Simon Sharp
Partner at Global Ventures
Dubai
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Principal
2020 - 2021
Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm, investing in founders and ideas across emerging markets. We back global-minded founders that are leading growth-stage companies and using technology to transform both emerging markets and the world. Our team is a diverse, collaborative, talented and curious group of professionals who, combined, have years of experience and expertise building and scaling companies.
Board Member
2025
spiderSilk helps you identify and protect your attack surfaces, by re-imagining threat detection from a multi-solution, resource intensive proposition today, to an automated, intelligent, cost-effective and easy to deploy one
Board Member
2024
Locad is the logistics engine enabling e-commerce brands with a cloud supply chain to grow their omnichannel business and automatically store, pack, ship, and track orders across Asia-Pacific and GCC
Board Member
2023
Maalexi is an agricultural trade fintech providing a dynamic risk management platform to secure payment and performance.
Maalexi is a dynamic risk management platform assuring payment and performance for small agri-businesses in cross border trade.
Raised $5,336,128.00 from Stride Ventures, Global Ventures, Rockstart and Ankurit Capital.
Board Member
2023
Immensa leverages advanced technologies such as additive manufacturing (AM) to take physical spare parts and dematerialize them into the digital, on-demand world. Transforming the world’s spare parts supply chain through a sustainable, efficient, and financially viable transitioning to digital warehousing while economically leveraging AM technologies.
Board Observer
2022
hive is a distributed data storage and computing platform, enabling users to rent their computing resources and co-localized storing and processing.
Board Member
2022
Mamo is a bold and inclusive FinTech company created to help people live their life to the fullest. Mamo's flagship solution is Mamo Pay, a fast, secure, human-centered platform co-created to simplify everyday personal and business payments. With trust, traceability, and transparency at the top of its agenda, Mamo aims to accelerate the MENA region towards digital payments and champion financial inclusion and literacy across economically diverse communities.
Board Member
2022
SeaFood Souq is a digital ecosystem bringing transparency, traceability and sustainability to the global seafood industry
Board Member
2021
Lamsa takes your child on an educational journey along the most critical years of childhood development, building up educational, language and creativity skills, enhancing self-confidence, preparing your child for school and for a happy successful life. Lamsa's educational content is designed in accordance with the principles of early childhood development and under the supervision of educational and developmental experts to drive mastery of knowledge and skills for children to reach their full potential.
Board Member
2021
Enhance Fitness is a tech-enabled personal trainer booking platform, offering personal training sessions on demand anywhere, and at any time.
Education
MCSI
2015 - 2016
ACA, First time passes
2011 - 2014
BSc (Hons) in Mathematics
2007 - 2010