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Sami Lababidi is Partner at Initial Capital, based in London, United Kingdom.
Sami Lababidi is a Partner at Initial Capital based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he leads investments in pre-seed and seed-stage technology companies. Prior to assuming his current partnership role in 2022, he built his venture capital expertise through investment and operational positions at Wamda Capital and 500 Global. His professional engineering background also includes experience in startup acceleration and technology operations, with ties to regional entities like Flat6Labs and Careem. Lababidi has executed a portfolio of over 20 early-stage investments across emerging markets, recently leading a funding round for a Middle Eastern financial technology startup in the first quarter of 2024. After speaking at the Dubai FinTech Summit in March 2025, he continues to focus his capital allocation strategy on scalable enterprises operating within the financial technology, SaaS, and artificial intelligence sectors across the MENA region.
