Startup investment facilitation
Making a venture legible to the people who fund it: what the story is, what the numbers have to prove, and which investors are actually active at your stage and in your sector.
Blockchain and fintech · Business Bay, Dubai
Capital, structure and access for blockchain and fintech founders
Al Wadyat Capital works with early-stage companies in blockchain and fintech. Funding is part of it, but rarely the hard part: most founders arrive needing the venture made investable first — the risks named, the structure chosen, the regulator identified and the right introduction made to somebody who actually funds that stage.
- First reply within 24 hours
- Six services, separately or together
- UAE · St. Vincent · Panama · Bangladesh
- Before the raise
Is this venture fundable as it stands?
- Risk assessment
- Structure and instrument
- Regulatory footing
- During the raise
Who funds this stage, in this sector?
- Investor positioning
- Warm introductions
- Partnership development
- After the raise
What keeps the company on its plan?
- Reporting rhythm
- Follow-on decisions
- Portfolio support
Where we operate
Four markets, chosen for four different reasons
We work from Dubai and operate in three other jurisdictions. Each one is on the list because it solves a specific problem for a technology company — a licensing route, a corporate structure, a manufacturing or engineering base, a gateway to a region. None of them is a flag on a map.
- United Arab Emirates
- St. Vincent
- Panama
- Bangladesh
Services
Six services that answer six different founder questions
They are contracted separately. Most engagements start with one and pick up others as the company moves — a risk assessment turns into a funding structure, a funding structure turns into introductions, introductions turn into a portfolio relationship.
Strategic partnership development
Bridging founders and the investors, operators and institutions who can scale a new technology — and keeping the relationship useful after the first meeting.
Risk assessment for startups
A structured look at the technical, commercial, regulatory and counterparty risk in a venture, written so that it changes a decision rather than decorating a data room.
Equity and funding solutions
How much to raise, against which instrument, from whom, and what each of those answers costs you in control, in dilution and in the round after this one.
Regulatory compliance advisory
Where your product is regulated, who regulates it, what the licence or exemption actually requires, and how to get that settled before a raise instead of during one.
Portfolio management
The work after the money lands: a reporting rhythm the company can sustain, honest follow-on decisions, and support on the operational problems that actually slow a young business down.
Why founders come to us
Specialists in two sectors, not generalists in twenty
Blockchain and fintech have their own failure modes.
A generalist adviser can read a cap table anywhere. What a blockchain or fintech company needs is somebody who already knows why a token allocation schedule sinks a round, why a payments licence takes longer than the runway allows, and why a treasury held in the asset you are building on is a risk and not a balance sheet.
That focus is the reason the six services exist in the shape they do. Each one is written for a company whose product is regulated, whose users move money, or whose value depends on a network that does not yet exist.
How we work
What the engagement feels like
Active partnership, then an honest answer
Including the answer nobody wants.
We engage with a project rather than processing it. That means reading the product, not just the deck; talking to the people who will have to deliver the plan; and steering an early-stage company towards the version of the raise it can actually complete.
It also means saying when a venture is not ready, when the structure is wrong for the market it is aiming at, or when the money on the table would cost more than it is worth. A partner who cannot say that is only a broker.
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Scope
What we do, and what we do not
| Area | Al Wadyat Capital | Not our remit |
|---|---|---|
| Getting a venture ready to be funded | Risk work, structure, positioning and materials | ✗ |
| Reaching investors | Introductions to funds and individuals active at your stage | ✗ |
| Regulatory footing | Identifying the regime, the licence route and the sequence | We are not your law firm and do not give legal opinions |
| Funding structure | Instrument, size and terms modelled against your next round | We do not sign for you or act as your accountant |
| After the raise | Reporting rhythm, follow-on decisions, operational support | ✗ |
| Managing money for the public | ✗ | We do not take retail deposits or run a public fund |
| Returns | We can model them and stress them | Nobody can promise them, and we do not |
How it starts
From a first message to a working engagement
There is no application window and no committee to wait for. The sequence below is what actually happens between an enquiry landing in the inbox and work beginning.
You write in
The enquiry form is the front door. Tell us the sector, the stage, what you are trying to raise or solve, and what has already been tried. The team replies within 24 hours.
A first conversation
A call to understand the company rather than the pitch: how the product works, who pays for it, where it is regulated, and what has to be true for the next twelve months to go well.
Scoping against the six services
We say which of the six services the situation actually needs — sometimes one, sometimes three, occasionally none of them yet — and what each would cover, in writing.
The work itself
Risk assessment, structuring, compliance mapping, positioning or introductions, in the order that removes the biggest obstacle first rather than the easiest one.
The relationship after
Where an investment or partnership completes, the engagement continues as portfolio work: a reporting rhythm, follow-on decisions and support on operational problems.
Before you write in
The questions founders ask first
Do you invest your own money, or find investors for us?
Both sit inside the remit, but they are different services. Investment facilitation is about making the venture legible and reaching the right investors; partnership development is about building the relationships that make an investment or a commercial deal possible. Which one applies is settled at scoping, not before.
What stage do you work with?
Early stage — companies where the structure, the regulatory position and the funding route are still open questions. That is where the six services do the most work. A company that already has an established board, a completed licence and a lead investor usually needs less than we offer.
Do you only work with blockchain and fintech?
Those are the sectors we specialise in and the ones the services are written for. Adjacent work comes up — a payments layer inside a marketplace, tokenised assets inside a traditional fund — and that is a conversation worth having. A venture with no financial or distributed-ledger component is not our strength, and we will say so.
Can you guarantee we will raise?
No, and be careful with anyone who does. What an adviser can change is whether the venture is fundable, whether it reaches investors who are genuinely active in your sector, and whether the terms you sign are ones you can live with in the round after this one.
How quickly do you reply?
Within 24 hours of an enquiry arriving. The first reply is a real answer or a real question — not an acknowledgement — so the more context the first message carries, the more useful it is.
Where are you based?
The office is in The Prism Tower, Business Bay, Dubai. Work also runs across St. Vincent, Panama and Bangladesh, and the markets page explains what each of those jurisdictions is actually used for.
What does an engagement cost?
It depends entirely on which services are in scope and how much of the work sits with us rather than with your team. Scoping produces that answer in writing before anything begins; we do not quote a number before understanding the company.
Writing
Notes on raising, structuring and staying inside the rules
Tell us what you are building
The most useful first message says what the product does, what stage it is at, what you are trying to raise or solve, and what has already been tried. The team replies within 24 hours.