Sentinel Fund
Sentinel Fund is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Dubai, UAE investing in Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 17 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Dubai, UAE
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-02-26
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.0M
2+ companies
17 partners
Investment Thesis
Sentinel Fund backs frontier blockchain technologies reinventing cross-border transactions and payment networks, with a focus on MENA and Africa.
How Sentinel Fund invests
Sentinel Fund is a vc firm based in Dubai, UAE. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other. It does not invest in Consumer Goods.
Sentinel Fund typically writes checks of $100K–$1.0M per investment.
Sentinel Fund has backed 2 companies in our records, including ArabPay, Ethereum Africa.
Partners & Team
Ali Rashid
Managing Partner
John F. McCormack
General Partner
Michael Fabian
Partner
James Coady
Partner
Steven Cumbow
Partner
Paul Murphy
Partner
Scott Perry
Partner
John Blake
Partner
Vincent Taurassi
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
ArabPay
Ethereum Africa
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, 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 – $1.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Eric Bommer, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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