As Middle East's largest venture builders, we fund, build & operate high-growth tech ventures from the ground up. We collaborate with budding entrepreneurs and corporations to bridge the gap between market opportunities and solutions by leveraging our expertise and their vision.
At oladoc, we are happy to have partnered with Glowfish to accelerate the growth of our doctor booking platform. In collaboration with Glowfish Labs tech team, we were able to fast track the building of top-notch apps with highly optimized user experience. On the marketing side, we were able to utilize Glowfish's expertise to methodically acquire users and become the leader in the health tech sector in Pakistan by delivering best in class experience to our users.
Abid
Founder, Oladoc
Glowfish has played a pivotal role in helping CarSwitch build and scale its Product & Engineering functions. With Glowfish as a technology partner, we were able to reduce our go-to-market time significantly and use the expertise of some of the best minds in the industry to set CarSwitch up for success.
Raahim
Head of Product, CarSwitch
We have worked with Glowfish Labs for over 5 years, which is a testament to the quality and intricacy of their work. They have been a true partner to our company, having been with us from our earliest days as a small startup to now, a multi-city company with millions in annual sales. Their services have covered broad areas such as strategy and architecture, and also day-to-day product development and design. I would highly recommend the team at Glowfish Labs for any company looking for technical support and expertise.
Bana
Founder, Service market
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With our experience and expertise, we help corporations identify market opportunities where they can launch disrupting tech ventures that align with their company’s over-arching objectives.
How to tailor value proposition to market?
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We build ventures in a lean fashion which enables corporations to introduce their businesses to the market faster than ever. This enables corporations to de-risk capital and avoid common pit falls.
Align startup business/product with corporate strategy
Conceptualize product & validate product-market fit
Build, Operate, Transfer
The complete deal, from plan to managing
Glowfish Ventures brings the PE model to the VC world i.e., we come in as strategic partners and truly help the corporations in building ventures from scratch, fine tuning processes and transferring a fully functional and disruptive venture to the client.
Build and Launch MVP
Do full Build, operate and transfer for the digital business
Drive business performance via board role
We’ll take it from Zero to MVP
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In-depth conversation with the customer to learn about their concept, the requirements, and the competitors of the product/project they are interested in.
Ideation
Workshops
Prototypes
Designing quality products
Documenting all the requirements and getting the prototypes ready before the development starts
Product design
PRD
Project planning
Implementing the solution
Creating a solution to the client's problem based on the completed specs and designs
Agile development
Software testing
Soft Release & Validation
Validating and testing the product with a selected audience before making it generally available at its official launch.
User testing
Continuous improvement
Launch!
LTS or Handover
Providing the long term support and transferring the knowledge to the product owner or other potential stake holders
IP transfer or DevOps
Continuous delivery
Build high performing product and tech teams
Find product market fit
Help scale up the right way (faster and lower risk)
Investing in venture
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Glowfish Ventures not only funds ventures but takes an active part in building and operating it. With our in-house resources, expertise and guidance, we empower entrepreneurs to maximize their likelihood of success.
How to tailor value proposition to market?
How to scale up transactions with an eye on CLTV?
How to balance control vs. independence of the startup?
Problem & solution discovery
Let’s create a product worth launching
We believe that before jumping to solutions it is important to deeply understand the problem. Our obsession with defining the problem clearly and unambigously helps our ventures develop highly effecive solutions that cater to the market’s pain-points and bring value to the end-customer.
Align startup business/product with corporate strategy
Conceptualize product & validate product-market fit
Disrupting the market
The complete deal, from plan to managing
Glowfish Ventures understands the challenges for entrepreneurs to bring their business to the market. With us by your side, we help build high-performance teams that can introduce products swiftly to the market and help them scale to disrupt their respective industries.
Build and Launch MVP
Do full Build, operate and transfer for the digital business
CarSwitch takes the entire process off the seller & buyer hands employing a fleet of certified specialists and cutting edge technology to inspect, certify, and warranty every car, vet serious buyers, match them with trusted sellers and guide the two through the full transaction.
Glowfish Ventures invested $1.3 million in Carswitch & helped to scale to the level that it became one of the biggest marketplace for used cars in UAE. As of 2021, CarSwitch has graduated to become an independent organization.
Oladoc is the #1 digital healthcare platform in Pakistan. oladoc helps you find and instantly book appointments or online video consultations with the best doctors in Pakistan. Their transparent and intuitive platform helps you choose the right doctors by letting you check up on patient reviews, consultation fees, satisfaction scores, and wait times.
Glowfish Ventures invested $1.1 million in Oladoc, and also rebranded and scaled to make it one of Pakistan's most successful healthcare platforms.
ServiceMarket is the #1 home services marketplace in the Middle East that helps users find and book everyday home services such as moving, cleaning, handyman services, catering, gardening etc. It offers these high-quality services through an extensive network of more than 200 partners. On ServiceMarket, customers can read detailed service offerings and user reviews of each provider before selecting which company to use.
Glowfish Ventures led the Seed Round for ServiceMarket in 2013, and has since helped ServiceMarket to grow in four cities in the Middle East, with plans to expand in the MENA region and beyond.
Dari is Abu Dhabi’s trusted digital ecosystem for real estate. Backed by the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) and developed by Advanced Real Estate Services (ADRES), Dari provides a one-stop solution for all real estate requirements in Abu Dhabi.
Glowfish aided ADRES in identifying the market opportunities and supported development and launch of Dari's MVP. Glowfish Ventures continues to provide assistance to the Dari team as the business moves to its next phase.
Mobimatter is a digital marketplace for telecom services, enabling consumers to find and buy the best mobile deals offered in their market and for their travel destinations.
Mobimatter helps its users to discover, compare and purchase the best mobile offers by our partner mobile telecom operators from around the world.
Mobimatter teamed up with Glowfish right at the concept phase. Glowfish invested $0.5m in Mobimatter and assisted the company in translating the concept into MVP followed by commercial launch. Mobimatter is well on its way to fast growth and expansion beyond Middle East.
1m+
revenue per year
20+
telecom operators
150+
countries with satisfied customers
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