Our Strategic Investment Philosophy

Investment Approach

We align wealth with purpose, seeking opportunities that deliver growth, resilience, and meaningful impact.

Investment at Arkan Ventures begins with a question: 

What legacy do we want this capital to create?

We approach every decision with disciplined analysis, rigorous risk management, and a commitment to building portfolios that reflect each family’s values and vision for the future.

Investment Process

We move methodically, transparently, and in partnership with every client. 

From the first conversation to ongoing portfolio monitoring, we take the time to understand what matters, from short-term liquidity needs, long-term aspirations, and everything in between. Diligence drives every decision. Flexibility ensures we adapt. And collaboration means families remain informed, empowered, and confident at every stage.

Sector and Stage Overview

Our investments span dynamic sectors with real growth potential: technology, financial services, and select alternative assets.

We concentrate our efforts on early-stage companies, focusing on Seed through Series B opportunities where capital has the greatest potential to drive transformation. Whether evaluating emerging ventures or scaling businesses, we bring the experience to assess risk, identify value, and position families for success across cycles and geographies.

Our Investment Partners: Portfolio Highlights

Our commitment to families takes shape through strategic investments that connect vision with opportunity.

Arkan Ventures identifies exceptional companies, conduct rigorous diligence, and position our clients to benefit from ventures reshaping industries. Below are select investments where our families have gained meaningful exposure.

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Spacewise

Spacewise is an innovative B2B SaaS proptech company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, with an expanding presence in North America. Its platform digitizes and streamlines commercial real estate marketing and leasing, helping property owners and managers centralize listings, automate booking and maximize portfolio revenue. Trusted by major players across Europe and North America, Spacewise enables its clients to capitalize on the digital transformation of property management.

 

Arkan Ventures participated as an investor in Spacewise’s funding round, conducting comprehensive due diligence and securing allocations for our families at a critical stage of the company’s international growth. By developing a clear investment thesis on proptech and coordinating cross-border logistics, we ensured our clients could seamlessly access this opportunity and diversify their private equity holdings in an industry poised for disruption.

 

Through our investment in Spacewise, our families gained direct exposure to a high-potential sector with robust growth prospects, benefiting from early access typically reserved for institutional capital. The addition of Spacewise to client portfolios advanced both sector diversification and long-term value creation, offering a transparent and efficient channel into the expanding world of technology-led real estate solutions.

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Catalyst Capital Egypt Fund

Catalyst Private Equity launched the first impact investing fund in Egypt and the Middle East in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Catalyst Capital Egypt Fund (CCE) targets small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with a mandate to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside financial returns, adhering to the globally recognized SDG Impact Standards. The fund closed its first round at approximately EGP 450 million, with limited partners including Egypt’s largest institutions such as Misr Insurance Holding Company, Banque du Caire, Attijariwafa Bank, and several other major financial entities.

 

Arkan Ventures participated as one of the family offices in the Catalyst Capital Egypt Fund, recognizing the dual opportunity to support Egyptian economic development while accessing a professionally managed private equity vehicle. We facilitated our families’ entry into this landmark fund by conducting comprehensive due diligence on Catalyst’s track record, evaluating the regulatory framework under Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority guidelines, and coordinating the complex documentation required for participation. Our role included structuring investment allocations that aligned with each family’s impact objectives and financial goals while navigating cross-border compliance.

 

Through this investment, our families gained strategic exposure to Egypt’s high-growth SME sector while contributing to meaningful social and environmental outcomes aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The fund provides portfolio diversification in a dynamic emerging market, access to a curated pipeline of investment-ready enterprises, and transparent impact measurement through UNDP’s standardized frameworks. This investment exemplifies our commitment to positioning families at the intersection of financial opportunity and purposeful capital deployment across our core geographies.

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Balad

Balad is an Egypt-based fintech startup addressing critical gaps in cross-border remittances, making it easier and more affordable for migrants and their families to transfer funds and gain access to digital financial services. The company supports instant, low-fee transfers via prepaid cards, helping Egypt’s underbanked move toward greater inclusion and security.

 

Our team at Arkan Ventures secured allocations for our families in Balad’s pre-seed round, recognizing both the tremendous need and the major market potential in Egypt’s growing financial technology sector. By overseeing structuring and compliance, we ensured safe entry into the regional fintech landscape for our clients.

 

This investment enabled our families to achieve meaningful diversification in emerging markets, provided exposure to impact finance and positioned their capital at the frontier of digital disruption in cross-border payments. It is a clear example of how we help families align personal values and long-term growth by sourcing access to deals that shape economies and communities.

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Hildred Equity Partners III

Hildred Capital Management is a healthcare-focused private equity firm specializing in control-oriented investments in lower middle-market companies across the healthcare ecosystem. The firm’s third fund, Hildred Equity Partners III, closed in January 2025 with over $800 million in capital commitments, significantly exceeding its $600 million target and representing more than double the size of its predecessor fund. Hildred targets opportunities across pharmaceutical and OTC products, care delivery services, medical devices, life science tools, diagnostics, outsourced clinical services, and healthcare IT, partnering with management teams to build businesses that improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.

 

Arkan Ventures participated as a family office investor in Hildred Equity Partners III, providing our families with access to a professionally managed healthcare private equity vehicle led by experienced Co-Founders and Managing Partners Andrew Goldman and David Solomon. We conducted thorough diligence on Hildred’s track record, evaluated the fund’s strategy within the high-growth healthcare sector, and structured allocations that fit within each family’s broader portfolio objectives. Our role included coordinating documentation, navigating subscription processes, and ensuring seamless participation in this oversubscribed institutional-quality fund.

 

This investment positioned our families to benefit from Hildred’s deep industry expertise and operational focus in one of the economy’s most resilient and rapidly evolving sectors. By gaining exposure to a diversified portfolio of healthcare companies at a critical growth stage, our clients accessed compelling risk-adjusted returns alongside investors including public pension plans, insurance companies, endowments, and other sophisticated limited partners. This allocation reflects our commitment to delivering institutional-grade private equity opportunities that align with long-term wealth creation and sector diversification.