UAE VC with investment funds of €53.5 million chooses Lisbon as its European hub
Investment News Europe - UAE VC BY Venture Partners, with investment funds of 53.5 million euros, chose Lisbon as its European hub and opened its new headquarters in Lisbon on October 29th, 2026. BY Venture Partners, that is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, is a Venture Capital and Private Equity firm with a team of former founders that backs early-stage founders. Along with their network of industry experts, they provide the empathetic support and invaluable connections that startups need to go global. BY Venture Partner is a global venture capital firm with its roots in the MENA region and a broad and diversified LP base of operating companies covering sectors from hospitality to construction, through to luxury retail.
With its new European headquarters in Lisbon, Emirati venture capital firm BY Venture Partners plans to invest in early-stage startups and to participate in funding rounds for pre-seed to Series A startups with investments of up to one million dollars. The selected startups include those investing in the AI business workflows sector with the capacity to scale globally. BY Venture Partners intends to invest in European startups in Lisbon, Madrid, London, Paris, and Berlin, that are accelerating the development of AI-native software, according to Ghaith Yafi, co-founder of BY Venture Partners.
“Lisbon and the wider Iberian ecosystem have ceased to be emerging regional hubs and have become true launching pads for world-class innovation in AI and deep tech. By combining a local presence with the global reach of BY Venture Partners in the Middle East and North America, we are uniquely positioned to give Iberian and European founders the capital, operational support and access to global markets they need to compete” BY Venture Partners co-founder Abdallah Yafi.
About BY Venture Partners:
BY Venture Partners is comprised of successful founders and the Emirati VC has a founder NPS score of 87. The VC has over 178.4 million euros in assets under management, and its new European headquarters in Lisbon is a natural evolution after making investments in 16 countries, four of which leveraged the creation of unicorns with its two previous investment funds. Their institutional investors in the Gulf region include venture capital firms and family offices such as Multi Lane, Transmed Capital, and Indriss Family Office from Saudi Arabia. The new European headquarters of BY Venture Partners in Lisbon is headed by VC partner Sohrab Jahanbani and Platform and Community Manager Henrique Pereira.
