Oasis500
Posted on June 4, 2018 in 2_Country Profiles, GROWTH, Jordan, Jordan-Growth, Jordan-Scale, SCALE
1. Description
| Name of the organisation | Oasis500 |
| Typology | Private Equity |
| Description | Oasis500 is the leading seed investment company and business accelerator in the Tech and Creative Industry spaces based in Amman, Jordan. We enable great entrepreneurs to transform their viable ideas or creative talents into scalable businesses. That includes finding those entrepreneurs, investing in their startups, bridging their know-how gap, and eventually helping them get follow-on funding. In the process, we have become one of the most influential players in advancing the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Jordan and the MENA region in general. |
| Location | Amman, Jordan |
| Geographical scope | MENA |
| Experiences in financing eco innovative projects | N/A, no eco-innovative startups were invested in |
| Instruments | Oasis500 invests only in cash + in-kind against equity |
| Average investment – amount | Oasis500 invests up to US$50,000 against 10% equity |
2. Investor Criteria
| Scope of operations | Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with verticals that include healthcare technologies, financial technologies, sustainable technologies, IoT, etc… Creative Industries (CI), with verticals that include music and film production, product design, gastronomy and food products, fashion and creative designs, etc… |
| Phase of grow – business stage and target group of clients | Growth; Scale |
| Most important prerequisites for financing a project | Pitch deck that includes product-market fit demonstration, financial projections, technical capability to create the product/service, and scalability potential. |
| Most important barriers that prevent financing | Being unscalable, lack of technical know-how required to implement the product/service, no product-market fit. |
| Minimum investment required | Oasis500 invests up to US$50,000 against 10% equity |
| Currently available financial products (different typology of the instrument) | A private equity investment offering of up to US$50,000 against 10% equity |
3. Contact details
| Contact persons / emails | – |
| Address and telephone | King Hussein Business Park, Building No.7, Amman Jordan. +962 6 580 5460, ext. 4251 +962 79 784 4504 |
| Web site | www.oasis500.com |
