Orange Ventures

Orange Ventures MEA is the Middle East and Africa-dedicated arm of Orange Ventures, the EUR 350 million global corporate venture capital fund of Paris-based telecom major Orange S.A. Operating from Cairo, Egypt since 2017, the unit manages EUR 50 million earmarked exclusively for the MEA region and maintains additional presence in Dakar, Senegal. As a benchmark technology investor across Africa and the Middle East, the fund deploys capital through two distinct streams: MEA Champions, which backs Series A and later growth-stage companies with proven traction, and MEA Seed, which finances very early-stage startups with tickets of up to EUR 200,000 and an explicit goal of backing 100 seed companies by 2025 across countries where Orange operates. The firm's 29 investments span fintech, e-commerce, cybersecurity, digital enterprise, consumer internet, gaming, edtech, and healthtech. Portfolio companies include 7Keema (Egypt, e-health nursing services), Chari.ma (Morocco, B2B local-shop marketplace), Dabchy (Tunisia, peer-to-peer secondhand fashion marketplace), and Socium, backed through the MEA Seed program in late 2024. In May 2024, Orange Ventures and Digital Africa signed a co-investment partnership focused on startups emerging from the Orange Digital Centers network. Asma Ennaifer, Executive Director for CSR and the Orange Digital Center program across Orange MEA, provides strategic leadership for the broader Orange ecosystem that feeds into the fund. Orange Ventures MEA functions as both a financial investor and a strategic gateway, offering portfolio companies access to Orange's commercial distribution, telecom infrastructure, and pan-African operator relationships across countries in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and the Middle East.