Noor is the Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, a leading venture capital firm based in the UAE, investing across the Middle East and Africa (currently deploying from Fund III). Prior to launching Global Ventures in 2018, Noor was the Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation. Before her tenure at DFF, she successfully scaled two companies. The first was Depa, initially her family business and ultimately the world’s largest interior company, which she listed on the LSE and NASDAQ in April 2008 in a billion-dollar IPO. The second company was ZenYoga, the region’s first yoga studio, which became the largest yoga and wellness chain, and which she exited to a PE firm in 2014.
Noor is frequently featured as an authoritative voice on venture capital in the region by Bloomberg, CNN, and Forbes. She has been on the covers of Entrepreneur ME and Womenpreneur ME, and is cited by Forbes as one of the “World’s Top 50 Women in Tech”, by Arabian Business as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Arab Women”, and is a judge on Shark Tank Dubai. She is an MIT Sloan 2005 alumni, Aspen Fellow, Kauffman Fellow and YGL. Noor is the author of the upcoming book, ‘Coming of Age: The Digital Rise of the World’s Youngest Population’, and is a strong advocate for founders in the region, helping them scale their businesses into global success stories.
