{"id":48695,"date":"2025-07-09T14:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=48695"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:17:16","slug":"nawy-acquires-majority-stake-in-dubais-smartcrowd-cementing-gcc-expansion-and-regional-leadership-following-52m-series-a-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2025\/07\/nawy-acquires-majority-stake-in-dubais-smartcrowd-cementing-gcc-expansion-and-regional-leadership-following-52m-series-a-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawy Acquires Majority Stake in Dubai&#8217;s SmartCrowd, Cementing GCC Expansion and Regional Leadership Following $52M Series A Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nawy has acquired a majority stake in SmartCrowd, Dubai&#8217;s first regulated fractional real estate investment platform, marking its official entry into the GCC market.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0This acquisition follows Nawy&#8217;s successful $52 million Series A funding round, enhancing its financial strength and regional expansion capabilities.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Nawy&#8217;s ecosystem now spans real estate financing, brokerage, fractional ownership, and asset enhancement, creating a comprehensive, tech-driven solution for the MENA region, with SmartCrowd having facilitated over $110 million in real estate deals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"50377a9830a2d202\" class=\"conversation-container message-actions-hover-boundary ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"response-container ng-tns-c1285162703-81 response-container-with-gpi ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"presented-response-container ng-tns-c1285162703-81\">\n<div class=\"response-container-content ng-tns-c1285162703-81\">\n<div class=\"response-content ng-tns-c1285162703-81\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_50377a9830a2d202\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Nawy, the leading Egyptian PropTech company and Africa&#8217;s largest PropTech platform, backed by e&amp; and Shorooq, today announced its acquisition of a majority stake in SmartCrowd, the UAE&#8217;s first regulated fractional real estate investment platform, licensed by the Dubai Financial Services Authority. This strategic acquisition marks Nawy&#8217;s official entry into the Gulf markets and significantly bolsters its position as a dominant regional PropTech powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>This move reinforces Nawy&#8217;s ambition to become the leading PropTech name across the Middle East and Africa, accelerating its regional expansion with the support of one of the sector&#8217;s largest funding rounds. The acquisition followed a Series A funding round valued at $52 million, with participation from a stellar lineup of leading global investors. These include e&amp; Capital (the investment arm of e&amp; group), Partech, March Capital Investments (MCI), Endeavor Catalyst, Development Partners International (DPI), Nclude Fund, Shorooq, VentureSouq, Outliers, Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV), HOF Capital, and Plug and Play.<\/p>\n<p>This funding is part of a total investment exceeding $75 million, earmarked to accelerate Nawy&#8217;s growth across multiple segments within the digital real estate ecosystem, including smart property listings, mortgage financing, real estate brokerage services, and fractional ownership models.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Cairo-based Nawy acquired ROA, a startup specializing in asset management and home furnishing, relaunching it as Nawy Unlocked. This entity now forms a cornerstone of its anticipated comprehensive real estate application. With the addition of Dubai-based SmartCrowd to Nawy&#8217;s ecosystem, the company solidifies a robust and strategic presence in the GCC market. Established in 2018, SmartCrowd pioneered the concept of fractional real estate investment in Dubai, allowing users to co-own premium income-generating properties starting from just $150. To date, the platform has facilitated over $110 million in real estate deals, distributing more than $40 million in rental returns and capital gains to investors.<\/p>\n<p>SmartCrowd currently serves investors from over 130 countries worldwide and, as of June 2025, has successfully exited over 50 real estate deals, cementing its position as a trusted platform delivering leading and consistent returns in the real estate market. One of SmartCrowd&#8217;s standout products is &#8220;Flip,&#8221; which involves acquiring undervalued real estate assets, professionally renovating them, and then reselling them within a period not exceeding 15 months, achieving an average return on investment of 30% as of June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The real estate investment sector in the UAE is projected to reach approximately $33 billion by 2030, driven by the accelerated adoption of real estate tokenization, fractional ownership models, and increased cross-border investor participation. This transformation represents a pivotal launchpad for Nawy&#8217;s expansion plans in the region, at a time when the pace of innovation within the GCC real estate market is rapidly accelerating.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Commenting on the acquisition, Rize Ahmed, CEO of SmartCrowd, stated: &#8220;This deal represents a true turning point in SmartCrowd&#8217;s journey. By joining the Nawy ecosystem, we transition from a startup to a scalable company through a partnership built on a shared vision and an integrated work culture \u2013 paving the way for us to become the region&#8217;s premier real estate investment platform.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mostafa El Beltagy, CEO of Nawy, added: &#8220;SmartCrowd offers a trusted investment engine, combining transparency, high performance, and full commitment to regulatory standards. These principles align perfectly with Nawy&#8217;s vision, which places technology at the heart of the real estate market. Together, we are launching a new phase of real estate investment in the region \u2013 data-driven, accessible, and designed to match the lifestyle of investors who prefer smart access and analysis-based decisions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nawy&#8217;s expanding ecosystem also includes a range of integrated solutions addressing various aspects of real estate investment: &#8220;Nawy Now&#8221; for home financing, &#8220;Nawy Shares&#8221; as a fractional ownership platform, &#8220;Nawy Unlocked&#8221; for asset development and furnishing services, and &#8220;Nawy Partners&#8221; for its B2B real estate brokerage network.<\/p>\n<p>With SmartCrowd&#8217;s integration, the group now offers a comprehensive digital real estate platform, enabling users to buy, manage, and generate returns from properties in key real estate markets across the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Nawy has surpassed one million monthly users, with over $3 billion in Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) across its platform, further solidifying its position as a true transformational force in the Middle East and Africa&#8217;s PropTech landscape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nawy has acquired a majority stake in SmartCrowd, Dubai&#8217;s first regulated fractional real estate investment platform, marking its official entry into the GCC market. \u00a0This acquisition follows Nawy&#8217;s successful $52 million Series A funding round, enhancing its financial strength and regional expansion capabilities. \u00a0Nawy&#8217;s ecosystem now spans real estate financing, brokerage, fractional ownership, and asset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":48696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850],"tags":[8952,6568,8120,8950,6640,8953,2445,8951],"class_list":["post-48695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","tag-hof-capital","tag-nawy","tag-nclude-fund","tag-outliers","tag-shorooq","tag-smartcrowd","tag-venturesouq","tag-verod-kepple-africa-ventures-vkav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}