Enhance Ventures is the venture studio for the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey (MENAPT) region, building and investing in ventures for the future of finance and commerce.
They are builders, entrepreneurs, and angel investors and know their ecosystem as advisors and active members. They have been advocates of the model since 2016 and have become global thought-leaders with their publications, keynotes, and founding board membership of the Global Startup Studio Network. They continuously do research on the studio model and have built the most comprehensive database of studios and have direct access to nearly all studio leadership across the globe.
At Enhance Ventures, they are not only the leading venture builders of the studio model in the Middle East, but also advisors to large companies and governments through their Innovation Division, where they support innovation-seeking large organizations in building their own ventures by putting together exceptional co-founders with ideas, talent, networks, and funding in a structured manner with a playbook to increase the chance of success in building better, faster and cheaper with exceptional returns, while generating incredible life stories for members of their guild.
Their portfolio companies include the Middle East’s leading online gifting platform Joi Gifts (www.JoiGifts.com), agritech B2B marketplace (RightFarm.com), SME digitization and payment platform (Clevr.app), Middle East’s conscious commerce marketplace (BlueTerra.co) and other ventures in different phases.
Enhance is led by partners Alper Celen, Ritesh Tilani, and Mohammad Alhokail, Enhance’s investors include 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, Shorooq Capital, Merak Capital, Hala Capital, Kadi Holding, iNet, Two Culture Capital, KI Group and leading angel investors from the Middle East, Europe, and the US.