Noor Sweid

Founder, Global Ventures

The Dubai-based venture capital fund, whose portfolio includes tabby, Tarabut Gateway and Paymob among others, chooses to invest between $1m-$4m in only around 10 companies each year. Making that call is the founder and general partner Noor Sweid, who apart from being an orchestra pianist, was also the first Arab woman to scale, IPO and operate a public company within the MENA region – Depa. The former CIO of the Dubai Future Foundation, she is the current chairperson of the Middle East Venture Capital Association and a director at TechWadi, whose mission is to build tech bridges between the MENA region and Silicon Valley.