Shorooq Launches $200M Late-Stage Growth Fund Backed by Qatar…

Team S · 2026-02-09T14:33:49.000Z

Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Shorooq has launched a $200 million late-stage growth fund under its Qatalyst Series to address a critical gap in capital available for scaling tech companies and preparing them for public markets. The firm unveiled the new fund at Web Summit Qatar 2026, where it confirmed that the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is backing the initiative alongside other sovereign and institutional partners from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Asia. The Qatalyst Fund is designed to provide patient, long-duration capital to companies that have already achieved strong fundamentals and are nearing expansion or pre-IPO stages particularly in sectors such as fintech infrastructure, software, artificial intelligence and other mission-critical verticals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This structured financing aims to help promising scale-ups professionalize, build governance maturity and prepare for listings or sustained global growth. Shorooq was founded in 2017 and has grown into a multi-strategy investment platform spanning venture capital, credit, private equity and real assets. The launch of the Qatalyst Series reinforces Shorooq’s full-stack model of supporting founders across the entire capital journey from early stages to large growth and eventual public market execution pairing capital with hands-on value creation. With this fund and its growing roster of institutional partners, Shorooq is positioned to play a major role in institutionalizing late-stage capital across the GCC.

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