Simon Sharp

Partner

2022 - Current

Principal

2020 - 2021

Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm, investing in founders and ideas across emerging markets. We back global-minded founders that are leading growth-stage companies and using technology to transform both emerging markets and the world. Our team is a diverse, collaborative, talented and curious group of professionals who, combined, have years of experience and expertise building and scaling companies.

Board Member

2023

Maalexi is an agricultural trade fintech providing a dynamic risk management platform to secure payment and performance.

Board Observer

2023

Immensa leverages advanced technologies such as additive manufacturing (AM) to take physical spare parts and dematerialize them into the digital, on-demand world. Transforming the world’s spare parts supply chain through a sustainable, efficient, and financially viable transitioning to digital warehousing while economically leveraging AM technologies.

Board Observer

2022

hive is a distributed data storage and computing platform, enabling users to rent their computing resources and co-localized storing and processing.

Board Member

2022

Mamo is a bold and inclusive FinTech company created to help people live their life to the fullest. Mamo's flagship solution is Mamo Pay, a fast, secure, human-centered platform co-created to simplify everyday personal and business payments. With trust, traceability, and transparency at the top of its agenda, Mamo aims to accelerate the MENA region towards digital payments and champion financial inclusion and literacy across economically diverse communities.

Board Member

2022

SeaFood Souq is a digital ecosystem bringing transparency, traceability and sustainability to the global seafood industry

Board Member

2021

Lamsa takes your child on an educational journey along the most critical years of childhood development, building up educational, language and creativity skills, enhancing self-confidence, preparing your child for school and for a happy successful life. Lamsa's educational content is designed in accordance with the principles of early childhood development and under the supervision of educational and developmental experts to drive mastery of knowledge and skills for children to reach their full potential.

Board Member

2021

Enhance Fitness is a tech-enabled personal trainer booking platform, offering personal training sessions on demand anywhere, and at any time.

Board Observer

2021

Red Sea Farms is unlocking the potential of agriculture in harsh environments. They are reducing the carbon and water footprint of the food sector by designing, developing and delivering sustainable agriculture technologies for harsh environments.

Board Member

2021

Zid is an e-commerce in a box solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail journey. Zid helps merchants build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with supply chain players, all with an easy to use solution.