Conviction over consensus
We would rather be early and alone than late and comfortable. The best deals look wrong at first.
The Firm
Operators first. Investors second.
Falak was founded in Abu Dhabi in 2016 by operators who had built and sold companies of their own, and were tired of watching regional founders raise from people who had never shipped anything.
Between them, the partners have founded four companies, survived two down-rounds, and sat on both sides of an acquisition table. That scar tissue is the product: when a founder calls at midnight, someone on this side has stood exactly where they are standing.
We run a concentrated fund on purpose — a handful of new bets a year, each one we can actually help. No spray-and-pray, no board seats we never fill. If Falak is on your cap table, a partner is on your phone.
Falak VenturesAbu Dhabi · Est. 2016
How we actually operate
Founder-first, always
Clean terms, fast decisions, and no games in the paperwork. Your time is the scarcest asset in the deal.
Long arc, not quick flip
We underwrite the decade, not the next round. Great companies are held, not traded.
Regional roots, global reach
Built here, sold everywhere. We open doors from Riyadh to Singapore to San Francisco.
The fund, in numbers
2016
Founded in Abu Dhabi
AED 1.5B
Assets under management
64
Portfolio companies
11
Markets invested
The partners
Yousef Al-Falasi
Managing Partner
Hind Barakat
General Partner
Karim Sabri
Partner · Deep-tech
Salma Idris
Partner · Platform
Building something early?
We read every deck ourselves. Send it while it’s still rough — that’s exactly when we like it.