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Crescent Ventures

VC
Manama, Bahrain

Crescent Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in Manama, Bahrain investing in Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.5M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$100K–$1.5M
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
7 listed
Stage
Seed
Sectors
Other
HQ
Manama, Bahrain
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-06-16

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Seed

Check Size

$100K – $1.5M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

7 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Crescent Ventures specializes in early-stage investments in MENA’s tech ecosystem, with a focus on safety, mobility, and family-driven solutions.

How Crescent Ventures invests

Crescent Ventures is a vc firm based in Manama, Bahrain. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Other.

Crescent Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.5M per investment.

Crescent Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Tamtam, Hala.

Partners & Team

SA

Samer Al-Qahwaji

Managing Partner

Safety Tech
Mobility
Emerging Markets
GA

Ghada Abdelkader, CFA

Senior Vice President, CE-Invests

private equity
strategic investments
India / Southeast Asia expansion
portfolio evaluation & exits
BJ

Badr Jafar

General Partner

corporate strategy
venture capital strategy
global diversification
sustainability
TS

Tushar Singhvi

Principal

venture capital
life sciences
technology enabled businesses
corporate development
venture building (CE-Creates)
SP

Sudarshan Pareek

Principal

early-growth stage VC
tech-enabled companies
MENA, USA, India, Southeast Asia
scaling founders
CS

Caroline Souchet

Investment Manager, CE-Ventures

health tech
biotechnology
emerging markets (US, Europe, MENA)
microbiome research platform
DI

Damir Illich, PhD

Manager, Life Sciences, CE-Ventures

novel therapeutics
biopharmaceuticals
board advisory for biotech portfolio companies
life science investments

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

TA

Tamtam

Logistics/Mobility
HA

Hala

Transportation
How to pitch Crescent Ventures
  • Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.5M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Samer Al-Qahwaji, Managing Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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