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Our Focus:
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Industry Focus: Riyada Venture specializes in knowledge-based industries
such as technology, media, communication, healthcare, education, and
entertainment.
Geographic Focus: Our business is focused on the Arab world, including the Gulf
countries (Saudi Arabia,
United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain,
and Qatar), the Levant
(mainly Jordan and Lebanon), and North Africa (mainly Egypt and Tunisia).
We also focus on Arab
world-related, cross-border opportunities in which our regional
presence and expertise can create and add value to opportunities and
clients in the US,
Europe, and Asia.
Stage Focus: We focus on opportunities in growth and early stage
development as well as greenfield opportunities in which we can add
most value by providing active, hands on support leveraging our strategic planning and management, business
development, product development, financial structuring, executive
recruitment, and other added-value
venture development and creation services.
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Venture Capital Funds:
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Sponsorship and Development: As sponsors and developers, we identify opportunities,
structure funds and investment vehicles around them, develop the
various documentations required, work with relevant professional
service providers such as legal and market research firms, help obtain
the regulatory and licensing requirements if needed, and facilitate the
fund raising process. We do this for our own funds as well as a service
for selected partners and organizations in the region.
Management: we provide end to end services including deal sourcing
and identification of opportunities, preliminary and in-depth
evaluation, due diligence, structuring and closing of transactions,
support, and monitoring of investments, leading to value appreciation,
divestment and creating returns for investors. In addition to managing
funds that we develop, we provide such service for corporates
and government organizations as well as other global and regional asset
managers wishing to leverage the knowledge-based industries opportunity
in the Arab world.
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Advisory Services:
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We provide advisory
services for institutional investors, funds, family offices, government
authorities, corporates, and teams in the
following areas:
Fund Raising: we facilitate fund raising
by providing guidance, coaching, and advice, and allowing access to
our privileged network of contacts in the Arab world and
internationally, allowing organizations and teams with strong value
proposition and track record to secure the funding they need.
Deal Sourcing: our extensive industry network and relationships with
entrepreneurs and stakeholders and proactive approach offers us first
hand access to proprietary deal flow and investment opportunities
that we match according to the various investment strategies and
objectives of our partners and clients.
Deal Evaluation and Due
Diligence: our specialization enables
us to conduct thorough evaluation and/or due diligence on management,
market, products and services, and strategies of prospective
investment opportunities, enabling our clients to take informed
decisions with regard to opportunities that they are considering.
Valuation: we leverage our financial expertise, and knowledge of
the current investment environment and latest regional and global
trends to conduct valuation exercises for both investors and corporates.
Strategy Development,
Review and Assessment: Our
dual executive and investment management expertise enables us to develop
value-added strategies and/or assess the potential and strategies of
knowledge-based businesses, and provide assessment and
recommendations for executive management teams and/or investors on
how best to maximize return out of their businesses. We also take on selected interim
management and/or turn-around assignments.
Market Entry Services: leveraging our extensive industry and investors network, we provide market entry
advisory services for international firms who wish to expand into the
Arab world markets as well as for regional firms who wish to expand
into more countries in the region. Our market entry advisory services
include identification and development of key business relationships
required such as those with flagship clients, local partners, joint
venture partners, equity investors, regulators, in addition to the
strategy coaching and guidance and regional executive management
recruitment to maximize returns, increase odds of success, and avoid
risks of failure.
Business Development: we provide business development services for regional
investors such as family offices and holding companies wishing to
expand into knowledge-based services by identifying potential growth
sectors, developing feasibility studies for new ventures, and developing
strategic business relationships with international and
regional firms to help achieve the business objective.
Venture Creation: This encompasses turnkey creation and interim
management of new ventures spanning opportunity identification,
concept development, business plan development, venture
establishment, proof of concept realization, team recruitment,
operational establishment, and interim management until operational
stability and revenue generation.
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Business Incubators
Services:
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Technology Business
Incubators provide a range of logistical and strategic support
services for start-up companies with the objective of increasing
their odds of success and minimizing their risk of failure. Riyada
Ventures has a long track record of developing technology business
incubators in the region.
Incubator Development: This includes the development of Incubator’s business
plan, selection processes and procedures, services description, processes,
and procedures, and knowledge base for Incubatees
Incubator Management and
Support: This includes sourcing, screening,
and evaluation of Incubation opportunities, provision of strategic
business support Incubation services, engagement of network of 3rd
party professional service providers, growth and development of
Incubated companies, and hatching/graduation of Incubated companies
and engagement of further funding resources.
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