro awareness, derivatives expertise, and resilience in difficult markets.
APM Capital
APM Capital
APM Capital Limited is a premier financial brokerage regulated by the Abu Dhabi Global Markets Financial Services Regulatory Authority. The firm offers a broad range of investment products, including CFDs and exchange-traded derivatives, to Professional and Retail clients.
APM Capital emphasizes transparency, immediate order execution, and client-focused service, supported by advanced trading platforms. The firm’s commitment to accessibility is evident in its inclusive approach, offering extensive educational resources through webinars and seminars. Driven by values of integrity and technological innovation, APM Capital empowers clients to confidently engage with global financial markets.
Bitmart
BitMart
BitMart is a leading global digital asset trading platform, trusted by millions of users and ranked among the top centralized crypto exchanges on CMC and CoinGecko. With over 1,500 trading pairs and competitive fees, BitMart bridges traditional finance and digital currency, aiming to drive innovation and promote financial inclusion. Established for seven years, the platform serves a diverse global clientele, from retail investors to institutions. BitMart’s growth strategy includes expanding into key markets like the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, while also diversifying its offerings with futures, NFTs, and payment solutions, positioning it for sustained market expansion.
Bootstrap Europe
Bootstrap Europe
Bootstrap Europe, founded in 2015 by Fatou Diagne and Stephanie Heller, specializes in senior secured growth debt for technology and life sciences across Europe. With offices in Luxembourg, Zurich, and London, the fund supports sectors such as deep tech, green tech, SaaS, and fintech.
Backed by family offices and institutional LPs like EIF and Visa Foundation, Bootstrap has executed over 356 transactions totaling €1 billion across 14 jurisdictions. The fourth fund aims for €350 million in assets under management, targeting a net IRR of 15%+. The fund’s attractive risk-adjusted returns stem from its senior secured debt strategy and focus on sustainable innovation.
Bornite Capital
Bornite Capital
Bornite Capital, founded in 2019 by CIO Dan Dreyfus, is a New York-based investment firm that aims to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns through a long-term investment strategy combined with active management. The firm primarily invests in public equities, focusing on cyclical sectors related to energy, materials, industrials, consumer, and TMT.
Bornite offers two products: a long/short equity fund with a CAGR of over 17% since inception, and a sector-specialized long-biased equity fund with a CAGR of 23%. Its flagship long/short fund, launched in January 2020, targets infrastructure investments across commodities, industrials, and consumer/TMT sectors.
Cain International
Cain International
Cain International is a prominent alternative asset manager focused on real estate investment, with $16.8 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2024. Founded in 2014 by CEO Jonathan Goldstein, in partnership with Eldridge Industries, Cain specializes in luxury properties in key gateway cities like Miami, London, and New York. The firm notably became the first external investor in Aman, a luxury hospitality brand, and owns the Delano brand with Accor.
With a team of around 150 professionals, Cain has invested over $12 billion across various sectors and recently merged with Blackbrook Capital to enhance its expertise in industrial and logistics investments.
DB Investment Partners
DB Investment Partners
DB Investment Partners (DBIP) is a private credit investment management firm within the Deutsche Bank Group, offering access to corporate and asset-backed credit opportunities across Europe and APAC. Established by a seasoned team with over 20 years of private market experience, DBIP is FCA-authorized and governed by a diverse board, with Deutsche Bank as a minority stakeholder.
The firm provides investment options through commingled funds or separately managed accounts, leveraging Deutsche Bank’s origination capabilities and a selective investment process to identify attractive opportunities. DBIP’s approach focuses on both relative and absolute value across the private credit landscape.
European Maritime Finance
European Maritime Finance
European Maritime Finance (EMF) is an AIFM-approved fund management company specializing in maritime investments, founded in 2014. Headquartered in Copenhagen, EMF serves a growing Scandinavian client base with offices in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The firm connects ship owners seeking capital with professional investors, leveraging its relationships with established shipowners, fleet operators, and shipyards to manage the full vessel investment value chain. EMF focuses on newbuilding projects across various segments, including tankers and bulk carriers, and boasts an impressive track record, delivering an average money multiple of 1.73 within an investment period of 17 months.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) is a prominent global investment firm committed to sustainability, focusing on climate transition and inclusive growth. Since achieving carbon neutrality in 2015, GSAM has actively invested in renewable energy, community development, and social mobility initiatives.
The firm specializes in growth-oriented mid-market private equity investments, emphasizing control and growth ownership structures. GSAM’s inclusive growth strategy targets sectors like healthcare, education, and financial services to improve accessibility and affordability while addressing systemic inequalities. Through initiatives like the Horizon Impact Fund, GSAM aims to enhance global access, quality, and affordability, viewing sustainability as both a social imperative and a financial opportunity.
Immensus Capital
Immensus Capital
Immensus Capital is a mid-growth private equity firm focused on high-growth investments in China’s B2B supply chain sector. The firm offers offshore investors access to unique opportunities in overlooked markets. Its portfolio includes twelve companies across industrial e-commerce, SaaS, IoT, outsourcing, and logistics, targeting returns of 4-6x MOIC and an IRR of 25-30% through IPOs and trade sales.
Founded by CIO Robert Yao, with a background at Goldman Sachs, Immensus Capital manages two funds with $200 million AUM. Fund I has been recognized as a top-performing RMB-denominated PE fund for the vintage period of 2015-2020.
Jeneration Capital
Jeneration Capital
Jeneration Group, founded in 2015, is an independent alternative asset management platform with two main divisions: Jeneration Capital (JenCap) and Jeneration Heritage (JenHeritage). JenCap focuses on growth investments in technology sectors across Asia, particularly Greater China, seeking direct private opportunities. In contrast, JenHeritage acts as a multi-family office, specializing in diverse global investments across public equity, private equity, and fixed income while providing tailored advisory services.
Key attributes include a sector-focused strategy, rigorous selection process, active portfolio management, a collaborative network of technology executives, and deep research for flexible investment structuring, enhancing revenue and value for portfolio companies.
Jolt Capital
Jolt Capital
Jolt Capital is a premier European growth equity investor specializing in deeptech and impact investments. Since 2011, it has supported the scaling of deeptech champions in sectors such as cybersecurity, AI, semiconductors, healthcare, mobility, and advanced materials, achieving an average IRR of 25% and targeting 3.5x cash-on-cash multiples.
With a team of 30 experts and an expanding global footprint, Jolt Capital leverages its proprietary AI-powered sourcing tool, Jolt.Ninja, for market intelligence. Currently raising its 5th fund with a target size of €750 million to €1 billion, Jolt Capital aims to increase its AUM to approximately €1.5 billion while focusing on ESG and climate impact.
Joy Global
Joy Global
Joy Global Ltd. is a licensed venture capital fund manager based in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), currently raising a $100 million growth-stage fund. This fund focuses on transplanting select technologies from China to the Middle East and Africa (MEA), fostering localized businesses aligned with regional economic growth and facilitating their eventual IPOs on the Abu Dhabi Exchange (ADX).
The fund is managed by the same experienced team behind Joy Capital in China, which has invested $2 billion in over 100 startups in innovative consumption and mobility technology.
Key attributes include targeted deal sourcing from proven Chinese firms, significant investments in local engineering and production, majority stakes in joint ventures for enhanced governance, and a 10% GP commitment to align interests with investors.
JP Morgan Asset Management
JP Morgan Asset Management
J.P. Morgan Private Capital, part of J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives, focuses on private closed-end strategies, targeting minority investments in private companies. Its Growth Equity Partners arm emphasizes late-stage tech, while Life Sciences Private Capital (LSPC) targets life sciences. LSPC’s new Healthcare Transformation Growth strategy aims to raise $750 million, focusing on late-stage healthcare innovations in biotherapeutics, medical devices, and health tech.
Led by Dr. Stephen Squinto, the team has $82B in biopharma exits, leverages J.P. Morgan’s global resources, and drives innovation in healthcare AI. LSPC’s Gulf events foster scientific advancements for regional healthcare needs.
Lateral Investment Management
Lateral Investment Management
Lateral Investment Management, LLC is a private equity firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, focusing on growth-stage investments in U.S. middle-market technology and tech-enabled services companies. Currently raising $400M for its second fund, Lateral aims for a 3.0x net return and 25% net IRR, consistent with its strong track record. With $785MM AUM as of March 2024, Lateral specializes in “first institutional” investments in founder-led and bootstrapped businesses.
Veteran team with experience from Highland, Fortress, and Goldman Sachs, strong 3.6x MOIC (gross) on 2018 vintage fund, and a hands-on approach to drive transformational growth in middle-market firms.
Monograph Capital
Monograph Capital
Monograph Capital is a life sciences venture firm founded by experienced biotech investors, including Dr. Fred Cohen, with a record of 36 investments and 22 exits across 12 funds over two decades. The firm’s first fund focused on therapeutics and P&L services, achieving one exit and nearing an IPO registration for another company.
With offices in San Francisco and London, Monograph builds portfolios balanced in clinical and P&L risk by investing in innovative therapeutics and AI-enabled pharma services. Known for a disciplined, valuation-focused process, Monograph leverages strong networks with universities and pharma leaders to drive growth and value.
Nanjia Capital Limited
Nanjia Capital Limited
Nanjia Capital Limited is a Hong Kong-based, employee-owned asset management boutique specializing in capacity-constrained strategies with a focus on ASEAN markets.
Established in 2013 and licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and the Irish Central Bank for UCITS, Nanjia Capital provides investors with a targeted approach to high-growth Asian opportunities. The team of nine seasoned professionals brings over 50 years of combined experience in ASEAN equity trading, achieving over 110% index outperformance since 2012. Supported by diverse global investors and private structures like ICAV/UCITS and Bermuda SAC, Nanjia was recognized with the HFM Asian Performance Award in 2023.
Oros Asset Management
Oros Asset Management
Oros Asset Management, based in Abu Dhabi, is a dynamic asset management group comprising a Private Office and a regulated fund hosting platform. Oros Private Office targets global investments across private funds and co-investments, emphasizing rigorous sourcing, due diligence, and execution to achieve exceptional returns. The Oros Hosting platform offers plug-and-play solutions, allowing fund managers to focus on value creation while operating in a secure, ADGM-regulated environment. With a commitment to innovation and operational efficiency, Oros blends expertise and strategic insight to optimize returns, providing tailored solutions that meet the evolving needs of today’s investors.
Paramount Group
Paramount Group
Founded in 1978, Paramount Group, Inc. has built a strong reputation in real estate, focusing on Class A office properties in New York City and San Francisco. With over $4.5 billion in investor capital, Paramount is dedicated to premier market assets, tenant satisfaction, and employing top-tier talent. Operating as a vertically integrated firm, Paramount’s in-house team manages asset oversight, leasing, acquisitions, and redevelopment, ensuring control and operational excellence.
Led by Albert Behler, Paramount maintains a unique position as a hands-on owner-operator with deep local expertise. The firm’s Real Estate Special Situations Fund II, targeting $700 million, seeks a gross IRR of 18.0%+ and net IRR of 15.0%, emphasizing prime U.S. gateway markets and a commitment to sustainable practices.
Pelican Energy Partners
Pelican Energy Partners
Founded in 2011 and based in Houston, TX, Pelican Energy Partners is a private equity firm with a strong history of successful investments in North American oilfield service and equipment (OFSE) companies.
Led by seasoned energy industry veterans, Pelican has raised and managed three OFSE-focused funds, achieving substantial returns for its investors. With broad sourcing relationships, the firm invests in diverse structures such as buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity, and corporate carve-outs. Pelican’s systematic approach leverages its Value Creation Toolbox to expand and enhance portfolio companies, guiding them toward becoming scaled, high-performing enterprises in the energy services sector.
Propel Bio Partners
Propel Bio Partners
Propel Bio Partners, a life sciences fund co-founded in 2022 by Richard Kayne and Leen Kawas, leverages the extensive capital markets and strategic expertise of Kayne alongside Kawas’s deep experience in drug discovery, clinical development, and commercialization gained as co-founder of Athira Pharma.
Propel focuses on micro to mid-sized biotech firms working on innovative therapeutics, supporting these companies with a team of industry experts in biological sciences, medicine, and regulatory affairs. Propel’s mission is to advance human health through breakthrough technologies, offering both capital and strategic guidance to optimize success and access to unique investment opportunities in publicly traded life sciences companies.
Redstone
Redstone
Redstone, founded by Samuli Sirén and Michael Brehm, is a pioneering venture capital firm known for its data-driven investment approach and focus on high-impact sectors like sustainable technology and deep tech. With a commitment to positive social impact alongside strong financial returns, Redstone manages a diversified portfolio of over 100 startups across 15 countries, achieving annual returns exceeding 20% and outpacing 90% of the global VC market.
The firm’s proprietary SOFIA platform enhances decision-making with advanced analytics, while partnerships with industry leaders and academia support portfolio growth. Its €300 million Growth Fund offers institutional investors risk-optimized exposure to transformative technologies.
Rimrock Capital
Management
Rimrock Capital Management
Founded in 1999, Rimrock Capital Management is a California-based investment firm managing around $2.5 billion in assets, specializing in fixed-income strategies with a focus on structured products, including residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (RMBS and CMBS) and asset-backed securities (ABS).
Led by veterans from PIMCO, Rimrock offers diverse fund options to institutional investors as an alternative to traditional fixed-income investments. Rimrock’s 25-year track record highlights its commitment to generating attractive risk-adjusted returns, leveraging expertise in complex securities and a focus on liquidity. With a nimble approach, the firm manages portfolios with durations typically between -1 and +3 years, remaining independent of interest rate predictions.
Stepstone Group
Stepstone Group
StepStone Group is a leading global private markets specialist managing over $588 billion in private capital allocations, including $137 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2022. In 2021, the firm allocated more than $75 billion across various fund investments, secondary investments, and co-investments for prominent investors worldwide. StepStone provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment services in private markets.
Established in 1998, StepStone Private Debt (SPD) covers the full spectrum of private debt, from performing to non-performing loans in corporate, real estate, and infrastructure sectors. SPD stands out with its multi-manager approach and a platform featuring over 40 corporate private debt separately managed accounts (SMAs). This platform benefits from economies of scale, allowing for advantageous cost structures and neutralizing additional costs, while providing access to private debt through primaries, secondaries, SMAs, and co-investments.
VIG Partners
VIG Partners
VIG Partners, established in 2005, is a premier private equity firm in Korea specializing in control buyout investments in underperforming middle-market companies valued between $100 million and $500 million. With a focus on enhancing Korean consumer brands, technology-driven enterprises, and renewable energy, VIG has raised four main private equity funds totaling $3.5 billion in assets under management.
The firm excels in proprietary deal sourcing, avoiding competitive auctions, and boasts the highest number of buyout acquisitions directly from founders in Korea. Its experienced team employs a systematic approach to actively manage and improve portfolio company performance, ensuring strategic growth.