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Noor Sweid is the Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, a leading venture capital firm based in the UAE, investing across the Middle East and Africa (currently deploying from Fund III). Prior to launching Global Ventures in 2018, Noor was the Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation. Before her tenure at DFF, she successfully scaled two companies.
The first was Depa, initially her family business and ultimately the worldтАЩs largest interior company, which she listed on the LSE and NASDAQ in April 2008 in a billion-dollar IPO. The second company was ZenYoga, the regionтАЩs first yoga studio, which became the largest yoga and wellness chain, and which she exited to a PE firm in 2014.
Noor Sweid is frequently featured as an authoritative voice on venture capital in the region by Bloomberg, CNN, and Forbes. She has appeared on the covers of Entrepreneur ME and Womenpreneur ME and has been cited by Forbes as one of the тАЬWorldтАЩs Top 50 Women in TechтАЭ and тАЬThe Middle EastтАЩs Top Venture Capitalists.тАЭ She has also been recognized by Arabian Business as one of the тАЬTop 100 Most Influential Arab WomenтАЭ and is a judge on Shark Tank Dubai.
She is an MIT Sloan 2005 alumni, Aspen Fellow, Kauffman Fellow and YGL. Noor is the author of the book, тАШComing of Age: How Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the Face of MENAтАЩ, and is a strong advocate for founders in the region, helping them scale their businesses into global success stories.
