{"id":53647,"date":"2025-11-24T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=53647"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:18:09","slug":"fast-ventures-launches-the-fast-foundry-fund-with-3-million-to-back-early-stage-startups-in-mena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2025\/11\/fast-ventures-launches-the-fast-foundry-fund-with-3-million-to-back-early-stage-startups-in-mena\/","title":{"rendered":"FAST Ventures Launches the FAST Foundry Fund with $3 Million to Back Early-Stage Startups in MENA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">FAST Ventures launches a $3M FAST Foundry Fund to support early-stage startups across the MENA region.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The fund focuses on ad-tech, digital retail, creator-economy platforms, AI marketing tools, and tech-driven verticals such as fintech, proptech, travel-tech, and edtech.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Selected founders gain capital, workspaces in Dubai and Riyadh, and access to engineering, marketing, and cloud services through FAST Ventures\u2019 ecosystem companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"445\">FAST Ventures, a regional leader in marketing and technology solutions, has announced the launch of its new investment vehicle, the FAST Foundry Fund, with a total value of $3 million. The fund aims to support early-stage startups across the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"447\" data-end=\"720\">The FAST Foundry Fund focuses on investing in the next generation of startups in ad-tech, digital retail, the creator economy, artificial intelligence, and marketing technologies, with a vision to build globally scalable products and platforms starting from the region.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"751\">Key Investment Themes<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"796\">The fund will target companies operating in:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"989\">\n<li data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"833\">\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"833\">AI-powered marketing agents<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"885\">\n<p data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"885\">Ad-tech and digital commerce infrastructure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"886\" data-end=\"938\">\n<p data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"938\">Influencer platforms and the creator economy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"939\" data-end=\"989\">\n<p data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"989\">Fintech, proptech, travel-tech, and edtech<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1436\">Selected founders will benefit not only from capital investment, but also from workspaces in Dubai and Riyadh, along with engineering, marketing, and technology services provided by FAST Ventures\u2019 sister companies\u2014including <em data-start=\"1223\" data-end=\"1237\">Platformance<\/em> (growth marketing platform), <em data-start=\"1267\" data-end=\"1273\">Lion<\/em> (AI creative studio), and <em data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1311\">Calibrate<\/em> (digital commerce studio). Startups will also receive access to cloud services and hands-on support from seasoned operators.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1500\">For applications and further details: foundry.weareFAST.io<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAST Ventures launches a $3M FAST Foundry Fund to support early-stage startups across the MENA region. The fund focuses on ad-tech, digital retail, creator-economy platforms, AI marketing tools, and tech-driven verticals such as fintech, proptech, travel-tech, and edtech. Selected founders gain capital, workspaces in Dubai and Riyadh, and access to engineering, marketing, and cloud services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":53648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850],"tags":[10466,10465],"class_list":["post-53647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","tag-fast-foundry-fund","tag-fast-ventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647","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=53647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}