Investment banking & M&A
Buy-side, sell-side, restructuring, roll-ups and carve-outs, run from mandate to signing.
Investment bankingInvestment boutique · Amsterdam · Dubai · Cairo
Connecting Capital.
Investment banking, debt and funds across Europe and MENA.
We source the opportunity, structure the transaction and execute it, and we invest behind our own conviction through our funds.
- 20+Lenders live in our debt network
- AED 100MDubaiTechX Fund, launched Oct 2025
- 5CVC Builder cohorts delivered
- 30+Corporates through CVC Builder
Sources: Airtable Company Profile and debt mandates; CVC Builder programme reports.
What we do
Four services around one asset universe.
The startups, lenders, corporates and founders we already know, across ten sectors. Every mandate feeds the next.
FinTech
SaaS & cloud
PropTech
Industrials
Energy & CleanTech
HealthTech
Data centres
Logistics
AI & deep tech
Cybersecurity
- Investment banking & M&A
- Debt capital markets
- Asset management
- Corporate advisory
- FinTech
- SaaS & cloud
- PropTech
- Industrials
- Energy & CleanTech
- HealthTech
- Data centres
- Logistics
- AI & deep tech
- Cybersecurity
- 01
Startups in our network
A live universe of assets and founders.
- 02
Advisory mandates
Buy-side, sell-side, debt and structuring.
- 03
Fund co-investments
We put our own capital alongside.
- 04
New asset sourcing
Every deal widens the universe, and the loop repeats.
What we do
Four services, one team.
M&A, debt, funds and advisory sit together, so a single mandate can draw on all four.
Debt capital markets
Sharia-compliant term, revolving, CAPEX, supply-chain and acquisition financing from Islamic banks, Sharia-compliant funds and DFIs.
Sharia-compliantDebt capital markets
Sharia-compliant
Asset management
The DubaiTechX Fund, a Private Credit Fund in fundraising, and access to US fund-of-funds.
Asset management
Corporate advisory
Capital strategy, holdco design, inorganic growth and CVC programme design, with our Expert Consultants Network.
Corporate advisoryOur funds
Our own capital, beside our clients’.
AED 100M
DubaiTechX Fund
Deep tech and AI, launched October 2025 and managed by Significa for the University of Dubai.
In fundraising
Private Credit Fund
Cash-flow-backed lending to revenue-generating SMEs.
United States
Fund-of-funds access
Venture and growth allocations with US managers, structured for regional investors.
Programmes
Our programmes.
Four programmes that bring corporates, founders, universities and capital together.
Flagship programme
Building MENA’s next generation of corporate venture capital leaders, from bootcamp to signed partnerships with startups.
See CVC Builder
Delivered with WE (Telecom Egypt)
Telecom Egypt’s innovation hub, co-built and managed by Significa: academies, hackathons, startups and partnerships around the operator.
See WE INNOVATE
Fund managed for the University of Dubai
A seed-stage deep tech and AI fund, launched in October 2025 and managed by Significa for the University of Dubai.
See Dubai TechX
Run by Obeikan Digital Solutions
A CVC Builder spinoff connecting startups and corporates with Obeikan’s industrial ecosystem: sell with ODS, build with ODS, sell to Obeikan.
See ODS PartnersWhere we work
Three core markets, headquartered in Amsterdam.
Office or core marketAlso activeCore markets and HQ
Saudi Arabia
Core market · Riyadh
UAE
Core market · office in Dubai
Egypt
Core market · office in Cairo
Netherlands
Headquarters · Amsterdam
Also active in the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States.
Leadership
The partners behind every mandate.
Former investment bankers, ex-GPs, corporate innovators and cross-border investors: an investment boutique with a tech investor’s DNA, independent by design.
