THE MIDDLE EAST’S
1. Kais Al-Essa; Haitham Bu-Aisha; Mohammed Alamad
Company: Vision Ventures
Designation: General Partners
Nationality: Saudi; Saudi; Jordanian
Headquarters: Saudi Arabia
Established: 2016
Vision Ventures’ portfolio includes Rain, Tamara, Chefaa, and Trella. In October 2024, the firm participated in a seed round for Saudi Arabia-based proptech and fintech Ejari, which closed at $14.65 million. Al-Essa and Bu-Aisha are also founding partners of Sahara Net, a cybersecurity and cloud services provider launched in Saudi Arabia in 1989. Al-Essa began his career at Saudi Aramco as a group leader in power distribution in 1994 and is a board member of Sahara Net. Bu-Aisha is the managing director of Sahara Net and a board member of Namthaja, an advanced manufacturing services company. Alamad is a certified management accountant. In 2024, the fund made 225x cash on cash in the partial exit of Salla.