Dubai Future District Fund

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27 August, 2024

Why Dubai's DFDF is pressing on early-stage bets as the way forward

Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), the region’s first evergreen venture capital fund-of-funds, has endorsed early-stage bets, particularly in fintech and ......

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14 August, 2024

Dubai Future District Fund sees change of guard as CEO steps down

Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), the region’s first evergreen venture capital fund-of-fund is undergoing a change of guard with Sharif ......

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26 July, 2024

MENA Digest: Pathfinder leads funding this week; Saudi's OTO gets another VC onboard

UAE-based retail technology solutions provider Pathfinder led funding activity in the Middle East and North Africa region this week, securing ......

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10 July, 2024

DFDF CEO on funding trends and why MENA startups didn't see steeper valuation drop

Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), the region’s first evergreen venture capital fund-of-fund, has deployed over a quarter of its initial ......

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30 May, 2024

DFDF to widen investor base in three-phase expansion strategy

Dubai Future District Fund, the region’s first evergreen venture capital fund-of-funds, launched with an initial corpus of $200 million from ......

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17 May, 2024

Dubai's DFDF plans to deploy half corpus by this year across direct, fund-of-fund bets

Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), the region’s first evergreen venture capital fund-of-fund, aims to hit the halfway mark of its ......

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24 April, 2024

Gulf VC Shorooq Partners marks final close of third fund with oversubscription

Shorooq Partners, an Abu Dhabi-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage tech startups, marked the final close of its second VC ......

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15 April, 2024

In Charts: How Dubai Future District Fund deployed corpus across startups, VC funds

The Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), the region’s first evergreen venture capital fund-of-funds, has committed about a fifth of its ......

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01 April, 2024

DFDF to tread cautiously as VC in 2024 but bullish on LP bets

Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), a backer of 24 startups and venture capital funds, outlined its “cautious venture capital approach” ......

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26 February, 2024

GlobalLogic, Pine Labs co-founder's VC fund Leo Capital loops in Gulf LP

Early-stage venture capital firm Leo Capital, which backs technology across India and Southeast Asia, has secured a limited partner-style commitment ......