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# COTU Ventures

COTU Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The firm focuses on backing founders at the very earliest stages and takes companies from pre seed and seed through to Series A and beyond across the Middle East and North Africa. In Africa, COTU Ventures is an active early stage investor with a clear focus on Egypt. Based on available funding data, the firm has participated exclusively in seed rounds in the region, committing a total of 20.5 million dollars across five funding rounds between April 2021 and September 2025. Within Africa, COTU Ventures has backed Egyptian fintech and agri tech companies including MoneyHash, a payments orchestration platform, and Aydi, which provides field intelligence and farm operations in one system. COTU Ventures frequently invests alongside other regional and international investors, reflecting a collaborative approach to early stage company building. In Africa, its co investors have included Nuwa Capital, RZM Investment, Tom Preston Werner, VentureFriends, Kepple Africa Ventures, Ventures Platform, and several Egypt focused partners. These partnerships support founders with additional capital and networks while COTU Ventures focuses on helping them reach product market fit and scale across the MENA region.

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## Summary

COTU Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The firm focuses on backing founders at the very earliest stages and takes companies from pre seed and seed through to Series A and beyond across the Middle East and North Africa. In Africa, COTU Ventures is an active early stage investor with a clear focus on Egypt. Based on available funding data, the firm has participated exclusively in seed rounds in the region, committing a total of 20.5 million dollars across five funding rounds between April 2021 and September 2025. Within Africa, COTU Ventures has backed Egyptian fintech and agri tech companies including MoneyHash, a payments orchestration platform, and Aydi, which provides field intelligence and farm operations in one system. COTU Ventures frequently invests alongside other regional and international investors, reflecting a collaborative approach to early stage company building. In Africa, its co investors have included Nuwa Capital, RZM Investment, Tom Preston Werner, VentureFriends, Kepple Africa Ventures, Ventures Platform, and several Egypt focused partners. These partnerships support founders with additional capital and networks while COTU Ventures focuses on helping them reach product market fit and scale across the MENA region.

## Recorded investments

| Product | URL | Stage | Amount | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aydi | /aydi | Seed | 7500000 | 2025-09-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| MoneyHash | /moneyhash | Seed | 5200000 | 2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| MoneyHash | /moneyhash | Seed | 4500000 | 2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| MoneyHash | /moneyhash | Seed | 3000000 | 2022-02-01T00:00:00.000Z |

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